View showing the interior of the pump room under the engine-house terrace at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows several pumps under and near staircases. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872, Title inscribed in negative., Photographer's and publisher's imprint printed on mount., Orange 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., Joy was a Philadelphia stationer.
Creator
New Jersey Stereoscopic View Co.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - misc. photo. - New Jersey Stereoscopic Co. [P.9292.1]
