Details
Creator Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer.
Title [Walter S. Taylor, with tennis rackets, on lawn of Mount 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 Image probably depicts the photographer's cousin, Walter S. Taylor, lying in the grass, his head propped up by his elbow. Two tennis rackets are at his side and one is in his hand, poised in the air to hit a ball. A young girl sits off to the side. Depicts the property of Mount Equity in Pennsdale, Pa, rented by the photographer's aunt, Hannah Mary S. Taylor, during the summer months of 1890 and 1891.
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.
Modern reference print #26 available in research file.
Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Subject Taylor, Walter Smedley, b. 1868 -- Portraits.
Ellis family -- Homes and haunts.
Play (Recreation) -- Pennsylvania -- Pennsdale.
Tennis rackets.
Genre Glass plate negatives -- 1880-1890.
Portraits -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Webster [P.9501.96]
Accession number P.9501.96