Details
Creator Bartlett & French, photographer.
Title Fairmount Water Works. [graphic] / Photographed by Bartlett & French, Phila.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View looking north past the old mill house showing the new mill house at the water works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. The new mill house, built between 1859 and 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine, housed the engines that replaced the water wheels that previously powered the waterworks.
Is part of Philadelphia and vicinity. No. 16
Notes Title and photographer's imprint printed on label pasted on verso.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Birkinbine, Henry P.M., engineer.
Associated name Graff, Frederick, 1774-1847, engineer.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - public utilities [P.9466.9]
Accession number P.9466.9