Details
Creator Dubois, George, artist.
Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Title Chapel of the Lebanon Cemetery [graphic] / Lith. by G. Dubois.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored; 48 x 65 cm.(18.5 x 25.5 in.)
Description View of the chapel with steeple at the African American rural cemetery founded in 1849 at Passyunk Road near 18th and Wolf streets in South Philadelphia. Also shows monuments in the cemetery and visitors, including a family. Cemetery protected by a stone wall with iron fencing, including an iron gate. Cemetery was condemned in 1899 and closed in 1903, with the bodies removed to Eden Cemetery.
Is referenced by Wainwright 52
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 103
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 63 L 441
Repair upper left edge.
Subject Chapels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cemeteries -- Pensylvania -- Philadelphia.
African Americans -- Structures -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject South Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 63 L 441