| Contributor |
Alford, Reuben G., distributor. |
| Title |
Fairmount Water Works. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia |
| Date |
ca. 1878 |
| Physical Description |
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.) |
| Description |
Promotional copy stereograph of a view looking east from the forebay at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River.
Shows the decorative distribution arch, built in 1860, and the Italianate standpipe, built in 1852, on Reservoir Hill. Also
shows the inclined walkways on the hill and a partial view of the rear terrace of the old mill house in the foreground. 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.
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| Notes |
Orange mount with rounded corners. |
|
Title printed on mount. |
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Advertisement printed on verso promoting seven "Philadelphia Leading Business Houses," including Hemphill & Ziegler, commercial
printers (10th & Market); H. Schaeffer, merchant tailor (16 N. 11th & 18 N. 13th); Henry Veit's, ice cream saloon and fancy
cake bakery, fine confections, & c. (34 N. 11th); Edward Mullin, fashonable boot and shoe maker (416 N. 10th); R.G. Alford,
building and house-furnishing hardware (2141 Callowhill); J.C. McNelly, gents' furnishing goods (2014 Callowhill); and William
Leopold, manufacturer of fine segars (2002 Callowhill).
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Manuscript note by one of advertisers on mount: Presented by R.G. Alford. |
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Gift of Gordon Marshall. |
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Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
| Subject |
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Standpipes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Walkways -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Schuylkill River (Pa.) |
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Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Genre |
Stereographs -- 1870-1880. |
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Albumen prints -- 1870-1880. |
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Advertisements -- 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.9002.1] |
| Accession number |
P.9002.1 |
