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Title: Aerial views of the Somerton section of Northeast Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial views of the Somerton neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia. Two views show residential development along Bustleton Avenue with adjacent farmlands. The William Penn Cemetery on Trevose Road is also visible., Negative numbers: 1446, 1469., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1446; P.8990.1469]

Title: Benjamin Franklin's grave, 5th and Arch St
Description: View showing the flat headstone over the grave of Benjamin Franklin in Christ Church cemetery at 420-424 Arch Street. Includes adjacent headstones, a large crowd of spectators looking at the grave from behind an iron fence, and the front facades of buildings on Arch Street behind the cemetery., Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Pink 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: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Cemeteries [P.9299.124]

Title: Benjamin Franklin's grave postcards
Description: Depicts Benjamin Franklin's grave in Christ Church's cemetery at the southeast corner of Fifth and Arch Streets. Includes sightseers behind the iron fence that replaced a section of the stone wall built in 1858 to allow for a better view of the tomb., Contains 5 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Accession numbers: P.8712.5f, P.9048.282, P.9049.13 - 15a, P.9105.8 and P.9441.25., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Cemeteries - [various]

Title: The Bible Christian Church, 3rd St., above Girard Avenue, Phila., 10/77
Description: Exterior views, one an elevated view, of the east front of the second church edifice constructed in 1845 on North Third Street above Girard Avenue to replace the frame structure built on the same site in 1817. Also shows the tombstones in the small burial ground surrounding the church. Includes adjacent brick row houses accessed from Gray's Court (i.e., Gay's Court)., Title from manuscript notes on versos., Photographer's imprint printed on mounts., Gray mounts 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: Schofield, John, 1835-1910
Date: 1877
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schofield - Religion [P.9047.78-79]

Title: Cedar Glenn [sic], Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View showing a man standing in a grove of trees and bushes near a headstone in the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Also shows several residential buildings in the distant background and fencing in the foreground., Title from label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Duplicate of P.9058.147., Digitization 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 1867-1868.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Cemeteries [P.8484.16]

Title: Cedar Glenn [sic], Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View showing a man standing in a grove of trees and bushes near a headstone in the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Also shows several residential buildings in the distant background and fencing near a gravestone in the foreground.., Title from label on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Duplicate of P.8484.16., Digitization 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 1867-1868.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Cemeteries [P.9058.147]

Title: Chapel
Description: Exterior view of the flank of the Gothic-style funeral chapel built 1836-1839 for Laurel Hill Cemetery after designs by John Notman on Ridge Avenue., Plate opposite p. 43 in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia (Philadelphia: For sale at the cemetery, and by the treasurer, etc.; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 102, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
Date: 1844
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W51 [*Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem (1)11129.O.43a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W51 [*Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem (2)11129.O.43a]

Title: Chapel. [graphic] / J. Notman, Archt. & del.
Description: Location: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Ridge Road., Published in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia (Philadelphia: For sale at the cemetery, and by the treasurer, etc.; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am1844 Phi Lau 11129.O copy 1 & 2., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Notman, John, 1810-1865 architect., creator
Date: 1844.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W051.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W51 [*Am 1844 Phi Lau 11129.O]

Title: Christ Church burying ground. 5th & Arch Sts. Phila
Description: Depicts the opening in the brick wall of Christ Church cemetery that exposes the grave of Benjamin Franklin near the southeast corner of 5th and Arch Streets. The scene is viewed from the northwest corner of the intersection. Several pedestrians are visible in the foreground, one of whom is looking at Franklin's grave., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.150]

Title: Church of St. James the Less (Episcopal.) Rector Rev. A. Tenbrueck Ridge Avenue, near Laurel Hill - Falls Schl
Description: View showing the Gothic-style Protestant Episcopal church built 1846-1850 after the designs of English architect George Gordon Place at 3200-3230 West Clearfield Street in East Falls near Laurel Hill Cemetery. Also shows the bells in the church spire and tombstones in the church cemetery. The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on accompanying label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry,edited., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 67. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., McClees 1855-11., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #87., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Churches and meetinghouses [(5)2526.F.10b]

