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Tunnel near Girard Ave. Bridge. [graphic] / A.H. Hemple, N.E. cor. 15th and Pennsylvania Ave., Philada.
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Creator
Hemple, Alfred H., fl. 1860-1879 photographer.
Title
Tunnel near Girard Ave. Bridge. [graphic] / A.H. Hemple, N.E. cor. 15th and Pennsylvania Ave., Philada.
Publisher
Philadelphia: A.W. Fatsinger
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1873
Date
c1873
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 11 x 18 cm.(4.25 x 7 in.)
Description
View looking north from in front of the Girard Avenue Bridge showing the Promontory Rock Tunnel, bored in 1871, on East River Drive (i.e., Kelly Drive) in East Fairmount Park. Also shows a section of the New York Connecting Railway Bridge, built for the Pennsylvania Railroad 1866-1867, in the background.
Is part of
Centennial views of Philadelphia and Fairmount Park
Notes
Title from manuscript note on verso.
Green mount with rounded corners.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Pennsylvania Railroad. New York Division.
Tunnels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Kelly Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.)
New York Connecting Railway Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Hemple - Bridges [P.9260.55]
Accession number
P.9260.55
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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