Details
Contributor Fenderich, Charles, printer.
Title Railroad bridge over the Wissahickon, near Manayunk. [graphic] / Drawn from nature and on stone by Chs. Fenderich Philada.
Publisher [Philadelphia: Chs. Fenderich]
Date [ca. 1834]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 28 x 38 cm.(7 x 12.75 in.)
Description Landscape view showing the first Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad (later Philadelphia & Reading Railroad) bridge completed in 1833 over the Wissahickon near a waterfall. A train comprised of an engine, two crowded passenger coaches, i.e., trucks, and a freight car cross the Town lattice truss bridge. The neighboring Robeson's Mill is visible in the right foreground. Cows graze near the creek on which a group of ducks swim. Bridge razed in 1844. Ithiel Town patented his lattice truss design in 1820.
Is referenced by Wainwright 304
Notes Probable printer supplied by Wainwright
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 632
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 7 R 131
Subject Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown Rail Road Company.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Wissahickon Creek.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Landscape prints -- 1830-1840.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 7 R 131