Details
Creator Hand, Alfred, photographer.
Title Carlton House, in lower part of Germantown, cor. Stokley & Midvale Ave. Built by Henry Hill at unknown date before Revolution. Rebuilt 1780. Now occupied by Mrs. Newhall. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1920
Date 1920
Physical Description 1 transparency: glass; 11 x 8 cm. (4 x 3.25 in.)
Description View of the rear porch and garden of the Carlton Mansion. Purportedly named after an English castle inhabited by Queen Elizabeth I. The original house was destroyed by the British in 1777 but rebuilt in 1780 by Isaac Tustin. Served as Washington's Headquarters for a few weeks before and after the Battle of Brandywine. Purchased by Cornelius S. Smith in May of 1840 and later bequeathed to his children.
Notes Inscribed in transparency: 4257.
Title from transparency sleeve.
Also known as the Carlton-Smith Mansion.
Subject Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Homes and haunts.
Smith family -- Homes and haunts.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Military headquarters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Midvale Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2932.
Genre Glass plate transparencies -- 1920-1930.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| 4x5 Glass Transparencies - Hand [P.9259.172]
Accession number P.9259.172