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Schuylkill Water Works, Philadelphia – Vintage Wall Art

Schuylkill Water Works, Philadelphia, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
Schuylkill Water Works, Philadelphia, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving from the Philadelphia collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The Schuylkill Water Works at Fairmount, on the river's east bank, pumped drinking water to Philadelphia and was among the earliest large municipal waterworks in the United States. This engraving reproduces a drawing by the British topographer W.H. Bartlett, whose views of American towns and landscapes were widely circulated in illustrated books of the 1830s and 1840s. Steel engraving, the method used here by the engraver Dick, could capture fine detail and tonal range, so the print shows the pumping house, reservoirs, and river setting with precision. The record gives no publication date.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : steel engraving.
NotesSteel engraving by Dick after drawing by W.H. Bartlett. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Reservoirs; Geogr.; Publ. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147150

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