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The Livzey [sic] Place, Allen's Lane & Wissahickon Creek. [graphic] / Drawn on zinc by J. Richard.
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Creator
Richards, John, d. 1889, artist.
Contributor
Hart, John, publisher.
Title
The Livzey [sic] Place, Allen's Lane & Wissahickon Creek. [graphic] / Drawn on zinc by J. Richard.
Publisher
Philadelphia: John Hart, litho. Queen Street, Germantown, Pa
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1884
Date
1884
Physical Description
1 print: zincograph, hand-colored and tinted with one stone; 28 x 36 cm. (11 x 14 in.)
Description
View of the south elevation of the farmhouse also known as Glen Fern, originally built 1733-1739, on the east side of the Wissahickon Creek at 1100 Livezey Lane in Fairmount Park. A couple stands near the entrance of the kitchen and two chickens and a rooster forage in the foreground. Also shows the cooper shop, a small mason building, built circa 1808 on the property in the right of the image. Farmer, miller, and provincial commissioner Thomas Livezey purchased the land and residence in 1747. Property remained in the Livezey family until 1869 when purchased by the Fairmount Park Commission.
Notes
Date printed on recto.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 138
Gift of David Doret.
Hart originally issued a series of prints of Germantown between 1863 and 1888, several of which were published as John Richards' Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania. A series of sixty former landmarks of Germantown and vicinity... Collated, arranged and annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse (Philadelphia, 1913). Caption in publication reads: Glen Fern, or Livezey Mansions on the Wissahickon Creek at the foot of Livezey's Lane. Built about 1745. The scene of stirring events in Peterson's "Pemberton." [i.e., Henry Peterson's Pemberton, or One Hundred Year's Ago (Philadelphia, 1873).
Subject
Livezey, Thomas -- Homes and haunts.
Farmhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Livezey Lane (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1100.
Genre
Zincographs -- Color -- 1880-1890.
Printer
Hart, John, publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW-Residences [P.2006.16.8]
Accession number
P.2006.16.8
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