Details
Contributor Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer.
Post Card Distributing Co., publisher.
Title P.R.R. Bridge over Schuylkill River, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Pub. by the Post Card Distributing Co
Date ca. 1910
Physical Description 1 photomechanical print (postcard): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Depicts a locomotive crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over the Schuylkill River near Girard Avenue. The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, completed in 1867 after the designs of P.R.R. Chief Engineer John A. Wilson, served as the first connecting railway between Philadelphia and New York City.
Notes Numbered 23609 on recto. Publisher's monogram on verso.
Divided back.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Pennsylvania Railroad.
Railroad bridges -- Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Geographic subject Connecting Railway Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Associated name Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer.
Printer Post Card Distributing Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Bridges - [P.9048.358]
Accession number P.9048.358