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Market St. Bridge. [graphic].
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Contributor
Palmer, Timothy, fl. 1785-1810, architect.
Title
Market St. Bridge. [graphic].
Publisher
United States
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date
ca. 1870
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 6.75 in.)
Description
View showing the Market Street Permanent Bridge, built from 1798-1806 after the designs of Timothy Palmer, over the Schuylkill River at Market Street. Bridge was expanded around 1850 to accommodate a connection between the city railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Bridge destroyed by fire in 1875. Piers, stacked with lumber, are visible in the foreground. Horse-drawn carts stand on the piers near docked boats.
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American Scenery. 1057
Notes
Title annotated on negative.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 75.
Arcadia caption text: Timothy Palmer designed the Market Street Permanent Bridge, a covered wooden wagon bridge flanked by pedestrian walkways over the Schuylkill River. The cornerstone was laid in 1800 and the bridge completed in 1806. It was expanded c. 1850 to carry the tracks of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad into the Center City area to connect with the City Railroad. A leaky gas main caused a fire that destroyed the bridge in 1875, about five years after this image was taken.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lumber -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Market Street Permanent Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name
Palmer, Timothy, fl. 1785-1810, architect.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Bridges [P.8451.2]
Accession number
P.8451.2
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