Details
Creator Kilburn Brothers.
Title View from Fairmount, Phila. [graphic] / Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N.H.
Publisher Littleton, N.H. ; Kilburn Brothers
Publisher N.H. Littleton. 1872
Date [ca. 1872]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3 x 6.75 in.)
Description Elevated view looking northwest from the inclined walkway leading to Reservoir Hill showing the steamboat landing and Boathouse Row on the Schuylkill River immediately north of the Fairmount Water Works. Shows a large decorative urn or planter adorning the walkway in the foreground, two steamboats on the river near the landing, and three boathouses in the background, including the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society boathouse built in 1861 and the boathouse built in 1872 for the Vesper and Malta boat clubs.
Is part of Unidentified series No. 633
Notes Title printed on mount.
Photographer's imprint printed 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.
Subject Malta Boat Club.
Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society.
Vesper Boat Club.
Walkways -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Steamboats -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boathouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East.
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Boathouse Row (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Kilburn - Parks [P.9191.4]
Accession number P.9191.4