Conewango Looking Up (circa 1878)

Warren Library Association - Historic Photographs

About

Subject

Swing bridges -- Oil well drilling rigs -- Streams

Description

Looking up the Conewango from below Jefferson Avenue, showing original Third Avenue swinging (foot) bridge and original wooden Fifth Avenue bridge, about 1878. Both bridges were taken out by ice in 1883. Note oil well on west side of creek below Fifth.

Creator

Unknown

Date

About 1878

Time Period Covered

19th and 20th Century photography and text.

Type

Image

Original Format

Photographs

Digital Format

image/jpeg

Language

English

Date Digitized

2005-11

Source

Warren Library Association Photograph Collection

Identifier

128

Relation

Allegheny Chronicles-Rafting and Lumbering

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/

Contact

For information on source and images, contact the Warren Library Association, Reference Department, 205 Market St., Warren, PA 16365. Phone (814) 723-4650, Reference menu option, or email reference@warrenlibrary.org .

Contributing Institution

Warren Library Association

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.