Details
Creator Cremer, James, 1821-1893.
Title Entrance to the drive [graphic]. James Cremer, photographer, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher [Philadelphia: James Cremer]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing a section of the old Girard Avenue Bridge spanning Landsdowne ( i.e., Lansdowne) Drive in West Fairmount Park. The bridge, built over the Schuylkill River in 1855 and razed circa 1871, is adorned with a sign labeled, "Entrance to Landsdowne Drive." Shows three men, including a park guard, standing under and near the bridge arches.
Is part of Scenery in Fairmount Park. No. 32
Notes Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Title from manuscript note on verso.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Stamped on verso: E.C. Hopper.
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 Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schylkill River.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Lansdowne Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Bridges [P.9260.21]
Accession number P.9260.21