Details
Contributor Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Title Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 30 x 24 cm (12 x 9.25 in.)
Description View of the Fairmount Water Works and depicting the Engine House, Pavilion and Entrance Houses, and the Old Mill House. Also shows the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount in the right background. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederic Graff, Jr.
Is part of Unidentified series. 90
Notes Title from text printed on mount.
Date inferred from content.
Text on negative: No. 90. Fairmount Water Works.
Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Image of Independence Hall is mounted on the verso: photo - unidentified - public utilities [P.2011.45.17].
Biographical / historical note Frederick Graff, Jr. (1817-1890) was chief engineer of Philadelphia's Water Department from 1847 to 1856 and 1866 to 1872. His father Frederick Graff (1774-1847) was superintendent of the Philadelphia Water Works in 1805 and recommended their relocation to Fairmount in 1811. He designed the Fairmount Water Works, which was constructed between 1812 and 1822.
Subject Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Water works -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo- unidentified - public utilities [P.2011.45.16]
Accession number P.2011.45.16