Details
Creator Chase, William M., 1818 or 1819-1901.
Contributor Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer.
Title Girard Bridge & c [graphic] / By W.M. Chase.
Publisher [Baltimore: W.M. Chase]
Publisher Pa. Philadelphia. 1880
Date [ca. 1870, ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 7 in.)
Description View from the riverbank showing a section of the Old Girard Avenue Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park. The bridge, completed in 1855, was razed circa 1871 and replaced. Also shows, in the background, a section of the Connecting Railway Bridge, built from 1866-1867 after the designs of Pennsylvania Railroad Chief Engineer John A. Wilson.
Is part of American views. Metropolitan and suburban views, Philadelphia. 741
Notes Title from manuscript note on mount.
Curved orange mount with rounded corners.
Promotional text with trademark printed on verso by Baltimore printer, Woods, advertising "Chase's Celebrated Collection of National Views." Includes the Capitol, U.S. Naval Academy, Central Park, Schuylkill Park, and Baltimore.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Chase, a Baltimore photographer, operated as a stereograph photographer and publisher between circa 1872 to 1890.
Subject Pennsylvania Railroad. New York Division.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Connecting Railway Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (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 - Chase - Bridges [P.9466.27]
Accession number P.9466.27