Title: City of Philadelphia, 1867 Presented by Gould & Co
Description: Advertisement souvenir print distributed by the Philadelphia furniture dealers containing a montage of 3 panoramas, 3 views, and 2 allegorical vignettes. Panoramas show schematic views of Philadelphia, and the views show Independence Hall, 1867 and Gould & Company's Union Depots located at N.E. cor. 9th & Market Sts. and at 37 & 39 N. Second Street. Panoramic views predominately show the Eastern, Western, and Central portions of the city from across the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. Major landmarks are visually highlighted and identified by text below the images. Includes (lower view) the U.S. Mint, Market St. Bridge, Academy of Music, St. Mark's Church, Academy of Natural Science, Pennsylvania College, New Chestnut St. Bridge, Deaf & Dumb Asylum, Naval Asylum, Alms House, County Prison, Insane Asylum, Nth. Pennsylvania Bridge, Woodland Cemetery, U.S. Arsenal, Gray's Ferry Bridge, Navy Yard, Pennsylvania Hospital, and League Island; (center view) Laurel Hill Cemetery, Fairmount Park, Girard College, Fairmount & Water Works, Wire Bridge, Eastern Penitentiary, House of Refuge, Blind Asylum, [Central] High School, Cathedral (Sts. Peter & Paul), 7th Presbyterian Church, Gas Works, and Philadelphia Library (Library Company); (upper view) Merchant's Exchange, Girard Bank, Custom House, Smith's Island, Post Office, State House, Continental Hotel, Penn Cottage, Girard Hotel, Christ Church, Masonic Hall, Penn Treaty Monument, Petty's Island, Reading Coal Depot, and Port Richmond. Panoramas also contain maritime traffic., Vignettes show an allegorical view of "Peace" represented by a social gathering with food, drink, and music in a parlor and one of "War" represented by a marine battle. "Union Depot" vignettes show the busy storefronts. Merchandise lines the sidewalks of the businesses in which patrons enter, and in front of which heavy street and pedestrian traffic passes. Traffic includes horse and hand-drawn carts loaded with crates and furniture. Also shows the Market Street depot covered in advertising text. Independence Hall view contains heavy street traffic. Horse-drawn carts, carriages, delivery wagons, and omnibuses congest the street aside laborers pushing hand-carts, people on horseback, and pedestrians crossing the street. Pedestrians also walk in front of Independence Hall. American flags adorn the storefronts and Independence Hall. Other pictorial elements include the allegorical figure of peace, a cannon surrounded by other instruments of war, and borders comprised of vinery and filigree., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 138, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Views
Creator: Rease & Kurtz
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Views [P.8970.28]

Title: [East River Drive from the Strawberry Mansion Trolley Bridge, Philadelphia.]
Description: View of East River Drive (Kelly Drive) looking north from the Strawberry Mansion Trolley Bridge. Laurel Hill Cemetery occupies the land east of the tree-lined drive. A Philadelphia and Reading Railroad bridge spanning the Schuylkill River is visible in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.39]

Title: Entrance to Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila
Description: Shows the gatehouse composed of a Roman arch and colonnade built 1836 after the designs of cemetery architect John Notman at 3820-3822 Ridge Avenue. View includes three children standing in the gatehouse and the "Old Mortality" monument in the background., Photographer's imprint from embossed stamp on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., 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 - Cemeteries [(3)1322.F.50e]

Title: Entrance to Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila
Description: Shows the gatehouse composed of a Roman arch and colonnade built 1836 after the designs of cemetery architect John Notman at 3820-3822 Ridge Avenue. View includes three children standing in the gatehouse and the "Old Mortality" monument in the background., Photographer's imprint from embossed stamp on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., 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 - Cemeteries [(3)1322.F.50e]

Title: Entrance to Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila
Description: Shows the gatehouse composed of a Roman arch and colonnade built 1836 after the designs of cemetery architect John Notman at 3820-3822 Ridge Avenue. View includes three children standing in the gatehouse and the "Old Mortality" monument in the background., Photographer's imprint from embossed stamp on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., 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 - Cemeteries [(3)1322.F.50e]

Title: Entrance to Monument Cemetery
Description: Exterior view looking southwest at the cemetery's Gothic gatehouse, chapel and steeple on the west side of North Broad Street at Berks Street. Includes two pedestrians standing on the sidewalk in front of the cemetery's entrance, and a milkman's coach parked in the street in the left foreground. Designed by Philadelphia artist and engraver John Sartain, the building also served as an office and superitendent's house before it was demolished to open Berks Street between Broad and Sixteenth Streets in 1904. Cemetery was established in 1838 by Dr. John Elkinton., Title on negative., Manuscript note on verso: Phila., 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. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [P.8451.4]

Title: Entrance to Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia
Description: Shows the cemetery gateway built 1856-1858 after the designs of John Notman at 3301 West Lehigh Avenue., Title from label pasted on mount., Attributed to John Moran., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Contains one stereographic print mounted on yellow paper mount with square corners and two half stereographic prints., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.47a; 8335.F.4; P.2005.2.5]

