Details
Creator Bartlett, George O., photographer.
Title Girard Avenue and Junc[tion] R.R. Bridge [graphic] / GOB.
Date ca. 1870
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View from a high vantage point of the Girard Avenue Bridge in the foreground and the Connecting Railroad Bridge [i.e. Junction Railroad Bridge] in the background spanning the Schuylkill River at Fairmount Park. Two men recline along the banks of the river in the foreground. Construction of a new Girard Avenue Bridge began in 1872.
Is part of Gems of Penn'a scenery. Schuylkill River near Phil'a
Notes List of titles in series printed on paper label on verso.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Connecting Railway Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett - bridges [P.9644.15]
Accession number P.9644.15