Details
Creator Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist.
Contributor Childs & Inman, lithographers.
Title Mount Airy Seminary: [graphic] American Classical and Military Academy, at Mount Airy, Germantown, 8 miles from Philadelphia / From Nature & on Stone by G. Lehman.
Publisher Philadelphia: Childs & Inman's Lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1831
Date [ca. 1831]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 21 x 22 cm. (8 x 8.75 in.)
Description Exterior view. Right wing is the former country seat of Pennsylvania Chief Justice William Allen known as "Mount Airy." Founded as Mount Airy Seminary (later Mount Airy College or Collegiate Institute) in 1807, the school served as a military academy 1826-1835 under the superintendence of Augustus L. Roumfort. Demolished in 1848 or 1849.
Is referenced by Wainwright 15.2
Notes Cephas G. Childs and Henry Inman were partners 1831-33.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 15.2
Subject Mount Airy Seminary.
American Classical and Military Lyceum (Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Military education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 7300 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W15.2 [P.2010]
Accession number P.2010