Details
Creator Woodward, C. W. (Charles Warren)
Title Old Falls Bridg[e] Schuy[l]kill R[i]ver. [graphic].
Publisher Rochester, N.Y.: C.W. Woodward, publisher
Date May 29, 1875
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View from Laurel Hill in East Fairmount Park looking northeast showing the six-arched bridge completed in 1853 by mason Christian Swartz near the Falls of Schuylkill on the Schuylkill River. The bridge was utilized by the Richmond branch of the Reading Railroad. A covered bridge is seen in the background.
Is part of Gems of Penn'a scenery. Philadelphia and vicinity. 1043.
Notes Title printed on mount.
Date from manuscript note on verso.
Orange 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.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Falls Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Swartz, Christian.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Woodward - Bridges [P.9007.4]
Accession number P.9007.4