Girard Water Company
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
Girard Water Company
ca. 1898
Bound volume with albumen silver prints, gelatin silver prints, and letterpress prints
Overall (closed): 7 3/16 × 11 5/8 × 1 11/16 in. (18.3 × 29.6 × 4.3 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
DescriptionAlbum containing albumen silver, gelatin silver, and letterpress prints documenting repairs made to reservoirs between March and June 1898. First several pages feature cabinet card size images of Board of Directors and Officers with printed identification. Remaining images feature workers and equipment with captions inscribed in black ink. Covers are bound in black cloth with debossed gold lettering. Spine and corners are bound in leather. Album belonged to Alexander Biddle, member of the Girard Water Company Board of Directors.
Inscriptions Debossed in gold on front cover, OA: PHOTOGRAPHS \ GIRARD WATER COMPANY. \ ALEXANDER BIDDLE.
Inscribed in pencil on verso of last page, T: Boyer July 1945 \ V [?] up OIΣr. \ From Phila – \ Early \ Commercial \ Photography \ Small. pictures \ No doubt by a No 4 Kodak – \ but maybe not. [circled] \ B
Inscribed in pencil on verso of last page, T: Boyer July 1945 \ V [?] up OIΣr. \ From Phila – \ Early \ Commercial \ Photography \ Small. pictures \ No doubt by a No 4 Kodak – \ but maybe not. [circled] \ B
