Details
Title Pavillion [sic], George's Hill [graphic].
Publisher New York
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Promotional stereograph depicting the bandstand, built in 1872, on George's Hill near Fifty-Second Street in West Fairmount Park. The hill was given to the city by siblings Jesse and Rebecca George in 1868. Shows a crowd of men and women, including two African American men, possibly carriage drivers, posing in front of the pavilion. In the foreground, a coach is parked.
Is part of Fairmount Park
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Date inferred from content and the people's attire.
Buff mount with rounded corners.
Contains label posted on verso promoting Young's Favorite Blue Grass Rye and Wheat Whiskies distributed by New York wine shop, Acker, Merrall & Condit, and distilled by Philadelphia distiller Alexander Young & Co.
Purchase 2000.
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 Acker, Merrall & Condit.
Alexander Young & Co.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pavilions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Whiskey.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.9774.2]
Accession number P.9774.2