Details
Contributor Trautwine, John C. 1810-1883, engineer.
Title View from the New Park, Phila[delphia] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date ca. 1870
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 10 x 18 cm.(4 x 7 in.)
Description View looking from West Fairmount Park showing the Columbia Railroad Bridge over the Schuylkill River. The bridge, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, was completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer John C. Trautwine for use by the Reading Railroad Company. A residence is visible in the foreground and buildings line the river bank in the background. A line of freight cars enters the bridge.
Is part of Unidentified series. 662
Notes Title printed on mount.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Gift of Francis J. Dallett.
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.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1810-1883, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Bridges - Columbia [P.9528.1]
Accession number P.9528.1