Details
Contributor Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer.
Title N.Y. Bridge from N.W. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date ca. 1875
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View looking from West Fairmount Park showing the New York Connecting Railway Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, built from 1866-1867 after the designs of PRR Chief Engineer John A. Wilson, was utilized by the New York division of the railroad and served as the first connecting railway between New York and Philadelphia. Also shows a group of men and women sitting on a bench and conversing in the park in the foreground.
Notes Title from manuscript note on mount.
Buff mount with rounded corners.
Inscribed in negative: 135.
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.
Subject Pennsylvania Railroad. New York Division.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Connecting Railway Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Bridges [P.9299.46]
Accession number P.9299.46