Details
Creator Bartlett & French, photographer.
Contributor Woodward, Charles Warren, 1836-1894, publisher.
Swartz, Christian.
Title Falls Village. [graphic].
Publisher Rochester, New York: C.W. Woodward
Publisher NY. Rochester. 1871
Date July 8, 1871
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View looking through an arch of the Old Falls Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River showing Falls Village (East Falls) at the Falls of Schuylkill. The village, established in the latter 18th century around a private fishing club, evolved into a mill town in the 19th century, and was incorporated into Philadelphia in 1854. The Old Falls Bridge, also known as the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Bridge, was erected in 1853 by mason Christian Swartz.
Is part of Schuylkill River near Phila, Penn. 945
Notes Orange mount with rounded corners.
Title printed on mount.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Date from manuscript note on verso.
Reissue of a circa 1868 view entitled "Falls Village, Schuylkill River" by Bartlett & French of Philadelphia. [P.8484.1].
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Subject Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject East Falls (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Falls Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Swartz, Christian.
Printer Woodward, Charles Warren, 1836-1894, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Woodward - Bridges [P.9007.3]
Accession number P.9007.3