| Creator |
R. Newell & Son, photographer. |
| Contributor |
Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer. |
|
Kiralfy Bros., publisher. |
| Title |
Old Wire Bridge [graphic] / Photo. by R. Newell & Son. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia: Copyrighted by 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 West Fairmount Park showing the Wire Suspension Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. The bridge, the
first suspension bridge in the United States, was built 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was
removed in 1874. View includes a man standing among piles of rock and gravel near a storage shed, possibly an ice house, on
the west bank of the river in the foreground. Several buildings, including factories and mills, line the east bank of the
river in the background. Also includes a distant view of the dome of the Cathedral Bascillica of SS. Peter and Paul.
|
| Notes |
Title from manuscript note on mount. |
|
Photographer's imprint on mount. |
|
Publisher's imprint printed on verso. |
|
Printed on mount: No. 4. |
|
Pink mount with rounded corners. |
|
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
|
Gift of Jane Carson James. |
|
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
| Biographical / historical note |
R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert Newell and his son, Henry, was active from circa 1870 until 1897 and the death
of the elder Newell.
|
| Subject |
Suspension bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River. |
|
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River. |
|
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Genre |
Stereographs -- 1870-1880. |
|
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880. |
| Associated name |
Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer. |
| Printer |
Kiralfy Bros., publisher. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Bridges [P.9299.71] |
| Accession number |
P.9299.71 |
