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Title: View from the Waumbek House, Jefferson, N.H
Description: Shows a group of well-dressed men, women, and children playing croquet in front of the luxury resort hotel in the White Mountains. View also shows neighboring buildings., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American Views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kilburn Brothers, was a partnership between brothers Benjamin West Kilburn and Edward Kilburn from 1865 to 1877.
Creator: Kilburn Brothers
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn Bros. - Views [5739.F.61e]

Title: Starr King House, Jefferson, N.H
Description: Shows several people arriving by horse-drawn carriage and sitting on the porch and veranda of the resort hotel in the White Mountains., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American Views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kilburn Brothers, was a partnership between brothers Benjamin West Kilburn and Edward Kilburn from 1865 to 1877.
Creator: Kilburn Brothers
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn Bros. - Views [5739.F.61i]

Title: Traveling teams of Mr. J. Campbell Harris,- starting from his "White Mountains" stables, to return to Philadelphia. (his mountain buggy-team on the left.)
Description: View showing three horse-teams each harnessed to the three carriages waiting in the yard of a clapboard house and stable. In the left, a white man driver sits in one carriage and holds the reins. In the center, a man stands beside the horse hitched to another carriage. In the right, the third carriage is empty. Two woman sitting on the porch and a boy in the yard watch the carriages. An unhitched carriage sits below the wide roof of the stable's verandah. Harris, son-in-law of Thomas Powers of Powers & Weightman, was a Philadelphia businessman involved in real estate development., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Merrow, Edward L., ca. 1861-1922, photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Merrow [P.2010.6.21]

Title: The Silver cascade, in the north of the White Mountains
Description: View depicting the Silver Cascade in the White Mountains of New Hamshire. Shows water flowing down the mountain. Two men fish at the edge of the water, and a man and a woman look on at the falls. Trees grow along the shoreline and cliffs., Title and date from item., Text printed below image: Cascade d’argent, dans le ravin des montagnes blanches. Die silbercascade in der thalenge der weissen berge., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Havell, Frederick James, 1801-1840, engraver
Date: 1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. - New Hampshire [P.2010.6.27]

Title: Views of Mount Washington, New Hampshire
Description: Winter views of snow-capped rocks on Mount Washington and Tuckerman's Ravine in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. One view depicts two men sitting on the rocks in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Yellow mounts with square corners., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bierstadt Brothers were active ca. 1860-1867 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Sold their gallery to S.F. Adams in 1867.
Creator: Bierstadt Brothers, photographer
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bierstadt Brothers - Views [P.9022.2-4]

Title: Mt. Starr King, Jefferson, N.H
Description: Shows the mount named after Universalist Rev. Thomas Starr King in the White Mountains. In the foreground, men and boys sit and stand in a pasture in front of a farm and hotel buildings., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American Views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kilburn Brothers, was a partnership between brothers Benjamin West Kilburn and Edward Kilburn from 1865 to 1877.
Creator: Kilburn Brothers
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn Bros. - Views [5739.F.61f]

Title: Views of Tuckerman's Ravine and Mount Washington, White Mountains, New Hampshire, 1861-1862
Description: Series of titled views documenting the landscape of the White Mountains in New Hampshire include, "Pillar of snow, Tuckerman's Ravine, August 28, 1861," "Mt. Washington Carriage Road, at ledge--looking down," and "Interior of snow arch--Tuckerman's Ravine, August 14, 1862". The mountains, spilt by the Crawford Notch, comprise two ranges named Presidential (east) and Franconia (west). The scenic mountains inspired the 19th-century "White Mountain School" of painting and the publication of several series of stereographic views in the mid to late nineteenth century., Views show Mount Washington, part of the Presidential Range, and Tuckerman's Ravine, located on the east side of Mount Washington. They include three men surveying a large block of ice in the ravine; a horse-drawn carriage pulling a man up an inclined dirt-road; and an expedition party sitting and standing with walking sticks from the interior of a cave filled with rocks., Title supplied by cataloger., Titles of individual stereographs printed on mounts., Photographer's imprint printed on versos., Pale yellow mounts with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Soule maintained photographic studios on Washington Street in Boston, Massachusetts ca. 1861 to 1882 before relocating to Seattle, Washington.
Creator: Soule, John P., 1828-1904
Date: [ca. 1861-1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Soule - Views [P.9022.12-14]

Title: Albert Hatch Photograph Album
Description: Photographs compiled and possibly taken by Albert Hatch showing city and landscape views as well as family views and portraits, ca. 1866-ca. 1888.

