Shows a three-story small wood plank dwelling. Residents peer from lower story windows., Title supplied by cataloguer., Descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso: Southwark. 2 and Wharton Sts. 4 families live in this house. It is known to be over 80 yrs old., 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 photo - Wilson [P.8513.231], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson231.htm
View of front facade of brick duplex with automobile parked in front. Roofline of building resembles that of a barn; two sets of bay windows, one circular and one polygonal, project from facade., Location from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: May be Flemish but is located at 22" and DeLancey [Cypress] Pl., Phila., 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 201 [P.8513.201], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson201.htm
View of identical row houses with a garden along the street in front of the houses. Five people stand near one house., 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 170 [P.8513.170], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson170.htm
Depicts remains of house in Manayunk that include stone wall with four openings in wall, three of them windows and one possibly for a fireplace, and partial roof. House's debris is visible through openings in the wall., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: An old wall and windows at Manyunk [sic]- on the banks of the canal and under the P.R.R. bridge. (make another point - and block out wall)., 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 48 [P.8513.48], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson48.htm
These buildings were built 1713-1745 on Walnut Street between Third and Fourth Streets to house Quaker poor. The main building of the almshouse was removed in 1841 and the last of the cottages in 1876., Stenciled on the back of the frame: Ashton & Browne, 204 Chestnut St., Bequest of Dr. James Rush, 1869.
The Loganian Library Minutes vol. 1, Nov. 7, 1867, p. 346-347: "We the undersigned desirous of preserving for posterity a faithful and artistic representation of Stenton the residence of the Hon. James Logan hereby agree to contribute the sums set opposite our names respectively to be expended in an oil painting by Edmund Lewis of the said house and grounds of Stenton as they exist at present; the painting to be presented to and preserved by the Loganian Library." The names of the contributors pledging $10 are as follows: J.D. Sergeant, John Lambert, P.S.P. Conner, George W. Amis, John Jay Smith, J. Dickinson Logan, Lloyd P.Smith, Samuel Betton, Wm. Ritch Wister, M.N. Logan, Samuel M. Fox, Thos. Stewardson, Jr., Wm. Wister, N.& P.S. Hilles, Eliz. R. Fisher, John S. Newbold, A.C. Logan. The contributors pledging $5.00 are as follows: Dr. J. Carson, R. Morris Smith, H. Gates Jones, R.W. Ryerss, J.C. Milligan, D.R. King, and John Cooke. The total amount pledged was $215., Commissioned by the contributions of 25 individuals in 1867 for the Loganian Library.
Exterior views of front facade of house and entrance stairway commissioned by Henry Pratt in 1799 on land called "The Hills" by the previous owner, Robert Morris. Pratt purchased the land at a sheriff's sale after Morris claimed bankruptcy. Morris's villa had been destroyed by fire, leaving only the greenhouse, which Pratt retained when he built Lemon Hill. In 1844, several years after Pratt's death, Lemon Hill became the first mansion aqcuired by the city of Philadelphia to create a public park., Contains 6 postcards printed in color and 3 printed in black and white., Also known as the Headquarters of Colonial Dames of America, Chapter II (1957) and the Henry Pratt House., 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
1905-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Mansions and Houses - Lemon Hill - 79]
Exterior views of front facade of country retreat built circa 1802 for George Plumsted. The property was acquired by the city of Philadelphia in 1871 and was used as a restaurant and boarding house., Numbered 2305 on recto., Also known as Montpelier., Sheet number: 81A01., 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 [Fairmount Park - Mansions and Houses - Miscellaneous - 81]
Exterior views of RittenhouseTown, the birthplace of David Rittenhouse, built circa 1690 by William Rittenhouse as the first paper making business in the colonies. Complex of RittenhouseTown consists of the only eighteenth century German buildings that survive in Philadelphia., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 81A02 and 81B01., 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 [Fairmount Park - Mansions and Houses - Miscellaneous - 81]
Exterior view of house built near Wissahickon Creek between 1746 and 1752 for Joseph Gorgas, a lumber merchant and third generation resident of Germantown. Constructed on the site of "the Kloster," the log cabin built in 1737 as a community house for the German Dunkards., Also known as the Joseph Gorgas House and the Children's Museum of Philadelphia (1973)., Sheet number: 81B01., Undivided back., 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. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Mansions and Houses - Miscellaneous - 81]
