Details
Title [Graff Memorial,] Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 18 x 9 cm. (7 x 3.5 in.)
Description Shows the monument dedicated to Fairmount Water Works engineer Frederick Graff commissioned by the city and installed June 1, 1848 in the garden near the Fairmount Dam. Monument contains a bust of Graff sculpted by Hugh Cannon, Gothic trim, an inscribed dedication, and is surrounded by an ironwork fence. View also includes two spectators, a man and a girl, and a statue of Diana near the inclined walkway to Reservoir Hill in the background. At the base of the Callowhill Street entrance to the park.
Is part of American Scenery
Notes Title on negative.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Subject Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847 -- Monuments.
Diana (Roman deity) -- Statues.
Walkways -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Cannon, Hugh, sculptor.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.9047.136]
Accession number P.9047.136