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Title: Stand pipe. For West Philada. Water Works. [graphic] / On stone by Rease & Shell, No. 17 So. 5th. St.
Description: Location: vicinity of Thirty-Fifth and Sycamore Streets., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #77., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., See Poulson's scrapbook vol. VII, pg. 119 for clipping concerning the raising of the stand pipe dated December 15, 1853., Designed by the engineering firm of Birkinbine & Trotter.
Creator: Rease & Schell., creator
Date: ca. 1855.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W351.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W351 [*P.2191]

Title: Fairmount Waterworks. From the Forebay. [graphic] / From nature & on stone G. Lehman; Childs & Inman Lithrs.
Description: Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd88 L528.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870 lithographer. Childs & Inman lithographer., creator
Date: 1833.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W122.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W122 [P.2085]

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.] [graphic].
Description: LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846., creator
Date: [1838]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W124.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W124 [P.2086]

Title: Fairmount [graphic] / Lith of J.T. Bowen.
Description: Originally published as plate 1 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2087 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd862 W6441 pl.1.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846., creator
Date: c1840, 1848.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W120-4.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W120.4 [P.2087]

Title: [A view of the Fairmount Water-Works with Schuylkill in the distance. Taken from the mount.] [graphic].
Description: LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: 1838.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W008.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W8 [P.2004]

Title: View of the Fairmount Waterworks with Schuylkill in the distance. Taken from the mount. [graphic].
Description: LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 88 B786.
Date: c1838.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W009.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W9 [P.2006]

Title: Fairmount from West Philada
Description: Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., View looking from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Includes the observatory tower arch (built 1860). A man stands among lush vegetation on the west riverbank. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer., creator
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.18]

Title: Fairmount
Description: View looking south from the east bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works built 1812-1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff. Shows the engine house; mill house; and the pavilions on the mound dam and on Reservoir Hill. Also shows the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount in the far right background., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 226, Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.10c]

Title: Engine house of the Twenty-fourth Ward Water Works. Designed and constructed by Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers and contractors, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the engine house at the water works also known as the West Philadelphia Water Works, completed circa 1855, on the west bank of the Schuylkill River above the Fairmount Dam. The engine house built after the designs of engineers Birkinbine & Trotter, contained two boiler rooms, sleeping rooms for the engineers, and storerooms. Also shows two men standing near a fence in the foreground and the smokestack at the waterworks in the background., Name of photographer from duplicate in private collection., Title from accompanying label., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 70? The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Birkinbine & Trotter was a partnership between Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Edward H. Trotter (1814-1872), Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #97., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Public Utilities [(5)2526.F.4a]

Title: Fairmount Waterworks
Description: Depicts the Fairmount Water Works from the south. Built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Frederick Graff, Jr., later altered and expanded the waterworks with the help of Philadelphia engineer, Henry P.M. Birkinbine., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.140]

Title: View of Fairmount, Phila. PA
Description: View of man standing on roof terrace of mill house at Fairmount Waterworks. Italianate standpipe (built in 1852) and distribution arch (built in 1860) are visible in background. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from label on negative., Gift of Sandra Markham., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Union View Co.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Union View Company - Public Utilities - Fairmount Waterworks [P.2007.20.3]

Title: Fairmount Water Works
Description: View looking north past the old mill house showing the new mill house at the water works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. The new mill house, built between 1859 and 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine, housed the engines that replaced the water wheels that previously powered the waterworks., Title and photographer's imprint printed on label pasted on verso., Yellow 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.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Public Utilities [P.9466.9]

Title: Fairmount Water Works
Description: View looking north past the old mill house showing the new mill house at the water works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. The new mill house, built between 1859 and 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine, housed the engines that replaced the water wheels that previously powered the waterworks., Title and photographer's imprint printed on label pasted on verso., Yellow 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.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Public Utilities [P.9466.9]

Title: [Fairmount Water Works plaza, Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: View of the waterworks looking south from the terrace of the new mill house. Shows a pavilion of the old mill house, the peristyle temple, and the old engine house. Shows a man sitting on a circular bench on the terrace and several individuals standing in the temple. Also shows a couple of men standing near the pavilion. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Anthony - Public Utilties [(3)1322.F.121e]

Title: Fairmount from West Phila
Description: View looking south from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house; old mill house; new mill house (completed 1862); and the observatory tower arch (built 1860) and stand pipe (built 1852) on Reservoir Hill. Also includes a tree in the foreground partially obstructing the view of the waterworks. The waterworks, orginally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Title from publisher's label., Orange mount with square corners., Gift of Francis J. Dallett., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Public Utilities [P.9171.1]

