View showing the duplex direct-acting pump engine, designed by Henry R. Worthington, in the engine house at the Belmont Water Works at West River and Montgomery drives. The pumping station, designed by Frederick Graff in the late 1860s, supplied water to the 24th Ward Reservoir at George's Hill in Fairmount Park. The station was abandoned in 1895. A man stands near the engine., Date and title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Worthington, a hydraulic engineer, built the first, widely-used duplex waterworks engine in 1857. He was an associate of Frederick Graff in waterworks engineering in the 1870s., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Date
September 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Purviance - Public Utilities [P.9669.15]
Copy stereograph showing the engine house at the Belmont Water Works at West River and Montgomery drives. The pumping station, designed by Frederick Graff in the late 1860s, supplied water to the 24th Ward Reservoir at George's Hill in Fairmount Park. The station was abandoned in 1895., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from label on negative., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [P.9299.20]
