Videographer: William W. Chambers
Video date: 1932
Video location: Delaware Canal from Pt. Pleasant to Washington Crossing
Video length: 25 minutes
Time span: 1932
Summary: This silent video by Chambers of the Delaware canal and river also features important historical clips of artists William Lathrop, Edward Redfield, and Daniel Garber at their homes. It was clearly edited by Mr. Chambers to show many different people, vistas of the area, and seasons. It includes events like river flooding and views of the bridge at Pt. Pleasant, which washed away in the 1955 flood.
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Time markers:
00:00 – Delaware Canal, Pt. Pleasant bridge
00:21 – Old Inn at Lumberville (today’s Black Bass Inn), Lumberville covered bridge and Officer Snyder
02:15 – canal and River Road in winter
02:40 – Mrs. Montague painting along the canal
03:34 – lock 17, locktender, and lock in action lowering a canal boat
05:57 – Lambert Rose, Lumberville basket weaver
07:33 – blowing the conch shell alerting the locktender of boat’s arrival
08:26 – river flooding, probably above Pt. Pleasant
09:44 – unnamed artist at work en plein air
11:10 – John Young, Lumberville area canal manager for 42 years, and his home
11:57 – another unnamed artist at work
12:24 – view from Top Rock near Kintersville (Nockamixon Cliffs)
13:16 – camelback bridges
14:38 – recreation along the canal
15:29 – canal scenes
16:54 – Phillips Mill artist colony’s center in different seasons
17:56 – William L. Lathrop’s home and garden
18:30 – Lathrop painting
19:06 – Phillips Mill
19:24 – Edward Redfield and his Centre Bridge home
20:23 – Daniel Garber at work outside his Cuttalossa home
21:04 – home of poet John Greenleaf Whittier on Greenhill Road
21:24 – Washington Crossing covered bridge
22:03 – Neely’s Mill and mill race
22:50 – Thompson Neely House, crossing spot at McConkey’s Ferry
23:29 – transference of the canal property to the state of Pennsylvania by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation, October 17, 1931
