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Dam and Water Works, Philadelphia, The #1Pattern Category: Places Series: Fruit and Flower Border Object Type: Dinner and Dessert Wares Dimensions:
Description: The view on this plate is known as the "Side Wheel" boat view as opposed to the "Stern Wheel" version. See Version #2 of this pattern to view the latter design. The backgrounds of the Water Works are the same on each. In the late 1700s, yellow fever epidemics — then thought by some to be a water-borne disease — compelled civic leaders to name a Watering Committee (forebear of the Philadelphia Water Department) to assure a constant supply of uncontaminated drinking water. |
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