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Fairmount Park entrances postcards. [graphic].
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Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title
Fairmount Park entrances postcards. [graphic].
Date
1910-1920
Physical Description
16 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Depicts several entrances to Fairmount Park including the Lemon Hill (Callowhill Street) entrance showing a woman admiring William Rush's seven and one-half feet tall Water Nymph and Bittern fountain sculpture (1809) and the marble Frederick Graff Memorial (commissioned in 1844); the Dauphin Street entrance to the park showing another fountain sculpture located near Strawberry Mansion at Thirty-third and Dauphin Streets; the winding entrance path to the Spring Garden Street entrance; Emmanuel Fremiet's Joan of Arc statue marking the entrance to the Fairmount Park at 25th Street and Kelly Drive and the entrance near the Sunken Gardens and Horticultural Hall, showing vehicular traffic and pedestrians. Includes one unidentified entrance to the park.
Notes
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Fountains -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1920.
Postcards -- 1900-1920.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Entrances - 69]
Accession number
Brightbill 69
069-a01-b
069-a02-d
069-a03a-b
069-a03b-b
069-a04-a
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