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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: 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: 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: [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: Stand pipe. For West Philada. Water Works
Description: View showing the proposed design for a standpipe with an ornate spiral staircase and statute of George Washington to be erected at Thirty-Fifth and Sycamore streets as part of the Twenty Fourth Ward Water Works (i.e., West Philadelphia Water Works). Individuals gaze up at the stucture from its base as other men and women ascend the staircase and view the vista from the observation deck. Completed circa 1855, without the statue, after the designs of engineers Birkinbine & Trotter, the standpipe served as a reservoir for the waterworks located on the west bank of the Schuylkill River above the Fairmount Dam. The standpipe was removed in 1870., Manuscript note on recto: height 130 feet. diameter 5 ". Made of of B[?] iron., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 717, 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., Trimmed.
Creator: Rease & Schell, artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W351 [P.2191]

Title: Fairmount Waterworks. From the forebay
Description: View looking south showing the water works, forebay, and Fairmount, i.e., Reservoir Hill. Pedestrians stroll on the promenade of the mill house (right) and on the walkway near the engine house that leads to the pavilion on Fairmount. Pedestrians include couples and a family. Also shows swans swimming in the forebay. The Fairmount Water Works were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 240.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 88 L 528., FLP Castner 21: 7 with hand-coloring., American Antiquarian Society holds duplicate with variant imprint (POS 240.2): Lith. of D.W. Kellogg & Co. Hartford Ct. [AAS Graphic Arts Lithf KellD Fair].
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: 1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W122 [P.2085]

Title: The Water Works, in Centre Square Philadelphia
Description: View of 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. Depicts individuals using the grounds, including a boy rolling a hoop, and horse-drawn carts, wagons, and men on horse-back traveling the road in the background., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelmans's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 28.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: [1800]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 28a/P.2276.64]

Title: Section through the engine house of the Centre Square Water Works, Philadelphia Building commenced 1799, commenced erecting the engine February 1800, started the engine to supply the city, January 21, 1801, supply from these works discontinued September 7, 1815, building taken down 1827
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., Includes scale of feet., Housed in a clamshell box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., F.A. Wenderoth & Co., the partnership between Frederick A. Wenderoth and Abraham Hart, operated from 1328 Chestnut Street between 1872 and 1875.
Creator: Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Graff [P.9393]

Title: Section through the engine house of the Centre Square Water Works, Philadelphia Building commenced 1799, commenced erecting the engine February 1800, started the engine to supply the city, January 21, 1801, supply from these works discontinued September 7, 1815, building taken down 1827
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., Includes scale of feet., Housed in a clamshell box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., F.A. Wenderoth & Co., the partnership between Frederick A. Wenderoth and Abraham Hart, operated from 1328 Chestnut Street between 1872 and 1875.
Creator: Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Graff [P.9393]

Title: Fairmount from below Lemon Hill
Description: View looking south across the Schuylkill River from below Lemon Hill showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house, pavilion on the mound dam, and standpipe at the waterworks. Also shows boat landings; the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount; and cityscape. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff, were expanded until 1872., Title and date from manuscript note on recto., McClees 1858-10., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Philadelphia views., 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.174a]

Title: [A view of the Fairmount Waterworks with Schuylkill in the distance. Taken from the mount.]
Description: Bird's eye, 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. Paddle boats dock at boat landings next to the works and travel up the river. Also shows park visitors milling about the sites, the Fairmount dam, Schuylkill canal lock, and a few buildings lining the banks., Possibly printed by J.T. Bowen., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POs 798, Reduced variant of Wainwright 9., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [ca. 1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilities - F [P.2007]

Title: [Robert Morris Hotel & Fairmount House, Coates Street wharf on the Schuylkill opposite Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows the hotel opposite the race bridge of the waterworks. The hotel, adorned with lettering advertising ice cream, was often used as a meeting place by the boat clubs nearby on the Schuylkill River. Also shows adjacent businesses. Hotel razed circa 1868., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., *McClees 1858-16., 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. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [(6)1322.F.164]

