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View from Belmont looking S.E. [graphic] / Photo. by R. Newell & Son.
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Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer.
Contributor
Trautwine, John C. 1810-1883, engineer.
Kiralfy Brothers, publisher.
Title
View from Belmont looking S.E. [graphic] / Photo. by R. Newell & Son.
Publisher
Philadelphia : Kiralfy Bros
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1876
Date
c1876
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.)
Description
View looking southeast from Belmont Mansion in West Fairmount Park showing the Columbia Railroad Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River in the distant left background. Also shows benches and chairs near the mansion in the foreground. One of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, the bridge 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. 4
Notes
Written on negative: 42
Title from manuscript note on mount.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876.
Pink curved mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
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 -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Landscape views -- 1870-1880.
Associated name
Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1810-1883, engineer.
Printer
Kiralfy Brothers, publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.89]
Accession number
P.9299.89
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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