Details
Creator Birkinbine & Trotter, artist.
Contributor Birkinbine & Trotter, engineer.
Title Stand pipe, West Philada Waterworks, flying buttresses &c [graphic] / Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers, 16 Arch St. Philada.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1854
Date [ca. 1854]
Physical Description 1 drawing : watercolor ; mount 74 x 92 cm (29 x 36.5 in.)
Description Architectural drawing showing the design for the flying buttresses for the standpipe erected at Thirty-Fifth and Sycamore Streets as part of the Twenty Fourth Ward Water Works (i.e., West Philadelphia Water Works) and completed circa 1855 after the designs of engineers Birkinbine & Trotter. Shows the flying buttress and three columns colored pink and blue. Part of the buttress is super imposed on the middle column depicted. The standpipe served as a reservoir for the waterworks located on the west bank of the Schuylkill River above the Fairmount Dam and was removed in 1870.
Notes Title from item.
Date inferred from date of construction.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Biographical / historical note Birkinbine & Trotter was a partnership between Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Edward H. Trotter (1814-1872).
Subject Twenty-Fourth Ward Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Flying buttresses.
Standpipes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Thirty-Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Sycamore Street.
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Architectural drawings -- 1850-1860.
Watercolors -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Birkinbine & Trotter, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.24]
Accession number P.2019.62.24