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Wire Bridge at Fairmount, Phila. Pa. [graphic].
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Creator
Union View Co.
Contributor
Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Title
Wire Bridge at Fairmount, Phila. Pa. [graphic].
Publisher
Rochester, N.Y.: Union View Co
Publisher
NY. Rochester. 1876
Date
[ca. 1876]
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 south showing the Wire Suspension Bridge. 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 factories and mills lining the east bank; horse-drawn wagons transporting materials across the bridge; and men in rowboats on the river in the foreground.
Is part of
Philadelphia and vicinity
Notes
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Title from label on negative.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Missing upper left corner.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Suspension bridges -- Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rowboats -- 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 - Union View Company - Bridges [P.9260.81]
Accession number
P.9260.81
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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