Title: North Conway & White Mountain scenery
Description: Portion of the series published by North Conway photographer Nathan W. Pease in 1870 documenting the landscape of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The mountains, spilt by the Crawford Notch, comprise two ranges named Presidential (east) and Franconia (west). The scenic mountains inspired the 19th-century "White Mountain School" of painting and the publication of several series of stereographic views in the mid to late nineteenth century., Views show the Crawford Notch; Middle Montain (North Conway); Diana's Baths waterfall (North Conway); the Flume gorge with Pendent Boulder (also known as the "Great Hanging Boulder") at Franconia Notch; Crystal Cascade waterfall at the Pinkham Notch; Glen Ellis Falls; and the carriage road and "half-way house and ledge" on Mt. Washington. Views also show a stream, cliffs, trees, and a couple., Titles printed on mounts., Photographer's imprint printed on versos., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Series numbers: 26, 53, 128, 149, 151, 165., Seven of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American views., Described in "Stereoscopic Views and Photographs." Anthony's Photographic Bulletin 1 (Sept. 1870), p. 165., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Pease established his New Hampshire photographic studio in 1858.
Creator: Pease, Nathan W., 1836-1918
Date: [1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Pease - Views - White Mountains [5739.61c-d; 5739.F.61h; 5739.F.62a-c; 5739.F.62e; P.9022.15]

Title: Photograph album
Description: Album of photographs compiled and some possibly taken by Albert Hatch showing city and landscape views and family views and portraits. Photographs depict Atlantic City; Fairmount Park, including the water works and the Wissahickon Creek; Schooley family residences, landmarks, and the 1888 reunion in Luzerne County, Pa., including the residence of Joanna Schooley (West Pittston), the "Old Homestead" (Wyoming), the residence of H. N. Schooley before and after renovations in 1888, and the Schooley Breaker (Sturmerville) and Mill (Luzerne); lighthouses at Sandy Hook, N.J. and Neversink, N.Y.; and the White Mountains, N.H. Images also show the 500 block of North Twenty-Fifth Street, including Hatch's residence; the Girard Avenue Bridge and tunnel; the Old Red Bridge and Thorps Lane Bridge (Wissahickon), and "Old Smithy", a view by John Moran of a "smith" in front of his stone cabin shop in the woods. Also contains unidentified landscape views by Moran, and frontispiece photographs removed from late 1880s editions of "The Philadelphia Photographer," including views of South Africa and "The Kiosk of Isis" (Bed of Pharoah) at Philae Island., Calligraphed on cover: Photographs., Insert: Permission card issued to Mr. Albert Hatch, No. 577 N. 25 St. Recto contains stamps: Albert Hatch 190 Lambert St., Phila, Pa.; Albert Hatch 1616 Montgomery Ave. Verso printed: Permission has been granted to you to take Photographic Views in the Park during 1885. Good until revoked by the Committee on superintendance [use?] J. M. Dougherty, Secretary., Contains pasted label on back cover: Howard Album. Interchangeable Cards, Scovill Mf'g Co., N. Y. Patented and Label Registered., Photographers include George Hanmer Croughton; Lulu Farini; John Moran; and E. L. Wilson., Several of the photographs identified from captions below the images., Names of photographers from inscriptions below the images., Brown leather binding stamped: Photographs., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Agnes Kelly., Housed in phase box., Albert Hatch, son of Massachusetts-born, real estate broker Edward Hatch, was an amateur photographer who worked as a clerk at the U.S. Post Office from the late 1880s into the early 20th century. He was married in 1886 to Alice C. Schooley, who was from a family active in the milling and mining industry in and near Wyoming, Pa, including her brother Henry N. and Aunt Joanna. The couple had two children, including Augusta Hatch (b. 1868), who married James Kelly in 1890.
Creator: Hatch, Albert, 1844-1910
Date: ca. 1866-ca. 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9250]

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