Details
Contributor P.S. Duval & Son, printer.
Title The Roxborough School House. Founded by William Levering, 1748, rebuilt 1795 [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son lith
Date [1858]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 14 x 9 cm. (5.5 x 3.5 in.)
Description Exterior view of the small two-and-one-half story school house, renamed the "Levering Primary School" in 1847. Shows the side and front of the building also used as a public hall. A gated pathway and fence are visible next to the school house. A large tree stands in the front yard. The school was rebuilt again in 1857. William Levering (1705-1774) was a proprietor with large land holdings who not only built the first school in Roxborough, but the first smith shop and inn.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Published in Horatio Gate Jones's The Levering Family; or, a genealogical account of Wigard Levering and Gerhard Levering,....(Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1858), opp. p.26.
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Philadelphia on Stone
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 27A:32
Subject Roxborough School House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Roxborough (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Photograph Collection. | FLP Castner 27A:32