Cabinet card print of a photograph of a damaged riverboat in dry dock. The photograph shows the ship's bow and front of the two-story cabin, with a gaping hole of broken and missing boards on the port side. A single bearded man is standing on deck. The word Scioto has been written on the side edge of the gunwale during the process of printing the photograph. Maker's mark stamped on back of mount reads "Brown's 1222 Market Street / Wheeling, W. Va.". The Scioto collided with the John Lomas on the Ohio River near East Liverpool, Ohio on July 4, 1888 while filled with hundreds of holiday excursionists. The ship sank and fifty-seven people died in what was called the worst tragedy to ever occur on the upper Ohio. Later, the Scioto was raised and repaired and continued in service under the name Regular until 1885 when she was scrapped.
black and white stereograph mounted on yellow cardstock; printed on verso "Stereoscopic Views of the / Great Disaster / On Mill River, in Hampshire Co., Mass. / Skinnerville. / 20. View Down Mill River / The above Views are Published and for sale by / J.A. French, / Portrait and Landscape Photographer / No. 10 Bridgman's Block. Keene, N.H. / Prices / Single View 25 Cts. One dozen $2.50. Full Set $6.00. / Forwarded to any Address, postage free. / All orders received will be promptly filled on receipt of Price. / The subject of this card is underlined."; printed on recto "Published by J.A. French, Keene, N.H. / Portrait and Landscape Photographer."; image capture after Mill River Flood in Skinnerville, MA; rocky ground with debris from trees and shrubs in foreground extending into background through center and right side of image; river curving in the background on the left; horse drawn cart in midground, one man sitting on bench, two younger - one standing behind wagon and the other a little further away standing on a tree that has fallen across the river
hand colored stereograph; small group of men and women gathered on the shore of a river for a picnic; three women are seated as well as two men; one man/boy (?) is standing and playing a fiddle/violin while another man stands slightly back from the group at left and is watching; river is in midground; tree covered shoreline in background
black and white stereograph mounted on yellow cardstock; R.S. De Lamater, Photo. / 258 Main Street, Hartford, Conn. / Views of Hartford and Vicinity. / City Park.; view from elevated vantage point looking across open expance of green space, unpaved paths traveling in multiple directions; wooden bridge crossing river in foreground; large, multi-level buildings in background