Details
Creator Hand, Alfred, photographer.
Title Shoemaker or Rock Hill, 347 E. Penn St., possibly the oldest house in Germantown. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1920
Date ca. 1920
Physical Description 1 negative: film; 11 x 8 cm. (4 x 3.25 in.)
Description Shows the first farm of Isaac Shoemaker, known as the Rock House, built in the late 17th century on East Penn Street, east of the Reading Railroad Bridge. Farm also served as a location from which William Penn preached and as a station on the underground railroad.
Notes Inscribed in negative: 3316.
Title from negative sleeve.
Original negative housed in freezer.
Subject Shoemaker, Isaac -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Underground Railroad -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rock House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Geographic subject Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Penn Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East -- 347.
Genre Safety film negatives -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.93]
Accession number P.9259.93