New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Vermont photograph album, ca. 1908-1912

Summary

Creator:

Tucker, Frederick H.

Abstract:

The New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Vermont photograph album (18.5 x 26 cm) contains 70 photographics of parks, monuments, bridges, river scenes, lighthouses, waterfalls, and steamboats, in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Vermont.

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Jakob Dopp

Background

Scope and Content:

The New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Vermont photograph album (18.5 x 26 cm) contains 70 photographics of parks, monuments, bridges, river scenes, lighthouses, waterfalls, and steamboats, in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Vermont. Images of ships include photographs of the steamboats Naugatuck, Hendrick Hudson, and Robert Fulton, as well as the prison ship Success. The few city scenes present include two views of the State Capitol in Albany (one with election banners for the 1908 presidential election, the second with election banner for 1912 gubernatorial election), and views from the river of Tarrytown, N.Y., St. Johnsbury, Vt., and the New York City skyline. Also included are multiple views of Ethan Allen Park and Battery Park in Burlington, Vermont. Photographs include typed captions; paper label inside from cover: F.H. Tucker, Artistic and Commercial Photographer.

The album has a black pebbled leather cover which has been partially disbound. Stored in a three-part wrapper with green cloth spine.

Biographical / Historical:

Frederick H. Tucker, born in Missouri ca. 1888, worked as a photographer in South Orange, New Jersey, and Boston, Massachusetts.

Acquisition Information:

2005. F-769.13 .

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Related

Additional Descriptive Data:

Related Materials

The William L. Clements Library Graphics Division holds a second photograph album of East Coast views by Frederick H. Tucker, the New Jersey and New York City Region photograph album.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Photographs shelf.
Bridges--1900-1920.
Cities & towns--1900-1920.
Lighthouses--1900-1920.
Monuments & memorials--1900-1920.
Parks--1900-1920.
Rivers--1900-1920.
Steamboats--American--1900-1920.
Waterfalls--1900-1920.

Formats:

Cityscapes.
Landscape photographs.
Photograph albums.
Photographic prints.

Names:

College of Mount Saint Mary (North Plainfield, N.J.)
Hendrick Hudson (Ship)
Robert Fulton (Ship)
Success (Ship)
United States Military Academy

Places:

Albany (N.Y.)
Bridgeport (Conn.)
Burlington (Vt.)
Champlian, Lake.
Fairfield (Conn.)
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
Milford (Conn.)
New York (N.Y.)
New York State Capitol (Albany, N.Y.)
Passaic River (N.J.)
Plainfield (N.J.)
Saint Johnsbury (Vt.)
Shrewsbury River (N.J.)
Tarrytown (N.Y.)
Winooski River (Vt.)