Belmont Glen.
Photograph
James Cremer
American, 1821–1893
Belmont Glen.
From Scenery in Fairmount Park.
ca. 1875
Albumen silver print with applied color
8.7 x 8.0 cm. (each) on 10.0 x 17.8 cm. mount
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
1979.1533.0005
Inscriptions 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 ..."
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 ..."