Title: [Fairmount Water Works forebay during the winter.]
Description: View showing the "Nymph with Bittern" statue at the east side of the icy forebay at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. The statue, sculpted in wood in 1809 by William Rush for the Centre Square Water Works, was installed at the basin in 1827. Also shows an elevated walkway to Reservoir Hill in the upper left corner of the image. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822, were altered and expanded until 1872., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., 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. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [(6)1322.F.152]

Title: Fairmount from the first landing The Fairmount Quadrilles, selected & arranged for the piano forte, and respectfully dedicated to Miss Agnes Franciscus (of Baltimore) by John H. Hewitt
Description: Sheet music cover containing a view of Fairmount looking south from Reservoir Hill at Fairmount Water Works. Includes a partial view of the Engine House, the landscaped South Garden with fountain, the Upper Ferry Bridge over the Schuylkill River, and Harding's Hotel, the popular resort on the west bank. Also show several park visitors ascending the hill and walking the grounds. The waterworks were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff. The gardens were completed in 1835., Attributed to John Bufford., Ba 888 Z 99 includes the sheet music., Inscribed on recto of Ba 888 Z 99 c. 2 [Ba 81 F 166]: Looking toward Upper Ferry Bridge., Printed on recto: Price 50 Cts., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 231, Library Company of Philadelphia: Sheet Music Collection [9914.F], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 888 Z 99, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 888 Z 99 c. 2 [Ba 81 F 166]
Creator: Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870, artist
Date: c1836
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 888 Z 99, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 888 Z 99 c. 2 [Ba 81 F 166]

Title: Old rosin the beau. Favourite [sic] comic song dedicated with much respect to the members of the Falcon Barge by the publisher Arranged by J. C. Beckell
Description: Sheet music cover showing the Falcon crew on their barge near the Fairmount Water Works. The nine-men crew includes a coxswain and eight oarsmen wearing striped uniforms, the latter holding up their oars. The barge is adorned with an American flag on the bow and the club flag on the stern. Also shows the covered bridge, known as the Upper Ferry Bridge (destroyed by fire in 1838) in the background. The waterworks were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff. Old Rosin the Beau is an Irish drinking song., Name of artist supplied by Wainwright., Includes the sheet music., Printed on recto: Price 25 cts nett., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 527, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 07 R 795, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:66. Cover only.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 07 R 795

Title: Raising the stand pipe for the Germantown Water Works. Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers
Description: View showing the engineering crew using a windlass to raise the standpipe in a large field at the corner of Tulpehocken Street and Wayne Avenue on August 13, 1851. Several men work large cranks, in the foreground and background, as others guide the lifting, including a man elevated on a section of the hoisting apparatus. In the right, the foreman talks to two men in white coats, probably the engineers, while another group of well-dressed men converse to the left near a small crowd of spectators. Two workers carry pulley ropes while they walk toward the lass. Another laborer grabs a bucket with one hand as he holds the unwinding rope of one of the cranks with the other. Pasture land is visible in the background. The Germantown Water Company delivered water from the location 1851-1872. The standpipe was sold in 1873 and demolished., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.64.3, Trotter was a cousin of Edward H. Trotter, one of the partners of Birkinbine & Trotter.
Creator: Rease & Schell, lithographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.64.3

Title: A view of Fairmount and the Water-Works showing the bridge previous to its destruction by fire 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, a man on horseback, and a woman walking and holding a parasol. 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. The bridge burned in 1838., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 788, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 88 B 7861
Creator: Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?
Date: c1838
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 88 B 7861

Title: Schuylkill Navigation Co. canal and Fairmount Water Works in the distance
Description: View of the Schuylkill Canal lock in front of the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house, mill house, and standpipe on Reservoir Hill of the waterworks. Also shows an anchor on the lock. Canal and lock constructed in 1820 following an agreement between Philadelphia and the Schuylkill Navigation Company (incorporated 1815) for the city to build the system in return for constructing a dam and receiving the water rights to the water works., Title and date from transcribed scrapbook inscription., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McClees 1855-1a., 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: Spring 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.119a]

