| Creator |
De Young's Palace Dollar Store (Firm) |
| Contributor |
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer. |
|
PA. Philadelphia. 1876. |
|
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer. |
|
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer. |
| Title |
Fairmount dam [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia: Published by De Young's Palace Dollar Store, 704 Chestnut St |
| Date |
[ca. 1876] |
| Physical Description |
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.) |
| Description |
View looking northwest from Reservoir Hill at the Fairmount Water Works showing Fairmount dam on the Schuylkill River. View
includes a section of the waterworks' plaza, including the peristyle temple on the altered old mill house (reconstructed 1867-1872)
and the pavilion on the pier of the mound dam. Also shows a barge and boathouses in the upper right corner of the image. The
Fairmount Waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff,
were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until
1872.
|
| Is part of |
American scenery of all parts of the continent |
| Notes |
Yellow mount with rounded corners. |
|
Publisher's imprint printed on mount. |
|
Title from label on negative. |
|
Manuscript note on verso: Fairmount Waterworks Pha. |
|
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
|
Digitization 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. |
|
Dams -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Boathouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
Schuylkill River (Pa.) |
| Genre |
Stereographs -- 1870-1880. |
|
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880. |
| Associated name |
Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer. |
| Associated name |
Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer. |
| Associated name |
Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, engineer. |
| Associated name |
PA. Philadelphia. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - De Young's - Public Utilities [P.9356.2] |
| Accession number |
P.9356.2 |
