Depicts the low bridge carrying Kensington Avenue over the Tacony Creek in Frankford. Includes a boy leaning against the iron railing of the bridge looking down toward the creek and the camera. Also shows one of the stone abutments of the bridge, with a partial view of dwellings and businesses on Kensington Avenue in the background., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator
Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.4-8, P.9501.11]
Negative number: 3298, View looking south from the most recently constructed steel bent, number 265, on Kensington Avenue. The sidewalks are crowded with spectators, mostly men, who are watching six men working on top of bent 265. Businesses on the block include Robert Kearn's liquor store (2629-31 Kensington Avenue) and an oysters shop.
Negative number: 4306, View looking south along Kensington Avenue at the most recently completed steel bent, number 374, near Ontario Street. Stores and shops occupy the east side of the block, but the west side, below Ontario, is vacant. The Non Pariel Theater, also known as the Ontario Palace Theater, sits the southwest corner (3361 Kensington Avenue). A horse is harnessed to a cart pulling machinery (right).
Negative number: 3166, View looking west at the beginning of Kensington Avenue, branching off from Front Street. Shows the most recently constructed bent, number 234. Pedestrians, mostly men and boys, stand around the construction site, looking at the curve of the elevated tracks above them. Includes a partial view of McNeil's drug store (2401 Kensington Avenue) and Ferguson jeweler (2362 North Front Street).
Negative number: 4339, View looking south along Kensington Avenue at the most recently completed steel bent, number 378, near Schiller Street. Three horse-drawn lifts sit in the middle of the street. Spectators line both sidewalks, watching the construction scene. Includes a partial view of a Philadelphia Electric Co. station.
Negative number: 3534, View looking south along Kensington Avenue at the most recently completed steel bent, number 369, near Thayer Street. Two lifts on carts pulled by teams of two horses sit on the steel rails in the cobblestone street. Men work on top of the steel bents. Stores and shops occupy the east side of the block, but the west side is vacant.
Negative number: 3267, View looking south from the most recently constructed steel bent, number 244, on Kensington Avenue. The sidewalks are crowded with spectators. Men stand on a lift under bent 243.
Negative number: 3167, View looking north at a trolley approaching the photographer on Kensington Avenue. View from the most recently constructed steel bent, number 234. The sidewalks are crowded with spectators and shoppers. Delivery carts for a nearby furniture store are parked on the side of the road. Businesses include a stationer, oyster house, barber, tailor, drug store and the People's Theater.
Negative number: 3305, View looking south along the 2600 block of Kensington Avenue from steel bent number 268. Trolleys pass one another on the street rails under the construction site. Men are installing trusses above the steel bents. Beams and debris line the cobblestone street.
Negative number: 4340, View looking north along Kensington Avenue at the marker for bent 378 showing steel beams and piles of dirt marking the position of the columns. Harrowgate Park sits on the east side of the street.
Negative number: 2993, View looking north at the construction of an elevated railway bridge over the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad tracks that span Kensington Avenue near Lehigh Avenue. Shows crowds of men standing on both sidewalks around the construction site at steel bent 273. Includes a partial view of Strathmann's Coal at the northeast corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues.
Negative number: 4535, View looking north along Kensington Avenue, showing the underbelly of the arch spanning Lehigh Avenue and the truss bridge carrying the elevated railway over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad pony plate girder bridge. Includes a partial view of the Port Richmond division of the Young Men's Christian association (left). A trolley car travels south on Kensington Avenue.
Negative number: 3109, View looking north at the construction of an elevated, deck truss railway bridge over the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad tracks that span Kensington Avenue near Lehigh Avenue. Shows a locomotive sitting on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad tracks and crowd of men standing in the foreground, looking at the bridge. Includes the business sign for Strathmann's Coal at the northeast corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues.
Negative number: 3299, View looking north along Kensington Avenue at the construction of a truss bridge that will carry the new elevated railway over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks near Lehigh Avenue. A horse-drawn delivery wagon sits on the west side of the road. Businesses include a "money back store"; a shoe store; a saloon; Hamilton clothing store; S. Weinstein, tailor; and Chas. Schmelz, tobacconist. Includes a partial view of the Young Men's Christian association, Port Richmond division up on the hill near the railroad tracks.
Negative number: 3308, View looking north from the corner saloon at the southeast corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues at the construction of the elevated railway bridge spanning the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks. Men stand around the construction scene on the sidewalks and on Lehigh Avenue. Includes an exterior view of the Port Richmond division of the Young Men's Christian Association, a three-and-a-half story brick building elevated above the street at the northwest corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues.
Negative number: 3268, View looking north from a marker for bent 244 on Kensington Avenue. The east sidewalk is crowded with spectators. A man sits in a large cart hitched to a team of horses on the west side of the block. A trolley travels down the tracks in the distance. The elevated railway bridge spanning the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks near Lehigh Avenue is also visible. Businesses include Edward C. Johnson's liquor store (2473 Kensington Avenue) and Munch's Saloon (2500 Kensington Avenue).
Negative number: 4534, View from a rooftop on the west side of Kensington Avenue looking north from Huntingdon Street showing the recently installed steel bents and though Pratt trusses of the elevated railway. Includes a clear view of Orinoka Mills and Hulton Dyeing & Finishing Co., two brick, industrial buildings that tower over neighboring properties near Somerset Street, behind the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks. Also shows the bridge crossing the tracks in the distance.
Negative number: 3381, Depicts the underbelly of the bridge spanning the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks at Lehigh Avenue. View looks south at the 2600 block of Kensington Avenue.
Negative number: 3122, View looking north at the pony plate girder bridge carrying the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks over Kensington Avenue. Above this bridge spans the recently constructed truss bridge carrying the new elevated railway over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks.
Negative number: 4536, View looking west on Lehigh Avenue, showing the arch of the bridge spanning Lehigh Avenue and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad bridge.
Negative number: 3307, View from the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company tracks running parallel to Lehigh Avenue, showing the construction of a steel bent on the 2600 block of Kensington Avenue. A crane rises high above the street. Image includes partial views of St. Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church, the five-story brick building of a carpet manufactury, and a row of residences, all on Lehigh Avenue. Spectators stand in the street and on the sidewalks.