Details
Creator Bartlett & French.
Contributor Darrah, William Culp, 1909-1989, former owner.
Title Views from the Reading Railroad near Reading, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 5 photographic prints : albumen on stereograph mounts ; 8.5 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.) or smaller.
Description Views of the rocky landscape adjacent to railroad tracks near Reading, Pa., including the Lebanon Valley Railroad Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. Includes a man standing in front of a steep, rocky hill and a horse-drawn coach resting near the river. The bridge, completed in 1857, was burned down during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
Is part of Views in Vicinity of Reading No. 80, 94, 98 and 100
Notes Yellow cardboard mounts with rounded corners. Photographer's printed labels pasted on versos.
Manuscript note on versos of P.8484.19 and P.8484.21: Bartlett & French; William C. Darrah coll.
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 Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.
Railroad tracks -- Pennsylvania.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania.
Rocks -- Pennsylvania.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania.
Geographic subject Lebanon Valley Railroad Bridge (Pa.)
Reading (Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Landscape photographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance Darrah, William Culp, 1909-1989, former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Views [P.8484.19-21; P.8731.1; P.9462.7]
Accession number P.8484.19
P.8484.20
P.8484.21
P.8731.1
P.9462.7