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Title: Eastman Kodak Company glass negatives box
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner), Eastman Kodak Company (originator)
Description: Original housing associated with this collection. Eastman Double-Coated Ortho plates, emulsion number 8718.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_036
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Valley Green Restaurant
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of Valley Green Restaurant in Wissahickon Valley Park.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_003
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Road
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of an unidentified area of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Possibly Forbidden Drive in Wissahickon Valley Park.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_027
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Winter Scene
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of an unidentified area of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Possibly Forbidden Drive in Wissahickon Valley Park.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_026
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Forbidden Drive
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of what appears to be Forbidden Drive in Wissahickon Valley Park.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_011
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Forbidden Drive
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of what appears to be Forbidden Drive in Wissahickon Valley Park. If so, the Pro Bono Publico fountain is visible in the distance on the right hand side of the roadway. The fountain, erected in 1854, was the first public drinking fountain in the city.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_009
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Winter Scene
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of a snow-covered, unidentified area in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_021
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Valley Green Restaurant
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of Valley Green Restaurant in Wissahickon Valley Park.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_001
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Forbidden Drive
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of what appears to be Forbidden Drive in Wissahickon Valley Park.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_020
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Valley Green Restaurant
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of Valley Green Restaurant in Wissahickon Valley Park.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_002
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Forbidden Drive
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of what appears to be Forbidden Drive in Wissahickon Valley Park. If so, the Pro Bono Publico fountain is visible in the distance on the right hand side of the roadway. The fountain, erected in 1854, was the first public drinking fountain in the city.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_010
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Bridge and Seating
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of what may be the Cresheim Creek Bridge, a wooden footbridge crossing the Devil's Pool area in Wissahickon Valley Park.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_006
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Winter Scene
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of an automobile driving along a snow-covered, unidentified section of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_034
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Valley Green Restaurant
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of Valley Green Restaurant in Wissahickon Valley Park.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_004
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Rex Avenue Bridge
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of what appears to be Rex Avenue Bridge over Wissahickon Creek in Wissahickon Valley Park. Rex Avenue Bridge was erected in 1882.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_033
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Walnut Lane Bridge
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of what appears to be Walnut Lane Bridge in Wissahickon Valley Park. Walnut Lane Bridge crosses the Wissahickon Creek to connect the neighborhoods of Germantown and Roxborough, and was constructed between July 1906 and October 1908.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_032
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Devil's Pool
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of a what may be the Devil's Pool area of Wissahickon Valley Park. If so, the larger, single-arch stone bridge visible in the distance was one constructed in 1892 to support a sewer line from Chestnut Hill that needed to cross the Cresheim Valley and Cresheim Creek before emptying into the Wissahickon Creek. The wooden footbridge, visible below the larger bridge, would be the Cresheim Creek Bridge.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_014
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title

Pennsylvania Railroad Connecting Railroad Bridge and Girard Avenue Bridge

Date(s)

1908

Contributor(s)

Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)

Description

Glass negative of an unidentified waterway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. This appears to be the Schuylkill River, with the Pennsylvania Railroad's Connecting Railway Bridge in the foreground and the Girard Ave bridge in the background.

The stone arch bridge was built by the Connecting Railway, a Pennsylvania Railroad affiliated company, and was completed in 1867. The Girard Avenue bridge is the second of three bridges that stood in this spot. This Pratt truss bridge was completed...
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Glass negative of an unidentified waterway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. This appears to be the Schuylkill River, with the Pennsylvania Railroad's Connecting Railway Bridge in the foreground and the Girard Ave bridge in the background.

The stone arch bridge was built by the Connecting Railway, a Pennsylvania Railroad affiliated company, and was completed in 1867. The Girard Avenue bridge is the second of three bridges that stood in this spot. This Pratt truss bridge was completed in 1874 and stood until construction began on the bridge's third incarnation in 1969.
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Collection ID

Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)

Hagley ID

AVD_1971597_035

Collection

Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Blue Stone Bridge
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of what appears to be Blue Stone Bridge in Wissahickon Valley Park. Blue Stone Bridge was built in 1896, replacing Old Red Bridge (also known as Lotus Inn Bridge). It passes over the Wissahickon Creek and once linked the neighborhoods of Norristown and Germantown. It also lay along a primary route bypassing around Philadelphia between New York and Baltimore.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_031
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Cutting logs
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of men cutting logs from a tree in an unidentified section of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_022
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Bridle Path
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of an unidentified bridle path and structure in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_030
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Water View
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of an unidentified waterway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_015
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Fairmount Park
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of an unidentified area in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_016
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Winter Scene
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of an unidentified waterway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_029
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

Title: Deer
Date(s): 1908
Contributor(s): Pennebaker, William B. (former owner)
Description: Glass negative of deer in the snow in an unidentified area of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system.
Collection ID: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives (Accession 1971.597)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971597_018
Collection: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives

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