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Title: View of the toll-house, Superintendents residence, and part of Schuylkill Canal, &c. on the W. side of River Schuylkill, opposite Fairmount
Description: Shows the buildings at the base of a tree-lined hillside near the canal in the foreground. Additional buildings are visible in the background. Schuylkill Navigation Company was incorporated in 1815 to create a navigational waterway on the Schuylkill River between Port Carbon and Philadelphia to transport coal. The canal was completed in 1828., Title and date from Poulson inscription on accompanying label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 55? 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., 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 #210., 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: 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Transportation [(5)2526.F.15b]

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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