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Centre Square Water Works postcards. [graphic].
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Contributor
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect.
Rush, William, 1756-1833, sculptor.
Title
Centre Square Water Works postcards. [graphic].
Date
1908
Physical Description
2 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Depicts the neo-classical style marble pump house, completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827. Includes the Water Nymph and Bittern fountain sculpted in wood in 1809 by William Rush for the Centre Square Water Works, but later moved to the Fairmount Waterworks on the Schuylkill River.
Notes
Divided backs.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Centre Square Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fountains -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Centre Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Associated name
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect.
Associated name
Rush, William, 1756-1833, sculptor.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Public utilities - [P.9049.31 - 32]
Accession number
P.9049.31
P.9049.32
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