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Mt. Airy water pipes. [graphic] / R. Newell & Son.
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Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer.
Contributor
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Title
Mt. Airy water pipes. [graphic] / R. Newell & Son.
Publisher
Philadelphia
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 showing the water pipes called the Pipe Bridge over the Wissahickon Creek. The pipe aqueduct, constructed in 1870 to provide water to Germantown from the Schuylkill River via the Mount Airy reservoir, was built after the designs of engineer Frederick Graff, Jr. It was razed in 1891. In the foreground, a man sits on a cliff near the pipe bridge.
Notes
Photographer's blindstamp on mount.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Inscribed in negative: 84.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note
Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from circa 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Subject
Pipes (Conduits) -- Pennsylvania -- Wissahickon Creek.
Water supply -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Pipe Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Mount Airy (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Public Utilities [P.8709.8]
Accession number
P.8709.8
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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