Details
Creator Walker, Lewis E., 1826-1916.
Contributor Buell, C. W., photographer.
Title Susquehanna Valley and Starucca Viaduct. [graphic].
Publisher Warsaw, N.Y. : L.E. Walker, publisher
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Landscape view showing railroad tracks near the Susquehanna River. Incorporated as the New York and Erie Railroad in 1832, the railroad was reorganized as the Erie Railway in 1861. The Starucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pa., constructed by the railroad in 1848 after the designs of engineers James P. Kirkwood and Julius W. Adams, is visible in the distant background. A man stands in the foreground.
Is part of Views on the line of Erie Railway. 708
Notes Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Title printed on mount.
Possibly photographed by C.W. Buell.
Walker, a stationery store owner and publisher of New York stereographic views, had a working relationship with photographer C.W. Buell, who operated a studio from Walker's business address.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Erie Railroad Company.
Railroads -- New York.
Geographic subject Susquehanna River Valley.
Starucca Viaduct (Lanesboro, Pa.)
Susquehanna River.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Landscape photographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Adams, Julius W. (Julius Walker), 1812-1899, engineer.
Associated name Kirkwood, James Pugh, 1807-1877, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Miscellaneous - Walker [P.9168.8]
Accession number P.9168.8