Image of an eye-level street view of the Fairmount Water Works and Upper Ferry Bridge as seen from the veranda of Harding's Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with well-dressed men and women on the porch watching horse-drawn carriages cross the covered bridge over the Schuylkill River, and the waterworks buildings and hillside in the distance. "Drawn, Printed & Colored at J.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment."--text, bottom margin centered. "Published by J.T. Bowen, No. 94 Walnut St. Philadelphia. / Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1838 by J.T. Bowen, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pa."--text, bottom margin centered.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 56.2 x 71.12 cm (22 1/8 x 28 in.)
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Pictorial works Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)--Pictorial works Schuylkill River (Pa.)--Pictorial works Bridges--Pictorial works Covered bridges--Pictorial works Hotels--Pictorial works Waterworks--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1825-1850. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection View Prints Large Size Northeast The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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