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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] 20050070244.jpg

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] 20050140002.jpg

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.] 20050140004.jpg

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.] 20050140005.jpg

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.] 20050140019.jpg

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.] 20050140091.jpg

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.] 20050150069b.jpg

[Detail] Delaware River Front of the City of Philadelphia, Penna. in 1855 [Augustus Kollner. Free Library of Philadelphia Print & Picture Collection] 20050150083.jpg

Philadelphia and Smith Island. 1841. [Augustus Kollner. Free Library of Philadelphia Print & Picture Collection] 20050170101.jpg

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]

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