Details
Creator Bartlett & French, photographer.
Contributor Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Title View at Fairmount. [graphic] / [Photographed by Bartlett & French, Phila.]
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View showing Reservoir Hill from the basin at the Fairmount Water Works. Includes the observatory tower distribution arch, built in 1860 and the Italianate standpipe, built in 1852 after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872.
Is part of Unidentified series. No. 17
Notes Title from photographer's printed label pasted on verso.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Standpipes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Walkways -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Public Utilities [P.9107.7]
Accession number P.9107.7