Details
Creator Hand, Alfred, photographer.
Title Lafayette's headquarters at Chadd's Ford. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1920
Date ca. 1920
Physical Description 1 negative: glass; 11 x 8 cm. (4 x 3.25 in.)
Description Oblique view of the front elevation of the Joseph Gilpin House, obscured by a large tree in the foreground. Owned by Gideon Gilpin when the Marquis de Lafayette occupied the house during the Battle of Brandywine. The original portion of the house was constructed circa 1695. Wings were added to the north of the original frame house in 1745 and to the west in 1782. The house was reconstructed by George Edwin Brumbaugh and purchased by the State of Pennsylvania in 1949.
Notes Inscribed in negative: 3151.
Title from negative sleeve.
Subject Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford.
Military headquarters -- Pennsylvania -- Chadds Ford.
Genre Glass plate negatives -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.77]
Accession number P.9259.77