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]
