Details
Creator Bartlett & Smith, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title View on the Wissahickon above toll house. [graphic] / Bartlett & Smith, photographers.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date ca. 1869
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing a stretch of Lincoln Drive including Maple Spring Hotel, the roadhouse and picnic resort established around 1865. The hotel was known for proprietor Joseph Smith's prominently displayed hand-carved curios created from laurel root that he gathered along the Wissahickon Creek. The hotel fell into ruin following the loss of its liquor privileges and was razed in the late 19th century. A horse-drawn carriage travels down the wooded road.
Is part of Unidentified series. No. 61
Notes Title from accompanying label.
Photographer's imprint embossed on accompanying label.
Trimmed orange mount with square corners.
Paper backing pasted on verso.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Maple Spring Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Lincoln Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- above Gypsy Lane.
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 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.137h]
Accession number (3)1322.F.137h