Details
Creator Woodward, Charles Warren, 1836-1894.
Contributor Swartz, Christian.
Title Landing, South Laurel Hill. [graphic].
Publisher Rochester, N.Y.: C.W. Woodward, publisher
Publisher NY. Rochester. 1875
Date May 29, 1875
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing two men working at a boat landing on the bank of the Schuylkill River near Laurel Hill Cemetery in East Fairmount Park. Platform steps for disembarking are visible on the landing. Also shows the Old Falls Bridge also known as the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Bridge near the Falls of Schuylkill in the background. The six-arched bridge, completed in 1853 by mason Christian Swartz, was utilized by the Richmond branch of the Reading Railroad.
Is part of Schuylkill River near Phila, Penn. 940
Notes Title printed on mount.
Date inscribed on verso.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Woodward, proprietor of the Fine Art Depot in Rochester, was a major publisher of stereoviews during the 1870s.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Reading Company.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Falls Bridge (Philadelphia, 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 - Rivers [P.9007.1]
Accession number P.9007.1