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View from Belmont, Phila. Park. Schuylkill River in the distance with Penna R.R. Bridge. [graphic].
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Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897.
Contributor
Trautwine, John C. 1810-1883, engineer.
Title
View from Belmont, Phila. Park. Schuylkill River in the distance with Penna R.R. Bridge. [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date
[ca. 1870]
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
View looking south from Belmont Mansion in West Fairmount Park showing the Columbia Railroad Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River in the distant left background. One of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, it was completed in 1834 after the designs of John C. Trautwine for the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad. The Reading Railroad purchased the bridge in the 1850s.
Is part of
Unidentified series No. 41
Notes
Title from manuscript note on verso.
Attributed to Robert Newell.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of David Doret.
Subject
Reading Company.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject
Columbia Railroad Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Landscape views -- 1860-1870.
Associated name
Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1810-1883, engineer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Parks [P.2010.6.7]
Accession number
P.2010.6.7
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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