Details
Creator W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Title [Fairmount Water Works] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date ca. 1860
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 8 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View looking south from Lemon Hill in East Fairmount Park showing the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the old engine house; the mill house; the pavilion on the pier of the mound dam; and the stand pipe (built 1852 after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr.), observatory arch (built 1860), and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. Also shows the boat landing north of the waterworks and men working on the riverbank. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872.
Notes Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boat landings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Lemon Hill (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate)
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Langenheim - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.119c]
Accession number (3)1322.F.119c