Details
Creator Newell, Robert, 1822-1897.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Title Wire Bridge Fairmount. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Published by R. Newell, 724 Arch Street
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount mounted on paper; 9 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View looking south from the west bank of the Schuylkill River near the Schuylkill Navigation Company Canal and locks showing the Wire Bridge at Fairmount. 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 razed in 1874. View includes a team of horses and a horse-drawn wagon on the riverbank in front of the canal locks near the house built in 1833 for Schuylkill Navigation Company officials. Also shows factories adjacent to the bridge in the background.
Is part of American views
Notes Title from accompanying publisher's 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 Schuylkill Navigation Company.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Canals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Locks (Hydraulic engineering) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Wire Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Bridges [(3)1322.F.119f]
Accession number (3)1322.F.119f