By The Schuylkill River & Urban Waters Research Corps Archive team
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Photo and drawing collection of The Lazaretto at Essington, PA: Top left: Drawing by Frank H. Taylor, 1895.
Top right: Front view showing administration building (as of 1936).
Bottom left: Wing to left of administration building, November 5, 1936, Photo by Joseph P. Sims.
Bottom right: Guard house on bank of Delaware River, 1936, Sims. ~ Source: Library of Congress ~ Creator: Historic American Buildings Survey
Frank H. Taylor
Joseph P. Sims ~ Date: Compiled after 1933Lazaretto, Philadelphia, Quarantine station May 11th 56. : Drawing shows several men in a rowboat possibly headed to a ship anchored out of view, a man sits at the stern where there is also an American flag; two sailing ships are anchored at right and left, with a view between them of the Lazaretto Quarantine Station on the Delaware River below Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Drawing on grey blue paper : graphite with white chalk ; sheet 24.5 x 32.8 cm. ~ Source: Marian S. Carson collection at the Library of Congress ~ Creator: James Fuller Queens, artist
~ Date: May 11, 1856Excerpt from The Annual Message of the Mayor, 1891 ~ Source: Google Books ~ Creator: Edwin S. Stuart, Mayor
Abraham M. Beitler, Director of the Department of Public Safety
Chiefs of Bureaus of the Department of Public Safety ~ Date: Issued in 1892Essington Harbor 1919-1920: Top Left: Boats in Essington Harbor, 6-19-1919. Hagley ID 69170_13845, Box 349, Westinghouse Electric Corporation Steam Division photographs (Accession 1969.170), Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE 19807. Top Right: Group of vessels anchored in Delaware River near South Philadelphia Works, 4-23-1920. Hagley ID 69170_14759, Box 349, Westinghouse Electric Corporation Steam Division photographs (Accession 1969.170), Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE 19807. Bottom: Submarine patrol boat of the recent war docked in Essington, Pennsylvania, 6-19-1919. Hagley ID 69170_13847, Box 349, Westinghouse Electric Corporation Steam Division photographs (Accession 1969.170), Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE 19807. ~ Source: Westinghouse Electric Corporation Steam Division photograph collection ~ Creator: Charles Yessel ~ Date: 1919-1920Harry Rasmussen, shipbuilding yard : Shortly after the Lazaretto Quarantine station closed, Harry Rasmussen moved to Essington and opened a shipbuilding yard on an adjacent property. ~ Source: Google Books ~ Creator: John Woolf Jordan, A History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Its People ~ Date: Published in 1914"State Probes Cruiser Use" : The Essington Yacht opened on the other side of the Lazaretto not long after the Harry Rasmussen's arrival. The yard was still open in 1955 when it made repairs on the Bonnie II. ~ Source: Google Books ~ Creator: Reading Eagle ~ Date: May 23, 1955
The Pennsylvania Board of Health commissioned the Lazaretto Quarantine station at Tinicum in 1799. From 1801 to 1895, incoming ships, passengers, and cargo to Philadelphia and other northern Delaware River ports went through inspection at the Tinicum Lazaretto.
