13 x 9 3/4 in. albumen photograph on 17 3/4 x 14 3/8 in. cardstock mount with letterpress title and credit to the photographer. Title also included in the negative.

William T. Purviance, a Philadelphia photographer, began his career as a daguerreian but transitioned comfortably into wet plate photography in the 1860s and 1870s. He is primarily known for his work for a series of stereographs he issued after he became the official photographer for the Pennsylvania railroad In 1867. His large format images are comparably rare, and probably represent special commissions made as gifts to important stockholders or directors of the railroad. In this image, Purviance has carefully placed a lone figure on a split rail fence to emphasize the scale of the bridge over the Juniata River.