Details
Creator Richards, John, d. 1889, artist.
Title [The Germantown Academy [graphic] / Drawn on the zinc by J. Richards]
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1913
Date [ca. 1913]
Physical Description 1 photomechanical print: photolithograph;
Description View of an 1875 drawing showing the school built 1760-1761 by carpenter Jacob Knor at 110 School House Lane. Housed the bi-lingual private boys school established by the Pennsylvania Germans in Germantown in 1759. Building was used as a hospital during the American Revolution and was chartered as a public school in 1784.
Notes Reproduction of print published in Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania: a series of sixty former landmarks of Germantown and vicinity drawn on zinc during the years 1863 - 1888 by John Richards; collated, arranged and annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse (Philadelphia, 1913), plate LII. Caption in publication reads: The Germantown academy on southwest corner of Greene Street and School House Lane. Built A.D. 1760-61. Far famed for many of its teachers and pupils.
Printed lower right corner: 1875.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 301
Gift of David Doret.
Subject Germantown Academy.
German Americans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject School House Lane (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 110.
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Photolithographs -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Education [P.2004.44.20]
Accession number P.2004.44.20