Details
Creator Cremer, James, 1821-1893.
Title Water works [graphic] / James Cremer, photographer, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: James Cremer]
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Winter view looking northwest through the observatory tower arch at the basin of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the path with ornate iron railing leading to the terrace of the new mill house built on the mound dam between 1859 and 1862 after the designs of engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Also shows a pavilion of the old mill house and the pavilion on the pier of the mound dam. The waterworks, originally designed by Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr.
Is part of Scenery in Fairmount Park. 59
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
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.
Terraces -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Public Utilities [P.9260.16]
Accession number P.9260.16