Details
Creator Cresson, Charles M. (Charles Massey), 1828-1893, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Cresson, John C. 1806-1876, engineer.
Title Phila. Gas Works. Roof framing through quatrefoil window [graphic] / C.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date October 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm.(3.75 x 6.25 in.)
Description View showing the intricate roof framing of a building at the Point Breeze Gas Works. The gas works, the second Philadelphia gas producing facility, was built in the Gothic style between 1851 and 1854 after the designs of engineer John C. Cresson at Schuylkill and Passyunk avenues.
Notes Photographer, title, and date from accompanying label.
Grey mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Subject Philadelphia Gas Works.
Gas industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Public utility companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Roofs -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Point Breeze (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Passyunk Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- corner of Schuylkill Avenue.
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Cresson, John C. (John Chapman), 1806-1876, engineer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cresson - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.3b-1]
Accession number (8)1322.F.3b-1