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- Title
- Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
- Description
- Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking southeast. Shows rowhouses, warehouses near a grassy lot, and church steeples., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1980), entry #219., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1a]
- Title
- Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
- Description
- Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking southeast. Shows rowhouses, warehouses near a grassy lot, and church steeples., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1980), entry #219., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1a]
- Title
- Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
- Description
- Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking southeast. Shows rowhouses, warehouses near a grassy lot, and church steeples., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1980), entry #219., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1a]
- Title
- Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
- Description
- Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking east. Shows a partial view of the college, rowhouses,and a grassy lot., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1b]
- Title
- Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
- Description
- Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking east. Shows a partial view of the college, rowhouses,and a grassy lot., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1b]
- Title
- Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
- Description
- Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking east. Shows a partial view of the college, rowhouses,and a grassy lot., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
- Creator
- W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1b]
- Title
- Camac's Woods, Philadelphia
- Description
- Shows a wooded path and fenced corn fields on the estate of gentleman Turner Camac (i.e., Carnac) at the northeast corner of Eleventh Street and Montgomery Avenue. Views also include a man and several boys posed on and near a fence. The Camac estate was built circa 1841 and demolished in 1870., Attributed to John Moran., Yellow paper mounts with square corners., Title from labels pasted on mounts., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
- Date
- [ca. 1861]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Views [(8)1322.F.39i; (8)1322.F.41b]