Title: [Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the old engine house and mill house. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Buff mount with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.108g]

Title: [Schuylkill Water Works]
Description: View showing the rear of the engine house at the Schuylkill Water Works (formerly the Spring Garden and Northern Liberties Water Works) at the foot of Thompson Street on the Schuylkill River. Also shows a rowboat near the fenced water basin of the waterworks in the foreground. The waterworks, completed circa 1845 after the designs of engineer William E. Morris, provided water to the Spring Garden, Northern Liberties, and Kensington neighborhoods., Yellow mount with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.122d]

Title: Fairmount, Philadelphia
Description: Landscape view looking west from Reservoir Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, and race bridge. Also shows visitors strolling the landscaped grounds of the works; scullers on the river; residences, including probably Lemon Hill, along the bucolic banks of the Schuylkill River; the Schuylkill Canal lock; and the river dam., Issued as plate 1 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 225.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W 6442.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W120.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q.1 (Poulson)]

Title: Fairmount
Description: Landscape view looking west from Reservoir Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Includes the engine house, mill house, and race bridge. Also shows visitors strolling the landscaped grounds of the works; scullers on the river; residences, including probably Lemon Hill, along the bucolic banks of the Schuylkill River; the Schuylkill Canal lock; and the river dam., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 1 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 225.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W 6441., Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W120.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q.1 (Rush)]

Title: Belmont engine house
Description: 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]

Title: Fair Mount from promenade
Description: View looking east from a promenade near the basin at the Fairmount Water Works showing Reservoir Hill. Shows the observatory tower distribution arch, built in 1860; the Italianate standpipe, built in 1852 after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr.; and the promenades on the hill. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872., Attributed to Robert Newell., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on mount., Inscribed in negative: 124., 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.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Public Utilities [P.9299.58]

Title: New mill house, Fairmount Water Works, Phila
Description: View looking northwest from the west base of the old mill house at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the new mill house constructed between 1859-1862 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Also shows men standing on the roof terrace and in a window balcony of the building. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow 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.
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereographs - unidentified - Public Utilities [P.9356.4]

Title: View on Schuylkill
Description: View looking south from Lemon Hill in East Fairmount Park. Shows the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River, including the old engine house; the old mill house; and the observatory arch, standpipe and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. View also includes a group of girls standing near a tree on the estate in the foreground. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872., Title from manuscript note 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.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [P.9260.93]

Title: Plaza and water works
Description: View looking south from the terrace of the new mill house (completed 1862) showing the old engine house, peristyle temple (built between 1867-1872), and pavilion of the old mill house of the Fairmount Waterworks on the Schuylkill River. Also shows two park guards and a group of children standing in the peristyle temple. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederic Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederic Graff, Jr., Orange mount with rounded corners., Publisher's label pasted on verso., Title from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Public Utilities [P.9260.50]

Title: Water works
Description: View looking northwest through the observatory tower arch at the basin of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the path with ornate iron railing leading to the terrace of the new mill house built between 1859 and 1862 on the mound dam after the designs of engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Also shows a pavilion of the old mill house and the pavilion on the pier of the mound dam. The waterworks, originally designed by Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded by Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Description of "Fairmount Park and Water Works" printed on verso., Title from manuscript note on verso., Duplicate of 8353.F.9., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Public Utilities [P.9260.17]

Title: View in Fairmount Park
Description: View looking north from a stairwell near the forebay at the Fairmount Water Works showing the peristyle temple on the altered old mill house. Three men stand near the temple. The Fairmount Water Works, originally built on the Schuylkill River between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872., Manuscript note on verso: Fairmount Waterworks., Title from label on negative., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: De Young's Palace Dollar Store (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - De Young's - Public Utilities [P.9260.5]

Title: Fairmount, Philadelphia
Description: View looking from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing a section of the Fairmount Water Works in the distance. Shows a boy sitting next to a tree on the riverbank in the foreground and the mill house and standpipe of the waterworks in the background., Attributed to John Moran., Title from label pasted on mount., Trimmed yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: ca. 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.119h]

Title: Fairmount, Philadelphia
Description: View looking south from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house, mill house, and stand pipe (built 1852). The waterworks, originally completed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Title printed on mount., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Upper right corner missing., Image faded., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Duplicate of (3)1322.F.118(v)a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.120d]

Title: Fairmount, Philadelphia
Description: View looking south from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house, mill house, and stand pipe (built 1852). The waterworks, originally completed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Title printed on mount., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Upper right corner missing., Image faded., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Duplicate of (3)1322.F.118(v)a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.120d]

