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Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Title Wire Bridge (Fairmount). From the southeast in the spring of 1855. [graphic] / McClees.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date 1855
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen; 18 x 24 cm.(7 x 9.5 in.)
Description View looking from the east bank showing the Wire Suspension Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. Also shows mills, factories, stables, and hotels lining both banks of the river. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874
Notes Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on accompanying label.
Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 63. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.
McClees 1855-3.
Biographical / historical note McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Subject Suspension bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stables -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Bridges [(5)2526.F.7a]
Accession number (5)2526.F.7a