TITLE ON OBJECT: West from the Reservoir.
SERIES TITLE: Scenery in Fairmount Park.

ca. 1875
PUBLISHER: Cremer, James
albumen print stereograph with applied color
8.8 x 8.0 cm. (each) on 10.0 x 17.7 cm. mount
Gift of 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
79:1533:0004

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 420513 (Sipley) / 180

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(printed) "James Cremer, Photographer and Publisher, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia." "Scenery in Farimount Park." mount verso-(in ink) "180 W. from the Reservoir" (printed) "Fairmount Park and Water Works, Philadelphia." "Fairmount Water Works, situated on the Schuylkill River, in the North Western Section of the City, were commenced in 1812, and run by steam power until 1822, when the dam, which had been erected to give motive power at a less cost, was first used. The wheels now are in use are the..."

FRAME: oversize yellow mount

NOTES: Catalogued 9/98, DZ.

SUBJECT: landscape, figures in