Details
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Mansion at Woodlands Cemetery, 3900 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date ca. 1865
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 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. Also shows a man and a woman with a parasol standing near a mausoleum in front of the mansion. Mansion was used as the residence of the cemetery superintendent.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Orange mount with square corners.
Manuscript note on accompanying label: Mansion Woodlands.
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 Hamilton, William, 1745-1813 -- Homes and haunts.
Woodlands Cemetery (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Mansions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- 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 - unidentified Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.43e]
Accession number (8)1322.F.43e