Narrow results:
Place
- Central and South Asia (1)
- North America (1)
Time
- 1800 CE - 1849 CE (1)
- 1900 CE - 1949 CE (1)
Topic
- Technology (1)
Additional Subjects
- Waterworks
- Canals (1)
- Dams (1)
- Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (1)
- Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (1)
- Lithographs (1)
- Locks (Hydraulic engineering) (1)
- Parks (1)
- Rowing (1)
- Schuylkill River (Pennsylvania) (1)
Language
- English (1)
Institution
2 results
|
Engineer Morgunenkov's Water-Raising Machine on Emperor Nicholas I Canal near Government House. Golodnaia Steppe
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944) used a special color photography process to create a visual record of the Russian Empire. Some of Prokudin-Gorskii’s photographs date from about 1905, but the bulk of his work is from between 1909 and 1915, when, with the support of Tsar Nicholas II and the Ministry of Transportation, he undertook extended trips through many different parts of the empire.
|
|
Fairmount
This landscape view looking west from Reservoir Hill in Philadelphia shows the Fairmount Water Works, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia chief engineer Frederick Graff. Built to supply the expanding city with safe drinking water, the works included an engine house, mill house, and a millrace bridge. Visitors are seen strolling on the landscaped grounds of the works and rowers are visible on the nearby Schuylkill River. Also depicted are residences, probably including Lemon Hill, the Schuylkill Canal lock, and the river dam. The illustration ...
|