Details
Title Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [United States: s.n]
Publisher US. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Copy stereoview of a view looking northwest from the south garden at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows Reservoir Hill adorned with one of the rustic pavilions installed at the waterworks between 1864-1866 as a decorative improvement. View also shows a pitched-roof monument attached to the base of the hill in the foreground and the "Diana" statue (installed circa 1831) near the base of the inclined walkway to the hill. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822, were altered and expanded until 1872.
Is part of American views. People series
Notes Title from label on negative.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pavilions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Walkways -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Diana (Roman deity) -- Statues.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [8353.F.25]
Accession number 8353.F.25