Blue Stone Bridge
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Blue Stone Bridge, Wissahickon, n.d.
File — Drawer 7.4
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
This collection contains a multitude of images of the Fairmount Park system created between 1855 and 2012 in a variety of formats. The “Photographic prints” collection consists of primarily of 8 x 10 prints of various park features, such as historic houses, guard boxes, landscape, construction and demolition, although sizes and content does vary widely throughout. This collection is a combination of photos which are official documents of the Fairmount Park Commission, and...
Dates:
n.d.
Fairmount Park, c. 1900 - 1994, bulk: 1905-1914
Series
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains approximately 200 postcards from 1875 and 2001, though most of the postcards are from 1885 and 1915. A majority of the postcards depict Fairmount Park sites, although two Virginia and one New Hampshire postcard are included in the collection.
Of particular note are the postcards in Series I: Centennial Exposition. The postcards in this series were created in 1875 and each depicts a building from the Centennial Exposition of 1876.
Dates:
c. 1900 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1905-1914
Letter from Russell Thayer relative to the proposed bridge over the Wissahickon in place of the old red bridge, 1881 February 8
Item — Drawer 6-2
Report of the Committee on Plans and Improvements regarding the construction of a bridge over the Wissahickon in place of the Old Red Bridge, 1881 May 14
Item — Drawer 6-2
Resolution that the superintendent be directed to invite proposals for the erection of a bridge over the Wissahickon, 1881 February 12
Item — Drawer 6-2
Specifications of the Blue Stone Bridge, 1881 July 2
Item — Drawer 6-2
#W21-11 (Wissahickon): ID: 613 a-g: Wissahickon Drive Improvements and Blue Stone Bridge. [W21/W24], 1896
Item — Shelf BR-20.1
Identifier: 613a-g
Dates:
1896
#W21-12 (Wissahickon): ID: 914: Blue Stone Bridge. Proposed stone bridge over Wissahickon Creek to serve in place of the red bridge above Rittenhouse Street, c. 1890
Item — Shelf BR-20.1
Identifier: 914
Dates:
c. 1890
#W21-14 (Wissahickon): ID: 921: Proposed stone bridge, Blue Stone Bridge, over Wissahickon Creek to serve in place of the Red Bridge above Rittenhouse Street, c. 1890
Item — Shelf BR-20.1
Identifier: 921
Dates:
c. 1890
Wissahickon Valley Park, Blue Stone Bridge: History - early documents, memos and images, 1881, 1985, n.d.
File — Drawer 6-2
Dates:
1881; 1985; n.d.