Depicts the Strawberry Mansion Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River, built 1894-1896 by Russell M. Thayer and Theodore Cooper. Depicts the bridge in Fairmount Park from Strawberry Mansion., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Also known as the Fairmount Park Trolley Bridge., Accession numbers: P.9048.116, P.9048.333 and P.9076.12., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Bridges - [various]
View of the curve approaching the Blue Stone Bridge along Wissahickon Drive. Also known as the Lotus Inn Bridge, named after a nearby inn, constructed between 1896 and 1897 to replace the covered Old Red Bridge., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
Creator
Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.23]
Shallow waters expose rocks lining the Wissahickon Creek underneath of the Hartwell Avenue Bridge in this photograph. Three canoes are tied to shore in the distance., Hartwell Avenue Bridge spanned the Wissahickon Creek at Hartwell Lane, originally known as Weiss's (Wise) Mill Road, north of Valley Green, along Forbidden Drive. No longer stands., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
Creator
Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.48]
Landscape view of a tree-lined rustic footbridge carrying a trail or path in Fairmount Park., Title printed on mount below image., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of F.J. Dallet.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.9488.3]
Landscape view of a man standing on the Old Log Cabin Bridge on the tree-lined Wissahickon Creek. Bridge named after the nearby Old Log Cabin Hostlery at Lincoln Drive above Gypsy Lane., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9260.23]
Faded landscape views showing the stone arch bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek leading to Springfield Avenue. A man leans against a tree in the foreground, looking toward the bridge. Built in 1832 and rebuilt in 1915. Also referred to as the Springfield Avenue Bridge., Title from manuscript notes on mounts., Beige mounts with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1866]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Bridges [P.9844.39-40]
Landscape view showing rustic foot bridge spanning a creek or depression in West Fairmount Park., Title one of eighty-eight views in numbered series list printed on label pasted on verso (No. 1-57; 126-138; 1000-1018)., Publisher's imprint printed on label pasted on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator
R. Newell & Son
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.65]
Landscape view showing rustic foot bridge spanning a creek or depression in West Fairmount Park., Written on negative: 23, Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint obscured by photograph pasted on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.97]
View of a rocky, dirt road (now Forbidden Drive) flanked by trees leading up to the trellised Kitchen's Lane Bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek. Bridge removed ca. 1925., Photographer's imprint partially trimmed from label on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., See Bartlett & French P.9047.21 (Vogel) for similar view., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.9466.7]
View of a rocky, dirt road (now Forbidden Drive) flanked by trees leading up to the trellised Kitchen's Lane Bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek. Bridge removed ca. 1925., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., See Bartlett & French P.9466.7 for similar view., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French
Date
[photographed ca. 1868, printed ca. 1879]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.9047.21]
View of the Old Log Cabin Bridge from Wissahickon Creek showing three men standing on the bridge looking toward the camera and a man on the rocky bank of the creek below pulling to shore a rowboat full of men and women. Bridge named after the nearby Old Log Cabin Hostlery at Lincoln Drive above Gypsy Lane., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French
Date
[ca. 1866]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.9058.145]
View of the stone arch bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek leading to Springfield Avenue. Built in 1832 and rebuilt in 1915. Also referred to as the Springfield Avenue Bridge., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.9146.6]
Landscape view showing the Wissahickon Creek. Trees and rocks line the creek banks and a stone bridge is visible in the background., Attributed to Thomas Moran., Title supplied by catalgouer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 848, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Moran, Thomas, 1837-1926, artist
Date
[1869]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Parks & Squares [8065.F.3]
Depicts the Pennsylvania Railroad Market Street Bridge over the Schuylkill River from the water level looking up at the girders of the red metal bridge and the stone piers to the opposite bank where a coal yard is located. When the Market Street permanent bridge was destroyed by a fire in 1875 the Pennsylvania Railroad built a temporary bridge in nine days. Also includes Sherman & Co., marble (Market Street wharf), a coal yard and a coal barge on the river., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., LCP AR (Annual Report) 1975, p. 6-11.
Creator
Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date
October 1879
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.74], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc074.html
View showing the floating bridge across the Schuylkill River at Gray's Ferry. On the bridge, two men fish, a boy looks out onto the river, and a horse-drawn dray travels. In the background, a residence, possibly the Say family estate, is partially visible behind trees at the top of a rocky cliff rising from the river, and buildings line the Gray's Ferry Road leading to the bridge. Gray’s Ferry was named after the ferry service operated by the Gray family on the lower section of the Schuylkill River during the 18th century. Floating bridge razed 1838., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 326, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 7 G 795
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of Thomas Mill Bridge, a distinctive red, covered bridge that spans the Wissahickon Creek. It is the only covered bridge still standing in Philadelphia.
