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Title: [Train crossing an unidentified trestle bridge.]
Description: Depicts a train traversing a trestle bridge, probably near Scottdale Road and Darby Creek in Lansdowne, Pa. Land in the valley underneath of the bridge is sectioned off by a wooden fence., Title supplied by cataloguer., Locaton previously identified as Upper Darby, near Broomall Park., 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.9453.19]

Title: On the Clearfield
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of a deck truss railroad bridge spanning an unidentified creek or river, possibly the west branch of the Susquehanna River, on the Tyrone and Clearfield branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.109]

Title: Little Juniata River
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a locomotive crossing a railroad bridge that spans Little Juniata River.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.111]

Title: Susquehanna Bridge
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of the railroad bridge spanning the Susquehanna River, connecting Columbia with Wrightsville on the York division.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.133]

Title: Susquehanna Bridge
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts sheds and piles of lumber as the railroad tracks approach the Susquehanna Bridge, which connects Columbia with Wrightsville on the York division.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.136]

Title: Saltsburg
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a stone railroad bridge spanning the Kiskiminetas River at Saltsburg. View includes properties on the hills in the distance.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.67]

Title: Susquehanna Bridge
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of the railroad bridge spanning the Susquehanna River, connecting Columbia with Wrightsville on the York division.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.71]

Title: Susquehanna Bridge
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of the railroad bridge spanning the Susquehanna River, connecting Columbia with Wrightsville on the York division.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.72]

Title: Turtle Creek near Stewarts
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of a stone, double arch bridge carrying railroad tracks over Turtle Creek near Stewart's Station. A house and a church are visible in the distance.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.31]

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: 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: Mainville bridge, from the moving train [Catawissa Railroad, Mainville, Pa.]
Description: Glass negative showing a trestle railroad bridge in a wooded valley crpssing the Catawissa Creek. Various buildings stand on the bank., Time: 12:03, 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: October 13, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1243]

Title: Chester Creek Branch of the P and B.C.R.R. Bridge
Description: Depicts a through truss bridge spanning railroad tracks of the Chester Creek Branch of the Baltimore Central Railroad Company. A single track runs under the bridge.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.88]

Title: Passamore's Race
Description: Depicts a deck plate girder bridge spanning Passamore's Race.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.112]

Title: Quarry Road
Description: Depicts a deck plate girder bridge spanning Quarry Road.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.95]

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: View from bridge at Mainville, Catawissa R[ail] R[oad], from moving train, [Mainville, Pa.]
Description: Glass negative showing a a trestle railroad bridge crossing the Catawissa Creek in a wooded valley. Various buildings stand on either bank., Time: 12, 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: October 13, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1242]

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 Ridge Road, near Manayunk
Description: Buff mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., View showing a section of the second Norristown Railroad Bridge over the mouth of the Wissahickon Creek. The bridge, built by Haughey and Snyder for the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown Railroad (later Philadelphia and Reading Railroad), was razed by fire in 1862 and replaced with a temporary trestle-work bridge. Also shows the falls of Wissahickon Creek in the foreground., 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: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McClees - Views [(3)1322.F.132b]

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: Chester Creek
Description: Depicts a deck truss bridge spanning Chester Creek.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.91]

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: Darby Creek Bridge
Description: Depicts a tall, deck plate girder bridge spanning Darby Creek.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.109]

Title: Crum Creek
Description: Depicts a through truss bridge spanning Crum Creek.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.96]

Title: Cobbs Creek
Description: Depicts a through truss bridge spanning Cobbs Creek.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.111]

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: Kerlin Street
Description: Depicts a pony plate girder bridge carrying the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks over Kerlin Street.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.90]

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: Ridley Creek
Description: Depicts a through truss bridge spanning dry land near Ridley Creek in Pennsylvania.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.94]

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: 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: E. Park Drive where Wissahickon Drive enters
Description: Depicts a guard standing near a guard-house (left), next to Wissahickon Drive, a wide dirt road shaded by large trees. The stone arches of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge is visible in the background., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: 1914
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.138]

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: [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: View from the inclined plane, near Philadelphia
Description: View looking east down the inclined plane cut into Belmont Hill (Fairmount Park) for the hauling of railroad cars in Philadelphia on route to the steam locomotives to Columbia on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Shows two men watching cars being hauled by ropes from within the plane. The covered Columbia Railroad Bridge, completed in 1834 over the Schuylkill River, from which the plane leads up, is visible in the background. Also shows distant cityscape, and forestry. The plane was abandoned in 1850., Originally published as plate 4 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 286.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2088 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W145.4 [P.2088]

Title: From the inclined plane near Philadelphia
Description: View looking east down the inclined plane cut into Belmont Hill (Fairmount Park) for the hauling of railroad cars in Philadelphia on route to the steam locomotives to Columbia on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Shows two men watching cars being hauled by ropes from within the plane. The covered Columbia Railroad Bridge, completed in 1834 over the Schuylkill River, from which the plane leads up, is visible in the background. Also shows distant cityscape, and forestry. The plane was abandoned in 1850., Issued as plate 4 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 286.1. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: 6626.F and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd862 W6442, pl. 4., Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75., Trimmed.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W145.1 [6626.F]

Title: View from the inclined plane, near Philadelphia
Description: View looking east down the inclined plane cut into Belmont Hill (Fairmount Park) for the hauling of railroad cars in Philadelphia on route to the steam locomotives to Columbia on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Shows two men watching cars being hauled by ropes from within the plane. The covered Columbia Railroad Bridge, completed in 1834 over the Schuylkill River, from which the plane leads up, is visible in the background. Also shows distant cityscape, and forestry. The plane was abandoned in 1850., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 4 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 286.2. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-75.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W145.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)]

