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Old Falls Bridg[e] Schuy[l]kill R[i]ver. [graphic].
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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
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