Details
Creator Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Contributor Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Title Fairmount Water Works [graphic] / M.P. Simons, photographer & dealer in stereoscopic pictures, no. 1320 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia: M.P. Simons
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1867
Date 1867
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View looking north from the old mill house at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the new mill house built between 1860 and 1862 on the mound dam after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872.
Is part of Philadelphia views. Fairmount and vicinity, 1867
Notes Title from photographer's label pasted on verso.
Pale yellow mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Simons - Public Utilities [P.9260.74]
Accession number P.9260.74