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View from Lemon Hill [graphic] / Photo. by R. Newell & Son.
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Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer.
Title
View from Lemon Hill [graphic] / Photo. by R. Newell & Son.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Kiralfy Bros
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1876
Date
c1876
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 10 x 18 cm.(4 x 7 in.)
Description
View looking south from Lemon Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works. Depicts a group of young girls with their female chaperones seated on the grounds of the estate. Also shows the old engine house and standpipe at the waterworks; the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount; and cityscape in the far background. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822, were expanded until 1872.
Notes
Photographer's imprint printed on recto.
Publisher's imprint printed on verso.
Curved pink mount with rounded corners.
Inscribed in negative: 74.
Printed on mount: No. 4.
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.
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
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Girls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Lemon Hill (Pa. : Estate)
Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Public Utilities [P.9299.76]
Accession number
P.9299.76
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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