James Mullen stereoviews of the High Bridge of Kentucky
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- James Mullen stereoviews of the High Bridge of Kentucky
- Date
- 1877 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 0.03 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Bridges -- Design and construction.
- Bridges -- Kentucky -- Kentucky River.
- High Bridge (Ky.)
- Kentucky River (Ky.)
- Photography, Stereoscopic.
- Preferred Citation
- 2019av002 : James Mullen stereoviews of the High Bridge of Kentucky, 1877, University of Kentucky special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- James Mullen was born February 4, 1834 in Cincinnati, Ohio. At eighteen years of age, he began working and studing in the daguerreotype gallery of E.C. Hawkins in Cincinnati, Ohio. Over the next several years Mullen operated galleries in Cincinnati and New York and was a photographer for Eaton & Webber until 1862. In late 1862, Mullen was a photographer in the Engineer Corps under General Rosecrans. He relocated to Lexington, Kentucky and conducted a successful photographic business in both portrait and landscapes. Mullen was also employed by the State Geological Survey and the Engineers of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, and maintained a gallery on the second and third floors of a building on Main Street in Lexington.
- Scope and Content
- The James Mullen stereoviews of the High Bridge of Kentucky (dated 1877; 0.03 cubic feet; 13 items) consist of stereoviews, taken by James Mullen, of the Kentucky River and High Bridge, which was built by the Cincinnati Southern Railway. The collection includes stereoview numbers 3-9, 12-14, 16, and 18-19. Some have newspaper clippings pasted to their backs.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
"No. 3. Half of Span No.1 as it reached Wooden Pier, from above the ferry", 1877
"No. 4. Half of Span No. 1 as it reached Wooden Pier; from River bottom opposite", 1877
"No. 5. Pier No. 1, showing Masonry. Iron Work in course of construction", 1877
"No. 6. Pier No. 1, End view, from Old Orchard", 1877
"No. 7. Pier No. 1. Sideview, from Road below", 1877
"No. 8. Span No. 1. Half of span No. 2 and Pier No. 1", 1877
"No. 9. Span No. 3 (south side) in course of construction", 1877
"No. 12. Showing progress of construction, January 22, 1877, from mouth of Dix River", 1877
"No. 13. Perspective view of Bridge from North Side. 23rd Jan. 1877", 1877
"No. 14. Looking through interior of Bridge from north side", 1877
"No. 16. Perspective view of finished Bridge from south side", 1877
"No. 18. Finished Bridge from Mouth of Dix River", 1877
"No. 19 From Half south side", 1877
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