Exterior view of front and flank of inn built as a farmhouse circa 1812. In 1887 the old farmhouse became a vacation home for working women. Demolished in 1958., Also identified as Buttercup Cottage., Sheet number: 112B01., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bingham through Green's - 112]
Exterior view of the Methodist Episcopal church at West Mount Pleasant Avenue and Bryan Street in Mount Airy., Sheet number: 50B06., Undivided back. Post marked 1907., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
View showing the water pipes called the Pipe Bridge over the Wissahickon Creek. The pipe aqueduct, constructed in 1870 to provide water to Germantown from the Schuylkill River via the Mount Airy reservoir, was built after the designs of engineer Frederick Graff, Jr. It was razed in 1891. In the foreground, a man sits on a cliff near the pipe bridge., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Inscribed in negative: 84., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from circa 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator
R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date
ca. 1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Public Utilities [P.8709.8]
