Details
Creator Currier & Ives.
Title Girard Avenue Bridge, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher New York: Published By Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau St
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored; 27 x 35 cm (10.75 x 14 in.)
Description Bird's eye view looking from East Fairmount Park showing the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge completed in 1874 after the designs of Philadelphia architects Henry A. and James P. Sims. Several horse-drawn carriages, people on horseback, and individuals on foot travel the upper, pedestrian level of the bridge. Also shows park visitors traversing the paths on the banks of the Schuylkill River below the bridge. On the river, paddelboats, scullers, and row boats are visible. Bridge demolished in 1971.
Is referenced by Gale
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 303
Reaccessioned as P.2283.29. Formerly 7598.F.
Paper darkened slightly.
Subject Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1870-1880.
Bird's eye view prints -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Bridges - G [P.2283.29]
Accession number P.2283.29