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Photo, Print, Drawing Bird's-Eye View of Property on Alleghany Avenue, Philadelphia, 25th Ward. Birds-eye View of Property on Alleghany Avenue Philadelphia 25th Ward

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Title

  • Bird's-Eye View of Property on Alleghany Avenue, Philadelphia, 25th Ward.

Other Title

  • Birds-eye View of Property on Alleghany Avenue Philadelphia 25th Ward

Summary

  • This print shows a bird's eye view of the grid plan of the city of Philadelphia, looking southeast from Frankford Road in northeast Philadelphia toward the Delaware River. The area depicted lies between Westmoreland Street and a few blocks south of Columbia Street, consisting mainly of the open land surrounding the Aramingo Canal, the Reading Railroad depot between Lehigh Avenue and Somerset Street, and the tracks of the Philadelphia, Trenton, and New York Railroad line. A few dwellings, churches, and other structures comprise the landscape, with a heavier concentration of buildings visible near Columbia Street. In the foreground, dwellings, most with plots of ground, a church, and the "Second & Third Street Passenger Railway Depot" line Frankford Road, and two horse-drawn streetcars travel down the road. In the background, crowded blocks of buildings form the bulk of the cityscape. The view also includes the Port Richmond railroad terminus; a train traveling on the Philadelphia, Trenton, and New York Railroad line; locomotives pulling coal cars on the Reading Railroad line; industrial buildings; a small number of trees; and street names. The 25th Ward was formed in 1861 and was comprised of parts of the former 19th and 23rd wards. This view might have been commissioned in connection with the Junction Railroad, a project of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Reading Railroad to connect rail routes west of Philadelphia to the city and to allow New York--Washington trains to run through the city center for the first time.

Names

  • Boell, William Artist.
  • Weir, Robert Walter, 1803-1889 Copyright Holder.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : William Boell, 1863.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1863
  • -  Aerial views
  • -  Aramingo Canal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • -  Canals
  • -  Chromolithographs
  • -  Cities and towns
  • -  Delaware River (New York-Delaware and New Jersey)
  • -  Panoramic views
  • -  Railroads
  • -  Reading Company

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Digital catalog number: POS 54"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 69 x 100 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: William Boell, Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary, Library Company of Philadelphia, http://www.lcpdigital.org.|Philadelphia External on Stone Biographical Dictionary, Library Company of Philadelphia, http://www.librarycompany.org/pos/posdictionary.htm. External
  • -  Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Philadelphia on Stone

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670446

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Boell, William Artist, and Robert Walter Weir. Bird's-Eye View of Property on Alleghany Avenue, Philadelphia, 25th Ward. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1863. Philadelphia: William Boell. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670446/.

APA citation style:

Boell, W. A. & Weir, R. W. (1863) Bird's-Eye View of Property on Alleghany Avenue, Philadelphia, 25th Ward. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1863. Philadelphia: William Boell. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670446/.

MLA citation style:

Boell, William Artist, and Robert Walter Weir. Bird's-Eye View of Property on Alleghany Avenue, Philadelphia, 25th Ward. Philadelphia: William Boell. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670446/>.