Details
Creator Cremer, James, 1821-1893.
Contributor Philadelphia Collar Co., distributor.
Title [Observatory arch, Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, Pa.] [graphic] / James Cremer, photographer and publisher, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia: James Cremer
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View looking east from within the peristyle temple on the Fairmount Water Works plaza showing the observatory arch. The decorative stone distribution arch, built in 1860, served as an observatory tower and a standpipe. Shows the backs of two men and a young girl standing looking toward the arch from between colonnades of the temple. One of the men holds a steering wheel adorning the structure.
Is part of Scenery in Fairmount Park
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Promotion printed on verso: Presented by the Philada. Collar Co., (Office, 509 Minor St., Philada) with each carton of their celebrated picturesque collar.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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.
Arches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Standpipes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Printer Philadelphia Collar Co., distributor.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Public Utilities [P.9260.12]
Accession number P.9260.12