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[Wissahickon Creek near Wissahickon Hall, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Bartlett & Smith, photographers.
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Creator
Bartlett & Smith, photographer.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
[Wissahickon Creek near Wissahickon Hall, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Bartlett & Smith, photographers.
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1869
Date
ca. 1869
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
View showing Wissahickon Creek near the Wissahickon Hall erected circa 1849 by Harry Lippen at Wissahickon Drive (i.e., Lincoln Drive) below Gypsy Lane. Hotel only partially visible.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Photographer's imprint embossed on mount.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Paper backing pasted on verso.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook views of Philadelphia.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Wissahickon Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Lincoln Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- below Gypsy Lane.
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Hotels [(3)1322.F.137f]
Accession number
(3)1322.F.137f
In Collections
Bartlett & Smith Stereograph Collection
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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