Details
Contributor Sims, Henry Augustus, 1832-1875, architect.
Sims, James Peacock, 1849-1882, architect.
Title Girard Avenue Bridge, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 30 x 24 cm (12 x 9.25 in.)
Description View of the Girard Avenue Bridge, completed in 1872 to 1874 after the designs of Philadelphia architects Henry A. and James P. Sims, over the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park. The wrought-iron Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, demolished in 1971, also served as a pedestrian bridge. Shows shrubs and trees growing on boths sides of the shoreline.
Is part of Unidentified series. 89
Notes Title from text printed on mount.
Date inferred from content.
Text on negative: No. 89. Girard Avenue Bridge.
Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Image is mounted on the verso of: photo - unidentified - government buildings [P.2011.45.14].
Subject Pennsylvania Railroad.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo- unidentified - government buildings [P.2011.45.15]
Accession number P.2011.45.15