Details
Creator Cremer, James, 1821-1893.
Contributor Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Title Looking toward the city [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 looking south from East Fairmount Park showing the Wire Suspension 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 removed in 1874. View also shows the old engine house at the Fairmount Water Works, factory buildings lining the west bank of the river, and cityscape.
Is part of Scenery in Fairmount Park. No. 99
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Suspension bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Bridges [8353.F.10]
Accession number 8353.F.10