Details
Creator Union View Co.
Title Wire Bridge at Fairmount, Phila. Pa. [graphic].
Publisher Rochester, N.Y.: Union View Co
Date [ca. 1876]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View from the east bank of the Schuylkill River looking south showing the Wire Suspension Bridge. The bridge, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874. Also shows factories and mills lining the east bank; horse-drawn wagons transporting materials across the bridge; and men in rowboats on the river in the foreground.
Is part of Philadelphia and vicinity
Notes Orange mount with rounded corners.
Title from label on negative.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Missing upper left corner.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Suspension bridges -- Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rowboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Union View Company - Bridges [P.9260.81]
Accession number P.9260.81