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Title: View on the Wissahiccon, Pennsylvania.
Identifier(s): graphics:4730; APSimg1809; Negative Number: 1072.013
Description: Rosengarten Collection #73. Published in Joshua Shaw, Picturesque Views of American Scenery, Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son, 1819-21; Deak, Gloria G., Picturing America, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988, pp. 213-214, entry #315; and Snyder, Martin, P., Mirror of America: The Developing Life of Philadelphia Seen in Engravings, Gladwyne, PA: Martin P. Snyder, 1996, #678.
Creator: Shaw, Joshua
Source: Print Collection (Rosengarten);
Subject: Philadelphia (Pa.)--Views ; Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.); Wissahickon River
Date: 1819-21 1819-1821

Title: Fairmount.
Identifier(s): graphics:5628; APSimg4300; Graphics Number: M42-22-9
Description: Color view of Fairmount and river.
Creator: Bovell
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Philadelphia (Pa.)--Views; Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.); Philadelphia (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Date: 1871

Title: Fairmount Water Works.
Identifier(s): graphics:5629; APSimg4298; Graphics Number: M42-22-7
Description: Black and white view of park and waterworks.
Creator: Palmer, Frances Flora Bond, ca. 1812-1876
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Philadelphia (Pa.)--Views; Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.); Philadelphia (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Date: n. d.

Title: Schuylkill River above Fairmount, Philadelphia in 1864.
Identifier(s): graphics:5643; APSimg4303; Graphics Number: M42-22-12
Description: View of River with Fairmount in background.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Philadelphia (Pa.)--Views; Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.); Philadelphia (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Date: 1864

Title: The following letter furnished for the minutes by Mr. Price, will explain the history of the purchase of oaks in Europe
Identifier(s): text:1131; local: APSimg6642; local: 199
Description: Reproduces letter sent by John C. Cresson, chief engineer of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, to Eli K. Price, chairman of the committee on nurseries, regarding the purchase of oaks in Europe for the Michaux Grove and Nursery in Fairmount Park.; Item call number: Pam. v. 951, no. 5.
Creator: Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.). Office of the Chief Engineeret al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Botany and Horticulture; Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.); Oaks; Horticulture
Date: 1874