Name/Title
Sepia tone photo of S.S. Russia, British & North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., N.Y., n.d., ca. 1867-1870.Entry/Object ID
2015.043.0001Description
Sepia tone photograph of the S.S. Russia of the British & North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (later the Cunard Steamship Co.), New York, no date, circa 1867-1870.
Arched top albumen paper print, 12-5/8" high x 15-1/2" wide; mounted on photographer's imprinted mounting board, 15" high x 19" wide; reverse blank. Received frame in a contemporary wood frame with glass (not imaged.)
PDF on file: selected scans; all scans (600dpi)
Photographer: Theodore Gubelman, 41 Newark Ave., Jersey City, N.J. (printed on mount below mounted print.)
Note: per Saretzky (New Jersey Photographers List -see notes for URL), he was at the address above from 1865-1870; Saretzky also records a simultaneous studio in Hoboken from 1868-1869 at 192 - modern 508 - Washington Street.
View is northwest of the S.S. Russia at a pier on the lower west side of Manhattan. Based on the direction of the view, Hoboken would have been in the background across the Hudson River, but no detail can be discerned in this print.
Ship was launched and completed in 1867. Based on photographer's address and known dates using it (1865-1870), the date range was established.
The detail image of the lower right corner shows the vessel name, the type for the photographer's address as well as the load lines painted on the hull. These lines precede the "Plimsoll lines" that were established in later years, but are present here probably due to the fact that it was on Lloyd's Register.
None of the other ships or boats in the view have been identified; one appears to be a ferryboat (possibly at Barclay St.)Acquisition
Accession
2015.043Source or Donor
PurchaseAcquisition Method
PurchaseCredit Line
Museum Collections.Made/Created
Date made
1867 - 1870Notes
Date: 1867-1870General Notes
Note
Notes: Information from: Clydebuilt ATLANTIC LINERS: Ships built for service on the Atlantic routes.
http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/atlantic-liners/RUSSIA_93.html
The Passenger Cargo Vessel, RUSSIA was launched Wednesday, 20/03/1867 at J & G Thomson Govan and completed 1867.
Her dimensions were a length of 358 feet, and a tonnage of 2960 grt.
Cunard's first Transatlantic screw steamer
Sold to the Red Star Line in 1880, renamed WAESLAND and lengthened to 435.1 feet. Lost in collision off Anglesey N Wales
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Saretsky = New Jersey Photographers List
http://gary.saretzky.com/photohistory/njphotographers.html
Original or Copy: Original
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2015-06-27
