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- Title
- Lemon Hill mansion park
- Description
- View of the south elevation, divided into five bays, showing the oval pavilion of the mansion built 1799-1800 for businessman Henry Pratt in East Fairmount Park. In 1844, several years after Pratt’s death, Lemon Hill became the first mansion acquired by the city of Philadelphia to establish a public park, i.e., Fairmount Park. The residence was used as a lager beer garden following the establishment of the park in 1855., Title from manuscript note on photographer's label pasted on verso., Photographer's imprint on label pasted on verso., Photographer's blind stamp on mount: Newell, 724 Arch St., Philadelphia., Mint green mount with rounded 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
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Residences [P.9047.111]
- Title
- [Lemon Hill mansion,] Fairmount Park, Phila
- Description
- Oblique view from dirt path of the west flank and south elevation, divided into five bays, showing the oval pavilion of the mansion built 1799-1800 for businessman Henry Pratt in East Fairmount Park. In 1844, several years after Pratt’s death, Lemon Hill became the first mansion acquired by the city of Philadelphia to establish a public park, i.e., Fairmount Park. The residence was used as a lager beer garden following the establishment of the park in 1855., Part of title printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Residences [P.9047.31]
- Title
- Lemon Hill mansion
- Description
- Oblique, obscured view of the east flank and south elevation, divided into five bays, showing part of the oval pavilion of the mansion built 1799-1800 for businessman Henry Pratt in East Fairmount Park. In 1844, several years after Pratt’s death, Lemon Hill became the first mansion acquired by the city of Philadelphia to establish a public park, i.e., Fairmount Park. The residence was used as a lager beer garden following the establishment of the park in 1855., Title from manuscript note on mount., Gray mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Residences [P.9299.48]
- Title
- The dune, Lemon Hill
- Description
- View showing men, women, and children standing on a dirt path flanked by trees and grass near Lemon Hill in Fairmount Park. The mansion built 1799-1800 for businessman Henry Pratt in East Fairmount Park became the first mansion acquired by the city of Philadelphia to establish a public park, i.e., Fairmount Park. The residence was used as a lager beer garden following the establishment of the park in 1855., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of Fairmount Park entitled, "Fairmount Park and Water Works, Philadelphia" printed on verso. Text surmounted by vignette of state seal of Pennsylvania and surrounded by decorative border., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9212.13]
- Title
- Terrace walk, Fairmount Park
- Description
- View showing a tree-lined pathway on the Lemon Hill estate in East Fairmount Park. A man leans against a tree-trunk near a marble stairway in the foreground., Title printed on verso in numbered list with sixty-seven other titles in the series (No. 58-125)., Manuscript note on mount: View near Lemon Hill mansion., Publisher's imprint printed on series label pasted on verso., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.64]
- Title
- Mansion at Fairmount Park
- Description
- View of the south elevation, divided into five bays, showing the oval pavilion of the mansion built 1799-1800 for businessman Henry Pratt in East Fairmount Park. A man lies in the grass on his side in the foreground. A small sign for ice cream hangs from the porch. In 1844, several years after Pratt’s death, Lemon Hill became the first mansion acquired by the city of Philadelphia to establish a public park, i.e., Fairmount Park. The residence was used as a lager beer garden following the establishment of the park in 1855., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
- Creator
- Bartlett & French
- Date
- [ca. 1866]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.8484.15]
- Title
- Iron spring fountain
- Description
- Elevated, hillside view showing the canopy or gazebo housing the iron fountain, installed in 1871, on the Lemon Hill estate in East Fairmount Park. Also shows a man sitting a bench on the side of a path adjacent to the fountain., Title printed on verso in publisher's series list with fifty-five other titles (No. 1-56)., Publisher's imprint printed in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1873]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - H. Ropes & Co. - Parks [P.9281.3]
- Title
- [Mineral spring fountain, Lemon Hill estate, East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing the canopy or gazebo housing the iron fountain on the Lemon Hill estate in East Fairmount Park. Also shows men, women, and children standing near the fountain, which was installed in 1871., Title supplied by cataloger., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Series title printed on label pasted on verso above explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of Fairmount Park., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1873]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - H. Ropes & Co. - Parks [P.9099.7]
- Title
- Lemon Hill, near the mansion
- Description
