Details
Creator R. Newell & Son, photographer.
Contributor Kiralfy Bros, publisher.
Title [Old Log Cabin, Wissahickon] [graphic] / Photo. by R. Newell & Son.
Publisher Philadelphia : Kiralfy Bros
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1876
Date 1876
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, 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 supplied by cataloger.
Pink mount with rounded corners.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Publisher's imprint printed on verso.
Inscribed in negative: 76.
Printed on mount: No. 4.
Reissue of circa 1870 view entitled "Old Log Cabin" by R. Newell & Son of Philadelphia from the series Stereoscopic views. Fairmount Park views.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel, 1984.
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 Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Lincoln Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- above Gypsy Lane.
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Printer Kiralfy Bros, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Hotels [P.9047.95]
Accession number P.9047.95