Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title Fairmount Park high stone bridge postcards. [graphic].
Date 1900-1925
Physical Description 25 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Depicts the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge at the junction of Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River, above Ridge Avenue. Includes views of Wissahickon Falls in the foreground, a motorcar and pedestrians. Marks the entrance to Wissahickon Creek, Wissahickon Drive and Wissahickon Park.
Notes Contains 22 postcards printed in color and 3 in black and white.
Construction of the bridge (also known as the Wissahickon Creek Viaduct or High Stone Bridge) was begun in 1874 by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Due to budgetary constraints, construction was halted and later completed from 1881-1882.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Railroad bridges -- Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Stone bridges -- Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Geographic subject Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Wissahickon Creek Viaduct (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1910-1930.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Bridges - High Stone Bridge - 61]
Accession number 061-a01-d
061-b01-c