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Stand pipe. For West Philada. Water Works. [graphic] / On stone by Rease & Shell, No. 17 So. 5th. St.; Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers no. 16 Arch St. Phila.
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Creator
Rease & Schell, artist.
Contributor
Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Birkinbine & Trotter, engineer.
Title
Stand pipe. For West Philada. Water Works. [graphic] / On stone by Rease & Shell, No. 17 So. 5th. St.; Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers no. 16 Arch St. Phila.
Publisher
Philadelphia: T. Sinclair's Lith
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1853
Date
[ca. 1853]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph; 50 x 23 cm. (19.75 x 9 in.)
Description
View showing the proposed design for a standpipe with an ornate spiral staircase and statute of George Washington to be erected at Thirty-Fifth and Sycamore streets as part of the Twenty Fourth Ward Water Works (i.e., West Philadelphia Water Works). Individuals gaze up at the stucture from its base as other men and women ascend the staircase and view the vista from the observation deck. Completed circa 1855, without the statue, after the designs of engineers Birkinbine & Trotter, the standpipe served as a reservoir for the waterworks located on the west bank of the Schuylkill River above the Fairmount Dam. The standpipe was removed in 1870.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 351
Notes
Manuscript note on recto: height 130 feet. diameter 5 ". Made of of B[?] iron.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 717
LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #77.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
See Poulson's scrapbook vol. VII, pg. 119 for clipping concerning the raising of the stand pipe dated December 15, 1853.
Trimmed.
Subject
Twenty-Fourth Ward Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Standpipes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Thirty-Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Sycamore Street.
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Associated name
Birkinbine & Trotter, engineer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W351 [P.2191]
Accession number
P.2191
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Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
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