View of East River Drive (Kelly Drive) looking north from the Strawberry Mansion Trolley Bridge. Laurel Hill Cemetery occupies the land east of the tree-lined drive. A Philadelphia and Reading Railroad bridge spanning the Schuylkill River is visible in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.39]
View of an unidentified man with two young girls leaning against the wooden supports of a foot bridge near a dilapidated stone mill building on the Livezey homestead., Title supplied by cataloguer., Thomas Shoemaker constructed a dwelling and outbuildings, including a grist mill, from 1733 to 1739. Thomas Livezey purchased the property, including a grist mill, from Shoemaker in 1747 and named it Glen Fern. In 1909 became the Valley Green Canoe Club., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.50]
View looking northwest on the Schuylkill River showing a man standing on the deck of a tugboat in the foreground. The first Girard Avenue Bridge, built 1852-55 by Adolphus Bonzano after designs by Rudolph Hering, is visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Photographer's imprint printed on recto., Orange curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date
photographed ca. 1872, printed c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Transportation [P.9299.74]
Aerial views of the Henry Avenue Bridge (also known as the Wissahickon Memorial Bridge) under construction. The bridge spans Wissahickon Creek at Lincoln Drive and Henry Avenue and was built from 1930-1932 after designs by Ralph Modjeski and and Paul Cret. Areas of the city to the north and east of the bridge are also visible., Negative numbers: 13961n, 13963n, 14393n.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1931
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.13961n; P.8990.13963n; P.8990.14393n]
Landscape view from a hill looking down at a rustic foot bridge connecting two tree-lined paths in Landsdowne (i.e., Lansdowne) Valley in West Fairmount Park. A mans stands on the bridge., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9022.25]
Landscape view from a hill looking down at a rustic foot bridge connecting two tree-lined paths in Landsdowne (i.e., Lansdowne) Valley in West Fairmount Park. A mans stands on the bridge., Title from manuscript note on verso and printed on mount., Photographer supplied from duplicate photograph created by James Cremer: stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9022.25], Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893, photographer
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.8924.2]
Landscape view showing a rustic bridge in the background spanning a small stream flowing into a pond in the foreground. A man stands on the edge of the pond near the bridge., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of Fairmount Park entitled, "Fairmount Park and Water Works, Philadelphia" printed on verso. Text surmounted by vignette of state seal of Pennsylvania and surrounded by decorative border., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.8923.1]
View of a woman standing against the rail of a rustic bridge spanning a stream in Fairmount Park., Title from manuscript note below image on mount., Distributor's stamp on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.2003.14]
Rooftop view, probably from a building in the Monastery complex, showing a man standing with a horse-drawn cart on a dirt road leading to the trellised Kitchen's Lane Bridge. Bridge removed ca. 1925., Photographer's imprint on label partially visible on verso., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.9462.10]
Glass negative showing the Wissahickon Creek, its stony banks lined with trees. Valley Green Bridge crosses the river in the distance., Photographer remarks: Overtimed, Time: 10:45, Light: Good sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
November 8, 1884
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.447]
Glass negative showing the Valley Green Bridge spanning the Wissahickon Creek. Trees grow on either side of the bank., Time: 11, Light: Fair sun, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
November 8, 1884
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.448]
Glass negative showing a series of pipes trussed up into a bridge spanning the Wissahickon Creek. A path with a wooden fence stands next to a deep gorge that leads down to the creek., Photographer remarks: In neg. preserver [crossed out]. Collodion flowed over plate., Time: 12:30, Light: Good sun, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
November 8, 1884
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.452]
Glass negative showing a distant view of Manayunk with buildings with tall smokestacks located on the left bank of a river. The right bank is filled with trees and the riverbed contains a few large rocks. A bridge across the river is visible in the distance., Time: 9:50, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
April 22, 1886
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.942]
Glass negative showing a view of a farm surrounded by trees with a railroad bridge in the distance., Photographer remarks: Good picture, but too much detail. Several pin holes. Varnished., Time: 12:35 PM, Light: Rather hazy. Good light., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
June 24, 1882
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.12]
Depicts a through truss bridge spanning the Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad tracks. The bridge is located at South 57th Street, between Woodland Avenue in the north and Grays Avenue in the south.