Title: View from the inclined plane, near Philadelphia
Description: View looking east down the inclined plane cut into Belmont Hill (Fairmount Park) for the hauling of railroad cars in Philadelphia on route to the steam locomotives to Columbia on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Shows two men watching cars being hauled by ropes from within the plane. The covered Columbia Railroad Bridge, completed in 1834 over the Schuylkill River, from which the plane leads up, is visible in the background. Also shows distant cityscape, and forestry. The plane was abandoned in 1850., Originally published as plate 4 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 286.3. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Print Room Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W145.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

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: Railroad bridge over the Wissahickon, near Manayunk
Description: Landscape view showing the first Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad (later Philadelphia & Reading Railroad) bridge completed in 1833 over the Wissahickon near a waterfall. A train comprised of an engine, two crowded passenger coaches, i.e., trucks, and a freight car cross the Town lattice truss bridge. The neighboring Robeson's Mill is visible in the right foreground. Cows graze near the creek on which a group of ducks swim. Bridge razed in 1844. Ithiel Town patented his lattice truss design in 1820., Probable printer supplied by Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 632, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 7 R 131
Date: [ca. 1834]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 7 R 131

Title: Schuylkill River Bridge
Description: Depicts a through truss bridge spanning the Schuylkill River south of Grays Ferry Avenue.
Date: March 1891.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.120]

Title: Alleghany [sic] Suspension Bridge
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the elegant wire-suspension bridge spanning the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, designed by John A. Roebling, constructed 1857-59, and replaced in 1892. Known as the Sixth Street Bridge and the St. Clair Bridge.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.49]

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: Views in Fairmount Park Philadelphia, 1884
Description: Album containing eight pencil sketched, titled views of prominent sites at Fairmount Park. Includes Belmont Mansion from the East; Mount Pleasant; Tom Moore's Cottage above Columbia Bridge; Belmont Mansion from the West; Gen. Grant's Headquarters; the Elevator, (i.e. observatory) at Lemon Hill; Penna. R.R. Bridge (i.e., Connecting Railway Bridge); and Rockland Landing from Columbia Bridge., Drawing of Mount Pleasant depicts an exterior view of the Mount Pleasant Mansion built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. View shows the front entrance with a large tree in the left. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Red leather binding stamped S. Lewis Jones., Purchase 2004., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1884]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.2004.32]

Title: [African American worker at a work site near the Trenton Elevated Railroad Bridge in Philadelphia]
Description: Portrait of an African American construction worker standing next to a support column of the Philadelphian & Trenton Railroad Bridge at Trenton Avenue near Frankford Avenue. The man, attired in a bowler hat, a long-sleeved shirt with only the top buttoned, torn and worn overalls, and shoes, tucks his hands into the waist of his overalls and looks at the viewer. Behind him, two laborers perform street work, including a white man holding a shovel that looks at the viewer. In the background is Frankford Avenue. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk along the row of brick buildings., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and attire of the people., Gift of Ruth Molloy, 1994., 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.
Date: [ca. 1918]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 - unidentified - Transportation [P.9481.3]

Title: Bicycle glide
Description: Sheet music cover containing a genre scene, circa the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, showing bicyclists on East River Drive, i.e. Kelly Drive in East Fairmount Park. In the foreground, a man in checkered coat, striped bicycle pants, and a "Deerstalker" cap rides a "High Wheeler" in front of an arch of the New York Connecting Railway Bridge (built 1866-1867) spanning the Schuylkill River. Behind him, two other bicyclists follow and pass a startled horse pulling a buggy being approached by a park guard from across the road. A locomotive travels over the bridge. In the background, the Promontory Rock Tunnel (bored in 1871), the Girard Avenue Bridge (built 1872-1874), and the Centennial Exhibition observation tower, "Iron Tower," on George's Hill in West Fairmount Park are visible. Scullers row near a steamboat under the distantly-seen bridge on which a locomotive crosses. Also shows horse-drawn carriages traveling on the drive and on the Girard Avenue Bridge. The Iron Tower was removed to Coney Island following the close of the exhibition., Dedication: Respectfully dedicated to "The Philadelphia Bicycle Club.", Not in Wainwright., Price printed on recto: 5., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 282, Johns Hopkins University: Levy Collection Box 061, Item 006, Free Library of Philadelphia Music Department holds copy.
Date: c1880
Location: Johns Hopkins University | Special Collections at the Sheridan Libraries. JHU Levy Collection Box 061, Item 006, http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:061.006

Title: [Railroad overpass to Reading Terminal over Poplar Street near Ninth Street, Philadelphia, March 18, 1913]
Description: Scene showing a commercial section of Poplar Street surveyed for a Pennsylvania and Reading Railroad street grade elevation project. Trolley tracks run down the cobblestone street lined with stores including grocers and a butcher. Customers, including an African American man, peruse one of the grocery store's display of canned peaches. In front of "Greisinger Co. Meats," 907 Poplar Street, an African American man stands in the street near a cart. Other storefronts with awnings are seen in the distance behind the overpass. Reading Railroad terminal was located at 12th and Market streets., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: (907 Poplar)., Inscribed in negative: 12708; 3-18-13; 0.690, Stamp on verso: Philadelphia & Reading Ry. Co., Huntingdon St., Apr. 11, 1914, Philadelphia, Ass't Engineers Office., Illegible manuscript note on verso., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984., 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.
Creator: Harrison, Edward, photographer
Date: [March 18, 1913]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company [P.9057.177]

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