Details
Creator R. Newell & Son.
Title Indian Rock Hotel [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by R. Newell & Son, photographers
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1872
Date [ca. 1872]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Exterior, oblique view depicting the roadhouse hotel opened in 1848 by Reuben Sands north of Rex Avenue Bridge near Indian Rock in the Wissahickon Valley. Shows the two-story building with a covered veranda. Two white men stand leaning against the columns on the veranda, while another man stands on the ground. A white woman with a young girl stand behind the bannisters on the second-story veranda. An African American man, attired in an apron, stands in the left on a staircase beside the house. The hotel was sold to the Fairmount Park Commission in 1872 and Sands opened a second Indian Rock Hotel at a nearby location.
Is part of Stereoscopic views. Fairmount Park views. 79
Notes Pale pink mount with rounded corners.
Paper label on verso listing over sixty Fairmount Park stereoscopic views published by the firm.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Reproduced in Joseph D. Bicknell's The Wissahickon in History, Song, and Story written for the City History Society of Philadelphia and read at the meeting of October 10, 1906 (Philadelphia, 1908), p. 18.
Purchase 1989.
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.
Biographical / historical note Newell and Son, a partnership between Robert and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Subject Indian Rock Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American household employees -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereos - Newell - Hotels [P.9260.69]
Accession number P.9260.69