Details
Creator Boell, William.
Contributor Weir, Robert, copyright holder.
Title Birds-eye view of property on Alleghany Avenue Philadelphia 25th Ward formerly 19th looking S.E. from Frankford Road. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: Lithographed & printed by William Boell]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1863
Date [c1863]
Physical Description 1 print: chromolithograph; 69 x 100 cm. (27.5 x 40 in.)
Description Bird's eye view designed as a grid plan looking southeast from Frankford Road (Northeast Philadelphia) toward the Delaware River showing the city between Westmoreland Street and a few blocks south of Columbia Street. Predominately depicts the open land surrounding the Aramingo Canal, Reading Railroad Depot between Lehigh Avenue and Somerset Street, and the Philadelphia, Trenton, and New York Railroad line. A few dwellings, churches, and other structures comprise the landscape with clusters and heavier congestion of buildings visible near Columbia Street. In the foreground, dwellings, most with plots of ground, a church, and the "Second & Third Street Passenger Railway Depot" line Frankford Road. Two street cars, one marked "Second & Third St.," travel in the street. In the background, congested blocks of buildings forms the majority of the cityscape. View also includes the Port Richmond railroad terminus; a train traveling on the Philadelphia, Trenton and New York Railroad line; locomotives pulling coal cars on the Reading Railroad line; industrial buildings; a small number of trees; and street names. The 25th Ward comprised of parts of the 19th and 23rd wards was formed in 1861. View possibly related to the Junction project, a project commissioned by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, the Pennsylvania, and the Reading Railroad to create a non-stop route between New York and Washington. By 1863, a stop gap all-rail passenger service through Philadelphia had been initiated.
Is referenced by Wainwright 29
Notes Copyrighted by R. Weir.
Publication information supplied by duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 54
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Subject Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company.
Reading Company -- Buildings.
Geographic subject Northeast Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Aramingo Canal (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870.
Bird's eye view prints -- 1860-1870.
Printer Weir, Robert, copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W29 [P.2013]
Accession number P.2013