Details
Contributor E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), publisher.
Title Germantown bend. [graphic].
Publisher New York : Published by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., emporium of American and foreign stereoscopic views, chromos, and albums, 591 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View of Wissahickon Creek near Lover's Leap looking north toward Rittenhouse Bridge, a large stone bridge with a small arch opening in Fairmount Park. Bridge carries Forbidden Drive and marks the entrance to the upper Wissahickon Valley.
Is part of Wissahickon Creek, near Philadelphia, Pa. No. 5700
Notes Title and publisher's imprint from label pasted on verso.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. was one of the largest suppliers of photographic apparatus in the second half of the nineteenth century. Their business moved from 501 Broadway to 591 Broadway in 1869.
Subject Rittenhouse Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Stone bridges -- Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Geographic subject Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Forbidden Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Landscape photographs -- 1870-1880.
Printer E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Anthony - Parks [P.9426]
Accession number P.9426