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Girard Avenue Bridge and N.Y.R.R. Bridge, Phila[delphia] [graphic].
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Contributor
Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer.
Title
Girard Avenue Bridge and N.Y.R.R. Bridge, Phila[delphia] [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 from East Fairmount Park showing the Old Girard Avenue Bridge and the New York Connecting Railway bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. Girard Avenue Bridge, was built in 1855 and razed circa 1871. The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge in the background, the New York Railroad Bridge, known as the Connecting Railway Bridge, was built from 1866-1867 after the designs of PRR Chief Engineer John A. Wilson. It served as the railroad's first connecting railway between Philadelphia and New York City. A woman sits and reads on a bench in the foreground.
Notes
Title inscribed on negative.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Image blurred.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Saul Kotnow.
Subject
Pennsylvania Railroad. Philadelphia Division.
Pennsylvania Railroad. New York Division.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Connecting Railway Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name
Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Bridges [P.9022.36]
Accession number
P.9022.36
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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