Details
Title Pavillion [sic] view. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1865
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount mounted on paper; 10 x 17 cm.(4 x 6.75 in.) irregular.
Description View looking west from the forebay of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows one of the two pavilions on the old mill house adorned with an American flag. Also shows a partial view of the rear terrace of the old mill house and the terrace roof of the new mill house built on the mound dam between 1859 and 1862 after the designs of engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Men convene on the terrace near a bench. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872.
Is part of Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia. No. 2
Notes Yellow mount with square corners.
Title from accompanying label.
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.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Terraces -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.121c]
Accession number (3)1322.F.121c