Exterior views of home proportedly built in 1743 for Christopher Yeakel, a cooper, at the corner of Mermaid Lane and Germantown Avenue and demolished circa 1905., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 4 printed in black and white., Post cards issued by The Rotograph Co., New York City and The World Post Card Co., Philadelphia., Sheet numbers: 27B04, 100A03 and 100B06., 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 [Buildings - Miscellaneous - 27] and [Germantown - Buildings - 100]
Exterior views of Penn House built 1713-1715 for Thomas Chalkley on land owned by William Penn's daughter, Letitia, although it was believed that William Penn built the home and lived there. Served as a tavern for many years, until the house was moved to Fairmount Park in 1883 in order to save it from destruction during a period of rapid commercial growth in the city., Contains 45 postcards printed in color and 26 printed in black and white. Also includes 6 linen postcards., Also known as the Letitia Street House., 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
1900-1935
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Mansions and Houses - Penn Mansion - 83]
View of east front of house built circa 1790. Purchased by merchant and philanthropist Thomas Armat in 1807. Armat resided here until his death in 1831. His family owned the property until 1841. The home was later occupied by Dr. William Ashmead., Inscribed in negative: 3358., Title from negative sleeve., Thomas Armat was one of the founders of St. Luke's Episcopal Church and donated the land on which the church was built. He also had Loudoun constructed for his only son, Thomas Wright Armat in 1801., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
October 5, 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.114]
Exterior view of west front of house built by Dirck Keyser, a Mennonite preacher and silk merchant who immigrated from Amsterdam in 1688. Demolished in 1950 for a supermarket., Inscribed in negative: 3375., Title from negative sleeve., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.120]
Exterior view of north flank and front elevation of house built in 1727 as one house for the Deshler family. In 1788 German printer, Michael Billmyer, bought the property and continued his printing trade from the dwelling., Inscribed in negative: 2264., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.33]
Depicts a woman and an automobile passing in front of the ivy-covered Deshler-Morris House, travelling north on Germantown Avenue. Dwelling built in 1772 for Quaker merchant David Deshler. Colonel Isaac Franks' owned the house when George Washington sought refuge here from the Yellow Fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793. Nicknamed the "Germantown White House" during his occupation. The Morris family occupied the house for more than 100 years until they donated it to the National Park Service in 1948., Inscribed in negative: 2429., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.34]
Exterior view of east and north facades of dwelling, once the Wyck barn, built in 1796 by J. Frederick Thomas. Architect Mantle Fielding converted the old barn into a residence circa 1891., Inscribed in negative: 2439., Title from negative sleeve., Later known as the Franklin Courtney Residence.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.35]
Exterior view of Penn House in Fairmount Park, built 1713-1715 for Thomas Chalkley on land owned by William Penn's daughter, Letitia, although it was believed that William Penn built the home and lived there. Served as a tavern for many years, until the house was moved to Fairmount Park in 1883 in order to save it from destruction during a period of rapid commercial growth in the city., Inscribed in negative: 2462., Title from negative sleeve., Also known as the Letitia Street House., Modern reference print available.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.40]
Exterior view of front porch of house set back from the street and surrounded by trees., Inscribed in negative: 3350., Title from negative sleeve., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
October 5, 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.106]
View of east front of house built circa 1755 and known successively as the Conyngham, Wister and Hacker House. Also served as the headquarters of the Germantown Historical Society., Inscribed in negative: 3351., Title from negative sleeve., Also known as the Old Fisher House., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.107]
Exterior view of Wynnestay, the original portion of which was erected in 1689 for William Penn's personal physician, Dr. Thomas Wynne. The lateral western extension was built circa 1700 by Thomas Wynne's son, Jonathan Wynne., Inscribed in negative: 2512., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.46]
Exterior detail of front facade of Wynnestay, the original portion of which was erected in 1689 for William Penn's personal physician, Dr. Thomas Wynne. The lateral western extension was built circa 1700 by Thomas Wynne's son, Jonathan Wynne., Inscribed in negative: 2515., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.47]
