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]
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]
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 stand-pipe erected circa 1854 in the background and men leaning on the fencing surrounding the water basin 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., Grey mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note by H.P.M. Birkinbine, Chief Engineer of the Water Department, on accompanying label., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.123g]
Oblique view of the front and north flank of the one-and-a-half story granite engine house at the Spring Garden and Northern Liberties Water Works (later known as the Schuylkill Water Works) at the foot of Thompson Street on the east bank of the Schuylkill River. In the foreground, an empty horse-drawn cart is stopped near a pump, where a man fills a bucket with water. A man stands with his arms crossed in the side door, a couple strolls arm in arm, and three men stand and converse at the foot of the stairs of the engine house entrance. Includes a canalboat (named the Captain T.M. Scott, after the artist) on the river, along with a partial view of the water basin of the waterworks lined by a fence in the background. The waterworks, completed circa 1845 after the designs of engineer William E. Morris, provided water to the Spring Garden, Northern Liberties, and Kensington neighborhoods., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 512, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc88 N 874.
Creator
Kuchel, Charles Conrad, b. 1820, artist
Date
1852
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W254 [P.2128]
