Details
Creator Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer.
Title [Bertha Taylor Webster sitting with an umbrella on the porch of Mt. Equity, Pennsdale, Pa.] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1890
Date ca. 1890
Physical Description 1 negative : glass ; 20 x 13 cm. (8 x 5 in.)
Description Depicts the photographer's brother's wife, Bertha Taylor Webster, attired in a striped dress, sitting in a rocking chair on Mt. Equity's porch, and holding an opened umbrella. Her husband's aunt, Hannah Mary S. Taylor, rented the property during the summer months of 1889 and 1890.
Notes A small stone section of Mount Equity, known as "The Cottage," was constructed near the Wolf Run House in Pennsdale, Pa. ca. 1810 by Mercy Ellis after the death of her husband, William Ellis. After her death in 1848, her children used the cottage primarily during the summer months. Her son Charles Ellis built a stone addition to the house in 1861 and a rear kitchen wing was added by the family in 1882. It was around this time that the enlarged house shed its name as "The Cottage," and was known as Mount Equity. The property is now home to a Buddhist Monastery, Mt. Equity Zendo Jihoji.
Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Subject Webster, Bertha Taylor, b. 1869 -- Portraits.
Ellis family -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Pennsdale.
Porches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Umbrellas.
Genre Glass plate negatives -- 1880-1890.
Portraits -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Webster [P.9501.46]
Accession number P.9501.46