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Old house, 4820 [sic] Germantown Ave. [graphic] / Drawn on zinc by J. Richards.
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Creator
Richards, John, d. 1889, artist.
Contributor
Hart, John, printer.
Title
Old house, 4820 [sic] Germantown Ave. [graphic] / Drawn on zinc by J. Richards.
Publisher
Philadelphia: John Hart, litho. Queen Street, Germantown, Pa
Date
[ca. 1863-ca. 1888]
Physical Description
1 print: zincograph, tinted with one stone; 35 x 31 cm. (13.5 x 12 in.)
Description
View of the residence of Christian Lehman (1714-1774), a surveyor and cartographer, who also was a proprietor of a nursery, at 4818 Germantown Avenue. Shows the stone house, set back from the cobblestone street, and with a yard, fence, and gate. Two additions are attached to the rear of the dwelling. Trees and shrubs line the property.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 525
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 84 R 511
Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 39:25
Inscribed on verso: Presented by Mrs. John C. Browne, Oct. 10, 1918.
Hart originally issued a series of prints of Germantown between 1863 and 1888, several of which were published as John Richards' Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania. A series of sixty former landmarks of Germantown and vicinity... Collated, arranged and annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse (Philadelphia, 1913).
Subject
Lehman, Christian, 1714-1774, -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 4818.
Genre
Zincographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1890.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 84 R 511
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