Details
Contributor Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Title Pavilion, Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher [Boston: s.n]
Publisher MA. Boston. 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 northwest from south of the forebay at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the peristyle temple (i.e., pavilion) on the old mill house. Also shows the ascending main, installed between 1867-1872 after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr., across the millrace. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872.
Is part of Peoples' series. American views
Notes Orange mount with rounded corners.
Title printed on mount.
Advertisements for six Boston businesses printed on verso, including a piano forte wareroom; perfumery; hat bleachery; children's carriage manufactory; tea store, and the patent medicine, Chester's Cure.
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.
Pavilions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Millraces -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pipes (Conduits) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
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 [8353.F.27]
Accession number 8353.F.27