- View showing a couple seated in the foreground on a landscaped, tree-lined path on the grounds of Lemon Hill estate. Other visitors are visible strolling the grounds in the background., Title from printed label on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9260.27]
- Title
- Lemon Hill Mansion
- Description
- Proof print containing four duplicate views showing the former mansion of businessman Henry Pratt built 1799-1800 in East Fairmount Park. Includes visitors walking on the grounds populated by trees with autumnal colored foliage. Lemon Hill, purchased by the city of Philadelphia in 1844, was the first Fairmount mansion obtained by the city to establish a public park, i.e., Fairmount Park. The residence was used as a lager beer garden following the establishment of the park in 1855., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 434, One of the prints gift of S. Robert Teitelman. [P.2007.23.9]
- Creator
- Kennedy, David J., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1871]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Residences [P.2283.28; P.2007.23.9]
- Title
- [Fairmount
- Description
- View showing a section of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Depicts the terrace roof of the new mill house built on the mound dam from 1860-1862 after the designs of engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Visitors, predominately women with parasols, stroll on the terrace and adjoining promenade roof of the old mill house. Also shows steamboats; boat landings; boathouses; Lemon Hill; the Twenty-Forth Ward Water Works, known as the West Philadelphia Water Works; mills near the Schuylkill Canal Lock; and small sailing vessels on the river., Title, artist, and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the American Philosophical Society., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 229, Gift of David Doret., Trimmed., Reproduced in "The Fairmount Waterworks," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 1988), vol. 84, no. 360, 361, p. 35., Sketchbook of Jacob Kiehn (1866-1867) with sketches of Fairmount Waterworks held in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (#47, Bd 81 K543).
- Creator
- Kiehn, Jacob, 1835-1869, artist
- Date
- [c1867]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Public utilities [P.2004.44.25]
- Title
- Pratts house now Fairmount Park
- Description
- View looking from the bank of the Schuylkill River showing the mansion built circa 1799 for Henry Pratt known as Lemon Hill in the distance. Also shows men fishing from the riverbank and a rowboat sailing across the Schuylkill., Title from manuscript note on recto., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 624, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Parks and Squares - F [(3)1322.F.130b]
- Title
- [Fairmount Water Works]
- Description
- View looking south from Lemon Hill in East Fairmount Park showing the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the old engine house; the mill house; the pavilion on the pier of the mound dam; and the stand pipe (built 1852 after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr.), observatory arch (built 1860), and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. Also shows the boat landing north of the waterworks and men working on the riverbank. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Yellow mount with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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 - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.119c]
- Title
- [Fairmount Water Works]
- Description
- View looking south from Lemon Hill in East Fairmount Park showing the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the old engine house; the mill house; the pavilion on the pier of the mound dam; and the stand pipe (built 1852 after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr.), observatory arch (built 1860), and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. Also shows the boat landing north of the waterworks and men working on the riverbank. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Yellow mount with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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 - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.119c]
- Title
- [Fairmount Water Works]
- Description
- View looking south from Lemon Hill in East Fairmount Park showing the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Shows the old engine house; the mill house; the pavilion on the pier of the mound dam; and the stand pipe (built 1852 after the designs of Frederick Graff, Jr.), observatory arch (built 1860), and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. Also shows the boat landing north of the waterworks and men working on the riverbank. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded until 1872., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Yellow mount with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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 - Public Utilities [(3)1322.F.119c]
- Title
- Happy days at Fairmount
- Description
- View showing a group of women and children assembled on the grass on Lemon Hill estate. The Philadelphia Girls' Rowing Club boathouse, built 1860-1861 after designs by James C. Sidney for the Philadelphia Skating Club and Humane Society, is visible on the east bank of the Schuylkill River in the background., Written on negative: 75, Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son, photographer
- Date
- c1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.70]