Wissahickon Hall
Bartlett & French
still image
Graphic
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870
Stereographs -- 1860-1870
Landscape photographs -- 1860-1870
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
[ca. 1868]
1868
monographic
eng
2 photographic prints : albumen on stereograph mount ; 10 x 17.5 cm. (4 x 7 in.) and smaller.
Views depict the calm waters of Wissahickon Creek flanked by trees and the dirt drive looking north toward Wissahickon Hall erected circa 1849 by Harry Lippen at Wissahickon Drive (i.e., Lincoln Drive) below Gypsy Lane. View from drive shows stables facing the creek and a hand-made sign for Hoofland's German bitters. Hotel only partially visible.
Title from photographer's labels pasted on versos.
Yellow mounts with rounded corners.
Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Wissahickon Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Taverns (Inns)
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Lincoln Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.)
below Gypsy Lane
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
P.9047.24
P.9107.8
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department
stereo - Bartlett & French - Hotels [P.9047.24 and P.9107.8]
Unidentified series. No. 38 and 41
Unidentified series
No. 38 and 41
gihc
ppl
010319
20230712170752.0
263809
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