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Creator Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813.
Title Engel & Wolf's brewery & vaults at Fountain Green. Office No. 26 & 28 Dillwyn St. between Vine & Callowhill & Third & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] : Including five large vaults containing 50,352 cubic feet cut out of the solid rock and about 45 feet below ground, where they keep their well known lager beer. Temperature of the vaults in midsummer 40 degrees of Fahrenheit. They are situated on the Columbia Rail Road, about one mile above the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia Co. / Drawn from nature on stone A. Kollner.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by J. H. Camp
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 40 x 58 cm. (16 x 23.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the facility at Fountain Green (Fairmount Park) for the brewery established in 1844 by Charles Engel & Charles Wolf. Includes the wash house and entrance to the vault on the lowest level of the hill, the office (middle level), fermenting and brewing building, and storage house with fermenting cellar (upper level). Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels exit from different level entries to the buildings and a laborer working on a barrel toils within the brewery. Two gentlemen stand on the porch to the office and a woman with children uses the property for recreation. In the foreground, a Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad locomotive pulls a train car full of passengers, a double-decker horse-drawn omnibus travels, men ride on horseback, and individuals (woman with child and two men) stroll and descend the river embankment to greet a man arriving by rowboat. A weather vane designed as a beer barrel adorns the storage house. Engel & Wolf purchased Fountain Green in 1849 to dig lager beer vaults to ferment and age the beer brewed at Dillwyn Street. A third-story was added to the storage house after 1855 and the plant was remodeled in 1859. The brewery ceased operations in 1870 when Fountain Green, the former estate of Samuel Meeker, was seized by the city for the park.
Is referenced by Wainwright 112.1
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 209
Atwater Kent Musuem: 54.3.6/3. Copy unlocated. Description based on Wainwright and second state of print held in the collections of the Library Company. See POS 210 for digital image of second state.
Subject Engel & Wolf.
Columbia-Philadelphia Railroad.
Engel & Wolf.
Brewing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fountain Green (Pa. : Estate)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Atwater Kent Museum| Print Department AKM| AKM 54.3.6/3