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Fairmount from below Lemon Hill. [graphic].
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Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Title
Fairmount from below Lemon Hill. [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date
September 1858
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen; 20 x 30 cm.(7.75 x 12 in.)
Description
View looking south across the Schuylkill River from below Lemon Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house, pavilion on the mound dam, and standpipe at the waterworks. Also shows boat landings; the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount; and cityscape. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff, were expanded until 1872.
Notes
Title and date from manuscript note on recto.
McClees 1858-10.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Philadelphia views.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Biographical / historical note
McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Subject
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Suspension bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject
Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Associated name
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Public Utilities [(6)1322.F.174a]
Accession number
(6)1322.F.174a
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James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection
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