Details
Creator Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Title [Rustic pavilion on Reservoir Hill at Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia] [graphic] / M.P. Simons, 1320 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Landscape and portrait photographer.
Publisher Philadelphia: M.P. Simons
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing one of the thatch-roof rustic pavilions installed at the waterworks between 1864-1866 as a decorative improvement. View also shows the promenade leading to the pavilion. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822, were altered and expanded until 1872.
Notes Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Green mount with rounded corners.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pavilions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Walkways -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Simons - Public Utilities [P.9058.163]
Accession number P.9058.163