View looking north from Reservoir Hill at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River showing the forebay. Includes a promenade on Reservoir Hill; a park guard standing near a handcart and leaning on a fence lining the mill race; and the ascending main pipe connected to the old mill house during renovations between 1867 and 1872. Also shows the race bridge in the background. The waterworks, originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872.
