S.S. Eastern City

Title:: S.S. Eastern City
Description:: S.S. Eastern City. Built in New York for a Boston S.S. Co., and used in weekly run to Portland, Eastport, & St. John, New Brunswick. Her arched frame was a novelty, copied later on the California coast.
Collector:: Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
Date:: [ca. 1853]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Lantern slides
Location:: Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library
Collection (local):: Charlestown Lantern Slides
Subjects:: Naval yards & naval stations
Steamboats
Charlestown Navy Yard (Mass.)
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Charlestown
Boston Navy Yard
Extent:: 1 photograph : transparency
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Notes:: Title from materials accompanying item.
Additional information accompanying item: From Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, probably in the year 1853. The article in Gleason's concludes: "We take pride in giving to our readers a representation of this true specimen of modern maritime enterprise."
Notes (ownership):: Courtesy of Daddy & Jacks, 22 Bromfield St. Bost.
Notes (historical):: Reverend Cutler was rector at St. John’s Church from 1924 to 1959 and most likely assembled this collection during that time.
Identifier:: CHA-122-A3