Collection of lantern slides of informal family portraits and family excursions taken by William Harvey Doering, amateur photographer and native Philadelphian, 1888-1905.

Pages

[Couple riding a tandem bicycle, Long Island, N.Y.]
Depicts a man and woman riding on a tandem bicycle together on a tree-lined path. A horse cart is visible in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Couple standing with bicycles, stopped on a tree-lined path, Long Island, N.Y.]
Depicts a man and woman standing with their bicycles, one of them a tandem bicycle, along a tree-lined bicycle lane. A man approaches the couple on his bicycle in the distance. The porch of a home is visible (left)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Cows at an unidentified farm.]
Depicts cows standing in shallow water, behind a wooden fence. Birds are perched on a cable above the fence., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Crowd standing on the beach looking toward the ocean, Atlantic City, N.J.]
Depicts the backs of a group of bathers standing on the beach and looking toward the ocean, where people are swimming and wading through shallow water. One man sits on the edge of a rowboat, with "keep off" sign posted to one of its seats., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Crowded beach near the boardwalk taken from a pier, Atlantic City, N.J.]
Depicts a dense group of bathers standing on the beach and swimming in the ocean, taken from one of the piers in Atlantic City. Businesses and hotels line the boardwalk in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Distant figure walking along a path near Wissahickon Creek.]
Depicts the back of a man walking along a path near Wissahickon Creek. A foot bridge spanning the creek is visible in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Distant view of church surrounded by park.]
View of front of church from across a wide road. Adorned with a four column portico on the first level and surmounted by a tall steeple. Second floor of church obscured by trees. Located in a park setting, with benches lining the road nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Distant view of italianate tower of house, Audubon, N.J.]
Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Distant view of large mansion overlooking the ocean, Sea Girt, N.J.]
Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Doering family canoeing on Perkiomen Creek, Pa.]
Views of the Doering family canoeing along the calm waters of Perkiomen Creek. Includes Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer); Annie Doering (photographer's sister-in-law); Jules Doering (photographer's brother); Jules' three sons; George Doering (photographer's brother) and the photographer's sons, Albert and Karl., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Doering family dog in the backyard of the Doering residence at 1837 N. Bouvier Street, Philadelphia.]
Depicts various poses of the Doering family dog, taken in the backyard of the family home. Includes the dog sitting, standing, yawning and dressed in a jacket and hat, sitting on a chair., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Md.]
View of the manicured lawn and trees of Druid Hill Park, taken from the top of a hill looking down at people strolling by. Purchased in 1860 to provide recreational space for city residents., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Druid Hill Park, group portrait underneath entranceway, Baltimore, Md.]
Two boys (possibly the photographer's sons Karl and Albert Doering), four women and a man pose underneath of the entrance arcade to Druid Hall Park. Purchased in 1860 to provide recreational space for city residents., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Ducks at an unidentified farm, Long Island, New York.]
Depicts ducks in a large pen, surrounded by a green field and trees. Dwellings are visible at the top of a hill in the distance in some of the images. Includes ducks wading in a pond., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Dwelling with portico and belvedere cupola.]
Depicts the front and rear facades of a large residence, showing a large four columned portico and a belvedere cupola., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[East River Drive from the Strawberry Mansion Trolley Bridge, Philadelphia.]
View of East River Drive (Kelly Drive) looking north from the Strawberry Mansion Trolley Bridge. Laurel Hill Cemetery occupies the land east of the tree-lined drive. A Philadelphia and Reading Railroad bridge spanning the Schuylkill River is visible in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Flat Rock Dam, group sitting near the water, Philadelphia.]
Depicts four women sitting on rocks overlooking the Flat Rock Dam. Two men stand with bicycles nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Flat Rock Dam was constructed by the Schuylkill Navigation Company circa 1820 and reconstructed in 1977 to provide water for the Manayunk Canal., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Flat Rock Dam, group standing on rocks near the water, Philadelphia.]
Depicts Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer) standing on a large rock in the foreground, holding dogwood branches and looking toward the falls of Flat Rock Dam. Mrs Lindsay, Mrs Schwarts (photographer's sister) and Al Schwarts stand nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Flat Rock Dam was constructed by the Schuylkill Navigation Company circa 1820 and reconstructed in 1977 to provide water for the Manayunk Canal., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Four children in a swing suspended from a tree.]
Depicts the photographer's three young nephews and an unidentified young girl posing from a wooden swing suspended from a tree. George Doering, the photographer's brother, stands in the background. A baby carriage is visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[George Doering and two nephews overlooking a stream in the Pocono Mountains, Pa.]
Depicts George Doering (brother of the photographer) lounging with his two young nephews, Jules and Bill, near a large tree, overlooking a stream in the Pocono Mountains. One image focuses on the small group and the other captures the stream, showing the standing figure of George Doering and his nephews off to the side., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Goats on a dirt road, Long Island, New York.]
Depicts goats running along a dirt road in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Goethe, near Horticultural Hall, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
View of the standing figure of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on a tall pedestal, decorated with a wreath and surrounded by flowering shrubs. Created by Heinrich Manger in 1890., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Grant's Cabin, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
