Details
Creator Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer.
Title Westtown Boarding School, Chester Co., Pa. [graphic] : Instituted, 1794. Opened, 1799. Enlarged, 1847. / Photographed by John Moran, 1865.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date 1865
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in)
Description Informal group portrait of male students in front of the main building "in the boys bounds" [i.e. on the boys side]. Includes boys standing in trees. Westtown was established by the Society of Friends as a boarding school for boys and girls.
Notes Title from printed paper label on verso.
Distributor's imprint stamped on verso: J.W. Queen & Co. Phila. Apr. 186[5] PA.
2 cent internal revenue stamp on verso.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Westtown Boarding School.
Society of Friends -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Westtown.
Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania -- Westtown.
Boys -- Education -- Pennsylvania -- Westtown.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Group portraits -- 1860-1870.
Printer J.W. Queen & Co., distributor.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Moran - Education [P.8547]
Accession number P.8547