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- Title
- Spruce Creek Tunnel
- Description
- Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a locomotive emerging from the single arch tunnel. Distant view.
- Creator
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.104]
- Title
- Spruce Creek Tunnel
- Description
- Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View of a single arch, stone tunnel that spans two railroad tracks. A sign near the tunnel reads, "Spruce Creek, 1 mile".
- Creator
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.105]
- Title
- Spruce Creek
- Description
- Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts a man sitting next to the railroad tracks near the Spruce Creek tunnel.
- Creator
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.112]
- Title
- Allegheny Tunnel
- Description
- Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the single stone arch of the Allegheny Tunnel in the distance. A row of men stand at the edge of the cliff above the tunnel, looking toward the photographer. Built in 1854 for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
- Creator
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.25]
- Title
- Alleghany [sic] Tunnel
- Description
- Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Depicts the single stone arch of the Allegheny Tunnel. Men are lined up at the edge of the cliff above the tunnel. Built in 1854 for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
- Creator
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.29]
- Title
- Greensburg Tunnel
- Description
- Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View looking east at the single stone arch of the Greensburg Tunnel. People sit and stand near the Greensburg station building on the south side of the tracks. A church steeple and other buildings near Harrison Avenue are visible above the tunnel.
- Creator
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.30]
- Title
- Darby Tunnel
- Description
- Depicts the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks descending into a stone arch tunnel under a roadway.
- Date
- March 1891.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.107]
- Title
- East Approach of Gray's Ferry Tunnel, Phila.
- Description
- View looking west at the east approach of the Grays Ferry Avenue tunnel, which runs 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.9945.122]
- Title
- Fairmount Park Tunnel, West Approach
- Description
- View of the west approach to the Fairmount Park Tunnel, showing businesses at the street level, including John Daly, dealer in fine brandies (left), and Fleisher ? Works (right). The dome of an unidentified church is also visible.
- Date
- March 1891.
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. albums - B&O [P.9945.125]
- Title
- Junc. R.R. tunnel under Market & Chestnut Sts
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- The Allegheny Tunnel, at the Summit
- Description
- View showing the portal of the Pennsylvania Railroad Tunnel, completed in 1854, running beneath the summit of the Allegheny Mountains at Gallitzin, Pa. Includes passengers waiting at the train station near a stopped locomotive and a sign post advertising the Gallitzin House hotel. In the far background, the borough is visible above the tunnel., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title printed on the mount., 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
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Purviance - Transportation [P.9577.21]
- Title
- Philadelphia showing Girard College
- Description
- Aerial view of Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood, looking east from East Fairmount Park (foreground) to the Delaware River (background). View shows Girard College, the Corinthian Avenue Reservoir, and Eastern State Penitentiary in the distance. Also shows a railroad tunnel bordering the park. Row homes and factories are visible., Negative number: 1651.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1915
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1651]
- Title
- Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company building, 2501-2515 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia
- Description
- Aerial views of the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company's building at 2501-2515 Fairmount Avenue under construction. Scaffolding flanks the entrance of the nearly completed building while vehicles move along the streets. Designed by Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, the Art Deco building was constructed 1926-1927. Views show a railroad tunnel and large semicircular factory building on the 2600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. Nearby row homes are visible., Negative numbers: 7631, 7632, 7633.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1927
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.7631; P.8990.7632; P.8990.7633]
- Title
- Gallitzen [sic] and the great tunnel. Pennsylvania Central Rail Road
- Description
- 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]
- Title
- Scenery on the Pennsylvania Railroad Album
- Description
- Album of photographs documenting the Philadelphia, Middle, and Pittsburgh divisions of the Pennsylvania Railroad, incorporated in 1846. The consolidated company sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh through the Allegheny mountains in order to compete with the Erie Canal for freight traffic. In 1854, rail passage through the Alleghenies via the "Horse Shoe Curve" was achieved and spurred the establishment and growth of the several towns depicted along the route.
