Birds-eye view of property on Alleghany Avenue Philadelphia 25th Ward formerly 19th looking S.E. from Frankford Road
Boell, William
Weir, Robert
copyright holder
still image
Graphic
Chromolithographs -- 1860-1870
Bird's eye view prints -- 1860-1870
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
Lithographed & printed by William Boell
[c1863]
1863
monographic
eng
1 print: chromolithograph; 69 x 100 cm. (27.5 x 40 in.)
Bird's eye view designed as a grid plan looking southeast from Frankford Road (Northeast Philadelphia) toward the Delaware River showing the city between Westmoreland Street and a few blocks south of Columbia Street. Predominately depicts the open land surrounding the Aramingo Canal, Reading Railroad Depot between Lehigh Avenue and Somerset Street, and the Philadelphia, Trenton, and New York Railroad line. A few dwellings, churches, and other structures comprise the landscape with clusters and heavier congestion of buildings visible near Columbia Street. In the foreground, dwellings, most with plots of ground, a church, and the "Second & Third Street Passenger Railway Depot" line Frankford Road. Two street cars, one marked "Second & Third St.," travel in the street. In the background, congested blocks of buildings forms the majority of the cityscape. View also includes the Port Richmond railroad terminus; a train traveling on the Philadelphia, Trenton and New York Railroad line; locomotives pulling coal cars on the Reading Railroad line; industrial buildings; a small number of trees; and street names. The 25th Ward comprised of parts of the 19th and 23rd wards was formed in 1861. View possibly related to the Junction project, a project commissioned by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, the Pennsylvania, and the Reading Railroad to create a non-stop route between New York and Washington. By 1863, a stop gap all-rail passenger service through Philadelphia had been initiated.
Copyrighted by R. Weir.
Publication information supplied by duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company
Reading Company
Buildings
Northeast Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pictorial works
Aramingo Canal (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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