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Photo, Print, Drawing A View of the Fairmount Water Works with Schuylkill in the Distance. Taken from the Mount.

About this Item

Title

  • A View of the Fairmount Water Works with Schuylkill in the Distance. Taken from the Mount.

Summary

  • This hand-colored lithograph from around 1838 shows a view looking northwest from the Fairmount neighborhood in Philadelphia; it prominently features the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River, including the engine house, millhouse, race bridge, and mound dam. Bushes, trees, and rocks dominate the foreground. Visitors stroll on the grounds near the engine house and on the promenade of the millhouse. On the right, a man stands in a gazebo on the partially-visible mount. The house of the superintendent of the Schuylkill Navigation Company is on the wooded west bank, across from the canal lock. On the river are sailboats, a rowboat, and two teams of scullers practicing near the docks adjacent to the waterworks. Two other buildings are visible on the east bank of the river. 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 (1817--90).

Names

  • Bowen, John T., circa 1801-1856? Printer.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : J. T. Bowen, 1838.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1838
  • -  Canals
  • -  Cities and towns
  • -  Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • -  Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • -  Gazebos
  • -  Locks (Hydraulic engineering)
  • -  Parks
  • -  Rowing
  • -  Schuylkill River (Pennsylvania)
  • -  Waterworks

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Digital catalog number: POS 797"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 37 x 54 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Philadelphia on Stone

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670167

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Chicago citation style:

Bowen, John T., Circa ? Printer. A View of the Fairmount Water Works with Schuylkill in the Distance. Taken from the Mount. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1838. Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670167/.

APA citation style:

Bowen, J. T. (1838) A View of the Fairmount Water Works with Schuylkill in the Distance. Taken from the Mount. Pennsylvania United States of America Philadelphia, 1838. Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670167/.

MLA citation style:

Bowen, John T., Circa ? Printer. A View of the Fairmount Water Works with Schuylkill in the Distance. Taken from the Mount. Philadelphia: J. T. Bowen. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670167/>.