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Sedgely Mansion. [graphic].
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Creator
R. Newell & Son.
Contributor
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect.
Title
Sedgely Mansion. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia : Stereoscopic views published by R. Newell & Son, photographers
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1872
Date
[ca. 1872]
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
Oblique view showing two men standing behind three women seated in front of Sedgley estate's tenant's cottage. The tenant's cottage, also known as the Porter House, was used as a guard house and jail after the estate was purchased by the city for incorporation into Fairmount Park in 1857. Benjamin Henry Latrobe designed the extant cottage and the mansion built 1799 for William Cramond on the east bank of the Schuylkill River.
Is part of
Fairmount Park Views No. 62
Notes
Title and publisher's imprint from printed series list on verso. Series includes sixty-seven other titles (No. 58-125).
Manuscript note in pencil on mount: Sedgely mansion.
Buff mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Subject
Cramond, William -- Homes and haunts.
Jails -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Guardhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East.
Sedgley (Philadelphia, Pa : Estate)
Genre
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820, architect.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Residences [P.9299.66]
Accession number
P.9299.66
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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