Details
Creator R. Newell & Son.
Title [Maple Spring Hotel] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Published by R. Newell & Son
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1876
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the roadhouse and picnic resort established around 1865. The hotel became known for proprietor Joseph Smith's prominently displayed hand-carved curios created from laurel root he gathered along the Wissahickon Creek. The hotel fell into ruin following the loss of its liquor privileges and was razed in the late 19th century. A stable and boat shed stand adjacent to the hotel.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Buff mount with rounded corners.
Paper label pasted on verso listing over sixty Fairmount Park views published by firm.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Misidentifed as "Wissahickon Hall" on paper label on verso.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Subject Maple Spring Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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.9047.18]
Accession number P.9047.18