Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2001.10.22 |
Object Name |
Stereoview |
Description |
Stereoview card. Steamboat Helena docked at the Church Family dock. The second family is visible in the distance, with Mont Calm beyond. There seem to be 2 Shaker men aboard (possibly John Bradford in the bow) and 7 non-Shakers, including a boy standing on the roof of the engine room. The boat has a sturdy railing that looks like field fencing, arched canopies fore and aft of the engine room, which is sided in vertical board and batten. A smoke stack and steam whistle rise above the engine room. An American flag is flown at the stern, and a unrecognizable flag high above the bow. In the C.E. Lewis numbered stereoview series, this image is #18. The card has rounded corners and orange paper on the front. The images have shallow arches on the top edges, and are straight on the remaining three sides. On the back a list of the images is glued to the card which reads "Photographic Views, / Shaker Village, / Enfield, N.H." then a list of the 19 views in the series and "C.E. Lewis, Photographer, / Lebanon, N.H." at the bottom. The back of the card is beige color. |
Credit line |
Gift of Robert H. Leavitt |
Title of photo |
No. 18 Steamboat, Helena. |
Date |
ca 1881 |
Photographer |
Lewis, Charles E. |
Place |
Enfield, NH Shaker Village, Church Family |
Material |
Photographic Paper/Cardstock/Paper/Ink |
Print size |
4" x 7" |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Lexicon sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Interpretive information |
"A Biographical Sketch of the Late William Wilson," written by former Enfield Shaker Henry Cumings and published in the Enfield Advocate on November 22, 1907, states, "About 1875 William built a flat boat of about 35 tons burden, to move wood and bark from the South family to the landing above the railroad bridge in this village. The boat was propelled by sails. It not proving much of a success he sold it to Captain Packard in 1877, who decked her over, put in an engine and propeller and run her to carry passengers on the lake." Henry Cumings also adds that this "was the first steamboat that ever plowed the placid surface of Mascoma Lake." |
Linked documents |
Read about 19th Century stereoviews of the Enfield community and the photographers who published them. |
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