Details
Creator Friend & Aub.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Cresson, John C. 1806-1876, engineer.
Merrick, S. V. 1801-1870, engineer.
Title Ground plan of the Philadelphia Gas Works. [graphic] : Scale 80 ft. to 1 inch. / John C. Cresson, Engineer.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: Friend & Aub, Lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1851
Date Feb. 11, 1851
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 30 x 41 cm.(12 x 16.25 in.)
Description Plan of the first Philadelphia Gas Works, expanded in 1850 after the designs of Cresson, the second chief engineer of the gas works, near the Schuylkill River on the 2200-2300 blocks of Market Street. Diagrams the coal stores, retort house, lime and coke sheds, lime kilns and house, purifying houses, gasholders, and railroad tracks. Includes a "References" key to coded symbols of buildings, including valve houses and meters. Works originally completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer Samuel V. Merrick .
Notes Date inscribed on recto.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 332
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Philadelphia Gas Works.
Gas industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Public utility companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2100 block.
Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2200 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Site plans -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Cresson, John C. (John Chapman), 1806-1876, engineer.
Associated name Merrick, S. V. (Samuel Vaughan), 1801-1870, engineer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Public Utilities [(7)1322.F.91]
Accession number (7)1322.F.91