Details
Creator Cremer, James, 1821-1893.
Contributor Trautwine, John C. 1810-1883, engineer.
Title View at Landsdowne. [graphic] / James Cremer, photographer and publisher, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia: James Cremer
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 10 x 18 cm.(4 x 7 in.)
Description View looking from Landsdowne (i.e., Lansdowne) in West Fairmount Park. Shows the Columbia Railroad Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River in the far left background. Also shows a man standing in a field by a fence in the foreground and a pedestrian walkover bridge in the center of the image. The bridge, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, was completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer John C. Trautwine for the Reading Railroad Company.
Is part of Scenery in Fairmount Park. 213
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Description of "Fairmount Park and Water Works, Philadelphia" printed on verso.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Reading Company.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Pedestrian bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Columbia Railroad Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1810-1883, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Parks - Fairmount Park [P.8923.9]
Accession number P.8923.9