Details
Contributor Rush, William, 1756-1833, sculptor.
Title View of side of basin at Fairmount. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1874
Date ca. 1874
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the "Nymph with Bittern" statue at the east side of the forebay at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. The statue, sculpted in wood in 1809 by William Rush for the Centre Square Water Works, was installed at the basin in 1827. It was removed in 1872 when cast in bronze and relocated to the south garden at the waterworks. Also shows the standpipe on Reservoir Hill in the upper left corner of the image. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822, were altered and expanded until 1872.
Is part of American scenery. Philadelphia & vicinity, Pa. 993
Notes Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Title printed on mount.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
American scenery was a popular series of copy stereographs issued between 1874 and 1877.
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.
Basins (Bodies of water) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Standpipes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Water Nymph and Bittern Fountain (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Rush, William, 1756-1833, sculptor.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [P.9058.167]
Accession number P.9058.167