This view, of the Fairmount Dam and Water Works and the Callowhill St. Bridge, was taken from a boathouse ramp above the dam on the Schuylkill River. Two steamboats are moored above dam, and the roof of a bathing pavilion is visible below dam. Sewer construction is also underway along the Esplanade below the Water Works.
On reverse: Negative number 5015 or 50-2. Photograph by A. H. Tipping. Caption reads: Severe storm swells small wading creek to over 8 feet deep. The swollen torrential stream is about to overflow into Media Borough's water system. The water within the enclosure is filtered drinking water to be piped to houses and businesses.
On reverse: Negative number 5015 or 50-3. Photograph by A. H. Tipping. Caption reads: Severe storm swells small wading stream to over 8 feet in depth. The swollen torrential stream is about to overflow into the Borough's water system. The water within the enclosure is filtered drinking water.
On reverse: 5015, 50-1. Photograph by A. H. Tipping. Caption reads: Bridge on U.S. Rt #1 (Baltimore Pike) just over Media Borough line opposite Media Water Works in Upper Providence Township. Severe storms swell small creek to overflowing capacity. Creek normally is very shallow while here it is a swollen torrent 8 feet deep.
Left to right: Howard Mulholland, Cyrus Mulholland, Ann Mulholland, *Dot Sullivan (now Freeman), Sis Redding, *Dorothy Harvey (now Leonard, whose father took the photo), William Dutton Mulholland, Jr., and Arthur George Thorp, Jr. (* = only ones still living in 1989). Copy of original, given to Frank Lees by Dorothy Leonard.
Photo taken on same day as AP-4126; see case and coat in foreground of each image. Photo Folder 5036 has prints, one of them dated Nov. 1891. The Media high railroad bridge Is in background.
View looking south from bridge showing Water Works, covered bridge at Baltimore Pike and view up the Ridley Creek valley. A trolley line crosses the creek in front of the covered bridge.
View looking south from bridge showing Water Works, covered bridge at Baltimore Pike, and view up the Ridley Creek valley. A trolley line crosses the creek in front of the covered bridge.
The Media Inn is in the background, along with a directional sign atop the traffic signal, from the Keystone Auto club: "Baltimore 89, Oxford 37, Philadelphia 13."
A bus marked "Media" and automobiles are in the background, along with a directional sign from the Keystone Auto Club, atop the traffic signal: "Providence Road: Chester 5, Wallingford 1, Newtown Square 7."
This possibly shows the Mancill Mill on the water works property. Frank Lees, in his caption for this image on Photo Folder 1374 in the MHAC collection, identifies it as: "Ice House, Palmer's Ice Co., at Palmer's Dam, Ridley Creek at Baltimore Pike, circa 1895."
