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Title: [Point lookout,] Fairmount Park, Philad'a
Description: View showing children standing and sitting on a gazebo or pavilion in East Fairmount Park overlooking the Schuykill River. Buildings on the west bank of the river are also visible., Title printed on mount., Trimmed white mount with rounded corners., Cataloging 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 - Parks [P.9013.3]

Title: Point lookout, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View showing men standing on and adjacent to a gazebo in East Fairmount Park overlooking the Schuykill River. The West Philadelphia Water Works standpipe, built ca. 1855 after designs by Birkinbine & Trotter, is visible in the distant left background., Title printed on mount., Cube pattern printed in blue ink on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: J. W. and J. S. Moulton
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moulton - Parks [P.9260.59]

Title: Fairmount Park scenery, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View showing three men standing in front of a gazebo in East Fairmount Park overlooking the Schuykill River. The West Philadelphia Water Works standpipe, built ca. 1855 after designs by Birkinbine & Trotter, is visible in the distant left background., Title from printed series list on verso with nineteen other unnumbered titles., Printed on mount: New series, American views., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: J. W. and J. S. Moulton
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moulton - Parks [P.9260.60]

Title: River Road at Fairmount Park
Description: View of River Road running parallel to the Schuylkill River. Shows a gazebo in the distance, along with a dwelling on the opposite bank., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.8484.3]

Title: Mineral spring fountain
Description: View showing the canopy or gazebo housing the iron fountain on the Lemon Hill estate in East Fairmount Park. Also shows men and women standing near the fountain, which was installed in 1871., Written on negative: 116, Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint partially obscured by print on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Monuments and statues [P.9299.86]

Title: [House and grounds where the 1st "4th of July" was celebrated]
Description: View showing three men sitting in chairs in the grass in front of the gazebo pavilion on Dr. Edward Enoch's estate in Frankford, where Thomas Jefferson purportedly recited and celebrated the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. Also known as the Womrath estate., Written on negative: 377, Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Residences [P.9299.112]

Title: Fairmount Falls
Description: View looking west at the dam or falls on the Schuylkill River north of the Water Works. In the foreground, one man stands, hands on his hips, looking toward the camera, as another bends down on one knee and observes the water below. Includes a partial view of the elevated pavilion or gazebo and the buildings on the west bank of the Schuylkill River in the background., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Manuscript note on verso: Seely, Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [photographed ca. 1868, printed ca. 1879]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.8484.18]

Title: View in Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: Shows a pathway to a gazebo in the cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Also shows partial views of headstones., Title printed on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., 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.
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [(3)1322.F.127d]

Title: Mineral Spring
Description: View showing the gazebo housing the iron fountain on the Lemon Hill estate in East Fairmount Park. Also shows men, women, and children on the grounds near the fountain, including boys playing an informal game of baseball. The fountain was installed in 1871., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Manucript note on verso: Mrs. Wm. B. Higgins, Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9260.22]

Title: Pleasure yacht, Flirt
Description: View looking west showing the boat, Flirt, docked with three men on board at the steamboat landing immediately north of the Fairmount Waterworks on the east side of the Schuylkill River. Also shows a woman standing on an elevated pavilion or gazebo overlooking the river in the background and buildings on the west bank of the river. Flirt was one of many recreational boats that transported passengers to various sites along the river. Dwelling on the west bank possibly the hotel inhabited and operated by Jeremiah King., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [8353.F.15]

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: Scenery on the Pennsylvania Railroad Album
Description: Album of photographs documenting the Philadelphia, Middle, and Pittsburgh divisions of the Pennsylvania Railroad, incorporated in 1846. The consolidated company sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh through the Allegheny mountains in order to compete with the Erie Canal for freight traffic. In 1854, rail passage through the Alleghenies via the "Horse Shoe Curve" was achieved and spurred the establishment and growth of the several towns depicted along the route.
Date: 1874

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