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- Title
- Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa
- Description
- Aerial view showing Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Depicts campus buildings, nearby residences and industrial areas, and bridges spanning the Lehigh River. Lehigh University was founded in 1865 by Asa Packer., Negative number: 4506.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1925
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.4506]
- Title
- Bethlehem, Pa
- Description
- View of cityscape of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from a hill., Title printed on mount., Photographer's blind stamp on mount., Publisher's label pasted on verso., Stamped on verso: G. Pfund, 4731 N. Front St., Phila., Pa., White mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim Brothers copyrighted a series of stereographs with labels inscribed: "American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia" in 1858. They continued to produce stereographs until 1865, when they withdrew from the American Stereoscopic Co.
- Creator
- American Stereoscopic Company
- Date
- c1858
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [P.9191.8]
- Title
- Moravian Cemetery, Bethlehem
- Description
- View showing long rows of flat headstones and trees in the Central Moravian Church's cemetery known as "God's Acre" in Bethlehem, Pa. Includes a man sitting against a tree near a grave. Used as a burial place from 1742-1910, only flat gravestones were permitted., Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia., Attributed to R. Newell & Sons., Title from manuscript note on mount., Pink mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son
- Date
- c1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Cemeteries [P.9299.121]
- Title
- For the benefit of the Sanitary Commission! The grand Wallack Combination Company will give a final exhibition on Saturday evening April 30, at Citizens' Hall! The proceeds of which will be devoted to the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers of the state of Pennsylvania, in the hospitals of the Potomac. Those who feel for the suffering brave who have given their blood for the old flag, fathers, wives, sisters, mothers and brothers who have yielded their dear ones for the sake of their country, are respectfully invited to answer this appeal to their best sympathies. Give your mite to the suffering, aid your distressed countrymen, and enjoy a pleasant entertainment! For prices and time see small bills
- Description
- April 30 fell on a Saturday in 1864., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
- Creator
- Wallack Combination Company
- Date
- [1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1864 Wallack (1)5781.F.19 (McAllister)
- Title
- Old Indian chapel
- Description
- View showing the small log chapel on the south side of Market Street in Bethlehem, Pa., including two men standing on the entrance stairs to an adjacent property. Originally built ca. 1758 in the Native American village Nain in West Bethlehem to serve the local Christianized Native Americans, the chapel was relocated in 1763 to Market Street. Demolished in 1868., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Kleckner, a Moravian, operated a studio in Pennsylvania until 1883.
- Creator
- Kleckner, M. A. (Moulton A.), 1844-1922
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kleckner - Religion [P.9047.29]
- Title
- Photograph album
- Description
- Photograph album belonging to Philadelphia amateur photographer John C. Browne. Contains informal portraits of family friends and views of excursions and landmarks in Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pa.; Wilmington, De.; Belividere and Burlington, N.J.; and the Philadelphia area. Images depict the Pennock-Miller family Delaware County mansion Forest Hill, including the library, "Mrs. Pennock's [ceramic] Collection," greenhouse, and Sarah Pennock Miller with her son Caspar on a mule; Old Moravian Boarding School, Moravian Sisters House, Protestant Episcopal Church, and "Old Oil Mill" (Bethlehem); Old Swedes Church (Wilmington); and an old Moravian brewery, buildings, and Whitfield House (Nazareth). Other photographs depict Haines Spring house; "Andersons" at Belvidere; a family picnic at Pierson's Ravine (Belvidere); the Wissahickon; [Fairmount?] "Park guard house"; portraits of a family dog and posed portraits of Mary (Mame) Steele, including one showing the extreme length of her tresses, and Ettie Lewis, Anna, May, Katie and Bessie Shippen attired in costume. Some views include fellow amateur photographer architect George W. Hewitt. One Bethlehem view also shows D. & A. Luckenbach mill., Front free end paper signed John C. Browne., Photographs identified by inscriptions below images. Some annotated "Dry (albumen)" or "Dry.", Green cloth binding, with gilt, and stamped on cover: Album., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Two photographs of "Pennocks House" removed prior to acquisition by repository., Eight inserted loose prints in envelopes removed and housed separately in John C. Browne Collection., LCP AR [Annual Reports] 1989 p. 33-34., Inventory available at repository.
- Creator
- Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1873-ca. 1877
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9316]