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Susquehanna Valley and Starucca Viaduct. [graphic].
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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
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
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