Details
Contributor Sartain, John, 1808-1897, architect.
Title Entrance to Monument Cemetery. [graphic].
Publisher United States
Publisher United States. 1868
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Exterior view looking southwest at the cemetery's Gothic gatehouse, chapel and steeple on the west side of North Broad Street at Berks Street. Includes two pedestrians standing on the sidewalk in front of the cemetery's entrance, and a milkman's coach parked in the street in the left foreground. Designed by Philadelphia artist and engraver John Sartain, the building also served as an office and superitendent's house before it was demolished to open Berks Street between Broad and Sixteenth Streets in 1904. Cemetery was established in 1838 by Dr. John Elkinton.
Notes Title on negative.
Manuscript note on verso: Phila.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Monument Cemetery (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 1900.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Sartain, John, 1808-1897, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [P.8451.4]
Accession number P.8451.4