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Fountain in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
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Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector.
Contributor
Rush, William, 1756-1833, sculptor.
Illustrated Post Card Co., publisher.
Title
Fountain in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher
United States: Illustrated Post Card Company
Date
ca. 1909
Physical Description
1 photomechanical print (postcard): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Depicts William Rush's seven and one-half feet tall Water Nymph and Bittern fountain sculpture near the Lemon Hill (Callowhill Street) entrance to Fairmount Park. Also includes the marble Frederick Graff Memorial, commissioned in 1844 in honor of Frederick Graff, the designer of Fairmount Waterworks.
Notes
Numbered 173-9 on recto.
Sheet number: 86A12.
Divided back. Post marked 1909.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847 -- Monuments.
Geographic subject
Water Nymph and Bittern Fountain (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Associated name
Rush, William, 1756-1833, sculptor.
Printer
Illustrated Post Card Co., publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Accession number
Brightbill 86
086-a12-b
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