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Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A44073
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Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date
ca. 1860
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking southeast. Shows rowhouses, warehouses near a grassy lot, and church steeples.
Notes
Photographer's imprint stamped on mount.
Buff paper mount with square corners.
Title printed on mount.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1980), entry #219.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Rowhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Warehouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
North Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Cityscapes -- 1850-1860.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1a]
Accession number
(8)1322.F.1a
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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