| Creator |
Centennial Photographic Co. |
| Contributor |
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer. |
|
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer. |
| Title |
[Reservoir Hill standpipe and observatory tower, Fairmount Park] [graphic] / Centennial Photographic Co., International Exhibition.
1884. New Orleans. 1885 Edward L. Wilson.
|
| Publisher |
Philadelphia : Centennial Photographic Co |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1884 |
| Date |
c1884 |
| Physical Description |
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 11 x 18 cm. (4.25 x 7 in.) |
| Description |
View showing Reservoir Hill from the basin at the Fairmount Water Works. Includes the observatory tower distribution arch,
built in 1860 and the Italianate standpipe, built in 1852 after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr. The waterworks, originally
constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after
the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872.
|
| Is part of |
1884. New Orleans. 1885. |
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
|
Manuscript note in ink on mount: Tower - Fairmount Park. |
|
Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted
by "1776. Philadelphia. 1876."
|
|
White curved mount with rounded corners. |
|
The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exhibition was held in New Orleans from 1884-1885. |
|
Gift of Charles Isaacs. |
|
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
| Subject |
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Standpipes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Walkways -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East. |
| Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1880-1890. |
|
Stereographs -- 1880-1890. |
| Associated name |
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer. |
| Associated name |
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.8975.11] |
| Accession number |
P.8975.11 |
