| Creator |
American Stereoscopic Company. |
| Contributor |
Langenheim, Loyd & Co. |
|
Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect. |
|
James W. Queen & Company, distributor. |
| Title |
Statue of Stephen Girard, Girard College, Phila. [graphic] / Langenheim. |
| Publisher |
Philadelphia : American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1858 |
| Date |
c1858 |
| Physical Description |
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.) |
| Description |
View of the full-length Girard College statue of Stephen Girard, his hands crossed at his waist. The life-size marble statue,
instated in 1846, was installed in front of Girard's sarcophagus in the Main Hall (i.e., Founder's Hall) of Girard College
around 1851.
|
| Notes |
Title printed on mount. |
|
Photographer's blind stamp on mount. |
|
Publisher's label pasted on verso. |
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Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James W. Queen & Co., opticians, No. 924 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. |
|
White mount with square corners. |
|
Founder's Hall, also identified as the main building, built 1833-1847 after designs by Thomas Ustick Walter. Endowed by philanthropist
Stephen Girard to educate boys without fathers. Girard ran away from home in France at the age of fourteen, worked his way
up to ship captain and landed in the states in 1776. He became one of the wealthiest men in America before his death seventeen
years before the opening of Girard College in 1848.
|
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
| Biographical / historical note |
The Langenheim Brothers copyrighted a series of stereographs with labels inscribed: "American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim,
Loyd & Co., Philadelphia" in 1858. They continued to produce stereographs until 1865, when they withdrew from the American
Stereoscopic Co.
|
| Subject |
Girard, Stephen, 1750-1831 -- Statues. |
|
Girard, Stephen, 1750-1831 -- Tombs. |
|
Girard College -- Buildings. |
|
Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Orphans -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
College Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West -- 1201-1211. |
| Genre |
Stereographs -- 1850-1860. |
|
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860. |
| Associated name |
Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect. |
| Printer |
James W. Queen & Company, distributor. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Langenheim - Monuments and statues [P.9462.4] |
| Accession number |
P.9462.4 |
