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]
View of a construction crew working under a viaduct of the bridge to enlarge West River Drive. In the foreground, an African American man crew member lowers a hose into the ditch in which the crew of predominately African American men work. Most of the men sift through a large pile of dirt and rubble near a horse-drawn cart., Title from note on negative sleeve: Penn R.R. Co. connecting bridge at Girard Avenue., Inscribed on negative: 7314., Published in Harry Silcox's Philadelphia: the life of photographer William Nicholson Jennings, 1860-1946 (Philadelphia: Brighton Press, Inc., 1993), p. 85., Purchase 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.
Creator
Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date
August 29, 1912
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jennings [P.9480.7314]
