Creator |
Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer. |
Contributor |
Nevil, Thomas, 1721-1797, architect. |
Title |
Photographs [graphic] / John C. Browne. |
Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1862-1866 |
Date |
ca. 1862-ca. 1866 |
Physical Description |
1 album (34 photographs): albumen; album 30 x 38 cm.(11.5 x 15 in.) |
Description |
Album of predominantly landscape photographs of the Delaware Valley and upstate New York taken by Philadelphia amateur photographer
John C. Browne. Contents include views of Tacony, Cobb’s, Chester, and Pennypack Creeks; Germantown; Fairmount Park and the
Wissahickon; Media, Dauphin, and Hamburg, Pa.; and Dutchess County and Newburgh, N.Y. Views also show estates, including S.
H. Lloyd Garden on School House Lane and the W.C. Kent residence (Germantown), Mount Pleasant (Fairmount Park), Henry W. Sargent’s
estate (Wodenthe) in Fishkill on the Hudson, and Presqu’ile (built 1813, Dutchess County, N.Y.); churches, including St. Timothy’s
(built 1862, Roxborough) and St. Luke’s (Matteawan, Beacon, N.Y.); bridges, including the Norristown Railroad Bridge, Ridge
Avenue Bridge, and the P.R.R. Bridge over Hamburg; Humphrey Yearsley’s Mill (built 1792, near Media); Delaware Water Gap;
Glen Mills; St. Denning’s Point; waterfalls; cascades; wooded paths; woodlands; creek beds; and posed male and female figures
in entryways, gardens, and near trees and waterfalls. Album also contains images of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Spring House
and Croton Aqueduct near Tarrytown, the Washington Oak at Denning’s Point, and the Old Swedes Church (i.e., Holy Trinity Church),
including cemetery, in Wilmington, Delaware. St. Luke's image also shows parishioners entering the church.
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Mount Pleasant Mansion was built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia, Pa. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations.
Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are
unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but
they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased
the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in
1926.
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Notes |
Title from title page written in ink manuscript: Photographs by John C. Browne. |
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Photographs contain titles in ink manuscript below the images. Signed J.C. Browne Photo. or J.C. Browne. |
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Several photographs removed before acquisition. |
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Includes "Index" of titles numbered 1-73. Titles for 61-69 are blank. |
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Gift of Harvey S. Shipley Miller and Jon Randall Plummer, 2010. |
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
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Image "Tacony Creek" (#4) published as frontispiece in Philadelphia Photographer (April 1865). |
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Image "On the Pennypack" (#36) published as frontispiece in Philadelphia Photographer (October 1866). |
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One of missing photographs (#13) located and acquired through auction. See "Red Bridge on the Wissahickon" [*photo -Browne
(P.2011.57)]
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LCP holds loose duplicate of photograph of Pennsylvania Hospital (#9). See photo - Browne (P.9260.485). |
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Housed in phase box. |
Subject |
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 -- Homes and haunts. |
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Macpherson, John, 1723-1792 -- Homes and haunts. |
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Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815 -- Homes and haunts. |
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Lloyd, S. H. -- Homes and haunts. |
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Sargent, Henry Winthop, 1810-1882 -- Homes and haunts. |
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Yearsley, Humphrey, 1815-1887 -- Homes and haunts. |
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Holy Trinity Church (Wilmington, Del.) |
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Pennsylvania Railroad. |
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St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Beacon, N.Y.) |
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St. Timothy’s (Church : Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Bridges -- Pennsylvania. |
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Churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Churches -- New York -- Beacon. |
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Creeks -- Pennsylvania. |
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Estates -- New York (State) -- Dutchess County. |
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Estates -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Forests -- Pennsylvania. |
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Mansions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Media. |
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Plantations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Slavery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Waterfalls -- New York. |
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Waterfalls -- Pennsylvania. |
Geographic subject |
Mount Pleasant (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate) |
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Norristown Railroad Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Ridge Avenue Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Wodenthe (N.Y. : Estate) |
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Chester County (Pa.) |
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Croton Aqueduct (N.Y.) |
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Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) |
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Delaware Water Gap (N.J. and Pa.) |
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Delaware County (Pa.) |
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Dutchess County (N.Y.) |
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Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Glen Mills (Pa.) |
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Hamburg (Pa.) |
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Montgomery County (Pa.) |
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Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Wilmington (Del.) |
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Wissahickon Creek (Pa.) |
Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
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Landscape photographs -- 1860-1870. |
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Photograph albums -- 1860-1870. |
Associated name |
Nevil, Thomas, 1721-1797, architect. |
IMPRINT |
PA. Philadelphia. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums [P.2010.38.44] |
Accession number |
P.2010.38.44 |