Details
Title Ansicht von Fairmount in Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1852]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 35 cm x 56 cm.(13.5 in. x 22 in.)
Description View looking from the east bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Shows the engine house; mill house; pavilion on the mound dam, stand pipe (built 1852) and Reservoir Hill. View also includes two men with a canvas and easle on the river bank across from a steam boat traveling on the water in the foregound and the Wire Bridge at Fairmount (built 1841-1842) in the background.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 22
Library of Congress: PR 13 CN 2001: 033
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Geographic subject Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850
Location Library of Congress| Prints and Photographs Division | LOC PR 13 CN 2001: 033