Title: Fairmount, Philadelphia
Description: View looking south from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house, mill house, and stand pipe (built 1852). The waterworks, originally completed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Title printed on mount., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Upper right corner missing., Image faded., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Duplicate of (3)1322.F.118(v)a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.120d]

Title: [Fairmount Water Works.]
Description: View looking north past the old mill house showing the new mill house at the water works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. The new mill house, built between 1859 and 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine, housed the engines that replaced the water wheels that previously powered the waterworks., Title and name of photographer from label on verso of duplicate P.9466.9., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.121g]

Title: Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia
Description: View looking south from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house, mill house, and stand pipe (built 1852). The waterworks, originally completed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Duplicate of (3)1322.F.120d., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.118a(v)]

Title: Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia
Description: View looking south from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house, mill house, and stand pipe (built 1852). The waterworks, originally completed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Duplicate of (3)1322.F.120d., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.118a(v)]

Title: Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia
Description: View looking south from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house, mill house, and stand pipe (built 1852). The waterworks, originally completed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Duplicate of (3)1322.F.120d., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.118a(v)]

Title: Philadelphia Water Works. Engine House 24th Ward Works
Description: View showing the engine house at the Twenty Fourth Ward Water Works also known as the West Philadelphia Water Works, completed circa 1855, on the west bank of the Schuylkill River above the Fairmount Dam. The engine house built after the designs of engineers Birkinbine & Trotter, contained two boiler rooms, sleeping rooms for the engineers, and storerooms. Also includes a partial view of the smokestack at the waterworks in the background., Grey mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note by Henry P.M. Birkinbine, Chief Engineer of the Water Department, on accompanying label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Birkinbine & Trotter was a partnership between Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Edward H. Trotter (1814-1872), Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.122a]

Title: Fairmount Water Works
Description: View looking north from the old mill house at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the new mill house built between 1860 and 1862 on the mound dam after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Pale yellow 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.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Date: 1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Public Utilities [P.9260.74]

Title: Fairmount Water Works
Description: View looking north from the old mill house at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the new mill house built between 1860 and 1862 on the mound dam after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Pale yellow 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.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Date: 1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Public Utilities [P.9260.74]

Title: Spring Garden Water Works
Description: View showing the rear of the engine house at the Schuylkill Water Works (formerly the Spring Garden and Northern Liberties Water Works) at the foot of Thompson Street on the Schuylkill River. Also shows the water basin of the waterworks lined by a fence in the foreground. The waterworks, completed circa 1845 after the designs of engineer William E. Morris, provided water to the Spring Garden, Northern Liberties, and Kensington neighborhoods., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: September 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Public Utilities [(6)1322.F.32b]

Title: Blake's cabinet of music Grand march as performed by the Philadelphia Band, composed and respectfully dedicated to the Philadelphia fire-men by John M. Clemens
Description: Sheet music cover showing a woman playing a mandolin on the race bridge of the Fairmount Waterworks. Includes the engine house, mill house, and Reservoir Hill in the background. A couple strolls near the mill house and individuals ascend a foot path to a pavilion on the reservoir. The waterworks were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff., Includes the sheet music., Inscribed on recto: Oct. 18, 1959 Penrose fund., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 58, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 88 K 35
Date: c1832
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 88 K 35

Title: New Mill House at Fairmount. H. P. M. Birkinbine. Chief Engineer
Description: View showing the new mill house on the mound dam at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Also shows a partial view of the old mill house and a visitor at the top of the stairs leading to the interior of the new building. The new mill house, built between 1859 and 1862 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine, housed the engines that replaced the water wheels that previously powered the waterworks. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Printed upper right corner: Pl. 1., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 503, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - small - Water Works, Box 73, Folder 8
Date: 1861
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - small - Water Works, Box 73, Folder 8

Title: Fairmount Water Works. Philadelphia
Description: View looking south from the east bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Depicts the old engine house; old mill house; new mill house (completed 1862); and the observatory tower arch (built 1860), stand pipe (built 1852), and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. In the foreground, trees and bushes line the river bank and small boats sail near the Schuylkill Canal lock in which a barge travels. Also shows the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount in the far right background. The waterworks were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 237, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 88 C 936, Palmer, was one of a few women lithographic artists, who also developed innovative coloring techniques as well as made improvements to the lithographic crayons used by the firm Currier & Ives. Palmer worked for Currier, and later the firm, from 1851 to 1876.
Creator: Palmer, F. (Fanny), 1812-1876, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 88 C 936

Title: Section through the engine house of the Centre Square Water Works, Philadelphia
Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a mechanical drawing of a cross section of the pumping machinery for the waterworks, including the boiler and reservoirs, which when full were able to hold 17,660 gallons of water. Also includes smaller vignettes in the upper left and right corners showing the elevation and plan of the waterworks. The neo-classical style marble pump house was completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827.

