Details
Creator Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist.
Contributor Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.
Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Philadelphia (Pa.). Odd Fellows' Cemetery Company, copyright holder.
Title Odd Fellows' Cemetery, Islington Lane Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lithographed by A. Hoffy, from a design by Thos. U Walter under the direction of S. Snyder Leidy, Jno. M. Dutton and Benjamin R. Bacon; P.S. Duval's steam lith. press
Publisher Philadephia: Odd Fellows Cemetery Company
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1849
Date c1849
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 59 x 81 cm. (23.25 x 32 in.)
Description View showing the gatehouse, designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, to the cemetery chartered 1849 near Diamond and Twenty-Fourth streets. Street and pedestrian traffic is visible in the foreground. Men, women, and children walk and stand on the sidewalk to and in front of the gatehouse. In the street, a carriage and wagon pass as several individuals ride on horseback, including a man fending off a barking dog raised on his hind legs. Also shows trees, a chapel, and a monument on the cemetery grounds. Cemetery removed 1951. Per contemporary published accounts, architects Hoxie & Button designed the gatehouse constructed.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 518
See Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine (April 1860), p. 316.
Subject Odd Fellows' Cemetery (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gatehouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Diamond Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2400 block.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Associated name Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Printer Philadelphia (Pa.). Odd Fellows' Cemetery Company, copyright holder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Cemeteries [P.8613]
Accession number P.8613