Aerial view of Overbrook High School under construction. Located at 59th Street and Lancaster Avenue, the school was built 1924-1926 in the Academic Gothic style after designs by Irwin T. Catharine. View includes Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and rowhomes in the surrounding area., Negative number: 5216.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1925
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5216]
Aerial views of the grounds of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary located at 100 East Wynnewood Road. Shows original seminary building built 1864-1871 and library opened in 1911. The outline of a baseball diamond can be seen on the lawn. St. Charles Borromeo, founded in 1832 by Rt. Rev. Francis P. Kenrick, tenanted several locations in Philadelphia before relocating to Overbrook in 1871., Negative numbers: 1146, 1179, 1430, 1869.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1915
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1146; P.8990.1179; P.8990.1430; P.8990.1869]
Shows the seminary building built 1864-1871 at 100 East Wynnewood Road. View includes gentlemen in coats and top hats, and boys, walking the grounds as a horse-drawn carriage approaches the building. St. Charles Borromeo, founded in 1832 by Rt. Rev. F. P. Kenrick, tenanted several locations in Philadelphia before relocating to Overbrook in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Date from manuscript note on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 690, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 46 S 136, P. S. Duval, Son & Co. operated as a firm 1867-1869.
Date
[ca. 1869]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 46 S 136
Aerial views of the grounds of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary located at 100 East Wynnewood Road. Shows original seminary building built 1864-1871 and library opened in 1911, as well as construction of another large building to the southeast. St. Charles Borromeo, founded in 1832 by Rt. Rev. Francis P. Kenrick, tenanted several locations in Philadelphia before relocating to Overbrook in 1871., Negative numbers: 8546, 8547, 8549, 8550., 8546, 8547, 8550 not digitized; negative is damaged and cannot be scanned.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
May 10, 1928
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.8546; P.8990.8547; P.8990.8549; P.8990.8550]
Aerial views showing the construction of a large building to the southeast of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary's original building located at 100 East Wynnewood Road. Nearby residences are visible. St. Charles Borromeo, founded in 1832 by Rt. Rev. Francis P. Kenrick, tenanted several locations in Philadelphia before relocating to Overbrook in 1871., Negative numbers: 5619, 5622, 5623.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
April 9, 1926
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5619; P.8990.5622; P.8990.5623]
Depicts young woman in patterned dress standing on path into woods., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: If you're in a big city and without acquaintances, get a camra [sic] or something that looks like one, wander around looking serious and either taking pictures or appearing to take them; act critically, slowly and deliberately. If in one Sunday afternoon you do not greet, or are not greeted by at least 10 people, then you are hopeless. Boys if you make a photo such as this, the rest is easy. Obtain the address and send her a print via F.O.B. [Free on Board--shipping is responsibility of buyer] yourself., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 96 [P.8513.96], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson96.htm
