Details
Creator Newell, Robert, 1822-1897.
Title Views of Mount Peace, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : R. Newell
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 2 photographic prints : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Views depict the Ralston estate known as "Mount Peace" located near St. James the Less and the junction of Nicetown Lane and Lamb Tavern Road. One image shows an open field and farm building in the foreground and larger dwellings and outbuildings in the distant background. The other depicts a man sitting in the grass next to a winding tree-lined path. Probably photographed before the Odd Fellows Cemetery Company purchased the land to build Mount Peace Cemetery (adjacent to Mount Vernon Cemetery) on the site in 1865-66.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Attributed to Robert Newell.
Manuscript note on verso of item 7992.F.2: Mount Peace near Philadelphia.
Manuscript note on verso of item 7992.F.13: View at Mount Peace (near Phila.).
Yellow mounts with square corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Ralson family -- Homes and haunts.
Estates -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Trails & paths -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Mount Peace (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Landscape photographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Views [7992.F.2 and 7992.F.13]
Accession number 7992.F.2
7992.F.13