Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor Trautwine, John C. 1810-1883, engineer.
Title Old Columbia Bridge over the Schuylkill River [graphic] / M'Clees stereoscopic photographs.
Publisher [Philadelphia: James E. McClees]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date [1859]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen stereograph; 9 x 17 cm.(3.5 x 6.75 in.)
Description View showing the Columbia Railroad Bridge, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, completed in 1834. Built after the designs of John C. Trautwine for the Reading Railroad Company, the bridge spanned over the Schuylkill River below Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park.
Is part of Views in and about Philadelphia, 1859
Notes Title from photographer's label on verso.
Manuscript note on mount: Old Columbia Bridge. Philadelphia.
Buff mount with rounded corners.
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 Reading Company.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Columbia Railroad Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1810-1883, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - McClees - Bridges [P.9326.3]
Accession number P.9326.3