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Title: [Wissahickon Drive at the Blue Stone Bridge, Fairmount Park]
Description: 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]

Title: [Wooden bridge walkway, Fairmount Park]
Description: Views of a short, wooden bridge connecting a dirt path over a stream in Fairmount Park., 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.8986.47 ; P.8986.70]

Title: [Hartwell Avenue Bridge, Wissahickon Creek, Fairmount Park]
Description: 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]

Title: [The Wissahickon]
Description: 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]

Title: No. 2 to 3 Market St. Bridge, Oct. 1879
Description: 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

Title: Gray's Ferry
Description: 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
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 7 G 795

Title: Falls and Bridge near old Rittenhouse Mansion - Wissahickon
Description: 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.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.27]

Title: [East River Drive from the Strawberry Mansion Trolley Bridge, Philadelphia.]
Description: 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]

Title: [Wooden foot bridge near the old Livezey mill on the Wissahickon Creek, Philadelphia.]
Description: 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]

Title: Henry Avenue Bridge construction, Philadelphia
Description: 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]

Title: Looking up Wissahiccon [sic] from Valley Green Bridge, [Philadelphia]
Description: 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]

Title: Valley Green Bridge. Looking up [Wissahickon] Creek, [Philadelphia]
Description: 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]

Title: Pipe Bridge on Wissahiccon [sic], from drive, [Mount Airy, Philadelphia]
Description: 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]

Title: View of Manayunk (distant) down river from below Flat Rock Dam, [Philadelphia]
Description: 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]

Title: R[ail]R[oad] bridge. Crescentville from Uncle Samuel's house
Description: 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]

Title: P.W. and B. R.R. Br.
Description: 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]

Title: Seventieth Street Station
Description: 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]

Title: Woodland Ave.
Description: View looking east at the pony plate girder bridge carrying Woodland Avenue over the railroad tracks near Sixtieth Street Station.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.117]

Title: [Distant figure walking along a path near Wissahickon Creek.]
Description: 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]

Title: Old blacksmith shop, Ridge Ave. & Wissahickon opposite Millverton
Description: 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]

Title: [Ridge Avenue and Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridges over the Wissahickon Creek, Roxborough, Philadelphia.]
Description: 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]

Title: Race & foot bridge, [Little Wakefield, Germantown] [graphic]
Description: 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]

Title: Frankford Creek at Frankford Ave., looking east
Description: Depicts bend in creek with industrial buildings lining banks and bridge crossing creek in the distance., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 129 [P.8213.129], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson129.htm

Title: Old Columbia Bridge over the Schuylkill River
Description: View showing the Columbia Railroad Bridge, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, completed in 1834. Built after the designs of John C. Trautwine for the Reading Railroad Company, the bridge spanned over the Schuylkill River below Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park., Title from photographer's label on verso., Manuscript note on mount: Old Columbia Bridge. Philadelphia., Buff mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: [1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McClees - Bridges [P.9326.3]

Title: [Old Columbia Bridge over the Schuylkill River]
Description: View showing the Columbia Railroad Bridge, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, completed in 1834. Built after the designs of John C. Trautwine for the Reading Railroad Company, the bridge spanned over the Schuylkill River below Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park., Title and publication information from similar stereoview by McClees., Light grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Image faded., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.)
Date: [1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McClees - Bridges [(3)1322.F.123a]

Title: On the Wissahickon, near Philadelphia
Description: Shows a man sitting on the rocky bed of the creek in front of a covered bridge near the mill race of the Henry Rittenhouse Mill. Also includes a small waterfall., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Paper backing pasted on verso., Buff mount with square corners, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Bridges [(3)1322.F.132c]

Title: [Industrial buildings lining canal in Manayunk, Philadelphia during winter]
Description: Depicts buildings lining canal in Manayunk from opposite side of canal. Includes bridges crossing the canal., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Canal scene in winter - Manayunk, Phila. Along this canal are located the largest mills and factories of Manayunk, the output of which represents several hundred thousand dollars a year. Akin to a scene in Holland., Duplicate: P8513.18: same neg., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 68.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 214 [P.8513.214], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson214.htm

Title: [Industrial buildings lining canal in Manayunk, Philadelphia, during winter]
Description: Depicts buildings lining canal in Manayunk from opposite side of canal. Includes bridges crossing the canal., Photographer's manuscript note on duplicate: Canal scene in winter - Manayunk, Phila. Along this canal are located the largest mills and factories of Manayunk, the output of which represents several hundred thousand dollars a year. Akin to a scene in Holland., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.214: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 68.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 18 [P.8513.18], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson214.htm