- Date
- 1874
- Title
- Scenery on the Pennsylvania Railroad
- Description
- Album of photographs documenting the Philadelphia, Middle, and Pittsburgh divisions of the Pennsylvania Railroad, incorporated in 1846. The consolidated company sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh through the Allegheny mountains in order to compete with the Erie Canal for freight traffic. In 1854, rail passage through the Alleghenies via the "Horse Shoe Curve" was achieved and spurred the establishment and growth of the several towns depicted along the route., Photographs depict stations, sites, landmarks, and landscape and townscape views along the Pennsylvania Railroad. Titles include No. 1 Ardmore Station ; No. 2 Bryn Mawr Station; No. 3 Bridge at Conways at Conewago; No. 5 Mount Union; No. 6 Susquehanna Bridge at Rockville (i.e., first bridge replaced in 1877); No. 7 Track Tank; No. 8 Jack Narrows; No. 9 Triple Track; No. 12 Bryn Mawr Hotel; No. 13 Coatesville Bridge; No. 16 Powers Run Allegheny River; No. 21 Sample track near Harmersville; No. 25 East from Harmersville; No. 26 Butler; No. 29 On the Kiskimenitus below Leechburg; No. 36 Greensburg near Huffs; No. 39 Hawkins; No. 40 West of Derry; No. 41 East of Morgan; No. 42 West of Beattys Station; No. 43 Monastery West of Latrobe; No. 44 1 1/2 miles East of S. W. Penna.; No. 46 Westmoreland Coal Co.; No. 47 Braddocks, Port Perry and Steel Works; No. 48 Westmoreland Landscape; No. 49 Stewarts Sample Track; No. 50 Section of Y at Walls; No. 51 Greensburg Station ; No. 53 West of Pack Saddle; No. 55 Lockport; No. 56 Below Conemaugh Furnace; No. 58 Cresson (Panorama); No. 61 Allegheny Tunnel , Galitzen; No. 64 Soap Fat; No. 57 Cresson (Panorama); No. 59 Kittanning from McGarveys; No. 65 Pulpit Rock; No. 67 From McKees Gap; No. 76 Bellefonte; No. 78 Mill Hall; No. 79 Birmingham; No. 80 Union Furnace and Station ; No. 81 Spring Creek; No. 82 Allegheny Tunnel; No. 83 Tyrone and Clearfield; No. 84 Grade on the Tyrone and Clearfield; No. 85 Bellefonte Gap;, No. 86 Mule Shoe and Deep Fill; No. 88 Pack Saddle East; No. 90 Logan House, Altoona, Pa.; No. 96 Jack Narrows, Mapleton; No. 97 Entrance to Jack Narrows; No. 98 Reservoir; No. 99 Bedford Springs; No. 100 View from Bedford Springs; No. 101 Bedford from Wickershams; No. 102 Below Bedford, Devils Backbone; No. 103 Bedford; No. 104 McVeytown Station; No. 105 Mount Dallas; No. 106 Mapleton; No. 107 Huntington; No. 108 Tuscarora Valley; No. 109 Sentinel Rock; No. 110 Tyrone Forges; No. 113 Standard Track, Lewistown Narrows; No. 114 From Centre of Susquehanna Bridge; No. 115 Terrace Mountain, Mill Creek; No. 116 From West End of Susquehanna Bridge; No. 117 Upper Mann’s; No. 118 Lewistown Narrows; No. 119 Susquehanna Bridge; No. 121 Standard Track at Newport; No. 123 Across the Allegheny; No. 127 General View of Bryn Mawr; No. 124 Saltzburg; No. 130 Bryn Mawr; No. 131 Bryn Mawr; No. 138 Irwin Station; No. 139 Sample Track, Wynnewood Station ; No. 140 Haverford College; No. 142 Haverford College Station; No. 147 Bridge at Columbia [Wrightsburg?] Pa.; No. 148 Wayne Station; No. 151 Terminus at Delaware City; No. 154 Harrisburg from Fort Washington ; No. 150 Chiques (i.e., Chickie’s Rock); No. 153 Henry Clay, Chiques and Marietta; No. 158 Landenburg; No. 159 Columbia Tunnel; and No. 162 Louella Residence of J. Henry Askin., Photographs include railroad tracks, locomotives and railcars, railroad equipment, bridges, tunnels, rock formations, mountains, passes, mills, furnaces, coal and steel works, hotels, Victorian-style residences, wooden dwellings and sheds, canal houses and canals, telegraph poles, townscape, farmsteads, marshland, rivers, and wooden fences. Several images, particularly views of stations, also depict posed figures, including an African American man at the Haverford College Station (No. 142). Details in other photographs include rail tracks with a water trough (No. 7); amateurishly hand-painted advertising text on a wood fence (No. 36); the "Exchange Hotel" near the Allegheny