Details
Creator Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist.
Contributor Kuhl, Frederick, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Philadelphia, von dem grossen Baume zu Kensington aus geschen, unter welchem William Penn den tractat mit den Indianern abschloss. [graphic] / Morris Traubel lith.
Publisher Philadelphia: Printed by F. Kuhl, Walnut St. no. 46 1/2
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 12 x 19 cm. (4.5 x 7.5 in.)
Description View looking toward the city from the Penn Treaty Tree and Monument in Kensington. In the foreground, two men stand between the monument marked "William Penn's Landing Place" and the elm tree across from men working at the piers and arriving by skiff at the riverbank. Laborers pile sacks on the dock, transport goods by boat, and load a wagon. In the background, tall ships are docked, vessels travel the Delaware River, and cityscape is visible. The monument was erected in 1827 by the Penn Society to commemorate the site of William Penn's Treaty with the Delaware Indians at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington).
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 599
Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Biographical / historical note Traubel assumed proprietorship of the Kuhl lithography studio at 46 1/2 Walnut Street circa 1854 under the firm name Traubel & Co.
Subject Penn's treaty with the Indians, 1682.
Elms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Monuments & memorials -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Vessels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Views - P [(1)1525.F.53c]
Accession number (1)1525.F.53c