Plan of Farrand & Sharp's Proposed Bridge · 100 Years of the Ben Franklin Bridge

Plan of Farrand & Sharp's Proposed Bridge

Genre: Rendering
Description: Rendering of an early 19th-century proposed plan for a bridge that would span part of the Delaware River from Camden to Windmill Island, opposite Philadelphia (Windmill Island was removed via dredging in the 1890s and no longer exists). Formally proposed in 1818, this bridge was never actually built. Another century passed before work on a bridge connecting Camden and Philadelphia actually started.

This rendering may have been originally created as early as 1813, according to the information published by the Free Library of Philadelphia, where a copy of this rendering appears in the Castner Scrapbook.
Date or Approximation: 1813 – 1818
Subject: Benjamin Franklin Bridge; Camden City
Spatial Coverage: Old City Philadelphia; Camden City
Related Resource: Castner Scrapbook v.20, Delaware River 1, page 70. Item No: pdcc03285. Print and Picture Collection, Philadelphia Free Library.
Archive: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Collection: Phillip B. Wallace Collection of Photographs
Contributor: Dante Requena
Rights: Image published for educational purposes by permission from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.