Aerial View, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Historical Images of Philadelphia Charles Higgins Negatives
Item Info
Item No: pdch00250
Title: Aerial View, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Media Type:
Photographic Negatives
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
Image taken by Philadelphia Evening Bulletin photographer Charles T. Higgins. Notes on the negative's envelope read: "Philadelphia Museum of Art and Benjamin Franklin Parkway viewed from West"
This ca. 1960 image shows an aerial view of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to City Hall. The Delaware River is seen across the top of the photograph, and the Schuylkill River is along the lower right corner, traversed by the Callowhill Street Bridge (to the right of the Art Museum) and the Market Street Bridge (above, on the right).
Creation Year: ca. 1960
Creator Name: Higgins, Charles - Photographer