File:Fountain. Rittenhouse Square. ca. 1880. (6721017609).jpg

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English: View in Rittenhouse Square shows an ornate drinking fountain adorned by a column with sea horses and the bearded face of Neptune surmounted by a classical male figure balancing his body with one foot. Donated to the Philadelphia Fountain Society by prominent Philadelphia civil engineer and art collector J. Gillingham Fell and installed at the northwest corner of Rittenhouse Square (at Walnut and Rittenhouse streets) in 1872. Albumen on stereograph mount, hand-colored
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  • Philadelphia
  • Pennsylvania
  • fountain
  • society
  • Drinking fountains
  • Rittenhouse Square
  • stereographs
  • hand-colored
  • albumen
  • prints
  • LinkWoodward Stereoscopic Co.
  • Rochester
  • New York
Camera location39° 56′ 57.69″ N, 75° 10′ 18.69″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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