Details
Creator Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, photographer.
Title [Results of boiler explosion at I.P. Morris & Co. Works, Port Richmond, Philadelphia, Oct. 19 / 61] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date October, 1861
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; irregular 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the ruins of the iron works complex of the heavy machinery manufactory established by Levis, Joseph, and Isaac Paschall Morris in 1828. In 1846 the company expanded and relocated to the site along the Delaware River. The explosion was purportedly caused by the spraying of cold water on the furnace.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso signed by the photographer.
Buff mount with square corners.
Reproduced in Sarah J. Weatherwax's "'A frightful explosion': Frederic Graff, Jr. photographs the I.P. Morris & Co. disaster," Stereo World 27 (January/February 2001), p. 18.
Explosion described in Philadelphia Daily Evening Bulletin, October 21, 1861. (LCP 3-B-4, 5).
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Graff, was an amateur Philadelphia photographer, engineer, and superintendent of the Fairmount Waterworks. In the 1850s, I.P. Morris & Co. constructed a pumping engine for the waterworks after Graff's designs.
Subject I.P. Morris & Company.
Foundries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Explosions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ruins -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Port Richmond (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Graff - Industry [8353.F.21]
Accession number 8353.F.21