Details
Creator Wharton, Thomas Kelah, 1814-1862, artist.
Contributor Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 1805-1886, printer.
Title Reading from the south. [graphic] / Drawn from nature and on stone by T.K. Wharton.
Publisher Philadelphia : P.S. Duval
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1839
Date [ca. 1839]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 34 x 26 cm (13.5 x 10 in.)
Description View depicting Reading, Pa. from near the tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad along the Schuylkill River. Two small boats and a few ducks move along the river. People and horses walk on the trails on either side of the waterway. In the background, the city of Reading is visible including buildings, church steeples, and smokestacks. In the right, a train travels down the tracks. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was chartered in 1833 to build a line between Philadelphia and Reading along the Schuylkill River. The portion from Reading to Norristown opened in 1838 and the full line opened in 1839.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from content.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Railroad tracks -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Railroad trains -- Pennsylvania -- Reading.
Geographic subject Reading (Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.34]
Accession number P.2019.64.34