About the Collection

The Black Riv­er Archive is a col­lec­tion of pho­tographs and doc­u­men­tary records pro­duced by a Philadel­phia-based sur­vey bureau between the 1870s and the late 1950s. The mate­ri­als doc­u­ment infra­struc­ture and labor across the indus­tri­al inte­ri­or of the Unit­ed States.

The col­lec­tion was received as part of a larg­er trans­fer of labor and indus­tri­al records. Dig­i­ti­za­tion and pub­li­ca­tion are under­tak­en by Fer­rotype Co. The mate­ri­als pre­sent­ed here rep­re­sent a por­tion of the full collection.

Prints of select­ed plates are avail­able to sup­port the con­tin­ued work of dig­i­ti­za­tion and preser­va­tion. A cat­a­log is in preparation.

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