Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title Elevated railroad, Fortieth Street Station, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Date ca. 1910
Physical Description 1 photomechanical print (postcard): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Depicts two trains traveling through the Fortieth Street elevated station.
Notes The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) built the Market Street subway - elevated from 15th Street to 69th Street in 1907. Construction expanding the line eastward to Delaware Avenue finished in 1908, but the elevated section connecting Frankford to the Center City line was not completed until 1922.
Sheet number: 158A08.
Divided back. Text on verso.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Mass transit -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Elevated railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]
Accession number Brightbill 158
158-a08-a