Details
Creator Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer.
Title [Entrance to the Manayunk Canal of the Schuylkill Navigation] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1907
Date ca. 1907
Physical Description 1 negative: glass; 4 x 5 in.
Description View looking upstream from the east bank of the Schuylkill River and showing the entrance to the Manayunk Canal of the Schuylkill Navigation and the Flat Rock Dam. The Shawmont (or Roxborough) Pumping Station of the Philadelphia Water Department is in the background. People fish from the concrete pier that juts into the middle of the river. Flat Rock Dam was constructed by the Schuylkill Navigation Company circa 1820 and reconstructed in 1977 to provide water for the Manayunk Canal.
Notes Modern reference prints available.
Gift of Richard R. Frame.
Subject Canals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Water works -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fishing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Manayunk (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Glass plate negatives -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.67]
Accession number P.8986.67