Details
Creator Cresson, Charles M. (Charles Massey), 1828-1893, photographer.
Contributor Cresson, John C. 1806-1876, engineer.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Philada. Gas Works [graphic] / Taken by C.M. Cresson.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date ca. 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View showing the Point Breeze Gas Works at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues near the Schuylkill River. The gas works, the second Philadelphia gas producing facility, was built in the Gothic style between 1851 and 1854 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer, John C. Cresson. Shows several buildings with pitched roofs and quatrefoil windows as well as river frontage for the reception of coal barges.
Notes Photographer, title, and date from accompanying label
Grey mount with rounded corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Image faded.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Philadelphia Gas Works.
Gas industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Public utility companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Point Breeze (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Passyunk Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Schuylkill Avenue.
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Cresson, John C. (John Chapman), 1806-1876, engineer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cresson - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.3d-1]
Accession number (8)1322.F.3d-1