Details
Creator Newell, Robert, 1822-1897.
Title Views of the Wilson family on their estate. [graphic] / Photographed by R. Newell, 724 Arch St., Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia : Robert Newell
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 22 photographs : albumen on card mount ; mount 8 x 17 cm (3.25 x 6.75 in.) (stereograph format)
Description Views show the Wilson family recreating on their estate. Depicts the family reading, picnicking, sitting and lounging in their yard, walking and working in their gardens, harvesting corn, playing with family dogs, posing near a small footbridge, and eating on their porch. Several members of the family are seated on their horses in a few of the images. One image includes an African American man, attired in a white chef’s hat and apron, overseeing a meal under a tent. Also shows exterior views of the family's two-and-a-half story residence with porches on the first two levels, a stone barn, and outbuildings. American flags are included in several of the images.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date based on content and attire of the people.
Photographer's labels pasted on versos.
Stereograph [P.9439.17] contains manuscript note on verso: "For Mr. Wilson with compliments of the artist."
Contains twenty-two photographs, seventeen printed on yellow mounts with square corners and five printed on mint green mounts with square corners.
Purchase 1993.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Wilson family -- Homes and haunts.
African American cooks.
African American men.
Barns.
Carriages & coaches.
Croquet.
Dogs.
Dwellings.
Estates.
Families.
Flags -- American -- 1860-1870.
Gardens.
Harvesting.
Horses.
Leisure.
Pedestrian bridges.
Picnics.
Recreation.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Group portraits -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Residences [P.9439.1-22]
Accession number P.9439.1
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