Title: Fairmount Water-Works
Description: Leisurely view 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, pavilion on the mound dam, and Reservoir Hill. Activity pervades the view. In the foreground, a man with a sketchbook walks down a path to the lush riverbank. He passes two young men, seated, in conversation, on the ground. Across from them, another young men, lounges by a rock, with his dog. In the river, a crowded paddle boat, followed by a rowboat of men, travels in the water. In the background, other sailing vessels are visible near the Wire Bridge at Fairmount. A horse-drawn carriage and foot traffic cross the bridge in front of distant cityscape. Also shows visitors milling about the water works., Plate 13 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Printed above title: 13., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 239, Trimmed to borders., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilties [P.2283.17]

Title: Fairmount Water-Works
Description: Leisurely view 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, pavilion on the mound dam, and Reservoir Hill. Activity pervades the view. In the foreground, a man with a sketchbook walks down a path to the lush riverbank. He passes two young men, seated, in conversation, on the ground. Across from them, another young men, lounges by a rock, with his dog. In the river, a crowded paddle boat, followed by a rowboat of men, travels in the water. In the background, other sailing vessels are visible near the Wire Bridge at Fairmount. A horse-drawn carriage and foot traffic cross the bridge in front of distant cityscape. Also shows visitors milling about the water works., Plate 13 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Printed above title: 13., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 238, Trimmed to borders., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilities [P.8970.3]

Title: View of the Wire Bridge at Fairmount, Philadelphia Erected in 1842
Description: View looking northeast from below the Wire Bridge of Fairmount, the first suspension bridge in the United States, built over the Schuylkill River from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. Show pedestrians, men on horseback, wagons and carriages approaching, crossing, and departing the bridge near the Fairmount Waterworks. Waterworks include the engine house, mill house, and pavilions on the mound dam and Reservoir Hill. Also shows people fishing on the river, a man carrying a fishing pole over a foot bridge to the canal lock, men seated on the incline to the bridge, and a hotel building. The bridge was removed in 1874., Copyrighted by George Lehman., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 809, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 7 W 798
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: c1843
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 7 W 798

Title: [Fairmount Water Works near Philadelphia]
Description: View from the floodgates, i.e. race bridge, looking toward the eastern side of the water works that were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Shows several park visitors on the bridge who observe one another. Includes couples on promenade; a boy with a hoop; a woman watching two men converse about a sheet of paper; and a family whose daughters meekly peer at an African American couple. Two dogs bark in the direction of the African American woman who sits next to her companion who stands. Pedestrians stroll on the promenade of the mill house, swans glide on the water, and the gazebo on Reservoir Hill is visible. Also shows the engine house, signage advertising "Soda Water, "and the William Rush statuary adorning the works, including "Mercury" atop the gazebo and "Schuylkill Freed" and "Schuylkill Chained" adorning the mill house., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 236, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 88 F 331, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 30:88. Includes publishers' imprints: "Philadelphia published by Fenderich & Wild Callowhill St. No. 215" and "New York published by Thomas Cotrel No. 97... [portion missing]", Charles Fenderich and John Caspar Wild partnered as lithographers from 1833 to 1834., Lower left corner missing, repaired, and retouched.
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 88 F 331

Title: Fairmount
Description: Puzzle showing a Reading Railroad Co. train with passengers in the foreground and the Fairmount Waterworks and Wire Suspension Bridge from the west bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia in the background. Includes spectators surrounding a hot air balloon behind the train and rowers and a steamboat on the Schuylkill River. 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. The Wire Bridge of Fairmount, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built over the Schuylkill River from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. and was removed in 1874., One of four puzzles housed in clamshell box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.1]

