View looking northeast at the Fairmount Avenue facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after designs by John Haviland. A group of men sit on the stone wall in the foreground., Title on mount., Photographer's imprint on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1866]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Prisons [P.9047.8]
Exterior view looking west along Fairmount Avenue showing the entrance gate. View includes wagon on street and pedestrians standing next to the corner turret in foreground., McClees 1858-18., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-Century Photography in Philadelphia, (New York: Dover Publications, 1980), plate 93., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date
[ca. 1858]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo-McClees [8339.F.23]
Exterior view from the north west showing the Fairmount Avenue facade including the entrance gate. Image includes several pedestrians and two wagons. Built 1823-1836 based on designs by John Haviland., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's label on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date
ca. 1872
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - gov't. bldg. [P.9260.67]
Aerial view of the Eastern State Penitentiary, looking southeast and including a view of Center City. Built 1823-1836 after designs by John Haviland., Negative number: 17482n., Negative dated May 16.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1936
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.17482n]
