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Benjamin Franklin's grave, 5th and Arch St. [graphic] / Photo by R. Newell & Son.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A99982
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Creator
R. Newell & Son.
Contributor
Kiralfy Bros., publisher.
Title
Benjamin Franklin's grave, 5th and Arch St. [graphic] / Photo by R. Newell & Son.
Publisher
Philadelphia : Kiralfy Bros
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1876
Date
c1876
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.)
Description
View showing the flat headstone over the grave of Benjamin Franklin in Christ Church cemetery at 420-424 Arch Street. Includes adjacent headstones, a large crowd of spectators looking at the grave from behind an iron fence, and the front facades of buildings on Arch Street behind the cemetery.
Is part of
Unidentified series No. 4
Notes
Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia.
Title from manuscript note on mount.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Pink 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
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Tomb.
Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Cemeteries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 420-424.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Printer
Kiralfy Bros., publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Cemeteries [P.9299.124]
Accession number
P.9299.124
In Collections
Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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