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[Pennsylvania Railroad Connecting Railway Bridge from Lansdowne, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A99316
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Creator
R. Newell & Son.
Contributor
Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer.
Title
[Pennsylvania Railroad Connecting Railway Bridge from Lansdowne, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia : Stereoscopic views published by R. Newell & Son, photographers
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 from the west bank of the river showing men and a woman holding a child standing and sitting near a rustic railing overlooking the New York Railroad Bridge, known as the Connecting Railway Bridge, built from 1866-1867 after the designs of Pennsylvania Railroad Chief Engineer John A. Wilson. The PRR bridge served as the railroad’s first connecting railway between Philadelphia and New York City.
Is part of
Fairmount Park Views
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Series list printed on verso. Includes one hundred titles in the series (No. 1-100).
Publisher's imprint printed on series label pasted on verso.
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
Pennsylvania Railroad. New York Division.
Pennsylvania Railroad. Philadelphia Division.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject
Connecting Railway Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Group portraits -- 1860-1870.
Associated name
Wilson, John Allston, 1837-1896, engineer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Parks [P.2010.6.12]
Accession number
P.2010.6.12
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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