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Title View of the Schuylkill River and Vicinity from Office Window, Phila.
Date March 1891.
Notes View looking north from the B&O Railroad terminal at 24th and Chestnut streets at the Schuylkill River and nearby industries on the waterfront. Includes part of the Philadelphia Gas Works and two bridges in the distance.
Part of an album containing photographs of railroad bridges and stations along the B&O Railroad's Philadelphia Division taken on a trip made by a small group of B&O Railroad employees, under the supervision of Division Engineer Maintenance-of-Way William A. Pratt, who surveyed the line in March 1891.
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 65.
Arcadia caption text: Looking north from an upper-story window of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station located at Chestnut and Twenty-fourth streets, this 1891 photograph shows the city's industrial waterfront along the Schuylkill River including parts of the Philadelphia Gas Works and a freight depot. Horse-drawn vehicles and a train travel across the numerous bridges spanning the river in the background.
LCP AR [Annual Report] 2001, pg. 58-9.
Genre Cyanotypes 1890-1900
Subject Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Philadelphia Division.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gas industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2400 block.
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Is part of B & O Railroad Album
B & O Railroad Album: "Bridges and buildings, Philadelphia Division, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 1891."
Has format TMP.objres.5190.jpg
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.124]
Accession number P.9945.124