Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title Bartram's house and garden postcards. [graphic].
Date 1900-1910
Physical Description 20 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Contains views of the Bartram house and garden, built 1730-1731 by botanist John Bartram. Primarily contains exterior views of the house showing the west side and the east front. Views of the garden include cypress tree, "Lady Petre Pear-tree," and watering trough. Also includes view of the sitting room and a reproduction of a painting of John Bartram.
Notes Contains 4 postcards printed in color and 16 in black and white.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Bartram, John, 1699-1777 -- Homes and haunts.
Botanical gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fifty-third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 1650.
Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Photomechanical prints -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Buildings - Bartram House and Garden - 21]
Accession number Brightbill 21
021-b01b-a
021-b02-d