Details
Contributor Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title Philadelphia Cemetery. On the Passyunk Road. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : T. Sinclair's Lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone ; 40 x 56 cm. (15.75 x 22.25 in.)
Description View showing the chapel of Philadelphia Cemetery, also referred to as New Philadelphia Cemetery, fronting on Passyunk Avenue between Twentieth and Twenty-second Streets. Pedestrians linger outside of the stone wall and carriage gate. Philadelphia Cemetery opened in 1828, and the last burial occurred in 1902. The bodies were removed to Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill circa 1915.
Is referenced by Wainwright 282
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 576
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Philadelphia Cemetery (Moyamensing, Philadelphia, Pa.)
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Passyunk Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2000-2100.
Passyunk Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2100-2200.
Genre Lithograph -- Tinted -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **W282 [P.2126]
Accession number P.2126