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Gas holder, Philada. Gas Works [graphic] : 90 ft. high, 160 ft. diameter, cubic contents 1,800,000 feet.
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Creator
Cresson, Charles M. (Charles Massey), 1828-1893, photographer.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Cresson, John C. 1806-1876, engineer.
Title
Gas holder, Philada. Gas Works [graphic] : 90 ft. high, 160 ft. diameter, cubic contents 1,800,000 feet.
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date
1859
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
View showing the gas holder at the Point Breeze Gas Works at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues. The gas works, the second Philadelphia gas producing facility, was built in the Gothic style between 1851 and 1854 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer John C. Cresson.
Notes
Attributed to Philadelphia photographer C.M. Cresson.
Title and date from accompanying label.
Grey mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Image faded.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Philadelphia Gas Works.
Gas industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gasholders -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Public utility companies -- 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.3e-1]
Accession number
(8)1322.F.3e-1
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