Photos

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We hope you enjoy these wonderful images from Lambertville’s past! They’re to be used for non-commercial purposes only. Please visit the Marshall House Museum to see many more photos in our display areas. If you are looking for an image of a particular subject, search our archive and then email us.

: Marshall House, built 1814, postcard from 1920s: “Boyhood Home of John Marshall, Lambertville NJ Discoverer of Gold in California.” Note: name is wrong, it’s James Marshall.

: Members of the Lambertville Historical Society – circa 1890!

: Quarry rock sorting machine, South of Lambertville, Route 29, main tower still there!

: Fishing on Holcombe Island circa 1890

: Fire at Perseverance Paper Mill, on Canal, south of Bridge Street – 1906 and subsequent fires. Later, the ACME Market site.

: New Delaware River Bridge with Trolley, circa 1905

: Fishing Derby on the D&R Canal – 1942

: Looking northwest across N. Franklin Street (the diagonal street) from a hill where Route 179 now runs. The building with the steeple on Church Street (left), obscured by some trees, is St. John the Evangelist R.C. Church which stood there until the current building on Bridge Street replaced it in the 1890’s. In the center of the image, toward the top, is the flat roof of Holcombe Hall, now the Imbue Building at N. Main and York Streets and, above that, the Centenary Methodist Church may be seen.

: Bridge Street looking east from canal, Lambertville, circa 1890

: Shad fishing nets and boat with Covered Bridge in background, circa 1890

: Girl Scout group 1920

: Holcombe House, built 1870, now City Hall, NE corner of Union and York – note the old porch!

: Lambertville Baseball Stadium in Ely Field at Delaware Avenue, date?

: Lambertville Athletic Club 1917

: D&R Canal Inlet lock for boats from the Delaware River and Delaware Canal, circa 1890. The house is now gone, but the tree is still there.

: Entrance to new Delaware River Bridge, looking west from canal on Bridge Street – c 1905

: 1903 flood, bridge from New Hope

: Looking north from Bridge and Union Streets, c. 1910

: George Green Garage at York and Main Streets, c. 1920

: The Hooker Building at N. Union and York Streets, December 27, 1903

: Lambertville Little League, c. 1920

: Methodist Church School, 1945

: Parade at North Union Street, 1946

: St. Andrews fire, George and York Streets, January 1891