Details
Creator Craft, E., artist.
Title [Joseph] Cooper home, Park Bouelvard [graphic] / E. Craft.
Publisher [New Jersey]
Publisher N.J. 1890
Date [1890]
Physical Description 1 drawing : pencil ; sheet 28 x 43 cm (11 x 16.75 in.)
Description Pencil drawing showing the 18th-century Georgian residence, also known as Pomona Hall, originally built in the 1710s and expanded in 1726 and 1788 at Park Boulevard and Euclid Avenue in Camden, N.J. "12 M" and "1726" are written on a chimney on the left of the building. Trees line the front of the property. Erected by Quaker yeoman and slave owner Joseph Cooper, Jr., the residence was inherited by his nephew Marmaduke Cooper in 1767. The estate became the property of the Camden County Historical Society in 1924 following the sale of the building to the city in 1915.
Notes Title written on recto. Misidentifies name of original owner of residence: Jacob M. Cooper Home, Park Boulevard.
Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890.
Artist possibly Edward Craft, a fireman, listed in the 1890 Camden City Directory.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.6 and 8-12].
Subject Pomona Hall (Camden, N.J.)
Cooper, Joseph, 1691-1749 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- New Jersey -- Camden.
Geographic subject Camden (N.J.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Drawings -- 1880-1890.
Pencil works -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.7]
Accession number P.2018.62.7