Details
Creator Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Contributor Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Title Engine house, Belmont Works. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Purviance's stereographs
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date September 1870
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount: 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the engine house with smokestack at the Belmont Water Works at West River and Montgomery drives. The pumping station, designed by Frederick Graff in the late 1860s, supplied water to the 24th Ward Reservoir at George's Hill in Fairmount Park. The station was abandoned in 1895. Also shows men by the engine house entrance and in a window of the building.
Is part of Philadelphia and vicinity. Views in Fairmount Park
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Manuscript note on verso: Designed by Fredk. Graff Chief Engr. W. Dept. Sep 1870.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Belmont Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Smokestacks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject West River Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- corner of Montgomery Drive.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Purviance - Public Utilities [P.9669.14]
Accession number P.9669.14