Details
Creator Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Title Worthington duplex engine. Belmont Works. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Purviance's stereographs
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 duplex direct-acting pump engine, designed by Henry R. Worthington, in the engine house 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. A man stands near the engine.
Is part of Philadelphia and vicinity. Views in Fairmount Park
Notes Date and title from manuscript note on verso.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Worthington, a hydraulic engineer, built the first, widely-used duplex waterworks engine in 1857. He was an associate of Frederick Graff in waterworks engineering in the 1870s.
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.
Engines -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject West River Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Montgomery Drive.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Associated name Worthington, Henry Rossiter, 1817-1880, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Purviance - Public Utilities [P.9669.15]
Accession number P.9669.15