Details
Contributor Sims, Henry Augustus, 1832-1875, architect.
Sims, James Peacock, 1849-1882, architect.
Title Girard Avenue Bridge postcards. [graphic].
Date ca. 1910
Physical Description 5 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Contains views of the Girard Avenue bridge, built 1872-1874 after designs by Henry Augustus Sims and James Peacock Sims for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Depicts the bridge spanning the Schuylkill River from the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens and a detailed view of the Promontory Rock Tunnel, bored in 1871, on East River Drive (i.e., Kelly Drive).
Notes Contains 4 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white.
Accession numbers: P.9048.163, P.9048.391, P.9048.395, P.9105.3 and P.2002.67.35.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Pennsylvania Railroad. Philadelphia Division.
Railroad bridges -- Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Tunnels -- Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Geographic subject Girard Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Kelly Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Associated name Sims, Henry Augustus, 1832-1875, architect.
Associated name Sims, James Peacock, 1849-1882, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Bridges - [various]
Accession number various
P.2002.67.35