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Cottage of W.H. Gatzmer, at Tacony [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A63777
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Contributor
Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Title
Cottage of W.H. Gatzmer, at Tacony [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: Wagner & McGuigan lith. 116 Chestnut St
Date
[ca. 1850]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph, tined with one stone; 16 x 21 cm.(6 x 8.25 in.)
Description
View showing the ornately trimmed cottage house of railroad agent William H. Gatzmer. In the front lawn, a girl and a boy play hoop near a hobby horse. Vessels travel on the Delaware River in the background. The Tacony neighborhood formed in 1846, when Gatzmer secured a charter for the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad and the riverfront area was used as a railroad terminus. In 1867, Gatzmer became president of the Camden & Amboy Railroad.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
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Philadelphia on Stone
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 18:8
Subject
Gatzmer, William H. -- Home and haunts.
Cottages -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Play (Recreation) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Tacony (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1840-1850.
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Castner 18:8
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection
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