Title: Entrance to Mt. Vernon Cemetery, Phila., Pa
Description: View of the cemetery gateway built 1856-1858 after the designs of John Notman at 3301 West Lehigh Avenue. A man stands on the dirt path in the foreground., Title on negative., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of F.J. Dallet.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [P.9164.2]

Title: [Entrance to Printers' Cemetery at Woodlands Cemetery, 3900 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Side-view showing a man standing in front of the Gothic Revival-style gate to the Printers' Cemetery. Woodlands Cemetery was chartered in 1840 on the former estate of botanist William Hamilton at 3900 Woodland Avenue in West Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow paper mount with square corners., 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.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: ca. 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.45i]

Title: [Entrance to Printers' Cemetery at Woodlands Cemetery, 3900 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows a man standing in front of the Gothic Revival-style gate to the Printers' Cemetery. Woodlands Cemetery was chartered in 1840 on the former estate of botanist William Hamilton at 3900 Woodland Avenue in West Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount with square corners., 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.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: ca. 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Cemteries [(8)1322.F.45c]

Title: Entrance to Woodlands Cemetery
Description: Shows the arched gateway entrance to the cemetery chartered in 1840 on the former estate of botanist William Hamilton at 3900 Woodland Avenue in West Philadelphia. View includes a workmen's shed to the right of the image. The entranceway, built after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., was razed in 1936., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #153., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: November 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [8339.F.21]

Title: Family monuments of J.A. Brown Esqr
Description: View of the Gothic monument adorned by shafted pillars, arches with cinque and trefoiled interarches, rosettes, and buttresses surmounted by pinacles, built in honor of John A. Brown's three daughters in Laurel Hill Cemetery. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Plate opposite p. 35 in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 242
Creator: Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
Date: 1844
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.35a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.35a]

Title: Franklin's grave postcards
Description: Depicts Benjamin Franklin's grave in Christ Church's cemetery at the southeast corner of Fifth and Arch Streets. Includes sightseers behind the iron fence that replaced a section of the stone wall built in 1858 to allow for a better view of the tomb., Contains 20 postcards printed in color and 6 printed in black and white. Also includes 1 linen postcard., 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: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Franklin's Grave - 99]

Title: [Friend's] Library & graveyard [5418 Germantown Avenue] from roof of [James S.] Jones' store [5401-5 Germantown Avenue]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of the Friends' Library, a large stone building at 5418 Germantown Avenue. A fenced in field in front of the library contains trees and a few small gravestones. A cobblestone road runs to the right of the library and two men stand on the sidewalk next to the fenced field. The Friends Free Library was originally housed in the Germantown Friends School, starting in 1845. In 1874, a separate library building was built, endowed by Alfred Cope. The Friends Free Library was an independent organization until 1977 when it was taken over by the school., Time: 12, Light: No sun, fair light., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: April 19, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1266]

Title: Friend's Library, graveyard, gymnasium & Primary school house. From roof of Ja[me]s] S. Jones' [drygoods] store, [4739 & 4745 Main Street, Germantown]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of a the Friends' Library behind a cemetery surrounded by a low metal fence and a stone wall as seen from the roof of 4739-4745 Main Street, later Germantown Avenue. The Library stands on the right side of the cemetery and the gymnasium and primary school of the Germantown Friends School are visible in the backgorund. The Friends Free Library was originally housed in the Germantown Friends School, starting in 1845. In 1874, a separate library building was built, endowed by Alfred Cope. The Friends Free Library was an independent organization until 1977 when it was taken over by the school. The Germantown Friends School under the administration of Charles Jones began as a boy’s school in 1845. After closing briefly in 1849, the school reopened with a new building in 1858 and began enrolling girls. In 1869, a new larger school house was built to accommodate more students. This building went through many renovations and enlargements through the 20th century., Time: 9:10, Light: Good sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: April 23, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1513]

Title: Gardel Memorial, Mt. Vernon Cemetry
Description: View of the pyramid-shaped marble Gardel Monument erected in 1864 in Mount Vernon Cemetery. Commissioned by French teacher Bertrand Gardel for his wife, Julia Hawks Gardel, who died while touring Damascus, Syria., 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 - Cemeteries [P.9047.46]

Title: General view of Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: Bird's eye showing the grounds of the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Horse-drawn carriages and a hearse approach and horse-drawn wagons are parked in front of the main gate. Tombs, monuments, and a Gothic-style chapel line the landscaped grounds of the cemetery. Also shows residences on hillsides rising in the background., Frontispiece to Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia (Philadelphia: For sale at the cemetery, and by the treasurer, etc.; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 294.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.6 and in *Am 1844 Phi Lau 11129.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PR318
Creator: Pinkerton, E. J., artist
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W148.1 [P.9830.6]

