Details
Creator Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer.
Title [Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1865
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 8 x 8 cm.(3 x 3 in.)
Description View looking south from the east bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house; old mill house; new mill house (completed 1862); and the observatory tower arch (built 1860), stand pipe (built 1852), and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. Also shows the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount in the far right background. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822, were altered and expanded after the designs of Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr.
Notes Attributed to John Moran.
Unmounted half of stereoview.
Title from duplicate stereoview. [P.8992.13]
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
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.
Suspension bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Moran - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.120i]
Accession number (3)1322.F.120i