Creator |
Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer. |
Title |
Photograph album [graphic] / John C. Browne. |
Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1873-1877 |
Date |
ca. 1873-ca. 1877 |
Physical Description |
1 album (42 photographs): albumen; album 23 x 19 cm.(9 x 7.5 in.) |
Description |
Photograph album belonging to Philadelphia amateur photographer John C. Browne. Contains informal portraits of family friends
and views of excursions and landmarks in Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pa.; Wilmington, De.; Belividere and Burlington, N.J.; and
the Philadelphia area. Images depict the Pennock-Miller family Delaware County mansion Forest Hill, including the library,
"Mrs. Pennock's [ceramic] Collection," greenhouse, and Sarah Pennock Miller with her son Caspar on a mule; Old Moravian Boarding
School, Moravian Sisters House, Protestant Episcopal Church, and "Old Oil Mill" (Bethlehem); Old Swedes Church (Wilmington);
and an old Moravian brewery, buildings, and Whitfield House (Nazareth). Other photographs depict Haines Spring house; "Andersons"
at Belvidere; a family picnic at Pierson's Ravine (Belvidere); the Wissahickon; [Fairmount?] "Park guard house"; portraits
of a family dog and posed portraits of Mary (Mame) Steele, including one showing the extreme length of her tresses, and Ettie
Lewis, Anna, May, Katie and Bessie Shippen attired in costume. Some views include fellow amateur photographer architect George
W. Hewitt. One Bethlehem view also shows D. & A. Luckenbach mill.
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Notes |
Front free end paper signed John C. Browne. |
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Photographs identified by inscriptions below images. Some annotated "Dry (albumen)" or "Dry." |
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Green cloth binding, with gilt, and stamped on cover: Album. |
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
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Two photographs of "Pennocks House" removed prior to acquisition by repository. |
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Eight inserted loose prints in envelopes removed and housed separately in John C. Browne Collection. |
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LCP AR [Annual Reports] 1989 p. 33-34. |
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Inventory available at repository. |
Subject |
Shippen Family -- Portraits. |
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Hewitt, George Watson 1841-1916 -- Portraits. |
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Miller, Sarah Wistar Pennock, 1840-1909 -- Portraits. |
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Miller, Caspar Wistar, 1866-1937 -- Portraits. |
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D. & A. Luckenbach. |
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Moravian Church -- Buildings. |
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Churches -- Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) |
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Dwellings -- Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) |
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Picnics -- Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) |
Geographic subject |
Forest Hill (Pa. : Estate) |
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Belvidere (N.J.) |
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Bethlehem (Pa.) |
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Burlington (N.J.) |
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Nazereth (Pa.) |
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Wilmington (Del.) |
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Wissahickon Creek (Pa.) |
Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1870-1890. |
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Landscape photographs -- 1870-1890. |
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Photograph albums -- 1870-1890. |
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Portrait photographs -- 1870-1890. |
IMPRINT |
PA. Philadelphia. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums [P.9316] |
Accession number |
P.9316 |