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Philadelphia Water Works. Extension of Water Works. South view of flumes. New mill house. [graphic].
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Contributor
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Title
Philadelphia Water Works. Extension of Water Works. South view of flumes. New mill house. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date
May 4, 1860
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
View showing the construction site on the mound dam of the new mill house at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. The new mill house, built between 1859-1862 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine, housed the turbine engines that replaced the water wheels, which previously powered the waterworks. Shows several construction workers posed near the flumes, with wheelbarrows, on scaffolding, and on a raised walkway across a channel of water. Also shows a man with a top hat , possibly Birkinbine, standing in the center of the site.
Notes
Title and date from manuscript note by H.P.M. Birkinbine, Chief Engineer of the Water Department, on verso.
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.
Subject
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- 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.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [P.9356.7]
Accession number
P.9356.7
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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