Details
Creator Rease & Schell, lithographer.
Contributor Trotter, Newbold Hough, 1827-1898, artist.
Title Raising the stand pipe for the Germantown Water Works. Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers. [graphic] / Painted by Newbold H. Trotter ; On stone by Rease & Schell, No. 17 So. 5th St., Philada.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1855
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted; 56 x 71 cm.(22 x 28 in.)
Description View showing the engineering crew using a windlass to raise the standpipe in a large field at the corner of Tulpehocken Street and Wayne Avenue on August 13, 1851. Several men work large cranks, in the foreground and background, as others guide the lifting, including a man elevated on a section of the hoisting apparatus. In the right, the foreman talks to two men in white coats, probably the engineers, while another group of well-dressed men converse to the left near a small crowd of spectators. Two workers carry pulley ropes while they walk toward the lass. Another laborer grabs a bucket with one hand as he holds the unwinding rope of one of the cranks with the other. Pasture land is visible in the background. The Germantown Water Company delivered water from the location 1851-1872. The standpipe was sold in 1873 and demolished.
Is referenced by Wainwright 306
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
Atwater Kent Museum: 54.64.3
Trotter was a cousin of Edward H. Trotter, one of the partners of Birkinbine & Trotter.
Subject Germantown Water Company.
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hoisting machinery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Standpipes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Location Atwater Kent Museum| Print Department AKM| AKM 54.64.3