Tunnel in Galitzen (No. 61); men seated on the cow catcher of a partially visible locomotive at the grade on the Tyrone and Clearfield (No. 84); a gazebo-style pavilion at Bedford Springs (No. 199); oil tanks and drums (No. 123); the Pennsylvania Gas Coal Co. Office, a pedestrian bridge crossing over a creek, and the “Tom Smith Peanut Man” shed near Irwin Station (No. 138); the “Columbia” barge (No. 147); a "Water-Line of Boston" sailing vessel at the terminus at Delaware City (No. 151); the Martin Landenburger mill in Landenburg (No. 158); and the greenhouse attached to the residence on the Louella estate in Wayne (No. 162)., Photographer’s imprint inscribed in negative of several of the photographs: F. Gutekunst, Philada. or F. Gutekunst, Photogr., Philada., Date inferred from publication date of stereographs with similar content by the photographer. See stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.1-.142]., Photograph No. 4, 10-11, 14-15, 17-20, 22-24, 27-28, 30-35, 37-38, 45, 52, 54, 60, 62-63, 66, 68-75, 77, 87, 89, 91-95, 112, 120, 122, 125-126, 128-129, 132-137, 141, 143-146, 149, 152, 155-157, 160-161 not included in album., Inscribed in pencil upper right corner on mount of photograph No. 1: 40 guards., Inscribed in pencil below image on mount of photograph No. 1: about 1876., Inscription in pencil below title on mount of photograph No. 147: Wrightsburg. “Columbia” in title circled., See Gutekunst (Pennsylvania Railroad) research file., Gift of the Greer family in memory of David St. John Greer who after starting as a co-op student at Drexel University spent his working life with the Pennsylvania Railroad with the exception of a period of service with the U.S. Navy during WWII., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2014, p. 49-50., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Gutekunst, a prominent Philadelphia photographer, published a series of Pennsylvania Railroad views stereographs in 1875.
- Creator
- Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.2014.74]
- Title
- Album of Pennsylvania R. R. scenery
- Description
- Souvenir viewbook containing twelve captioned views of prominent sites and landmarks of and along the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Mid-Atlantic. Includes "Pennsylvania R. R. Station, Jersey City, Showing Birds eye View of the Hudson River, New York City Etc."; "Pennsylvania R. R. Ferries Plying Between Jersey City & New York"; "New Brunswick N. J. Penna. R. R. Bridge Crossing the Raritan River"; "Broad St. Station Penna. R. R. Co. Philadelphia. Grandest R. R. Depot in America" with inset showing Independence Hall"; "New Public Building, Philadelphia Cor. Broad & Market Streets. Built of Marble & Granite. Grandest Single Structure in the World. Cost Already Over $15,000,000. View at Left, U. S. Mint. View on the Right, Penna. R. R. Depot."; "Views at Bryn Mawr, 10 miles West of Philadelphia: Bryn Mawr Hotel. Bryn Mawr Station. Residences."; "Penn. R.R. Bridge Crossing the Susquehanna River 6 Miles West of Harrisbugh PA"; "Lewiston Narrows"; "Jacks Narrows, From Mapleton"; "Along Jack Narrows"; "The Horse Shoe Curve, Pennsylvania Railroad"; "Near Bolivar on the Conemaugh with inset showing "Scene at Allegrippus"; "In the Pack Saddle, On the Conemaugh/Spruce Creek Tunnel"; "Penna. R. R. Co’s Depot, Pittsburgh Pa."; View of Pittsburgh & Allegheny City Pa. with inset showing "Iron Works South Side." Views also show American's first immigration center Castlegarden (i.e., Castle Clinton, Battery Park, N.Y.), traveling trains, piers, factories, pedestrian and street traffic, and landscapes, including mountains, valleys, and creeks. Some inset images also designed as trompe l'oeil., Publication information from copyright statement., Title from embossed brown morocco binding, front cover stamped: Album of Pennsylvania R. R. Scenery., Prints connected by accordion folds., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- [1888]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Album [P.2011.45.26]