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[Pine grove, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.] [graphic].
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Title
[Pine grove, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1875
Date
[ca. 1875]
Physical Description
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description
View from a grove of pine trees in West Fairmount Park looking northeast toward the Schuylkill River. In the right foreground, two African American men park guards, attired in caps and uniformed suits, stand in a field divided with wooden fences. In the distant background, the New York Connecting Railway Bridge is visible.
Notes
Possibly by R. Newell & Son.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Orange mount with rounded corners.
Manuscript note written on verso: "Pine Grove."
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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.
Gift of Jane Carson James, 1990.
Subject
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Guards -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pines -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Schuylkill River.
Geographic subject
Connecting Railway Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Parks [P.9299.44]
Accession number
P.9299.44
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
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