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Transportation: Canal, Railroad, River

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Identifier

GA.BH.7.18b

Title

Transportation: Canal, Railroad, River

Description

NOTE ABOUT DELAWARE CANAL PHOTOGRAPHS: Additional information was provided by Martha Capwell-Fox, Historian and Archives Coordinator at the National Canal Museum (2020). These have been added as quotes to their respected photos.

Binder 18b

Contributor

Harold and Carol Mitchener, compiled and organized the photographs into the binders and identified most of the items.

Rights

Digitized versions of archival materials made available by The Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library are intended for study, research, and scholarly purposes only with proper citation of the material. For inquiries regarding use permissions, please contact the Archivist directly at archive@grundylibrary.org.

Due to the nature of some legacy collections, we do not know the exact origin of copyright and/or intellectual property rights for some of our materials, and their publication is free and clear of infringement claims sought by copyright owners. To make our information more accurate, we are eager to hear from any rights owners who might know of certain collection items’ origins.

Collection Items

[Construction of an underpass for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Bristol]

Tags Bristol Borough, industry, Pennsylvania Railroad, transportation
[Mill Street Wharf in winter]

Tags Bristol Borough, Bristol Wharf, Delaware River, Mill Street, snow
[Old P.R.R. tracks, possibly along the Delaware Canal]

Tags Pennsylvania Railroad, transportation, unidentified
[“Hollow Creek”, also known as Adams Hollow Creek]

Known as Adams Hollow Creek on most maps, this body of water flows from Silver Lake (Mill Pond) and passes through Bristol. Bristol Borough’s boundary extended to the creek in 1801 and extended beyond it in 1922 with the annexation of the Harriman District.

Tags Bristol Borough
[Flooding of the Delaware River, showing water at the end of Cedar Street into the Mill Street parking lot]

Tags Bristol Borough, Cedar Street, Delaware River, disasters, Mill Street
[Flooding of the Delaware River at the parking lot, behind the bank building, on the corner of Radcliffe and Market Street]

Tags Bristol Borough, Delaware River, disasters, Market Street, Radcliffe Street
[Flooding of the Delaware River into Mill Street Wharf and Lion’s Park]

Tags Bristol Borough, Bristol Wharf, Delaware River, disasters, Mill Street
[Flooding of the Delaware River at the Mill Street Wharf]

Tags Bristol Borough, Bristol Wharf, Burlington Island, Delaware River, disasters, Mill Street
[Flooding of the Delaware River]

Photographed is the Market Street wharf and the parking lot behind the bank building at Radcliffe Street and Market Street.

Tags Bristol Borough, Bristol Wharf, Delaware River, disasters, Market Street, Radcliffe Street
[Flooding of the Delaware River]

This shows Lion’s Park behind the Bristol Riverside Theater.

Tags Bristol Borough, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Bristol Wharf, Delaware River, disasters
[Ship “S.S. Bristol City” on the Delaware River]

Photograph developed in 1932. According to newspaper evidence, the ship photographed is the “S.S. Bristol City” from England. That ship was the first to navigate to Trenton, N.J. following the deepening of the Delaware River channel. Part of the cargo was unloaded in Philadelphia and sent by train. The main cargo was 2,500 tons of China clay. The ship set sail on the return journey July 3, 1932. Officials from Bristol ,PA greeted the ship as it passed Bristol Borough on the Delaware River.

Tags Bristol Borough, Burlington City (N.J.), Delaware River, industry, ships, transportation
[Ship “S.S. Bristol City” on the Delaware River]

Photograph developed in 1932. According to newspaper evidence, the ship photographed is the “S.S. Bristol City” from England. That ship was the first to navigate to Trenton, N.J. following the deepening of the Delaware River channel. Part of the cargo was unloaded in Philadelphia and sent by train. The main cargo was 2,500 tons of China clay. The ship set sail on the return journey July 3, 1932. Officials from Bristol ,PA greeted the ship as it passed Bristol Borough on the Delaware River.

Tags Bristol Borough, Burlington City (N.J.), Delaware River, industry, ships, transportation
[Ship “S.S. Bristol City” on the Delaware River]

Photograph developed in 1932. According to newspaper evidence, the ship photographed is the “S.S. Bristol City” from England. That ship was the first to navigate to Trenton, N.J. following the deepening of the Delaware River channel. Part of the cargo was unloaded in Philadelphia and sent by train. The main cargo was 2,500 tons of China clay. The ship set sail on the return journey July 3, 1932. Officials from Bristol ,PA greeted the ship as it passed Bristol Borough on the Delaware River.