Title: Reading Rail Road Bridge, near the Schuylkill Falls
Description: View from Laurel Hill looking northeast showing the Falls Bridge also known as the Reading Railroad Bridge over the Schuylkill River. Erected by mason Christian Swartz in 1853, the bridge was utilized by the Richmond branch of the Reading Rail Road to "connect with the main road upon the west side of the river." Industries and a hotel line the bank of the river., Title from accompanying descriptive label., 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: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: [1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - McClees - Bridges [(3)1322.F.122h]

Title: Scene on the Wissahickon
Description: Bucolic scene showing an elegantly attired couple crossing the creek over a red foot bridge bolstered by stone abutments. Another couple, partially obscured by a tree, stands on the banks. The women wear bustles. The lush valley is visible in the background., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00013, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 203, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 39:53
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 39:53

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia and Centennial Exhibition grounds
Description: Panoramic view looking east from West Fairmount Park showing the city between the fair grounds and to near Southwark and the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. The names of major sites depicted are printed above and below the image, respectively. Includes the major exhibition buildings of the U.S. Government Building, Machinery Hall, Women's Pavilion, Judges Hall, Agricultural Hall, Horticultural Hall, Memorial Hall, and the Main Exhibition Building; the Columbia, N.Y. Connecting Railway, Girard Avenue, Callowhill Street, Market Street, and Chestnut Street bridges; Treaty and Smith's islands; Girard College; the Zoological Garden; the N.Y. Connecting Railroad; Camden, N.J.; Independence Hall; the Masonic Temple; Fairmount Water Works; the "new Public Building", i.e., the future City Hall; Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul; "European Steam Ship Wharves"; and the Penna. R.R. Depot. Also shows scullers in front of Boathouse Row, the gas works, fair visitors, travelling trains, and maritime traffic. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Several of the exhibition buildings were designed by Herman Schwarzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 540, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 865 B 124, Inscribed on verso: William C. Stokes, June 29, 1936.
Creator: Bachmann, Henry
Date: c1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 865 B 124

Title: Millverton, home of Joseph Lea and Sarah Ann Robeson, his wife, at mouth of Wissahickon. From painting
Description: Copy of a painting depicting Millverton from the west bank of the Schuylkill River looking northeast. Occupied by Joseph Lea and Sarah Ann Robeson, the daughter of Peter Robeson, who purchased the nearby estate in Shoomac Park the year Sarah was born. Located immediately north of the Wissahickon Creek near Ridge Avenue. In the background, a train crosses the Norristown Railroad Bridge, which dwarfs the Ridge Avenue Bridge in front of it. Another house sits on a hill north of Millverton. There is activity on and near the river in the foreground., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Property later known as the Riverside Mansion.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.165]

Title: Wharton Street Bridge
Description: View looking north at the deck plate girder bridge carrying Wharton Street over the Baltimore & Ohio tracks, just east of the Schuylkill River. Includes a distant view of the west approach of the tunnel under the intersection of Grays Ferry Avenue and South 34th Street.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.121]

Title: Gray's Ave.
Description: Depicts a pony plate girder bridge carrying the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks over Grays Avenue.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.119]

Title: Mt. Moriah Lane
Description: Depicts the roadway bridge carrying Mount Moriah Lane (Cemetery Avenue?) over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks. A man stands on the tracks nearby, looking toward the photographer. The platforms of the Mount Moriah Station are visible in the distance.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.114]

Title: [Group bicycling over a canal bridge, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts four men bicycling over a canal bridge in Fairmount Park. A couple stands to the side of the path as the group rides by., 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.9453.170]

Title: [William Harvey Doering taking a photograph from the Strawberry Mansion Bridge, Philadelphia.]
Description: Profile view of photographer William Harvey Doering leaning and steadying his camera on top of the iron side of the Strawberry Mansion Bridge in Fairmount Park., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.290]

Title: Philadelphia. [View from Peter's Farm]
Description: Panoramic view looking east past the Schuylkill River from the estate of Judge Richard Peters (Belmont) in West Fairmount Park. In the foreground, a family, including a man with a telescope enjoys the vista, cows graze in the pasture, and a locomotive travels through the covered Columbia Railroad Bridge. In the background, cityscape, including Girard College, Fairmount Water Works, the Wire Suspension Bridge, and several church steeples are visible., Part of title and name of artist, engraver and publisher from duplicate in collection [**Ph Pr - Views, P.9431.1], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr., Trimmed.
Creator: Serz, John, engraver
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.21]

