Details
Contributor George S. Harris & Son, printer.
Meyer, Louis, publisher.
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Title Fairmount Park [graphic] / G.S. Harris & Son lith. Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia: Louis Meyer, 1413 Chestnut Street
Date c1871
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 33 x 26 cm. (13 x 9.75 in.)
Description Sheet music cover containing a view looking from Reservoir Hill toward Lemon Hill showing part of the Fairmount Water Works. Includes part of the mill race and the promenade on the old mill house, and visitors on the roof of the new mill house (completed 1862). Also shows a boat docked at the nearby boat landing and boat houses along the east bank of the Schuylkill River. 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.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
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Philadelphia on Stone
POS 235
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:1 and 30:86
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Water works -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boat houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Sheet music covers -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Printer Meyer, Louis, publisher.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Photograph Collection. | FLP Castner 21:1 and 30:86