Details
Creator W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date ca. 1860
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking southeast. Shows rowhouses, warehouses near a grassy lot, and church steeples.
Notes Photographer's imprint stamped on mount.
Buff paper mount with square corners.
Title printed on mount.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1980), entry #219.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Rowhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Warehouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject North Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Cityscapes -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1a]
Accession number (8)1322.F.1a