a870, John Trenwith Stereoview, # -, Fairmount Park - Water Works, PA., 1870s

You are bidding on an original Stereoview/Stereograph SV card, titled: View in Fairmount Park - Water Works & Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, PA. by John Trenwith, card # -, 1870's.

Looking at this Stereoview through a Viewer, is like using Google 3D when looking at a Map.

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Notes:
Fairmount Park is the largest municipal park in Philadelphia and the historic name for a group of parks located throughout the city.Fairmount Park consists of two park sections named East Park and West Park, divided by the Schuylkill River, with the two sections together totalling 2,052 acres (830 ha). Management of Fairmount Park and the entire citywide park system is overseen by Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, a city department created in 2010 from the merger of the Fairmount Park Commission and the Department of Recreation.

The park grew out of the Lemon Hill estate of Henry Pratt, whose land was originally owned by Robert Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Purchased by the city in 1844, the estate was dedicated to the public by city council's ordinance on September 15, 1855. A series of state and local legislative acts over the next three years increased the holdings of the city. In 1858, the city held a design competition to re-landscape Lemon Hill and Sedgeley for public use as the best way to better protect the city's water supply.

The park was the site of the 1876 Centennial Exposition and the first zoo in the United States, the Philadelphia Zoo, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Wissahickon Valley Park, located adjacent to the park's immediate northwest, was included in the Fairmount Park NRHP registration document. (ref. wikipedia)

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Size: 3.5" by 7"

Subjects: Historic, Fairmount Park, Architecture, Buildings, Nature, Schuylkill River, Trees, Barge

Photographer/Publisher: John Trenwith, 608 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA.

Date: circa 1870's.

Info:
Stereoscopy or Stereoviews have two nearly identical images mounted side by side and were taken by a Stereo Camera. When looked at through a stereo viewer they give a three-dimensional image. Most popular from 1850’s to 1930’s and they usually measure about 3 ½" by 7" (please see images).

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Condition: VG/EX-EX (edge & corner wear), (please see the images).

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