Descriptions are repeated on the full-sized images, which can be accessed by clicking
the thumbnails.
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Windmill Island, from the Ellet Map of Philadelphia, 1839. Also shown
are Willow St. (formerly Pegg's Run) & Dock St. (formerly Dock Creek).
[Free Library of Philadelphia, Map Collection]
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Smith and Windmill Islands. About 1880. [Philadelphia Newspapers Inc.
Library]
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Smith's and Windmill Islands, from the 1876 Hopkins Map of Philadelphia.
[Free Library of Philadelphia, Map Collection]
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131. Cooper's Point, Camden, N.J., from the east side of Smith's Island,
looking up the Delaware River, 1864.On February 10th, 1843, after the
ferry boat 'Dido', from Market Street wharf passed through the canal and
was near Camden, N.J. Singleton Mercer shot and killed Hutch Herberton,
who occupied a backseat in a closed carriage on board the boat fleeing
from the vengeance of a brother whose sister he had wronged. Tried at
Trenton and acquitted. [David Johnston Kennedy. Free Library of Philadelphia
Print & Picture Collection.]
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146. Wind Mill Island from the canal south to Pt. Airy in the Delaware
River 1863. [David Johnston Kennedy. Free Library of Philadelphia Print
& Picture Collection.]
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148. Smith's Island, canal and ferryboat on the Delaware River, sketched
1863 from Walnut Street wharf. [David Johnston Kennedy. Free Library of
Philadelphia Print & Picture Collection.]
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187. (H.S. 52 or 82) Smith's Island, Delaware River, opposite Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia. This sketch made from Arch Street Wharf on January
16, 1893, mercury 6 below zero at noon. Persons crossing on the ice at
Port Richmond. [David Johnston Kennedy. Free Library of Philadelphia Print
& Picture Collection.]
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560. View from the upper end of Smiths Island, Wharf & entrance to
the canal, Delaware River, looking down the Jersey channel in 1863. [David
Johnston Kennedy. Free Library of Philadelphia Print & Picture Collection.]
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[Detail] Delaware River Front of the City of Philadelphia, Penna. in 1855
[Augustus Kollner. Free Library of Philadelphia Print & Picture Collection]
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Philadelphia and Smith Island. 1841. [Augustus Kollner. Free Library of
Philadelphia Print & Picture Collection]
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Smith and Windmill Islands in the Delaware River. Removed by U.S. Government
1894. F. Gutekunst's Studio, 712 Arch Street and 1700 North Broad Street, Philadelphia.
1890 ca. [Adam Levine Collection] BirdsEye1840.jpg
Birds
Eye View of Philadelphia. 1840. [South end of island on foreground]
[City Archives of Philadelphia]
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