Details
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Birkinbine & Trotter, engineer.
Title Philadelphia Water Works. Engine House 24th Ward Works [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1860
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 8 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View showing the engine house at the Twenty Fourth Ward Water Works also known as the West Philadelphia Water Works, completed circa 1855, on the west bank of the Schuylkill River above the Fairmount Dam. The engine house built after the designs of engineers Birkinbine & Trotter, contained two boiler rooms, sleeping rooms for the engineers, and storerooms. Also includes a partial view of the smokestack at the waterworks in the background.
Notes Grey mount with square corners.
Title from manuscript note by Henry P.M. Birkinbine, Chief Engineer of the Water Department, on accompanying label.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Birkinbine & Trotter was a partnership between Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Edward H. Trotter (1814-1872)
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Twenty-Forth Ward Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Schuylkill River (Pa.)
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Birkinbine & Trotter, engineer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.122a]
Accession number (3)1322.F.122a