Title: Centre Square Water Works postcards
Description: Depicts the neo-classical style marble pump house, completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827. Includes the Water Nymph and Bittern fountain sculpted in wood in 1809 by William Rush for the Centre Square Water Works, but later moved to the Fairmount Waterworks on the Schuylkill River., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Public utilities - [P.9049.31 - 32]

Title: Water works of Philadelphia on the Schuylkill
Description: Book illustration of a view looking south showing the Fairmount Water Works and the Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge. The water works include the engine house and mill house originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. The single span bridge, also known as the Upper Ferry Bridge, was erected 1809-1812 with Robert Mills serving as architect, and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. The bridge burned 1838 and was replaced by the Wire Bridge at Fairmount (built 1841-1842)., Manuscript note below title: From "DeRoos 'Personal Narrative and travels in U.S." London, 1827!!!, Published in F.F. De Roos's Personal narrative of travels in the United States and Canada in 1826 ....(London: W.H. Ainsworth, 1827), opp. p. 44. [Am 1827 DeRo 6310.O]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 822, Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of "Illustrations of Philadelphia."
Date: [1827]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilities [(1)1525.F.59e]

Title: View from Fairmount Park, Phila
Description: Cityscape views looking south across the Schuylkill River from below the Lemon Hill estate showing the Fairmount Waterworks, pavilion on the mound dam, and steamboat landing on the east bank of the river. Also shows the west bank in West Philadelphia and the Wire Bridge at Fairmount in the distant background, built 1842 after designs by Charles Ellet, Jr. The Fairmount Water Works, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded by Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Title printed on mounts., Photographer's imprint printed on versos., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Kilburn Brothers
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Parks [P.9168.9], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Bridges [P.2011.47.78]

Title: Stand-pipe at Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia
Description: View looking east from the forebay at the Fairmount Water Works showing the decorative distribution arch on Reservoir Hill. The arch, built in 1860, functioned as a standpipe and observatory tower. Also shows a man standing on the promenade near the forebay in the foreground and inclined walkways to Reservoir Hill in the background. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Title on printed label pasted on verso., Photographer's printed 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.
Creator: Hurn, J. W. (John White), d. 1887, photographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hurn - Public Utilities [P.9137.1]

Title: Fairmount Phila
Description: View from the Fairmount Water Works showing the decorative distribution arch on Reservoir Hill. The arch, built in 1860, functioned as a standpipe and observatory tower. Also shows an inclined walkway to Reservoir Hill in the background. Construction materials, including rope, stone, and balusters, are visible in the foreground. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed 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.
Creator: Kilburn Brothers
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Parks [P.9082.4]

Title: [A view of Fairmount and the Water-Works Taken from the veranda of Harding's Hotel, Schuylkill]
Description: View looking toward the water works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. In the foreground, elegantly dressed women and men sit and stand on the veranda admiring the vista as street and pedestrian traffic approaches and departs from the covered Upper Ferry Bridge. Traffic includes horse-drawn carriages and men, women and children walking or standing on the bridge, looking over the rail at the Schuylkill River below. Canal barges travel under the bridge and in the canal lock across from the water works. The water works include the engine house, mill house, and pavilions on the mound dam and on reservoir hill. A water fountain and trees complete the view. Also shows businesses and residences behind the water works in the background. The Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge, known as the Upper Ferry Bridge, was erected 1809-1812, with Robert Mills serving as architect and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. Served as the basis for the lithographed view created by J.T. Bowen after a fire destroyed the bridge in 1838., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 262
Creator: Smith, John Rubens, 1775-1849, artist
Date: [ca. 1837]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Third Floor Storage [P.2008.34.12]

Title: [Reservoir Hill standpipe and observatory tower, Fairmount Park]
Description: View showing Reservoir Hill from the basin at the Fairmount Water Works. Includes the observatory tower distribution arch, built in 1860 and the Italianate standpipe, built in 1852 after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note in ink on mount: Tower - Fairmount Park., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by "1776. Philadelphia. 1876.", White curved mount with rounded corners., The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exhibition was held in New Orleans from 1884-1885., Gift of Charles Isaacs., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: c1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.8975.11]

Title: Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Description: View from the southeast showing a fountain in the garden near the old Fairmount Waterworks engine house built 1812-1815 by Frederick Graff. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Title on negative., Publisher's imprint printed 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., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Taggart - Parks [P.9047.158]

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