2-752-339 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Philadelphia from Belmont, (West Park)', 1874. View of the Delaware River and the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. On the left is the first Columbia Railroad Bridge, built in 1834. In the distance is the 1867 Pennsylvania Railroad, Connecting Railway Bridge. 'In the West Park will be erected, in 1876, the superb buildings intended for the International Exhibition connected with the Centennial Celebration'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]