Item 191: Photograph by Unknown of a Print Published by Daniel Appleton and Company, [1872], [no date].
Item — Box: 22, Folder: 14
Dates
- Created: [1872], [no date].
Creator
- Appleton, Daniel, 1785-1849 (Person)
Access:
All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.
Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Photograph
Condition Note:
Good.
Measurements:
8 ½ in. x 11in.
Title:
This is a photograph of a print of the Delaware Water Gap. In the foreground, a few men can be seen in a boat floating in the river. This piece was published in New York by Daniel Appleton. The Delaware Water Gap is located on the border of New Jersey and Pennsylvania where the Delaware River cuts through the Appalachian Mountains. The Gap is made up of the southern part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area that is now used for boating, fishing, hiking, and rock climbing.
D. Appleton & Company was a publishing company founded by Daniel Appleton (December 10, 1785 – March 27, 1849) and originated in America. Daniel Appleton opened a general store that included books, publishing his first book in 1831. The company gradually expanded its publications over all of literature. It issued works by, but not limited to, Herbert Spencer, John Tyndall, Thomas Huxley, Charles Darwin, and others, at reasonable prices.
The print was originally published in Picturesque America, a two volume set of books describing the natural landscape of the United States. Daniel Appleton and Company published the first volume in 1872 and the second volume in 1874.
The date for the original print by Appleton that the photograph captured was ascertained by a comparison with a similar manuscript within Picturesque America, digitized on Internet Archive.
Another pdf of the original print can be seen on Adobe Stock’s website.
Location:
Delaware Water Gap
Transcription:
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Creator
- Appleton, Daniel, 1785-1849 (Person)
Repository Details
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu