Details
Creator Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co.
Title Fire Association of Philadelphia [graphic]: Insure from loss by fire buildings. Furniture and merchandise generally.
Publisher New York: The Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co., 58 Park Place
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 1 prints: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 9 x 13 cm.(3.5 x 4.75 in.)
Description Tradecard containing a view of the Fairmount Waterworks. View looking from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the waterworks originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff. Shows the engine house, mill house, mound dam, and Reservoir Hill. Also shows individuals fishing from and on a boat near the Schuylkill Canal lock in the foreground. Also contains the pictorial detail of a running hose entwined around a fire hydrant.
Notes Names of Trenton and Plainfield, N.J. agents stamped in blue ink on recto.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 251
Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Fires & Firefighting - Box 2 Folder 23 - Fire Association
Subject Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co.
Fire Association of Philadelphia.
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fishing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fire hydrants.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Trade cards -- 1860-1870.
Location Smithsonian Institution| NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection| SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Fires & Firefighting - Box 2 Folder 23 - Fire Association