Title: Water works of Philadelphia on the Schuylkill
Description: Book illustration of a view looking south showing the Fairmount Water Works and the Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge. The water works include the engine house and mill house originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. The single span bridge, also known as the Upper Ferry Bridge, was erected 1809-1812 with Robert Mills serving as architect, and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. The bridge burned 1838 and was replaced by the Wire Bridge at Fairmount (built 1841-1842)., Manuscript note below title: From "DeRoos 'Personal Narrative and travels in U.S." London, 1827!!!, Published in F.F. De Roos's Personal narrative of travels in the United States and Canada in 1826 ....(London: W.H. Ainsworth, 1827), opp. p. 44. [Am 1827 DeRo 6310.O]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 822, Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of "Illustrations of Philadelphia."
Date: [1827]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilities [(1)1525.F.59e]

Title: [Girard Avenue Bridge and Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia.]
Description: Aerial view of the Girard Avenue Bridge and Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge (also known as the Mantua Junction Viaduct) spanning the Schuylkill River at Girard Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. View looks east from the west side of the river at around 34th Street. Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge was designed by engineers John A. Wilson and Alexander C. Shand. A trolley can be seen going over the Girard Avenue Bridge and a train runs over the railroad bridge. Portions of Fairmount Park and industrial buildings are visible in the distance., Negative numbers: 1159., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Girard Ave. Bridge.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1159]

Title: [Pennsylvania Railroad, Manayunk Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River & Green Lane, Manayunk, Philadelphia.]
Description: Aerial views of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Manayunk Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River at Green Lane in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Today, the bridge also spans the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76). View looks southeast towards Manayunk from Green Lane, with the Green Lane automobile bridge also visible. Beginning stages of construction projects are visible on the west bank of the river at Green Lane., Negative numbers: 8844., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Manayunk Bridge, Manayunk.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1928
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.8844]

Title: Schuylkill boat song
Description: Lyricist: Thomas Dunn English, M.D., Lithographer: Sinclair, Lith. Phila., Price printed on recto: Price 25 Cts., Two extra verses printed on page 5. Price: 25Cts.; listed in "Early American Sheet Music" by Dichter and Shapiro, p.157., Cover illustration of lithograph of view showing two sculling barges on the Schuylkill River near Peter's Island and the Columbia Railroad Bridge. The barges contain crews of eight and a coxswain. A boat house lines the shore of the island and a train is seen exiting the bridge. The Columbia Railroad Bridge, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, was completed in 1834 after the designs of John C. Trautwine for the Reading Railroad Company. The bridge spanned over the Schuylkill River below Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 682, Gift of the heirs of Helen Beitler, 2002., In excellent condition., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Trimmed copy of cover illustration held in the Print Collection.
Creator: Blanchor, F., composer
Date: [ca. 1842]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare Sheet Music Sch 9913.F (Beitler)

Title: [A view of Fairmount and the Water-Works Taken from the veranda of Harding's Hotel, Schuylkill]
Description: View looking toward the water works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. In the foreground, elegantly dressed women and men sit and stand on the veranda admiring the vista as street and pedestrian traffic approaches and departs from the covered Upper Ferry Bridge. Traffic includes horse-drawn carriages and men, women and children walking or standing on the bridge, looking over the rail at the Schuylkill River below. Canal barges travel under the bridge and in the canal lock across from the water works. The water works include the engine house, mill house, and pavilions on the mound dam and on reservoir hill. A water fountain and trees complete the view. Also shows businesses and residences behind the water works in the background. The Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge, known as the Upper Ferry Bridge, was erected 1809-1812, with Robert Mills serving as architect and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. Served as the basis for the lithographed view created by J.T. Bowen after a fire destroyed the bridge in 1838., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 262
Creator: Smith, John Rubens, 1775-1849, artist
Date: [ca. 1837]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Third Floor Storage [P.2008.34.12]

Title: [Schuylkill Boat Song sheet music cover illustration]
Description: View showing two sculling barges on the Schuylkill River near Peter's Island and the Columbia Railroad Bridge. The barges contain crews of eight and a coxswain. A boat house lines the shore of the island and a train is seen exiting the bridge. The Columbia Railroad Bridge, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, was completed in 1834 after the designs of John C. Trautwine for the Reading Railroad Company. The bridge spanned over the Schuylkill River below Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park., Name of artist attributed by Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloguer, Poulson inscription on recto: Peter's Island R.R. Bridge., Illustration from sheet music cover: Schuylkill Boat Song, Poetry by Thomas Dunn English M.D. Music composed and dedicated to the Atlantic Barge Club by P. Blanchor. (Philadelphia: Osbourne's Music Saloon, 30, South Fourth Street, ca. 1842). [Sheet Music Collection 9913.F], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 682, Trimmed sheet music cover. LCP Print Department copy image only., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2165 and Sheet Music Collection 9913.F, Atwater Kent Museum: 49.29.1 with music., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [ca. 1842]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W331 [P.2165], Library Company of Philadelphia | RARE BOOK sheet music collection [9913.F]

