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Contributor Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Title Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [United States: s.n]
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 Copy stereograph of a view looking south from the west bank of the Schuylkill River. Shows the old engine house; the altered old mill house with peristyle temple flanked by entrance houses (altered 1867-1872); the new mill house (built 1859-1862); and the stand pipe (built 1852), observatory tower arch (completed 1862), and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. Also shows the Schuylkill Canal lock in the foreground and a dredging machine near the new mill house. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872.
Is part of Peoples' series. American views
Notes Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
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.
Locks (Hydraulic engineering) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dredges -- 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 - unidentified - Public Utilities [P.9047.113]
Accession number P.9047.113