Details
Creator Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Title ["Diana" statue at Fairmount Water Works] [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 the statue commissioned by the Water Commission and installed circa 1830-1831 at the foot of the walkway to Reservoir Hill. The statue, adorned with a cache of arrows on her back, stands on a platform and misses her left hand. Inclined walkways are visible in the background.
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.)
Diana (Roman deity) -- Statues.
Sculpture -- 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.9058.160]
Accession number P.9058.160