Item 48: Wood Engraving titled, “Nanticoke Dam.,” by Granville Perkins and Frederick Juengling (removed to Print Box #5), 1872
Item — Box: 21, Folder: 48
Dates
- Created: 1872
Creator
- Juengling, Frederick, 1846-1889 (Person)
Access:
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Wood Engraving
Condition Note:
Good. Corner is torn off.
Measurements:
12 ½ in. x 9 ⅝ in.
Title:
Nanticoke Dam.
Description:
An image showing the Nanticoke dam as it goes across the Susquehanna River. Some boats are moving across the river. Children play near the canal itself. There are distant houses. Even more distant is a smoke stack that rises into the air and mountains loom over the landscape. Nanticoke is divided into Honey Pot and Hanover and was once a very active coal mining community. The name of this city is derived from the Native American Nentego or “tidewater people.” These people spoke Algonquin and were forced to move into this area after their Chesapeake Bay homelands were overtaken by European settlers. The Susquehanna River is a major river located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and covers much of Pennsylvania. It stretches 444 miles long, making it the longest river on the East Coast, and the 16th largest river in the United States. The river is made up of two main branches including the North Branch and the West Branch. The river drains 27,500 square miles that includes much of Pennsylvania. The river empties into the northern part of the Chesapeake Bay.
According to Valley Views of Northeastern Pennsylvania, by Gilbert S. McClintock, “The dam in the river was completed in 1830.” This piece was illustrated by Granville Perkins and engraved by Frederick Juengling.
Frederick Juengling, born in Leipzig, Germany, obtained a common school education until he was 14. Before emigrating to the United States in 1866, he worked as an apprentice for a Berlin engraver. He studied painting in New York City at the Art Students’ League, began pursuing art, and gained recognition as a wood engraver. As its first secretary in 1881-1882 and vice president in 1882-1883, he was the founder of the American Society of Wood Engravers. He taught other engravers at his own studio and also received awards including: an honorable mention at the Paris Salon in 1881, and a second-class medal from an international fine arts exhibition in Munich in 1883.
Granville Perkins, an American illustrator and painter, was best known for his landscapes and marine subjects. In the 1870s and 1880s, he contributed many of his works to journals and books. Other mediums he took part in were oils and watercolors. He would go on to exhibit his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design.
Location:
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Transcription:
{Face}
NANTICOKE DAM.
{Back}
THE SUSQUEHANNA. 223
close upon the brink of the creek, and the miners down the shaft can here the growling of the water-course in the spring, like distant thunder. For then its waters are swollen from the mountain snows; and it carries away, encumbered with its ice-masses, tons upon tons of rocks, which go hurtling down the stream, dashing against each other, and crashing with as much noise and fury as if an avalanche had been precipitated by the melting of a glacier. In our illustration on page 217 us a group of illustrations of this
{Image} Below Dam at Nanticoke.
Region--the furnace on Hunlocks Creek, Nanticoke ferry, Danville, the hemlock-gatherers, the stone-quarry, etc. After passing Pillsbury Knob, a remarkably bold promontory on the northern bank, the tourist arrives at Nanticoke, where the river expands considerably, becoming very shallow. Here there is a dam erected for the lumberers, though the business is yearly decreasing in this part. THere are on the southern side broad stretches of fertile land below the bank, and these are cultivated with profit--principally for the raising of tobacco. The hills here rise in three several ranges upon the northern side and two upon the
{Image} Below Dam at Nanticoke.
Region--the furnace on Hunlocks Creek, Nanticoke ferry, Danville, the hemlock-gatherers, the stone-quarry, etc. After passing Pillsbury Knob, a remarkably bold promontory on the northern bank, the tourist arrives at Nanticoke, where the river expands considerably, becoming very shallow. Here there is a dam erected for the lumberers, though the business is yearly decreasing in this part. THere are on the southern side broad stretches of fertile land below the bank, and these are cultivated with profit--principally for the raising of tobacco. The hills here rise in three several ranges upon the northern side and two upon the
Creator
- Juengling, Frederick, 1846-1889 (Person)
- Perkins,Granville 1830–1895 (Person)
Repository Details
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu