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Mount Airy Seminary: [graphic] American Classical and Military Academy, at Mount Airy, Germantown, 8 miles from Philadelphia / From Nature & on Stone by G. Lehman.
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Creator
Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist. Childs & Inman, lithographers.
Title
Mount Airy Seminary: [graphic] American Classical and Military Academy, at Mount Airy, Germantown, 8 miles from Philadelphia / From Nature & on Stone by G. Lehman.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Childs & Inman's Lith.,
Date
ca. 1831.
Extent
1 print: lithograph; 21 x 22 cm. (8 x 8.75 in.)
Description
Exterior view. Right wing is the former country seat of Pennsylvania Chief Justice William Allen known as "Mount Airy." Founded as Mount Airy Seminary (later Mount Airy College or Collegiate Institute) in 1807, the school served as a military academy 1826-1835 under the superintendence of Augustus L. Roumfort. Demolished in 1848 or 1849.
Notes
Cephas G. Childs and Henry Inman were partners 1831-33.
Genre
Lithographs 1830-1840.
Subject
Mount Airy Seminary.
American Classical and Military Lyceum (Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Military education--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)--7300 block.
Is part of
Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by
Wainwright 15, second state.
Has format
TMP.objres.4494.jpg
Related resource
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W015-2.htm
Call number
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W15 [P.2010]
Accession number
P.2010
In Collections
Wainwright Lithograph Collection
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