Details
Creator Breidenbach, D., fl. 1870-1879.
Title Grant's Log Cabin, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Photographiert bei D. Breidenbach.
Publisher Philadelphia : [D. Breidenbach]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1876
Date [ca. 1876]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17.5 cm. (3.25 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the cabin used by Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant on the east side of Carriage Drive in Fairmount Park. Two men stand and pose at the picket fence surrounding the cabin. Served as Grant's headquarters and the supply center for the Union armies during the seige of Richmond. Moved to Philadelphia circa 1870 from City Point, Virginia as a gift to citizens of Philadelphia for their support during the Civil War. Transfered back to Virginia and rebuilt there in 1983.
Is part of Americaner Landschaften fur den Sterescop.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 -- Homes and haunts.
Log cabins -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Military headquarters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Carriage Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East.
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Miscellaneous - Briedenbach - Parks [P.9260.88]
Accession number P.9260.88