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Title	Looking down the Mystic River from the Scholfield studio, Mystic.
Creator	Scholfield, E. A. (Everett Augustus), 1843-1930.
Place	Pistol Point (Mystic, Conn.)Mystic (Conn.) Mason Island (Conn.) Mystic River (Conn.)
Topic	Paddle steamers Steamboats Boats and boating Rivers Shipyards
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Escort (Steamboat) George Greenman & Company Mystic Iron Works
Genre	Photographs
Theme	Environment Infrastructure Livelihood
Description	View looking down the Mystic River. The Mystic Iron Works wharf and shear poles at Pistol Point can be seen at the left. To the right, visible behind the former Randall's Wharf, identified as the Old Randall Whaling Wharf, is the sidewheel steamer Escort. Pine Hill on Mason's Island can be seen in the left background.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Handwritten on back: "Looking down Mystic River in 1865 from studio of E.A. Scholfield." and "Steamer Escort". Mystic Iron Works, 1862-1873, manufactured and fitted engines and boilers for vessels. Its boom period was during and immediately after the Civil War when it fitted and refitted a number of vessels. The company also built one vessel, the iron-hulled screw towboat Montaines. The Escort was built by George Greenman & Co. in 1862. She served in the Civil War and returned to Mystic in 1866 to be refitted for use by the Norwich & New York Transportation Co. She was later renamed Catskill and then City of Hudson, and condemned in 1912. George Greenman and Company was a family firm owned by three of the Greenman Brothers, George, Clark and Thomas. They built 97 vessels between 1837 and 1878. The shipyard was located at Adams Point in the Greenmanville section of Mystic, a site that is now part of Mystic Seaport. Pine Hill was on the north end of Mason's Island, and was reduced by quarrying by the end of the nineteenth century. Building to the right of Randall's Wharf was part of the Randal Whaling complex; the rocks to the right were known as St. Jago's Ledge. Everett A. Scholfield was a professional photographer who worked primarily in Mystic and New London from 1865-1913. Negative (1965.859.27) is dated 1866. Albumen prints with curved tops mounted on yellow card, square corners.
Date created	1865.
Physical format	1 photograph : stereograph ; 3 3/8 x 6 7/8 in.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number: 1981.5.10 File name: IMG0036-4771.PCD
Source	Mystic Seaport
Collection	Scholfield Collection.
Rights	Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image are available from Mystic Seaport.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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