Title: General view of Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: Bird's eye view showing part of the grounds of the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. In the foreground, horse-drawn carriages approach the main gate (visible in the left) of the cemetery that contains tombs, monuments, and a Gothic-style chapel., Frontispiece to Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: For sale at the cemetery, and by the treasurer, 1847) and alter editions., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 294.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.7 and in Am 1847 Phi Lau 10497.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W148.2 [P.9830.7]

Title: General view of Laurel Hill Cemetery. [graphic].
Description: Location: between Ridge Road and the Schuylkill four miles from Philadelphia., Frontispiece to Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: For sale at the cemetery, and by the treasurer, 1847)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.7 and in Am 1847 Phi Lau 10497.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: 1851.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W148-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W148.2 [P.9830.7]

Title: General view of Laurel Hill Cemetery. [graphic] / J. Notman Archt. et del. ; On stone by Pinkerton.
Description: Location: between Ridge Road and the Schuylkill four miles from Philadelphia., Frontispiece to Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia (Philadelphia: For sale at the cemetery, and by the treasurer, etc.; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.6 and in *Am 1844 Phi Lau 11129.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Pinkerton, E. J. lithographer., creator
Date: 1844.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W148-1.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W148.1 [P.9830.6]

Title: Gloria Dei Or old Swede's Church, Swanson below Christian, Philadelphia. The oldest church organization in the city. Founded 1667, five years prior to the landing of William Penn. Present edifice erected 1700, and has been worshipped in continuously from that time
Description: Exterior view of the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church known as Gloria Dei Church, built 1700-1703 by master builder John Harrison I at 929 South Water Street in Southwark. Shows a couple walking past the gravestones in the church cemetery and up the path to the entrance of Gloria Dei. Also includes neighboring buildings, trees on the cemetery grounds, and masts of ships in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 317, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Religion - G [P.2007.28.16]

Title: [Gloria Dei Church, 929 S. Water Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Exterior view, showing headstones in the cemetery of the oldest church in Pennsylvania, built 1698-1700 after designs by John I. Harrison and Reverend Andrew Rudman. The wings were added 1703-1705 and the tower circa 1733., Title from negative sleeve., Also known as Old Swedes' Church. Stands on the site of the first Swedish Lutheran Church in Philadelphia.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.26]

Title: [Gloria Dei, Old Swede's Church, Phila.], from further S[outh]
Description: Glass negative showing a cemetery in front of the brick church building of Gloria Dei, also known as Old Swedes', Church. The cemetery is dotted with trees and contains many gravestones of various sizes. Gloria Dei, founded in 1677, was built 1698-1700 after the designs of John I. Harrison. Originally a Swedish Lutheran church, it became Episcopal in 1845., Photographer remarks: Same subject as last., Time: 11:50, Light: Good sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 9, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.593]

Title: Gloria Dei, Old Swede's Church, Phila[delphia]
Description: Glass negative showing a cemetery in front of the brick church building of Gloria Dei, also known as Old Swedes', Church. The cemetery is dotted with trees and contains many gravestones of various sizes. Gloria Dei, founded in 1677, was built 1698-1700 after the designs of John I. Harrison. Originally a Swedish Lutheran church, it became Episcopal in 1845., Time: 11:40, Light: Very good., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 9, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.592]

Title: Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia East window of Chapel
Description: Depicts the pointed arched east window, with Gothic tracery, in the funerary chapel at Laurel Hill Cemetery. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Added title page in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 335, Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PR327.
Creator: Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
Date: 1844
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.title page], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.title page]

Title: [Hamm monument, Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: View showing a standing angel sepulchral monument with a bench at its base surrounded by an iron fence., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Monument in Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Cemeteries [7992.F.10]

Title: Harris'es monument in Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View showing the large monument in the cemetery at 3900 Woodland Avenue. The monument is comprised of a stone canopy enshrining a sculpted figure kneeling at a cross atop a pedestal. The canopy is adorned by an urn and the monument is surrounded by a stone enclosure. Also shows the Woodlands Mansion, built 1742, remodeled and enlarged between 1787 and 1790 for William Hamilton, in the right background. The estate was purchased in 1840 by the Woodlands Cemetery Company., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Cemeteries [7992.F.20]

