Details
Contributor Union View Company, publisher.
Title Fairmount Dam. [graphic].
Publisher Rochester, N.Y. : Union View Co., publishers
Publisher N.Y. Rochester. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View looking north from the canal locks on the west bank of the river showing the Fairmount dam adjacent to the Fairmount Water Works and landmarks on the east bank of the river, including the pavilion on the pier of the mound dam (built 1835), a paddle steamboat docked at the boat landing, and a floating boathouse.
Is part of Philadelphia & Vicinity, Pa. 973
Notes Title on negative.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Orange curved mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Sandra Markham.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dams -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boathouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Printer Union View Company, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Union View Company - Public Utilities [P.2007.20.4]
Accession number P.2007.20.4