Details
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