Details
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Morris, William E. 1812-1875, engineer.
Title [Schuylkill Water Works] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date ca. 1855
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount mounted on paper; 9 x 18 cm.(3.75 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the rear of the engine house at the Schuylkill Water Works (formerly the Spring Garden and Northern Liberties Water Works) at the foot of Thompson Street on the Schuylkill River. Also shows a rowboat near the fenced water basin of the waterworks in the foreground. The waterworks, completed circa 1845 after the designs of engineer William E. Morris, provided water to the Spring Garden, Northern Liberties, and Kensington neighborhoods.
Notes Yellow mount with square corners.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Schuylkill Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Thompson Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Morris, William E. (William Ellis) 1812-1875, engineer.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.122d]
Accession number (3)1322.F.122d