Title: Machine à vapeur sur la rivère Schuylkill. = Walet works on the Schuylkill River. = Machina vapore foeta juxta amnen Schuylkill. = Dampfmachine am Schuykill
Description: Landscape view looking northwest 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 and on a walkway on Fairmount; cows grazing on an adjacent plot of land; residences, including probably Lemon Hill, along the bucolic banks of the Schuylkill River; and the river dam., Published in Itinéraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson (Paris: H. Gaugain, 1828-29), no. 50., Printed above the image: 13e,, Livraison. Amérique Septentrionale - État de Pensylvanie. Pl. 2., Printed below image: No. 50., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 446/447, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21: 84, uncolored., Milbert, a French naturalist, artist, and scholar, traveled through the Northeastern United States 1815-1823.
Creator: Arnout, Jules, artist
Date: [1828-1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Public Utilities - F [P.9965.3; P.9210.14]

Title: [Green's August Flower and Boschee's German Syrup trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards promoting George Gill Green's "August Flower" and "Boschee's German Syrup". Four trade cards depict views of Fairmount Park, including one eight-page foldout advertisement containing advertising text pages. Illustrations include the Fairmount Water Works and Resevoir, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Also shows horse-drawn carriages pulling men and women racing north on East River Drive under the New York Connecting Railway Bridge, built 1866-67 after designs by Joseph A. Wilson for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Promontory Rock Tunnel, bored in 1871, is visible in the background. Other images include people leisurely rowing on a creek under the bridge to Lansdown Island; park visitors standing on a pathway that overlooks the Schuylkill River from the Fairmount Water Works; and men and women strolling, sitting, and traveling in horse-drawn carriages along Wissahickon Drive. Paragraphs of advertising text promote George Gill Green's "August Flower" as a "natural cathartic" that "corrects the acidity of the stomach," and "it is established fact in every town and village on this continent, that [Boschee's] German Syrup is the only remedy that has given satisfaction in severe cases of Lung Disease." Two photographic reproductions depict inverted images of sailboats on the ocean and an inset portrait of a woman. Green was a patent medicine entrepreneur who purchased the rights of these two medicines from his father, Lewis M. Green., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. and Donaldson Brothers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Two prints [P.9993.5 & 6] gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Green's [111016.D; P.9490.38; P.9642.1; P.9685.2; P.9993.5 & 6]

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
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., 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 225.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2087 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd862 W6441 pl.1., Trimmed.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W120.4 [P.2087]

Title: Fairmount [from the basin, 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 225.1. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: 6626.F and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb862 W644., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:1. Variant proof copy before letters. FLP copy lacks figures., Trimmed.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W120.1 [6626.F]

Title: [Fairmount
Description: View showing a section of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Depicts the terrace roof of the new mill house built on the mound dam from 1860-1862 after the designs of engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Visitors, predominately women with parasols, stroll on the terrace and adjoining promenade roof of the old mill house. Also shows steamboats; boat landings; boathouses; Lemon Hill; the Twenty-Forth Ward Water Works, known as the West Philadelphia Water Works; mills near the Schuylkill Canal Lock; and small sailing vessels on the river., Title, artist, and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the American Philosophical Society., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 229, Gift of David Doret., Trimmed., Reproduced in "The Fairmount Waterworks," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 1988), vol. 84, no. 360, 361, p. 35., Sketchbook of Jacob Kiehn (1866-1867) with sketches of Fairmount Waterworks held in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (#47, Bd 81 K543).
Creator: Kiehn, Jacob, 1835-1869, artist
Date: [c1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Public utilities [P.2004.44.25]

Title: Fairmount
Description: Landscape view looking 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), stand pipe (built 1852), and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. Also includes the Schuylkill Canal lock, the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount, and the dome of the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 228, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Bovell, Thomas W.
Date: c1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Views - Philadelphia [P.2006.31.14]

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., Copyright secured by J. T. Bowen 1838., FLP Castner 21:6, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 241.2, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:6. FLP copy 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., Trimmed LCP copy of POS 241.1 (duplicate image, variant imprint) shown in digital file.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: [c1838]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 21:6

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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