Details
Contributor Birkinbine, Henry P.M., former owner.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Birkinbine & Trotter, engineer.
Title Philadelphia Water Works. "Stand Pipe" 24th Ward Works. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
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 standpipe with an ornate spiral staircase erected at Thirty-Fifth and Sycamore streets as part of the Twenty Fourth Ward Water Works also known as the West Philadelphia Water Works. Completed circa 1855 after the designs of engineers Birkinbine & Trotter, the standpipe served as a reservoir for the waterworks located on the west bank of the Schuylkill River above the Fairmount Dam. The standpipe was removed in 1870.
Notes Title from manuscript note by Henry P.M. Birkinbine, Chief Engineer of the Water Department, on accompanying label.
Manuscript note on accompanying label: With respects of Henry P.M. Birkinbine Chief Engineer.
Blue mount with square corners.
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).
See Poulson's scrapbook vol. VII, pg. 119 for clipping concerning the raising of the stand pipe dated December 15, 1853.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Twenty-Fourth Ward Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Standpipes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Thirty-Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Sycamore Street.
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Birkinbine & Trotter, engineer.
Provenance Birkinbine, Henry P.M., former owner.
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.3a-2]
Accession number (8)1322.F.3a-2