Details
Contributor Ward Brothers (Columbus, Ohio), publisher.
Title Album of Pennsylvania R. R. scenery [graphic].
Publisher Columbus: Ward Bros
Publisher OH. Columbus. 1888
Date [1888]
Physical Description 1 volume (12 prints on one sheet) : photolithographs ; volume 9 x 15 cm. (3.5 x 6 in.)
Description Souvenir viewbook containing twelve captioned views of prominent sites and landmarks of and along the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Mid-Atlantic. Includes "Pennsylvania R. R. Station, Jersey City, Showing Birds eye View of the Hudson River, New York City Etc."; "Pennsylvania R. R. Ferries Plying Between Jersey City & New York"; "New Brunswick N. J. Penna. R. R. Bridge Crossing the Raritan River"; "Broad St. Station Penna. R. R. Co. Philadelphia. Grandest R. R. Depot in America" with inset showing Independence Hall"; "New Public Building, Philadelphia Cor. Broad & Market Streets. Built of Marble & Granite. Grandest Single Structure in the World. Cost Already Over $15,000,000. View at Left, U. S. Mint. View on the Right, Penna. R. R. Depot."; "Views at Bryn Mawr, 10 miles West of Philadelphia: Bryn Mawr Hotel. Bryn Mawr Station. Residences."; "Penn. R.R. Bridge Crossing the Susquehanna River 6 Miles West of Harrisbugh PA"; "Lewiston Narrows"; "Jacks Narrows, From Mapleton"; "Along Jack Narrows"; "The Horse Shoe Curve, Pennsylvania Railroad"; "Near Bolivar on the Conemaugh with inset showing "Scene at Allegrippus"; "In the Pack Saddle, On the Conemaugh/Spruce Creek Tunnel"; "Penna. R. R. Co’s Depot, Pittsburgh Pa."; View of Pittsburgh & Allegheny City Pa. with inset showing "Iron Works South Side." Views also show American's first immigration center Castlegarden (i.e., Castle Clinton, Battery Park, N.Y.), traveling trains, piers, factories, pedestrian and street traffic, and landscapes, including mountains, valleys, and creeks. Some inset images also designed as trompe l'oeil.
Notes Publication information from copyright statement.
Title from embossed brown morocco binding, front cover stamped: Album of Pennsylvania R. R. Scenery.
Prints connected by accordion folds.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Housed in phase box.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Broad Street Station (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Bryn Mawr Hotel (Bryn Mawr, Pa.)
Bryn Mawr Station (Bryn Mawr, Pa.)
Castle Garden (New York, N.Y.)
City Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Pennsylvania Railroad -- Buildings.
United States Mint.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Susquehanna River.
Creeks -- Pennsylvania.
Factories -- New York State -- New York.
Factories -- Pennsylvania.
Iron foundries -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Mountains -- Pennsylvania.
Railroad bridges -- New Jersey -- Raritain River.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Susquehanna River.
Railroad ferries -- New York State -- New York.
Railroad ferries -- New Jersey -- Jersey City.
Railroad stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad stations -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh.
Railroad trains -- New York.
Railroad trains -- Pennsylvania.
Railroad tunnels -- Pennsylvania -- Huntingdon County.
Valleys -- Pennsylvania.
Geographic subject Blair County (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Bryn Mawr (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Conemaugh River (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Pictorial works.
Huntingdon County (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Mifflin County (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Accordion fold format (Binding)
Viewbooks -- 1880-1890.
Photolithographs -- Color -- 1880-1890.
Bird's-eye views -- 1880-1890.
Landscape prints -- 1880-1890.
Panoramic views -- 1870-1880.
Morocco bindings (Binding).
Printer Ward Brothers (Columbus, Ohio), publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Album [P.2011.45.26]
Accession number P.2011.45.26