View of a train going around the Horseshoe Curve on a double set of railroad tracts. A steep embankment drops down from either side of the tracks and a forested mountain rises up in the background. The Horseshoe Curve opened to train traffic on February 15, 1854 and allowed trains to travel over Pennsylvnia's Allegheny Mountains., View is made from the same negative as P.9644.20., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Date
[1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Purviance - transportation [P.9644.22]
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a man sitting on a tall boulder near the railroad tracks in the Pack Saddle, which is a deep gorge that runs through Chestnut Ridge Mountains alongside the Conemagh River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view near Iona Station in Gloucester County, New Jersey on the West Jersey Railroad, which was eventually controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Residences near a body of water, probably Iona Lake, are visible in the distance.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the railroad tracks in Jacks Narrows near the Juniata River. Includes a partial view of a pedestrian bridge over the river.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view of railroad tracks in Jacks Narrows, running parallel to the Juniata River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the railroad tracks in Jacks Narrows near the Juniata River. Includes a faint outline of residences in the distance.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a locomotive on the tracks in Jacks Narrows. A man stands next to his horse-drawn cart on a dirt path that runs parallel to the railroad tracks.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts two men standing on a pedestrian bridge near the Jackstown aqueduct.
Views show two sets of railroad tracks running under the stone arch of the Market Street Tunnel, built by the Junction Railroad and opened on July 1, 1866. One image includes men sitting on the tracks and standing with a stick on the rails., Title from photographer's printed label on versos., Yellow mounts with rounded 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 - Transportation [P.9466.3 and P.9462.6]
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts two tracks running alongside the Juniata River. A man sits on the edge of the tracks, looking at the river.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the railroad tracks on the Williamsburg Branch running next to the Juniata River. Includes a partial view of a dam in the distance. Probably the same dam from P.9058.91.
View showing Lansdowne Avenue in West Fairmount Park under the old Girard Avenue Bridge. The bridge, completed at the Schuylkill River in 1855, was razed circa 1871 and replaced by the new Girard Avenue Bridge. Shows a horse-drawn carriage traveling on Lansdowne under an arch of the bridge. Also shows the New York Connecting Railway Bridge, completed in 1867, in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Grey mount with rounded corners., Inscribed in negative: 136., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.9260.96]
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the south and west elevations of Lemon Hill mansion near the Schuylkill River in east Fairmount Park as it appeared circa 1875. Henry Pratt built the house in 1800 and in 1844, several years after Pratt's death, Lemon Hill became the first mansion aqcuired by the city of Philadelphia to create a public park. A man sits on a bench and reads the newspaper. A sign for Ice Cream hangs from the second floor balcony.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a locomotive approaching the photographer on railroad tracks running through the Lewistown Narrows, an area between the Juniata River and Black Log and Shade mountains.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts railroad tracks running through the Lewistown Narrows, an area between the Juniata River and Black Log and Shade mountains.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts railroad tracks running through the Lewistown Narrows, an area between the Juniata River and Black Log and Shade mountains.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a man sitting in the grass on a hill overlooking Lewistown. Includes a view of the Lewistown railroad station and railroad cars on the tracks in the foreground.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a group of people sitting on benches near the Lime Spring, one of seven freshwater, "medicinal" springs on the grounds of the Bedford Springs Hotel.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a locomotive crossing a railroad bridge that spans Little Juniata River.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View from the railroad tracks, showing the Pennsylvania Canal, a cut-stone aqueduct, crossing the Conemaugh River. Includes a small shed and a boxcar near the bank of the river.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a small locomotive, with a group of men sitting and standing on top, approaching the photographer on the railroad tracks in Lockport. Includes the Pennsylvania Canal, a cut-stone aqueduct, in the background.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the four-story Logan House hotel, built 1852-53 by Pennsylvania Railroad carpenter foreman Thomas Burchinell. View includes the railroad tracks and platform in the foreground. The hotel closed in 1927 and was converted to a post office in the early 1930s.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Interior view of the long dining room in the Logan House hotel, built 1852-53 by Pennsylvania Railroad carpenter foreman Thomas Burchinell. The hotel closed in 1927 and was converted to a post office in the early 1930s.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Men sit and stand on the porch of the four-story Logan House hotel, built 1852-53 by Pennsylvania Railroad carpenter foreman Thomas Burchinell. The hotel closed in 1927 and was converted to a post office in the early 1930s.
View showing street construction by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company of the Market Street Subway across from the Broad Street Station (built 1879-1882). In the foreground, a number of African American construction workers stand in a pit. In the background is another pit with more construction workers. Pedestrians and spectators look on at the scene. Several businesses on the south side of the 1600 block of Market Street, including "Cronin's," are visible. Also shows several horse-drawn wagons traveling past the rail station, and theater advertisements adorning construction equipment., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from a closely-numbered photograph in the series with an inscribed date., Inscribed in negative: 555., Gift of Steven Dorfman, 2013., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date
[1904]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Construction [P.2013.6.5]
Poster showing an interior view of a luxury pullman car to advertise the Pennsylvania Railroad. Shows several white men and woman passengers relaxing in the car. In the left, a Black man server, serves drinks to two women and a man seated at a booth. Across from them, in the right, an older man sits in an arm chair, and smokes a cigar, and holds a paper in his lap. An older woman sits on the arm of his chair. Behind them, two women converse, one standing. In the far background, two men stand at a bar. Image also shows a train window. The server wears a white smock shirt and black pants. The men passengers wear suits. The women passengers wear a dress or suit jacket and skirt and/or hats., Title from item., Date inferred from content., RVCDC
Date
[ca. 1945]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department miscellaneous posters [P.2284.103]
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Bird's eye view of Mapleton, showing railroad tracks, the Juniata River, and the town in the distance.
