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1850-1900
Fairmount Water Works (Picturesque America)
Schuylkill Navigation lock at Fairmount, 1873
Apparatus for testing model turbine wheels used at Fairmount, 1859-60
Fairmount Water Works, about 1860
Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Schuylkill Flood 1869
Fairmount Water Works, with “Nymph and Bittern” fountain and standpipe, 1875
Plan of Lemon Hill and Sedgley Park, Fairmount and Adjoining Property, 1851
Jonval Turbines at New Mill House, 1870