04074nkm a22006615a 4500 000277695 20230712170755.0 kh boc 041115s1873 paunnn kneng d 10 NEHE-1515 ppl PPL gihc Leaming, Robert Waln, 1824-1884, photographer. Views of Ashwood, Gulph Mills, and other sites in Delaware County and surrounding counties in Pennsylvania [graphic]. ca. 1873. 1 album (24 photographic prints): albumen on cardboard; album 19 x 20 cm. (7.5 x 8 in). Wooden binding. Title supplied by cataloger. Captions by Robert Waln Leaming on the recto and verso of the album pages. Album containing 24 photographs showing landscape views of Delaware County and portraiture of family and acquaintances. Images include exterior and interior views of the Leaming family estate Ashwood near Villanova and views of Conshohocken, Darby Creek near Lewis Mill, Valley Forge, Gulph and Morris mills and dams, Hammer Hollow, and farmland in Cream and Pleasant valleys. Also contains an image of Radnor Meeting House and a photographic reproduction of a cloud filled sky captioned "Sic Itur ad Astra" (i.e., thus you shall go the stars). Many of the views include Leaming's wife and children and others posed in parlors; with animals; on bridges and dirt paths; at brooks, creeks, spring houses, and barns; and in modes of transportion, including canoes and horse-drawn vehicles. Other portrait sitters include Alice Bourda and children Ernie Law, Tommy Gaffney, Henny Lewis, and Og Hoffman. Robert Waln Leaming, grandson of China Trade merchant Robert Waln (1765-1836), was a merchant by trade who also painted and practiced photography. He was married to Julia Scott, descended from the royal Scotts of Ancrum, with whom he had four children Rebecca, i.e., Reb (1850-1911); Mary, i.e., Mame (1851-1911); Julia, i.e., Duly (1854-1913), and Thomas (1856-1911). Leaming was also an active member of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. His residence Ashwood, not to be confused with the Penn-Gaskell/DeCosta property of the same name (208 Ashwood Road, Villanova), was razed in the late 19th century. Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. See LCP AR [Annual Report] 1999, p. 45-46. Gift of Mrs. Clifford Lewis III. Housed in phase box. Leaming, Robert Waln, 1824-1884 Homes and haunts. Leaming family Portraits. Leaming family Animals & pets. Radnor Meeting House (Radnor, Pa.) Estates Pennsylvania Delaware County. lctgm Bridges Pennsylvania. lctgm 83005 Creeks Pennsylvania. lctgm Farms Pennsylvania. lctgm 83080 Mills Pennsylvania. lctgm Ashwood (Pa. : Estate) Delaware County (Pa.) 3371 Albumen prints 1870-1880. gmgpc Landscape photographs 1870-1880. gmgpc Portrait photographs 1870-1880. gmgpc Photograph albums 1870-1880. gmgpc Wooden bindings (Binding), rbbin SP10 Philadelphia artists. Imprint PA. Philadelphia. 1873. P.9759.2 Library Company of Philadelphia PRINT PRINT albums [P.9759.2] P.9759.2 P-9759-2-cover Vol. 2, Cover P-9759-2-2 Vol. 2, p. 2 P-9759-2-7 Vol. 2, p. 7 P-9759-2-9 Vol. 2, p. 9 P-9759-2-10 Vol. 2, p. 10 P-9759-2-11 Vol. 2, p. 11 P-9759-2-12 Vol. 2, p. 12 P-9759-2-13 Vol. 2, p. 13 P-9759-2-18 Vol. 2, p. 18 P-9759-2-20 Vol. 2, p. 20 P-9759-2-21 Vol. 2, p. 21 263848 263848 000277695 ERIKA 40 20100615 1530 000277695 ERIKA 40 20100615 1532 000277695 ERIKA 40 20100616 0830 000277695 ERIKA 40 20100616 0833 000277695 ERIKA 40 20100616 1446 000277695 ERIKA 40 20100629 1956 000277695 LINDAW 40 20120420 1152 000277695 KINAYA 40 20191118 1105 ppl PA. Philadelphia. 1873. Imprint