Details
Contributor Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Title [A view of the Fairmount Waterworks with Schuylkill in the distance. Taken from the mount.] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1838
Date [ca. 1838]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 14 x 20 cm. (5.5 x 7.75 in.)
Description Bird's eye, landscape view looking west from Reservoir Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, and race bridge. Paddle boats dock at boat landings next to the works and travel up the river. Also shows park visitors milling about the sites, the Fairmount dam, Schuylkill canal lock, and a few buildings lining the banks.
Notes Possibly printed by J.T. Bowen.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Philadelphia on Stone
POs 798
Reduced variant of Wainwright 9.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dams -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Locks (Hydraulic engineering) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Landscape prints -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Bird's eye view prints -- 1830-1840.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Public Utilities - F [P.2007]
Accession number P.2007