Details
Creator Cremer, James, 1821-1893.
Title [Dwelling on west bank of Schuylkill River from Laurel Hill Cemetery] [graphic] / James Cremer, photographer and publisher, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia : James Cremer
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.)
Description Landscape view from the hillside of Laurel Hill Cemetery on the east bank of the Schuylkill River showing a dwelling on the west bank. In the foreground, a man sits in a guard house at the base of the rocky hill. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks, not visible in this photograph, were situated behind the dwelling.
Is part of Scenery in Fairmount Park 141
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript note on verso: Mount Prospect from east park.
Photographer's imprint in red text on mount.
Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of Fairmount Park entitled, "Fairmount Park and Water Works, Philadelphia" printed on verso. Text surmounted by vignette of state seal of Pennsylvania and surrounded by decorative border.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Guardhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.8923.6]
Accession number P.8923.6