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[In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.] [graphic]. AK.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A64437
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Creator
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist.
Title
[In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.] [graphic]. AK.
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Date
[ca. 1878]
Physical Description
3 prints: lithograph; 10 x 15 cm.(4 x 5.75 in.) or smaller.
Description
Landscape views showing "Below Girard Bridge, East"; "East of Girard Bridge (1857)"; and "Ravine near Reservoir East." Views contain a horse-drawn wagon and man on horseback crossing the Old Girard Avenue Bridge; park visitors, including children; vessels on the Schuylkill River; rock formations; and trees. The old Girard Avenue Bridge was built in 1855 and razed in 1871.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 372
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 K 8346.87
Biographical / historical note
Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Subject
Rock formations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 61 K 8346.87
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collections
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