Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Title Fairmount Suspension Bridge over the Schuylkill River. At the Fairmount Water Works. Erected in 1841. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: M'Clees' stereoscopic photographs]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date [1859]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount mounted on paper; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View looking from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Wire Suspension Bridge. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, built 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr was erected near the Fairmount Waterworks to replace Wernwag's Upper Ferry Bridge (burned 1838). It was removed in 1874 and replaced by the Callowhill Street Bridge. Also shows the hotel and/or railway depot at the foot of the bridge on the east bank.
Is part of Views in and about Philadelphia, 1859
Notes Title from accompanying label.
Buff mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Suspension bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - McClees - Bridges [(3)1322.F.118f]
Accession number (3)1322.F.118f