| Creator |
R. Newell & Son. |
| Title |
Wissahickon [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[United States] : [publisher not identified] |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1875 |
| Date |
[ca. 1875] |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : albumen on card mount; mount 10 x 18 cm (4 x 7 in.) (stereograph format) |
| Description |
View showing the Wissahickon Creek hostelry, Old Log Cabin Hotel, reconstructed out of the log cabin built during William
Henry Harrison's 1840 presidential campaign, operated by Tommy Llewellyn. The hotel containing a dining room, drinking room,
and ladies saloon, also displayed wildlife as a novelty attraction. A white woman and an African American man with a horse
stand in front of the hotel. The creek is visible in the foreground. The hotel was razed in 1872.
|
| Notes |
Title from manuscript note on mount. |
|
Inscribed in negative: 76. |
|
Orange mount with rounded corners. |
|
Reissue of a circa 1870 view entitled "Old Log Cabin" by R. Newell & Son of Philadelphia from the series "Stereoscopic views.
Fairmount Park views."
|
|
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
|
Gift of Jane Carson James, 1990. |
|
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 |
Old Log Cabin (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
|
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.) |
|
Lincoln Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- above Gypsy Lane. |
|
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Genre |
Stereographs -- 1870-1880. |
|
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Hotels [P.9299.50] |
| Accession number |
P.9299.50 |
