Jump to navigation
Main menu
LCP Home
Search
Search Library Catalog
Search Digital Collections
How to Search the Collections
Access Terms Used in Our Catalogs
Finding Aids
Explore
Browse Collections
LCP News
Social Media
Exhibitions
Podcast
Academic Programs
Overview
Fellowships
Innovation Award
Biennial First Book Award
Seminars
Program in African American History
Program in Early American Economy and Society
The Davida T. Deutsch Program in Women’s History
Visual Culture Program
Research
Overview
Subject Guides
Finding Aids
Online Exhibitions
Bookbinding Research
Using the Library
Overview
Hours, Access, & Location
Rights & Reproductions
How to Search Collections
Potentially Harmful Materials and Descriptions Statement
Online Resources
Events
Upcoming Events
Seminars
LCP News
LCP Press Resources
Projects
Beyond Glass Cases
Library Company Papers Project
Hearing Voices
Imperfect History
Fireside Chats
Support the Library
Overview
Donate Online!
Join & Renew Membership Online
Support: Shareholding
Lecture in Honor of John C. Van Horne
Membership Benefits
Planned Giving
Annual Dinner
Junto
About LCP
Annual Reports
Staff
Board of Trustees
Employment
Affiliations
LCP Blog
Press Resources
LCP Privacy Policy
Overview and History
LCP FAQ Sheet
Wissahickon Valley. [graphic] / [Photographed by Bartlett & French Phila.]
You are here
Browse Collections
›
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Back to top
Details
Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer.
Title
Wissahickon Valley. [graphic] / [Photographed by Bartlett & French Phila.]
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date
[ca. 1868]
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
Rooftop view, probably from a building in the Monastery complex, showing a man standing with a horse-drawn cart on a dirt road leading to the trellised Kitchen's Lane Bridge. Bridge removed ca. 1925.
Is part of
Unidentified series No. 49
Notes
Photographer's imprint on label partially visible on verso.
Title from photographer's label pasted on verso.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note
Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Subject
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Kitchen's Lane Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Landscape photographs -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.9462.10]
Accession number
P.9462.10
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
Log In