Details
Creator Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer.
Title Camac's Woods, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]: John Moran]
Date [ca. 1861]
Physical Description 2 photographic prints: albumen on stereograph mounts; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Shows a wooded path and fenced corn fields on the estate of gentleman Turner Camac (i.e., Carnac) at the northeast corner of Eleventh Street and Montgomery Avenue. Views also include a man and several boys posed on and near a fence. The Camac estate was built circa 1841 and demolished in 1870.
Notes Attributed to John Moran.
Yellow paper mounts with square corners.
Title from labels pasted on mounts.
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.
Subject Carnac, Turner -- Homes and haunts.
Estates -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Forests -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Boys -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Montgomery Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1000 block.
North Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Moran - Views [(8)1322.F.39i; (8)1322.F.41b]
Accession number (8)1322.F.41b
(8)1322.F.39i