View from a high vantage point showing a few spectators near a fountain with a circular basin near a rock garden and trees. Also shows a fence in the background., Manuscript note on accompanying label: Fountain Basin Fountain, Title supplied by cataloguer., Trimmed yellow mount., Paper backing pasted on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
ca. 1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Parks [(3)1322.F.123e]
Shows the monument dedicated to Fairmount Water Works engineer Frederick Graff commissioned by the city and installed June 1, 1848 in the garden near the Fairmount Dam. Monument contains a bust of Graff sculpted by Hugh Cannon, Gothic trim, an inscribed dedication, and is surrounded by an ironwork fence., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title printed on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #142., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Monuments & statues [(3)1322.F.106a]
