Details
Creator R. Newell & Son, photographer.
Contributor Trautwine, John C. 1810-1883, engineer.
Kiralfy Brothers, publisher.
Title View from Belmont. [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 east from a dirt path near Belmont Mansion in West Fairmount Park showing the Columbia Railroad Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River in the distant background. 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. 2
Notes Written on negative: 47
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.
Trails & paths -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
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.9299.91]
Accession number P.9299.91