Details
Creator Cremer, James, 1821-1893.
Contributor Trautwine, John C. 1810-1883, engineer.
Title Near Belmont Cottage [graphic] / James Cremer, photographer and publisher, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia: James Cremer
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date ca. 1875
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, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, completed in 1834. Built after the designs of engineer John C. Trautwine for the Reading Railroad Company, the bridge spanned over the Schuylkill River below Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park. A small brick building is visible in the lower left foreground.
Is part of Scenery in Fairmount Park. 21
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
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.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1810-1883, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Bridges [8353.F.12]
Accession number 8353.F.12