Details
Creator Bartlett & Smith, photographer.
Contributor Kneass, Strickland, 1821-1884, architect.
De Young's Palace Dollar Store, publisher.
Palmer, Timothy, fl. 1785-1810, architect.
Title [Chestnut Street Bridge, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by De Young's Palace Dollar Store, 704 Chestnut St. Philadelphia. Established 1830
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1867
Date [ca. 1867]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : 1 albumen on stereograph mount ; 8.5 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the iron arch bridge built over the Schuylkill River between 1861-1866 after the designs of Strickland Kneass. In the foreground, two boys stand on a rock and overlook the Schuylkill River, while a laborer maneuvers an empty wheelbarrow behind them. The Market Street Permanent Bridge, built from 1798-1806 after the designs of Timothy Palmer and expanded around 1850 to accommodate a connection between the city railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad, is also visible in the background. The Chestnut Street Bridge, partially funded and utilized by the Chestnut and Walnut Streets Passenger Railway Company, was demolished in 1958.
Is part of American Scenery of all parts of the Continent.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Pennsylvania Railroad.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Market Street Permanent Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Kneass, Strickland, 1821-1884, architect.
Associated name Palmer, Timothy, fl. 1785-1810, architect.
Printer De Young's Palace Dollar Store, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Bridges [P.9058.166]
Accession number P.9058.166