| Creator |
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer. |
| Contributor |
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector. |
|
PA. Philadelphia. 1854. |
|
Birkinbine & Trotter, engineer. |
| Title |
Engine house of the Twenty-fourth Ward Water Works. Designed and constructed by Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers and contractors,
Philadelphia. [graphic].
|
| Date |
ca. 1854 |
| Physical Description |
1 photographic print: salted paper; 8 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.) |
| Description |
View showing the engine house at the water works also known as the West Philadelphia Water Works, completed circa 1855, on
the west bank of the Schuylkill River above the Fairmount Dam. The engine house built after the designs of engineers Birkinbine
& Trotter, contained two boiler rooms, sleeping rooms for the engineers, and storerooms. Also shows two men standing near
a fence in the foreground and the smokestack at the waterworks in the background.
|
| Notes |
Name of photographer from duplicate in private collection. |
|
Title from accompanying label. |
|
Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s
entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 70? The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial,
and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.
|
|
Birkinbine & Trotter was a partnership between Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Edward H. Trotter (1814-1872) |
|
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation
with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #97.
|
| 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 |
Twenty-Fourth Ward Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Schuylkill River (Pa.) |
|
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Genre |
Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860. |
| Associated name |
PA. Philadelphia. |
| Associated name |
Birkinbine & Trotter, engineer. |
| Provenance |
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Public Utilities [(5)2526.F.4a] |
| Accession number |
(5)2526.F.4a |