Date
March 1891.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.118]
Depicts a through truss bridge spanning a dirt road. Wide wooden stairs lead from the tracks to the road, which is most likely South 70th Street, not far from Cobbs Creek Parkway.
Date
March 1891.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.113]
View showing sections of the second Norristown Railroad Bridge and the Ridge Avenue Bridge over the mouth of the Wissahickon Creek. The railroad bridge, built in 1845 by Haughey & Snyder, was razed by fire in 1862 and replaced with a temporary trestle bridge. The Ridge Avenue Bridge was rebuilt from 1888-1890. Also shows two men, one seated with a sketchbook, on the bank of the creek., Title printed on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date
[ca. 1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Bridges [(3)1322.F.132a]
Depicts the back of a man walking along a path near Wissahickon Creek. A foot bridge spanning the creek is visible in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.44]
Exterior view of an old stone, two story blacksmith shop, across the street from Millverton and near the Robeson house and mill. A man works with a carriage frame on the second story, above the entrance and another man sits at the edge of the flat, overhanging roof nearby. Carriage frames and wheels are visible, along with the wall of the Norristown Railroad Bridge in the background., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date
Negative December 10, 1881
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.166]
Aerial view of the Ridge Avenue and Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridges spanning the Wissahickon Creek in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia. Bridges cross the river not far from where it empties into the Schuylkill River., Negative numbers: 14387n.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1931
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.14387n]
Landscape view showing a man standing on rustic bridge carrying a tree-lined path over a small stream in Fairmount Park., Title from manuscript note on verso and printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.8924.3]
Landscape view showing a rustic bridge from a trail in Fairmount Park., Title from manuscript note on mount., Beige curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.9299.47]
View showing a horse-drawn coach approaching two men standing on Lansdowne Drive near Sweet Briar Mansion in West Fairmount Park. A trestle railroad bridge spans the drive in the background., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint obscured by photograph pasted on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.99]
View looking east from Girard Avenue showing the Girard Avenue Bridge, completed in 1872-74 after the designs of Philadelphia architects Henry A. and James P. Sims, over the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park. The wrought-iron Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, demolished in 1971, also served as a pedestrian bridge. Also includes a partial view of the nearby New York Connecting Railway Bridge, completed in 1867. In the foreground, spectators observe the river., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date
[ca. 1874]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Bridges [P.2010.6.6]
View looking south from Belmont Mansion in West Fairmount Park showing the Columbia Railroad Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River in the distant left background. One of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, it was completed in 1834 after the designs of John C. Trautwine for the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad. The Reading Railroad purchased the bridge in the 1850s., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to Robert Newell., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.2010.6.7]
View looking southeast from Belmont Mansion in West Fairmount Park showing the Columbia Railroad Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River in the distant left background. Also shows benches and chairs near the mansion in the foreground. One of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, the bridge was completed in 1834 after the designs of John C. Trautwine for the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad. The Reading Railroad purchased the bridge in the 1850s., Written on negative: 42, Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.89]
View of tree-lined path leading to a rustic foot bridge in Fairmount Park. A man stands near the bridge looking toward the photographer., Written on negative: 1013, Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on mount: View of mineral spring and flower bed., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.95]
View looking along a tree-lined path at a group of men, women and children standing and sitting on a rustic pedestrian bridge on the Sweetbriar estate in West Fairmount Park., Written on negative: 1005, Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint mostly obscured by photograph pasted on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.94]
View showing four men and a toddler in a stroller standing on the steps of a rustic pedestrian bridge on the Sweetbriar estate in West Fairmount Park., Written on negative: 1004, Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint obscured by photograph pasted on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.93]
View of the trellised Kitchen's Lane Bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek. Shows a man fishing from the rocky bank of the creek in the foreground and an old stone mill building in the background. Bridge removed ca. 1925., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.9058.148]
Glass negative showing a group of large, leafy trees standing next to a small foot bridge crossing a stream near Little Wakefield in Germantown. A path curves to the right., At same place., Time: 12:45, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
May 17, 1888
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1288]
View from Laurel Hill in East Fairmount Park looking northeast showing the six-arched bridge completed in 1853 by mason Christian Swartz near the Falls of Schuylkill on the Schuylkill River. The bridge was utilized by the Richmond branch of the Reading Railroad. A covered bridge is seen in the background., Title printed on mount., Date from manuscript note on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Woodward, C. W. (Charles Warren)
Date
May 29, 1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Woodward - Bridges [P.9007.4]
