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View from south Laurel Hill Cemetery, looking west. [graphic].
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Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Notman, John, 1810-1865, architect.
Robert Wood & Co.
Title
View from south Laurel Hill Cemetery, looking west. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date
ca. 1870
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
Shows two women standing in front of a fenced plot of gravestones. View also shows surrounding plots and an ironwork chair designed by Robert Wood & Co. Laurel Hill Cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. The cemetery expanded south in 1844.
Notes
Title from manuscript note on verso.
Trimmed yellow mount with rounded corners.
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
Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Ridge Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3822.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name
Notman, John, 1810-1865, architect.
Associated name
Robert Wood & Co.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [(3)1322.F.50a]
Accession number
(3)1322.F.50a
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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