Details
Creator Cremer, James, 1821-1893.
Contributor Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Title Water works and dam [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; 10 x 18 cm.(4 x 7 in.)
Description View looking from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the old engine house, old mill house, new mill house (completed 1862), pavilion on the pier of the mound dam (built 1835); and the observatory tower arch (built 1860), stand pipe (built 1852), and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. Also shows the dam and nearby boat landing for local paddle steamboats. The waterworks 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. 55
Notes Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Title from manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Description of "Fairmount Park and Water Works, Philadelphia" printed on verso.
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.
Dams -- 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.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Public Utilties [8353.F.3]
Accession number 8353.F.3