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Title: [A view of the Fairmount Water-Works with Schuylkill in the distance. Taken from the mount.]
Description: View looking west toward the Schuylkill River from Fairmount showing part of the Fairmount Water Works. Several elegantly-attired visitors traverse the site. In the foreground, individuals, including a couple, descend a walkway that leads to the gazebo on the mount. Within the pavilion, a number of men and woman traverse and enjoy the vista over the roof of the millhouse. A figure adorns the top of the open air gazebo and individuals descend the walkway and stairs that lead from that observation deck. More visitors stand in the doorways of the partially visible engine house to the far right of which, past the millhouse, the mound dam and gazebo are visible. On the west bank, the superintendant’s house of the Schuylkill Navigation Company stands across from the canal lock. A few buildings and several trees complete the landscape. In the river, a man fishes from one of a few rock formations, sailboats glide, waterfowl swim, and three teams of scullers drill near docks adjacent to the waterworks and bordering the east river bank. The sun peaks through one of some clouds visible on the horizon. The Fairmount Water Works were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff., Title and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 796, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W8 [P.2004]

Title: [A View of the Fairmount Waterworks with Schuylkill in the distance. Taken from the mount.]
Description: View looking northwest from Fairmount showing the Fairmount Waterworks, including the engine house, millhouse, race bridge, and mound dam. Vistors stroll on the grounds near the engine house and across the promenade of the mill house. Bushes, trees, and rocks dominate the foreground. In the right, a man stands in the gazebo on the partially visible mount. On the bucolic west bank, the superintendant’s house of the Schuylkill Navigation Company stands across from the canal lock. In the river, sailboats and a rowboat travel and two teams of scullers drill near docks adjacent to the waterworks and bordering the east river bank on which two buildings stand. A twilight sky forms the horizon. The Fairmount Water Works were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff., Title and publication information supplied from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 797, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 88 B786.
Date: [c1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W9 [P.2006]

Title: [Fairmount Waterworks. Pictorial Embellishment of the Philada. Saturday Courier a family paper of the largest size published at two dollars a year in advance including two engravings of this kind yearly.]
Description: View from the west bank of the Schuylkill River looking south showing the Fairmount Water Works, Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge, and buildings on the west bank of the river near the canal lock. In the foreground, a man stands on the bucolic river bank watching two sculling teams race near a rowboat in the river. In the left background, the engine house, mill house, and Fairmount, i.e., Reservoir Hill of the water works are visible. A dock floats above the works and the covered Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge spans the river in the distance. Also shows the toll house or superintendant's house of the Schuylkill Navigation Company in the right of the image. The Fairmount Water Works were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. The bridge, also known as the Upper Ferry Bridge, was erected 1809-1812, with Robert Mills serving as architect, and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. It burned in 1838., Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 241.1, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 88 W 644, Free Library of Philadelphia: See Castner 21:6. FLP copy (Wainwright 124.2/POS 241.2) contains vignette sketch of the reservoir on Fairmount, i.e., Reservoir Hill depicted below the image. Includes text: Fairmount is one of the most beautiful spots in the world. There are six basins (a birds eye view of which is shown in the vignette) elevated upon a high hill above the tops of the houses of the city. The water is thrown into them by means of force pumps which are driven by a head of water from the river Schuylkill affording a never failing supply to the inhabitants of the city, the Northern Liberties & Southwark. The works cost upwards a million dollars.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W124.1 [P.2086]

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