Details
Creator R. Newell & Son, photographer.
Contributor Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Title Fairmount from Lemon Hill south [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Kiralfy Bros
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1876
Date [ca. 1872], c1876
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 10 x 18 cm.(4 x 7 in.)
Description View looking south from a path at Lemon Hill in East Fairmount Park. Depicts a group of women and children near a couple of men standing opposite a signpost on the path at the estate. View also includes the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River in the far left background. Originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, the waterworks were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872.
Notes Reissue of circa 1872 view entitled "Fairmount from Lemon Hill, Southeast" by R. Newell & Son of Philadelphia.
Title from manuscript note on mount.
Pink mount with rounded corners.
Printed on mount: No. 7.
Inscribed in negative: 53.
Duplicate of P.9260.70.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Gift of Jane Carson James.
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.
Children & adults -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Lemon Hill (Pa. : Estate)
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 - Newell - Public Utilities [P.9299.77]
Accession number P.9299.77