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Philadelphia Water Works. New mill house at Fairmount. Foundations for south front. [graphic].
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Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Title
Philadelphia Water Works. New mill house at Fairmount. Foundations for south front. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date
July 1860
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.5 in.)
Description
View showing laborers pausing from work in the foundation pit for the new mill house on the mound dam at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. The new mill house, constructed between 1859-1862 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine, housed the engines that replaced the water wheels that previously powered the waterworks. View also includes scaffolding, buckets on pulleys, and a pool of water in the foreground.
Notes
Title from manuscript note by H.P.M. Birkinbine, Chief Engineer of the Water Department, on accompanying label.
Buff mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction workers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.120(v)a]
Accession number
(3)1322.F.120(v)a
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
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