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On the Wissahickon near the Old Log Cabin [graphic].
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Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer.
Title
On the Wissahickon near the Old Log Cabin [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1867
Date
ca. 1867
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 8 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
View showing Sarah Greenwood's Woolen Mill, barn, and house above Hermit's Lane near Wissahickon Creek. The mill, built in the 1740s, was destroyed by fire in 1872. In the foreground, a couple stands on a rock in the Wissahickon near a group of people sitting in a rowboat perched on the bank of the creek.
Is part of
Unidentified series. 42
Notes
Attributed to Bartlett & French.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Textile industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Barns -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.9146.4]
Accession number
P.9146.4
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