Identifier: strangersillustr00phil (find matches)
Title: The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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FALLS RAILROAD BRIDGE. bridge which has just taken the place of the once celebrated WireBridge. This new bridge is one of the most elaborate structures of itskind in this country. It was designed by J. H. Linville, and erected by the
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22 BRIDGES. Keystone Bridge Company. The total length of the superstructure istwelve hundred and seventy-four feet, the main span over the river beingthree hundred and fifty feet. The bridge has an upper and lower road-way and sidewalks, and is forty-eight feet in width ; the upper roadway iselevated thirty-two feet above Callowhill Street, and connects SpringGarden Street on the east with Bridge Street on the west. The lowerroadway connects Callowhill Street with Haverford Street. FairmountBridge may be reached by the cars on Callowhill Street, by the VineStreet cars, by the Arch Street cars going west, and by the Fairmountbranch of the Pine Street cars. The cars of the Union line (Fairmountbranch) also pass up Spring Garden Street to the immediate vicinity ofthe bridge. Falls Railroad Bridge is a massive stone structure, across theSchuylkill River, on the line of the Port Richmond branch of theReading Railroad, just above the northern boundary of Laurel HillCemetery. It is about six

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