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[Detail of Bartram house window, Philadelphia] [graphic].
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Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer.
Title
[Detail of Bartram house window, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA Philadelphia. 1923
Date
ca. 1923
Physical Description
1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 12 x 10 cm. (4.75 x 3.75 in.)
Description
Close up view of window and architectural stone work surrounding it. Carved in plaque above window: It is God alone almyty Lord, The Holy One by me ador'd, John Bartram 1770. Botanist and farmer John Bartram built his home in 1730-1731 with a 1770 addition and began cultivation of America's first botanical garden. After many years of neglect the house was restored in the 1920s by the John Bartram Association.
Notes
Manuscript note by photographer on verso: Bartram Gardens Phila.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Subject
Bartram, John, 1699-1777 -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Architectural decorations & ornaments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fifty-third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 1650.
Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Gelatin silver prints -- 1920-1930.
Architectural photographs -- 1920-1930.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Wilson [P.8513.166]
Accession number
P.8513.166
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George Mark Wilson Photograph Collection
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