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Creator J. W. and J. S. Moulton.
Title [Entrance lodge to Egglesfield, near Girard Avenue Bridge, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher Salem, Mass. : J. W. & J. S. Moulton, 206 Essex Street
Publisher MASS. Salem. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the guard house and "Equestrian" archway at Eaglesfield from under a brick arch. The estate was near the Girard Avenue Bridge in West Fairmount Park. Men, women and children stand and sit on the lawn in front of the guard house adorned with lattice details. The country estate, Eaglesfield, possessed by numerous property owners, including Robert Egglesfield Griffith, Ann and James Greenleaf, and Richard Rundle, declined to obscurity following the completion of the new Fairmount dam in 1822, the mid-century construction of the Girard Avenue Railroad Bridge, and the development of Fairmount Park in the 1860s. The house was razed around 1869.
Is part of View in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Yellow printed label pasted on verso contains explicative paragraph of text describing Fairmount Park.
Printed on mount: American Views.
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 Robert M. Vogel.
Subject Guardhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West.
Eaglesfield (Philadelphia, Pa : Estate)
Girard Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Moulton - Parks [P.9047.50]
Accession number P.9047.50