We’re looking at the Wissahickon on this #FlashbackFriday!
Acquired by the Fairmount Park Commission in 1868 in order to preserve the purity of the City’s water supply, Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley Park has inspired countless artists, poets, and visitors with its natural beauty.
In 1894, artist Augustus Kollner compiled an album of his prints and drawings, Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park, at Philadelphia, Penna, which includes this circa 1878 lithograph of the Wissahickon looking much the same as it does today.
See Kollner’s digitized Bits of Nature album here.
Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist. In Wissahickon Valley, Fairmount Park, Philada. [graphic] / A.K. [Philadelphia] [ca. 1878] 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone and mounted on album page ; 28 x 36 cm. (11 x 14 in.)
