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Arch at Fairmount [graphic] / Purviance, photographer and publisher.
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Creator
Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Contributor
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
PA. Philadelphia. 1870.
Title
Arch at Fairmount [graphic] / Purviance, photographer and publisher.
Publisher
Philadelphia: William T. Purviance
Date
[ca. 1870]
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
View looking west through the observatory tower arch at the basin of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the terrace of the new mill house built on the mound dam between 1859 and 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Also shows the pavilion on the pier of the mound dam; a man standing on a promenade in the foreground; and wood planks, pipes, and buckets laying on the terrace, which was modified between 1867 and 1872. 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, Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872.
Is part of
The scenery of the Pennsylvania Railroad 776
Scenery of the Pennsylvania Rail Road. 776.
Notes
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Title and series number inscribed in negative.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note
Purviance was commissioned as an official photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1867.
Subject
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Terraces -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Associated name
PA. Philadelphia.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereographs - Purviance - Public Utilities [P.9356.5]
Accession number
P.9356.5
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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