Exterior view of City Hall constructed 1871 to 1901 after designs by John McArthur Jr. at 1 Penn Square, Philadelphia while under construction. Shows construction materials surrounding the building both inside and outside of the fence. Some scaffolding is visible on the roof in the left and around several statues in the right. Building lacks William Penn statue., Title from text printed on mount., Date inferred from content., Text on negative: No. 97. New Public Buildings., Gift of David Doret, 2011., Image of Girard Avenue Bridge mounted on verso: photo - unidentified - government buildings [P.2011.45.15].
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- unidentified - government buildings [P.2011.45.14]
View of construction on the Pennsylvania Railroad track in front of the tunnel at Gallitzin, Pa. Shows three men laborers, bent over, and laying down new wooden railroad ties on tracks leading to a tunnel through the mountainside. The figures are slightly blurred. In the right, a train car carrying a load of railroad ties rests near several large stacks of wood alongside the tracks. Adjacent to the stacks, beside the tracks, and on a hill in the background, several buildings and townscape is visible. The Gallitzin Tunnels are a set of three adjacent tunnels through the Allegheny Mountains completed in 1854, 1855, and 1902 by the Pennsylvania Railroad in Gallitzin, Pa., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator
Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Photos [P.2019.64.26]
