TITLE ON OBJECT: Belmont Glen.
SERIES TITLE: Scenery in Fairmount Park.

ca. 1875
PUBLISHER: Cremer, James
albumen print stereograph with applied color
8.7 x 8.0 cm. (each) on 10.0 x 17.8 cm. mount
Gift of 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
79:1533:0005

NON-GEH NUMBER: 420513 (Sipley)

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(printed) "James Cremer, Photographer and Publisher, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia." "Scenery in Fairmount Park." mount verso-(printed) "Belmont Glen." "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 in use are the Turbine, with pumping capacity of ..."

FRAME: oversize yellow mount

NOTES: Catalogued 9/98, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
landscape, park
landscape, figures in