Details
Creator Bartlett & French.
Title Fairmount Falls. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1879
Date [photographed ca. 1868, printed ca. 1879]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View looking west at the dam or falls on the Schuylkill River north of the Water Works. In the foreground, one man stands, hands on his hips, looking toward the camera, as another bends down on one knee and observes the water below. Includes a partial view of the elevated pavilion or gazebo and the buildings on the west bank of the Schuylkill River in the background.
Is part of Philadelphia and vicinity. No. 132
Notes Title from photographer's label pasted on verso.
Manuscript note on verso: Seely
Yellow curved mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dams -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gazebos -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Landscape photographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.8484.18]
Accession number P.8484.18