Details
Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Contributor Trautwine, John C. 1810-1883, engineer.
Title Schuylkill River, Fairmount Park , Phila. (Columbia Bridge) [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1878
Date [ca. 1878]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with two stones and mounted on album page ; 28 x 36 cm. (11 x 14 in.)
Description Lithograph showing people in rowboats on the Schuylkill River in the foreground and the Columbia Bridge in the background. One of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, it was completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer John C. Trautwine for use by the Reading Railroad Company.
Notes Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Subject Reading Company.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Recreation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rowboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Columbia Railroad Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1810-1883, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol, 2086.F.2]
Accession number 2086.F.2