Tags Bristol Borough, Delaware River, industry, ships, transportation
[Small boat in the Delaware River pulling two barges as it sails north]

It appears to be sailing past Burlington Island. On the island are several low buildings. The photograph was developed at Nichols Studio in Bristol.

Tags Bristol Borough, Burlington Island, Delaware River, industry, transportation
[Ferry boat William E. Doron on its way to Burlington from Bristol]

William’s father Elwood started a ferry in 1851 and William took it over when Elwood died in 1879. William operated the ferry until 1930, shortly before his death. The Burlington-Bristol Bridge was opened in May 1931 and made regular ferry travel across obsolete.

Tags Bristol Borough, Burlington City (N.J.), Burlington Island, Delaware River, transportation
[Tug boat travelling toward Trenton on the Delaware River, passing the Keene home]

The Keene Home is currently (2020) the site of Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library in Bristol. The person taking the photograph was in New Jersey or in a boat across the river. Photograph likely from around 1939 as it was found with pictures of that year.

Tags Bristol Borough, Delaware River, industry, Radcliffe Street, transportation
[Delaware River, Bristol, PA (looking south)]

This is at the back of Newbold’s property below Anchor Yacht Club.

Tags Bristol Borough, Delaware River
[Delaware River with floating ice]

Location unidentified.

Tags Delaware River, snow
"PRR at Bristol PA"

A post-1910 photograph of the PA Railroad pumping house, located near the Otter Creek underpass of the railroad.

Tags Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania Railroad, transportation
[A steam engine heads north toward Trenton as it crosses the Canal at Mill Street]

This was between locks one and two. The building in the center is the restaurant and hotel located at Mill Street crossing. Otter and Bath Street would be to the left of the picture. W.H.H. Fine was proprietor of this establishment known as the “Railroad House.”

Tags Bristol Borough, Delaware Canal, hotels & taverns--Pennsylvania, Mill Street, Otter Street, Pennsylvania Railroad, transportation
"John Bull No. 1, The Oldest Locomotive in America"

"First put in service on the Camden & Amboy Railroad, November 12 of 1831, Schenck's Railroad at Croydon, PA."

Photograph taken at Schenck’s Railroad at Croydon, PA named for Dr. Schenck, who owned a lot of land in that area. This station was located about 1,000 feet north of the present (2000) Croydon station.

Tags celebrations, Croydon (Pa.), Pennsylvania Railroad, people, transportation, unidentified
[Construction of elevated Pennsylvania Railroad embankment in Bristol at Bath Street]

Postman Daniel Thompson holds daughter Dora Thompson (later Dora Thompson-Colville) in foreground. Beyond is the Mill Pond, later called Silver Lake.

Tags Bath Street, Bristol Borough, industry, Pennsylvania Railroad, people, transportation
[Construction of elevated Pennsylvania Railroad embankment through Bristol]

Tags Bristol Borough, industry, Pennsylvania Railroad, transportation
[Construction of elevated Pennsylvania Railroad embankment through Bristol]

Tags Bristol Borough, industry, Pennsylvania Railroad, transportation
[Construction of elevated Pennsylvania Railroad embankment through Bristol]

Tags Bristol Borough, industry, Pennsylvania Railroad, transportation
"P.R.R. Bristol, PA"

Photograph taken during the construction of the elevated railroad at Bristol (1910-1911).

Tags Bristol Borough, industry, Pennsylvania Railroad, transportation
"Bath St., Crosing [sic] P.R.R. Bristol PA."

Bath Street looking north. Photograph taken during the construction of elevated railroad embankment in 1910-1911. Trolley tracks connected Doylestown, Newtown, Langhorne, and Bristol between 1900-1932.

Tags Bath Street, Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania Railroad, transportation
"P.R.R. Bristol PA."

Construction of the PA Railroad raised embankment through Bristol.

Tags Bristol Borough, industry, Pennsylvania Railroad, transportation
"Main Line Penna. R.R. and Leedom Mills, Bristol, Pa. 1907"

PA Railroad main line through Bristol, taken at the corner of Walnut, Beaver, and Pond Streets. Leedom Carpet Mill on the left was later replaced by the Grundy Ice Rink.

Tags Bristol Borough, industry, Pennsylvania Railroad, Pond Street, transportation
"P.R.R. Bristol PA."

Tags Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania Railroad, people, transportation, unidentified

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Collection Tree

Bristol History Photograph Collection
- Transportation: Canal, Railroad, River