View showing the Point Breeze Gas Works at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues near the Schuylkill River. The gas works, the second Philadelphia gas producing facility, was built in the Gothic style between 1851 and 1854 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer, John C. Cresson. Shows several buildings with pitched roofs and quatrefoil windows as well as river frontage for the reception of coal barges., Photographer, title, and date from accompanying label, Grey mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Image faded., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Cresson, Charles M. (Charles Massey), 1828-1893, photographer
Date
ca. 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cresson - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.3d-1]
View showing the gas holder at the Point Breeze Gas Works at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues. The gas works, the second Philadelphia gas producing facility, was built in the Gothic style between 1851 and 1854 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer John C. Cresson., Attributed to Philadelphia photographer C.M. Cresson., Title and date from accompanying label., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Image faded., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Cresson, Charles M. (Charles Massey), 1828-1893, photographer
Date
1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cresson - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.3e-1]
View showing the intricate roof framing of a building at the Point Breeze Gas Works. The gas works, the second Philadelphia gas producing facility, was built in the Gothic style between 1851 and 1854 after the designs of engineer John C. Cresson at Schuylkill and Passyunk avenues., Photographer, title, and date from accompanying label., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Creator
Cresson, Charles M. (Charles Massey), 1828-1893, photographer
Date
October 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cresson - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.3b-1]
View looking east from the Market Street Bridge showing the 2300 block of Market Street. Depicts a row of buildings, including S.H. Smith's Union Hotel at 2330 Market Street. The first Philadelphia Gas Works, completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer Samuel V. Merrick is visible on the opposite block. Pennsylvania Railroad tracks run adjacent to a train shed and the gas works and a horse-drawn carriage stands in front of the hotel. The first gas works were expanded in 1850. A second facility, the Point Breeze Gas Works, was built 1851-1854 at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues after the designs of engineer John C. Cresson., Title and series number from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator
R. Newell & Son
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9260.66]
