Details
Creator Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer.
Title [Picnic on the Wilson Estate] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Date [ca. 1863]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description View showing the Wilson Estate near Germantown in Philadelphia. Depicts the white men and women family members, some standing and some seated, dining at a table under a tent near a large tree. An African American man, attired in a white chef's hat and apron, stands in the right of the table and oversees the meal. In the right, a young white woman sits astride a horse.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from content and attire of the people.
Photographer's label on verso: Photographed by R. Newell, 724 Arch St., Philadelphia.
Purchase 1993.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject African American cooks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Eating & drinking -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Estates -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Picnics -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Residences [P.9439.3]
Accession number P.9439.3