Title: Wissahickon Falls
Description: Landscape view showing the Wissahickon Falls at the junction of Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park. In the foreground, a man fishes among the rocks of the bank as behind him a man lures a dog to a basket he holds. In the background, other men fish above the falls and Wissahickon Hall is visible. Carriages are seen departing and arriving at the hotel erected circa 1849 by Harry Lippen at Wissahickon Drive (i.e., Lincoln Drive) below Gypsy Lane., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 850, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Kelly, Thomas
Date: c1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Parks - Fairmount [P.9303.5]

Title: Commerce St. looking east from 21st St
Description: View of Commerce Street showing a section of the "Chinese Wall," the brick viaduct built in 1882 connecting the Broad Street and West Philadelphia railroad stations. Several playbills are pasted on the viaduct under which an African American man sits on a crate. Parked cars line the street. City Hall's tower is visible in the distance., Title and date from inscription on negative., Inscribed on negative: 214924., Note on negative sleeve: Pennsylvania Railroad No.77; Penna. R.R. Co. 214924., Photograph commissioned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel and Susan Oyama's Philadelphia, then and now. (NY: Dover, 1988), p. 28., Reproduced in Harry Silcox's Jennings' Philadelphia: The life of Philadelphia photographer William Nicholson Jennings (1860-1946) (Philadelphia: Brighton Press, Inc., 1993), p. 110., Purchase 1981., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Jennings was a 20th century Philadelphia commercial and "progress" photographer whose clients included the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Creator: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: March 25, 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jennings [P.9480.214924]

Title: West view of Schuylkill Falls Laboratory. Powers & Weightman, manufacturing chemists, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the laboratory complex established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near a covered bridge in Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). Within the complex, laborers haul goods by horse among the several stone buildings, smoke stacks, and trees. Near the Schuylkill River in the foreground, other laborers move crates by a pulley on a pier. Also shows a man on foot and a wagon entering the bridge, a steamboat traversing the water, and a train traveling past the complex and several adjacent lots of pasture land in the background. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. A second factory complex operated between 9th, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. The East Falls operation included housing for employees., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 828, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 Sch 89, Trimmed.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 Sch 89

Title: A view of Fairmount and the Water-Works showing the bridge previous to its destruction by fire Taken from the Veranda of Harding's Hotel, Schuylkill
Description: View looking toward the water works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. In the foreground, elegantly dressed women and men, sit, and stand on the veranda admiring the vista as street and pedestrian traffic approaches and departs from the covered Upper Ferry Bridge. Traffic includes horse-drawn carriages, a man on horseback, and a woman walking and holding a parasol. Canal barges travel under the bridge and in the canal lock across from the water works. The water works include the engine house, mill house, and pavilions on the mound dam and on reservoir hill. A water fountain and trees complete the view. Also shows businesses and residences behind the water works in the background. The Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge, known as the Upper Ferry Bridge, was erected 1809-1812, with Robert Mills serving as architect and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. The bridge burned in 1838., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 788, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 88 B 7861
Creator: Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?
Date: c1838
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 88 B 7861

Title: View of the Schuylkill River and Vicinity from Office Window, Phila.
Description: View looking north from the B&O Railroad terminal at 24th and Chestnut streets at the Schuylkill River and nearby industries on the waterfront. Includes part of the Philadelphia Gas Works and two bridges in the distance., Part of an album containing photographs of railroad bridges and stations along the B&O Railroad's Philadelphia Division taken on a trip made by a small group of B&O Railroad employees, under the supervision of Division Engineer Maintenance-of-Way William A. Pratt, who surveyed the line in March 1891., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 65., Arcadia caption text: Looking north from an upper-story window of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station located at Chestnut and Twenty-fourth streets, this 1891 photograph shows the city's industrial waterfront along the Schuylkill River including parts of the Philadelphia Gas Works and a freight depot. Horse-drawn vehicles and a train travel across the numerous bridges spanning the river in the background., LCP AR [Annual Report] 2001, pg. 58-9.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.124]

Title: Delaware River waterfront, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial views of the Delaware River waterfront include the Benjamin Franklin Bridge (formerly the Delaware River Bridge) and piers in South Philadelphia. Views face north and west from a vantage point on the river, taken on a relatively clear day so that they extend well into North Philadelphia along the waterfront and into South Philadelphia towards the Center City skyline, which can be seen in the distance., Negative numbers: 13829n, 13831n., Manuscript note on negative sleeves indicates images were taken December 3, 1930.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1930
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.13829n; P.8990.13831n]

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