Details
Creator Herline & Co.
Title Satterlee Heights. Satterlee Hospital Grounds, 27th Ward. West Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia, Herline & Co., lith., n.e. cor. 10th & Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 49 x 61 cm.(19.25 x 24 in.)
Description Aerial view showing the area between 46th, 42nd, Walnut streets and Baltimore Avenue. Includes lots for purchase at Satterlee Heights, residences, Mill Creek Culvert (built 1855), ponds, groves of trees and landscaped blocks. Key to 52 property holders printed above and below the image. Properties include Twadell Estate (1), Woodland Presbyterian Church (18), G. C. Fell's Buildings (20), Morton McMichael (25); Clarence H. Clark (i.e., Chestnutwold, later Clark's Park) (29), John McArthur, Jr. (33), William Blasius (38), and Mrs. Josephine Simpson (52). Also shows minimal street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages. The residential development of Satterlee Heights proceeded on land previously occupied by the Civil War hospital Satterlee U.S. General Hospital that operated 1862-1865.
Notes Contains pencil annotations of lot numbers on recto.
Includes compass pointed to right.
Printed on recto: These Lots for Sale by
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 674
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Lower left edge mended.
Subject Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Real property -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Landowners -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Aerial views -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Hospitals [6537.F]
Accession number 6537.F