View of the cabin used by Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant on the east side of Carriage Drive in Fairmount Park. Photographer William Doering is seated on a bench in front of the cabin and Al Lindsay stands in the doorway, reading a posted sign. A camera is set up in the foreground. Served as Grant's headquarters and the supply center for the Union armies during the seige of Richmond. Moved to Philadelphia circa 1870 from City Point, Virginia as a gift to citizens of Philadelphia for their support during the Civil War. Transfered back to Virginia and rebuilt there in 1983., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Grant's Tomb, from Riverside Drive, Riverside Park, New York, N.Y.]
View of the south facade of the 150' tall granite and marble mausoleum, the second tallest in the western hemisphere, superseded only by the Garfield Monument. Completed in 1897 after designs by John H. Duncan, the neoclassical structure features a rectangular base, with porticos adorned by doric columns, surmounted by a columned cupola. Built on the elevated land of Riverside Park overlooking the Hudson River. Contains the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group bicycling along driveway of large house, Long Island, N.Y.]
Depicts two women and a man, one of them probably Catharine Rupp Doering, bicycling along an entrance drive, away from the large dwelling in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group bicycling over a canal bridge, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Depicts four men bicycling over a canal bridge in Fairmount Park. A couple stands to the side of the path as the group rides by., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group collecting chestnuts near a tall chestnut tree.]
Depicts three women and a man collecting chestnuts near a large chestnut tree. The man is climbing the tall tree in search of chestnuts. Catharine Rupp Doering, the wife of the photographer, is depicted, but the others are unidentified., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group fishing and sailing toy boats along the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia.]
Depicts Al Lindsay standing on the rocky bank of the Schuylkill River near three children (possibly Alma Lindsay and Karl and Albert Lindsay Doering, sons of the photographer) as they fish and sail toy boats along the river., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group in a sailboat, Chesapeake Bay.]
Depicts a group of men and women sitting on a sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay. Includes the photographer, William H. Doering (left), and his wife Catharine Rupp Doering (second woman from the left). The boy in the middle is one probably of their sons, Albert or Karl., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group of young girls posing in the water, near Betterton, Md.]
Depicts five female bathers posing in the water. The shoreline is visible in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group portrait in front of a stone mill building, Fairmount Park.]
View of men and women posed in front of a stone mill building in Valley Green, including Catharine Rupp Doering (center), wife of the photographer, Mrs. Lindsay (far right) and Albert Lindsay (leaning in doorway). A woman seated in the front row holds a black dog. Panels are missing from the window frame in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group portrait of bathers, Chesapeake Bay.]
Depicts a group of men, women and children standing in shallow water and posing in their bathing suits in the Chesapeake Bay. Includes Albert Lindsay (second from the left) and possibly Albert and Karl Doering (crouching boys in the front row)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group portrait of the Doerings and Lindsays in Fairmount Park.]
View of Catharine Rupp Doering, wife of the photographer, Al Lindsay, the photographer's brother George Doering, and Mrs. Lindsay sitting on a bench near their bicycles on a trail in Fairmount Park., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group portrait of the Doerings and Lindsays sitting on a large tree limb.]
Depicts Albert Lindsay, Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), Mrs. Lindsay and George Doering (brother of the photographer), sitting on a large tree limb., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group portrait of the Doerings and Lindsays sitting on a large tree limb.]
Depicts Albert Lindsay, Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), Mrs. Lindsay and George Doering (brother of the photographer), sitting on a large tree limb., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group portrait of the Doerings with Mrs. Lindsay in a wooded area.]
Depicts five people sitting on tree stumps in a wooded area including the photographer's brother, George Doering; the photographer's wife, Catharine Rupp Doering, with their son, Albert Doering; Mrs. Lindsay and an unknown man., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group portrait of the Rupp and Doering families, Sellersville, Pennsylvania.]
View of the Rupp and Doering families gathered in the front yard of a large home capped by a mansard roof. Catharine Rupp Doering, the photographer's wife, stands in the center of the picture wearing a black hat. George Doering stands to her right. The children sit on the grass in the front row. Laundry hangs from lines in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group portrait of the Rupp family, Sellersville, Pennsylvania.]
View of the Rupp family leaning against a wooden fence. Charles Rupp, the photographer's brother-in-law, leans on the fence in the foreground. Next to him stands Mrs. Rupp, the photographer's mother-in-law. Sitting on the ground is Catharine Rupp Doering, the photographer's wife, holding baby Karl Doering. George Doering, the photographer's brother, is kneeling nearby. The other people in the image are unidentified., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group portrait of the Rupp family, Sellersville, Pennsylvania.]
View of the Rupp family posing in a field. Charles Rupp (photographer's brother-in-law), Mrs. Rupp (photographer's mother-in-law), George Doering (photographer's brother), and Catharine Rupp Doering, wife of the photographer, with baby Karl Doering sit on the grass in the foreground. Unidentified family members stand behind them., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
[Group portrait of three women and a baby.]
View of two women sitting in the foreground and one woman standing behind them, holding a smiling baby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.

Pages