Title: The hole in the wall of Christ Church burial ground on the southeast corner of Arch and Fifth street; opened for the purpose of exhibiting the tomb of Benjamin and Deborah Franklin, which is immediately in front nearest to the surface of the ground on Arch Street
Description: Shows several tombs and monuments, including the Franklin graves, behind a section of ironwork fencing within a brick wall surrounding the church cemetery at 420-424 Arch Street. View also includes surrounding buildings., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 127. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Cemeteries - C [(3)2526.F.127 (Poulson)]

Title: Hood Cemetery, Germantown
Description: Shows the marble gateway and entrance to the cemetery built 1849 by marble mason William Struthers after the designs of William Johnston at 4901 Germantown Ave. Gateway commissioned by Germantown resident William Hood in exchange for a vault in the cemetery (organized 1690). Cemetery rechartered as the Hood Cemetery Company in 1866., Title from label pasted on mount., Attributed to John Moran., White paper mount with square corners., 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.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.47d]

Title: Hood Cemetery postcards
Description: Depicts the marble arch entrance gate and balustrade of Hood Cemetery, designed in 1849 by William L. Johnston and William Struthers. Marble wall, balustrade and gateway commissioned by William Hood., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 104A02 and 104B02., Divided backs., 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. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Miscellaneous - 104]

Title: Hood's Cemetery entrance
Description: Shows a side view of the marble gateway and entrance to the cemetery built 1849 by marble mason William Struthers after the designs of William Johnston at 4901 Germantown Ave. View includes a street lamp, possibly a fire hydrant, and adjacent buildings. Gateway commissioned by Germantown resident William Hood in exchange for a vault in the cemetery (organized 1690). Cemetery rechartered as the Hood Cemetery Company in 1866., White paper mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's stamp embossed 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.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Cemeteries [(6)1322.F.205a]

Title: Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View showing rows and clusters of monuments and gravestones in the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Title from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Cemeteries [8353.F.5]

Title: Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View looking toward South Laurel Hill showing the connecting bridge (built 1864) over Hunting Park Avenue between South and Central Laurel Hill. View includes fenced plots, monuments, headstones, and mausoleums. Laurel Hill Cemetery, built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue, acquired the central property in 1863., Title from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893, photographer
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Cemeteries [P.9191.6]

Title: Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View showing a man leaning on fencing surrounding a plot in the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Also shows several surrounding monuments and headstones in fenced plots including headstones in the foreground dedicated to Joseph Cake and Margaret Bishop., Title from label on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Digitization 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 1867-1868.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Cemeteries [P.8484.14]

Title: Laurel-Hill Cemetery
Description: View looking northeast toward the grounds of the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Shows two men in riding clothes, on horseback, galloping on the tree-lined dirt road above the cemetery. Visitors on foot and by carriage approach the main gate of the memorial site visible in the background. Tombs, monuments, and a chapel are visible in the cemetery., Plate 10 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Copyrighted by August Köllner., Printed above the title: 10., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 431
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: c1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Cemeteries - L [P.2283.25]

Title: Laurel-Hill Cemetery
Description: View looking northeast toward the grounds of the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Shows two men in riding clothes, on horseback, galloping on the tree-lined dirt road above the cemetery. Visitors on foot and by carriage approach the main gate of the memorial site visible in the background. Tombs, monuments, and a chapel are visible in the cemetery., Plate 10 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Printed above the title: 10., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 431
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: [c1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Cemeteries [P.2283.16]

Title: Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View looking from the connecting bridge (built 1864) over Hunting Park Avenue between South and Central Laurel Hill showing South Laurel Hill. View includes fenced plots, monuments, headstones, and mausoleums. Laurel Hill Cemetery, built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue, aquired the central property in 1863., Title from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Cemeteries [P.9260.24]

Title: [Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing an iron-work bench, headstones, and a sepulchral monument in the cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman. Also shows a section of the Falls Bridge over the Schuylkill River in the distant background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., 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., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.45d]

Title: [Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows two men walking on a path in the cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman. View also shows a partial view of a chapel and several trees., Manuscript note on mount: Laurel Hill., Orange mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook ov views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [(3)1322.F.50f]

Title: [Laurel Hill Cemetery, Maria Miles Heyward monument, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows the tomb for the wife of U.S. Representative William Drayton. Reads "Maria Miles Heyward of South Carolina. Widow of William Drayton. Born October XX MDCCLXXXIV (i.e. October 20, 1784), Died January XVII MDCCCLXII (i.e. January 17, 1863)." Also shows surrounding plots. Laurel Hill Cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman., Title supplied by cataloguer., Trimmed yellow paper mount., 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.
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [(3)1322.F.50g]

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