View showing the Market Street Permanent Bridge, built from 1798-1806 after the designs of Timothy Palmer, over the Schuylkill River at Market Street. Bridge was expanded around 1850 to accommodate a connection between the city railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Bridge destroyed by fire in 1875. Piers, stacked with lumber, are visible in the foreground. Horse-drawn carts stand on the piers near docked boats., Title annotated on negative., Yellow mount with rounded corners., 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. 75., Arcadia caption text: Timothy Palmer designed the Market Street Permanent Bridge, a covered wooden wagon bridge flanked by pedestrian walkways over the Schuylkill River. The cornerstone was laid in 1800 and the bridge completed in 1806. It was expanded c. 1850 to carry the tracks of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad into the Center City area to connect with the City Railroad. A leaky gas main caused a fire that destroyed the bridge in 1875, about five years after this image was taken., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Bridges [P.8451.2]
View looking east from the Market Street Bridge showing the 2300 block of Market Street. Depicts a row of buildings, including S.H. Smith's Union Hotel at 2330 Market Street. The first Philadelphia Gas Works, completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer Samuel V. Merrick is visible on the opposite block. Pennsylvania Railroad tracks run adjacent to a train shed and the gas works and a horse-drawn carriage stands in front of the hotel. The first gas works were expanded in 1850. A second facility, the Point Breeze Gas Works, was built 1851-1854 at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues after the designs of engineer John C. Cresson., Title and series number from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow 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., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator
R. Newell & Son
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9260.66]
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a locomotive crossing the deck truss bridge that spans the Juniata River near Lewistown.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a man and a boy looking down from a hill at a cluster of dwellings in Mifflin, Pa.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view of an unidentified river or creek in Mill Hall, on the Bald Eagle Valley Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Aerial view of the Morrisville Yard, a rail yard originally used by the Pennsylvania Railroad for freight trains. The yard is now used by New Jersey Transit rail operations. Images show views of the yard surrounded by farms and croplands. View (1226) from the southwest from west of the Five Points/Fallsington area. View (1227) shows a major curve in tracks as they turn northeast with Morrisville and possibly Trenton in the background., Negative numbers: 1226, 1227., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1921
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1226; P.8990.1227]
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a man standing in the doorway of a railroad car sitting on the tracks in Mount Union, Pa.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the south side of the bridge spanning the Schuylkill River at Girard Avenue. Measuring 100 feet wide, the iron and stone Girard Avenue Bridge, built between 1872 and 1874, was considered to be the widest bridge in the world at the time of its construction. It replaced an earlier bridge at this site. The bridge, designed by James and Henry Sims, was demolished between 1970 and 1971.
Views looking from Girard Avenue showing the Girard Avenue Bridge, completed in 1874 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. View also shows the nearby New York Connecting Railway Bridge, completed in 1867. In the foreground, spectators observe the river., One print [P.9260.71] on grey mount with rounded corners., One print [P.2011.47.52] on light blue mount with rounded corners., Paper labels on versos listing over sixty-five park views published by the firm., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., One print [P.2011.47.52] gift of Raymond Holstein., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator
R. Newell & Son
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Bridges [P.9260.71], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Bridges [P.2011.47.52]
View from the west bank of the Schuylkill River (Fairmount Park) depicting the Victorian-style stone and wrought iron Connecting Railway Bridge or Schuylkill River Bridge utilized by the New York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Built from 1866-1867 after the designs of PRR Chief Engineer John A. Wilson, the bridge served as the railroad's first connecting railway between Philadelphia and New York City. Gas-lighted lamps and an arch truss adorn the bridge., Title from manuscript note on mount., Publisher's imprint stamped on verso., Name of artist supplied by duplicate views photographed circa 1870. (P.9060.31a and P.9062.89a)., 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
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Bridges [P.9299.81]
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a single railroad track running next to the Youghiogheny River. Depicts people walking on the tracks in the distance.
View looking north from a "summer house" near the grounds of Lemon Hill, in East Fairmount Park. Shows two Pennsylvania Railroad bridges - the Old Girard Avenue Bridge and the New York Connecting Railway Bridge - spanning the Schuylkill River. Girard Avenue Bridge, was built in 1855 and razed circa 1871. The Connecting Railway Bridge was completed in 1867 after the designs of P.R.R. chief engineer John A. Wilson., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Saul Koltnow., Digitization 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 - Bridges [P.9022.30]
Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Landscape view of the Kiskiminetas River near North-west station, a stop on the old Western Pennsylvania Railroad line, which was leased to the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1865.
View looking from West Fairmount Park showing the New York Connecting Railway Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, built from 1866-1867 after the designs of PRR Chief Engineer John A. Wilson, was utilized by the New York division of the railroad and served as the first connecting railway between New York and Philadelphia. Also shows a group of men and women sitting on a bench and conversing in the park in the foreground., Title from manuscript note on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Inscribed in negative: 135., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization 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 - Bridges [P.9299.46]
Depicts the front facade of the Market Street Ferry terminal at the foot of Market Street at Delaware Avenue. Carriages, trolleys, and pedestrians crowd the street and sidewalks. The Market Street Ferry was established about 1800 and was a principal form of transportation from Philadelphia to Camden, New Jersey through the early 20th century., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
Negative 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.154]
