Sketchbook by Elisha Taylor Baker, circa 1875

sketchbook

DRAWINGS - SKETCHBOOKS
Baker, Elisha Taylor
USA, NY, Coney Island; USA, NY, New York; USA, NJ, Navesink; USA, CT, Old Saybrook; USA, NY, Plum Island
Circa 1875
4.13 x 6.63 x 0

Sketchbook by Elisha Taylor Baker, circa 1875; cloth-bound covers, leather spine, pencil holder (pencil missing), 34 pages; shed, mill, landscapes, crenelated towers, sloop at Sheeps Head Bay, ice barge, schooner, Plumb Island, Saybrook, fishing nets drying, harbors, man with shovel, townscapes with color notations, Tom Butler's Castle from Cooper's Deerslayer, rigging notes, floating derrick, Manhattan Beach lifesaving station, Nevesink highlands, Manhattan Beach pavilion (one signed E. T. Baker), docks, Greenport, Manhattan Beach hydraulic pile driver (signed E. T. Baker), steam schooner, Brooklyn Bridge tower unfinished, harbor at night in color, Poillons yard, Coney Island (signed E Taylor Baker), lighthouse, notes on crew house ventillation and skylight; also includes names and addresses.

UNIDENTIFIED barge
1989.17.15