Depicts the I. D. Casselberry Valley Green Hotel, probably the last surviving Wissahickon roadhouse, surrounded by trees in Wissahickon Park above Red Bridge built in 1851. Also includes Wissahickon Creek (right), a passenger coach and two people standing on the porch of the hotel., After a photograph by Robert Newell., Location: Wissahickon above Red Bridge., 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
1869
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.50], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc050.html
Depicts the south facade of Lemon Hill mansion facing the Schuylkill River in east Fairmount Park as it appeared in 1857. Henry Pratt built the house in 1800 and in 1844, several years after Pratt's death, Lemon Hill became the first mansion aqcuired by the city of Philadelphia to create a public park. Also included are visitors picnicking on the grounds., 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
ca. 1880
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.46], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc046.html
