Details
Contributor Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer.
H.A. & J.P. Sims, architect.
Title [Promontory Rock Tunnel and New York Connecting Railway Bridge, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date ca. 1875
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the Promontory Rock Tunnel, bored in 1871, on East River Drive (Kelly Drive) between the New York Connecting Railway Bridge and the Girard Avenue Bridge in East Fairmount Park. Includes views of segments of the two Pennsylvania Railroad bridges spanning the Schuylkill River. The Connecting Railway bridge was completed in 1867 after the designs of John A. Wilson. The Girard Avenue Bridge was completed in 1875 after the designs of Henry A. and James P. Sims.
Notes Buff mount with rounded corners.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Manuscript note on mount: Tunnel & NY bridge Park.
Inscribed in negative: 129.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Pennsylvania Railroad. New York Division.
Pennsylvania Railroad. Philadelphia Division.
Tunnels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Connecting Railway Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Kelly Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer.
Associated name H.A. & J.P. Sims, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Bridges [P.9299.45]
Accession number P.9299.45