Details
Creator R. Newell & Son.
Contributor Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Title Schuylkill River [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Stereoscopic views published by R. Newell & Son, photographers
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View from the east bank of the Schuylkill River looking southwest showing the Wire Suspension Bridge in the distance. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874. Also shows Moan's boat store and stables, floating boat houses, taverns, and factories on the west bank of the river.
Is part of Fairmount Park views. 63
Notes Photographer, publisher, and title from label pasted on verso listing over sixty views published by the firm.
Green mount with rounded corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Gift of Jane Carson James.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert Newell and his son, Henry, was active from circa 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Subject Suspension bridges -- Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Boat & ship industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Taverns (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Bridges [P.9299.57]
Accession number P.9299.57