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Fairmount Dam. [graphic].
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Contributor
Union View Company, publisher.
Title
Fairmount Dam. [graphic].
Publisher
Rochester, N.Y. : Union View Co., publishers
Publisher
N.Y. Rochester. 1880
Date
[ca. 1880]
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
View looking north from the canal locks on the west bank of the river showing the Fairmount dam adjacent to the Fairmount Water Works and landmarks on the east bank of the river, including the pavilion on the pier of the mound dam (built 1835), a paddle steamboat docked at the boat landing, and a floating boathouse.
Is part of
Philadelphia & Vicinity, Pa. 973
Notes
Title on negative.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Orange curved mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Sandra Markham.
Subject
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dams -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Piers & wharves -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boathouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Printer
Union View Company, publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Union View Company - Public Utilities [P.2007.20.4]
Accession number
P.2007.20.4
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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