Image Engraving

Fairmount and Schuylkill, Appletons’ Journal, 1869

Hand-colored print showing Fairmount Park and the Schuylkill River, looking downstream from the Columbia Bridge. The Girard Avenue Bridge is in the foreground, and the Fairmount Water Works is in the distance. Also visible are the gazebo atop Lemon Hill, and the Cathedral on Logan Square.

Date
  • Published

Full title: Art supplement to Appletons’ Journal—Fairmount, Philadelphia. With view of new park, from Columbia Bridge.

Transcription