Details
Creator Kilburn Brothers.
Title View from Fairmount Park, Phila. [graphic] / Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N.H.
Publisher Littleton, N.H. ; Kilburn Brothers
Date [ca. 1872]
Physical Description 2 photographic prints : albumen on stereograph mounts ; 17 x 8 cm. (6.75 x 3 in.)
Description Cityscape views looking south across the Schuylkill River from below the Lemon Hill estate showing the Fairmount Waterworks, pavilion on the mound dam, and steamboat landing on the east bank of the river. Also shows the west bank in West Philadelphia and the Wire Bridge at Fairmount in the distant background, built 1842 after designs by Charles Ellet, Jr. The Fairmount Water Works, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded by Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr.
Is part of Unidentified series No. 637
Notes Title printed on mounts.
Photographer's imprint printed on versos.
Yellow mounts with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Suspension bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.)
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Cityscapes -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Associated name Ellet, Charles, 1810-1862, engineer.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Kilburn - Parks [P.9168.9]
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Holstein stereo - Bridges [P.2011.47.78]
Accession number P.9168.9
P.2011.47.78