[Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia]

[Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia]

Photograph

William Southgate Porter

Maker
American, 1822–1889

[Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia]

Fairmount waterworks


May 22, 1848
Daguerreotype
Overall (8 half plates assembled in original mount): 36.7 × 99.9 cm (14 7/16 × 39 5/16 in.)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
1977.0503.0001
Inscriptions recto (printed in gold): Fair Mount. Daguerreotyped by W.S. / Porter. / Philadelphia, May 22d 1848. / Point from which this view was taken.
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