Details
Creator W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Woodlands Cemetery, 3900 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date ca. 1862
Physical Description 3 photographic prints: 1 albumen on stereograph mount; 2 albumen; 8 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Shows the mansion built for botanist William Hamilton in the 1780s on the West Philadelphia estate converted to a cemetery in 1840. Mansion was used as the residence of the cemetery superintendent.
Notes Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Manuscript note on mount of stereograph: Woodland Cemetery.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Contains one stereographic print on pale yellow paper mount with square corners, one unmounted stereographic print; and one unmounted half-stereographic print.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Hamilton, William, 1745-1813 -- Homes and haunts.
Woodlands Cemetery (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Mansions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Woodland Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3900.
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Langenheim - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.39d & 43f; P.2005.2.4]
Accession number (8)1322.F.39d
(8)1322.F.43f
P.2005.2.4