Creator |
Purviance, W. T. (William T.) |
Contributor |
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer. |
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Worthington, Henry Rossiter, 1817-1880, engineer. |
Title |
Worthington duplex engine. 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 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.
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Is part of |
Philadelphia and vicinity. Views in Fairmount Park |
Notes |
Date and title from manuscript note on verso. |
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Publisher's imprint printed on mount. |
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Yellow mount with rounded corners. |
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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.
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Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
Subject |
Belmont Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Engines -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
Geographic subject |
West River Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Montgomery Drive. |
Genre |
Stereographs -- 1860-1870. |
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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 |