Depicts Sweet Briar mansion in Fairmount Park built in 1797 for Philadelphia merchant and politician Samuel Breck in West Fairmount Park. Location of Fillmyre's Beer Garden in 1866 before it was incorporated into the park in 1869 and remodeled in 1870 for use as a children's restaurant., Remodeled 1870., ,
Creator
Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date
ca. 1880
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.47]
Depicts businesses and the Church of the Assumption (1131-1133 Spring Garden) near the northwest corner of North Twelfth and Spring Garden streets. Includes a street market shed, and pedestrian and street traffic, with three horsecars., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., LCP AR (Annual Report) 1975, p. 6-11.
Creator
Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date
1884
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.136], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc136.html
