| Creator |
Kiehn, Jacob, 1835-1869, artist. |
| Contributor |
Bien, Julius, 1826-1909, printer. |
|
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer. |
| Title |
[Fairmount [graphic] / J. Kiehn del.] |
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia: Julius Bien chromolith] |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1867 |
| Date |
[c1867] |
| Physical Description |
1 print: chromolithograph, hand-colored; 31 x 41 cm.(12 x 15.75 in.) |
| Description |
View showing a section of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Depicts the terrace roof of the new mill house
built on the mound dam from 1860-1862 after the designs of engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Visitors, predominately women with
parasols, stroll on the terrace and adjoining promenade roof of the old mill house. Also shows steamboats; boat landings;
boathouses; Lemon Hill; the Twenty-Forth Ward Water Works, known as the West Philadelphia Water Works; mills near the Schuylkill
Canal Lock; and small sailing vessels on the river.
|
| Notes |
Title, artist, and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the American Philosophical Society. |
|
Philadelphia on Stone |
|
POS 229 |
|
Gift of David Doret. |
|
Trimmed. |
|
Reproduced in "The Fairmount Waterworks," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 1988), vol. 84, no. 360, 361, p. 35. |
|
Sketchbook of Jacob Kiehn (1866-1867) with sketches of Fairmount Waterworks held in the collections of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania (#47, Bd 81 K543).
|
| Subject |
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Twenty-Forth Ward Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Terraces -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Boathouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Locks (Hydraulic engineering) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Mills (Hydraulic engineering) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Vessels (Hydraulic engineering) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Boat landings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Lemon Hill (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate) |
|
Schuylkill River (Pa.) |
| Genre |
Chromolithograph -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870. |
| Associated name |
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer. |
| Printer |
Bien, Julius, 1826-1909, printer. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Public utilities [P.2004.44.25] |
| Accession number |
P.2004.44.25 |
