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Creator
Bartlett & French.
Title
Wissahickon Hall. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date
[ca. 1868]
Physical Description
2 photographic prints : albumen on stereograph mount ; 10 x 17.5 cm. (4 x 7 in.) and smaller.
Description
Views depict the calm waters of Wissahickon Creek flanked by trees and the dirt drive looking north toward Wissahickon Hall erected circa 1849 by Harry Lippen at Wissahickon Drive (i.e., Lincoln Drive) below Gypsy Lane. View from drive shows stables facing the creek and a hand-made sign for Hoofland's German bitters. Hotel only partially visible.
Is part of
Unidentified series. No. 38 and 41
Notes
Title from photographer's labels pasted on versos.
Yellow mounts with rounded corners.
P.9047.24 gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note
Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Subject
Wissahickon Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Taverns (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Lincoln Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- below Gypsy Lane.
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Landscape photographs -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Hotels [P.9047.24 and P.9107.8]
Accession number
P.9047.24
P.9107.8
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