Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.).
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Trautwine, John C. 1810-1883, engineer.
Title [Old Columbia Bridge over the Schuylkill River] [graphic] / M'Clees' stereoscopic photographs.
Publisher [Philadelphia: James E. M'Clees]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date [1859]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 7 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 and publication information from similar stereoview by McClees.
Light grey mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Image faded.
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.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - McClees - Bridges [(3)1322.F.123a]
Accession number (3)1322.F.123a