Details
Contributor Trautwine, John C. 1810-1883, engineer.
Title [Columbia Railroad Bridge, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
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 north from East Fairmount Park showing the Columbia Railroad Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. One of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, it was completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer John C. Trautwine for use by the Reading Railroad Company. In the foreground, a man sits on a rock near a small ravine in a grassy knoll. Also includes two multi-storied buildings, possibly beer saloons, near the bridge.
Notes Pale blue mount with rounded corners.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Gift of Jane Carson James.
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 -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1810-1883, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Bridges [P.9299.49]
Accession number P.9299.49