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Philadelphia Water Works medium photographs from Penrose collection, circa 1888-1912
This digital record contains five images that depict four photographs of the Fairmount Water Works held in box 13 (medium series) of the Boies Penrose pictorial Philadelphia collection [V60], folder 3. There is a donation date of 1912 on one photograph, and this same photograph lists the photographe...
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| Collection: | Boies Penrose pictorial Philadelphia collection (#V60) |
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| Date: | 1888-01-01/1912-12-31 |
| Dimensions: | 26.9 x 22.8 cm 23.7 x 19.1 cm 30.5 x 25.3 cm 30.4 x 25.4 cm |
| Location: | Fairmount Water Works Philadelphia, PA |
| Box Number: | Box 13 |
| Folder Number: | Folder 3 |
| Format: | Electronic |
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| Copyright: | Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org) |
| Online Access: | https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/14170 |
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This digital record contains five images that depict four photographs of the Fairmount Water Works held in box 13 (medium series) of the Boies Penrose pictorial Philadelphia collection [V60], folder 3. There is a donation date of 1912 on one photograph, and this same photograph lists the photographer as R. Rewell & Son, Landscape and General Business Photographers, 626 Arch Street. The other three photographs are undated. Folder 3 is labeled as, "Water Works," and contains 7 additional photographs [currently undigitized] depicting: Belmont Pumping Station; Old Water Works (Front & Chestnut, Ruins on Schuylkill River South); Pipe Aqueduct; Reservoir; and Roxborough Water Works. |
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