Details
Creator W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer.
Title Convent of the Sacred Heart, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1860
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen in stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Exterior view showing several nuns and female students in front of the convent and boarding school, also known as Eden Hall, built 1849-1850 after the designs of Frank Wills, at 4800 Grant Avenue in Torresdale. Several students wear white gowns, possibly habits.
Notes Title printed on mount.
Photographer from embossed stamp.
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.
Biographical / historical note The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Subject Eden Hall (Torresdale, Pa.)
Convents -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Nuns -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Grant Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 4800.
Torresdale (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Wills, Frank, 1822-1856, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Langenheim - Religion [1322.F.69a]
Accession number 1322.F.69a