Exterior view of west and north facades of dwelling, once the Wyck barn, built in 1796 by J. Frederick Thomas. Architect Mantle Fielding converted the old barn into a residence circa 1891. Recessed porches with wooden banisters are visible on both levels of the west elevation., Inscribed in negative: 2752., Title from negative sleeve., Later known as the Franklin Courtney Residence., Modern reference print available.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.52]
View of front facade, with a one story shop in the foreground. Residence built circa 1727. John Naglee owned the house from 1727 to 1752., Inscribed in negative: 3328., Title from negative sleeve., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.95]
Rear view of ivy-covered two story stone residence with pilasters and dormer windows. Botanist and farmer John Bartram built residence in 1730-1731. Altered in 1770, the residence and garden deteriorated throughout the 19th century, but was restored in the 1920s by the John Bartram Association., Inscribed in negative: 2956., Title from negative sleeve., Modern reference print available.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.68]
Exterior view of east front of house on land purchased by Dirck Keyser from Adam Simon Kuhn in 1756. Keyser operated a tannery in the rear of the property, which was willed to his son Peter Keyser in 1810. Cedar fence pierced by bullets during the Battle of Germantown. Occupied by Mr. Ellwood Johnson circa 1902. Portions of the tannery buildings in the rear of the property were demolished in 1952., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
February 18, 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.76]
Exterior view of south flank and west front of first stone dwelling built in Germantown, at the northwest corner of Germantown Avenue and Johnson Street. Built in 1698 by Heivert Papen, a Mennonite who immigrated from Germany to Germantown in 1689. Datestone marked 1698 in upper portion of gambrel roof. Occupied by the Johnson family in the 18th century and demolished in 1883., Slide number 87., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
ca. 1883
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.83]
Exterior view of front facade. Residence built circa 1727. John Naglee owned the house from 1727 to 1752., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
February 14, 1903
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.1]
Exterior view of front facade and north side, including a man walking in front of the house. For sale sign posted underneath first floor window. Built 1794-1803 and occupied by Commodore James Barron from 1839 to 1845 while he was in command of the Philadelphia Naval Yard., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
ca. 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.13]
Exterior view of west and north facades of dwelling, once the Wyck barn, built in 1796 by J. Frederick Thomas. Architect Mantle Fielding converted the old barn into a residence circa 1891., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Later known as the Franklin Courtney Residence.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
February 18, 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.59]
Copy of an oval shaped sketch from an 1862 visiting card depicting an exterior view of the residence of John George Knorr at the northwest corner of Germantown Avenue and Walnut Lane. Property owned by the family 1728-1849. House razed in 1868 for Jacob Albright to make way for a store., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
ca. 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.60]
Exterior view of front facade of house set back from the street and surrounded by bare trees., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Also identified as the William Wynn Wister House.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
ca. 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.15]
Exterior view of front facade of dwelling. Known as the birthplace of Owen Wister, a famous author. His family resided here circa 1860 while his family's home was being constructed at 5253 Main Street., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
January 28, 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.17]
Exterior view of front facade of house built circa 1755 and known successively as the Conyngham, Wister and Hacker House. Also served as the headquarters of the Germantown Historical Society., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Also known as the Old Fisher House.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
ca. 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.19]
Exterior view of front facade of former Indian Queen Inn, opened in 1809 by Michael Riter. Image includes Finninger's Ice Cream and Fancy Cakes which occupies the store front at 5242 Main Street (i.e. Germantown Avenue)., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
ca. 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.21]
Exterior view of east front of the Deshler-Morris House, built in 1772 for Quaker merchant David Deshler. Colonel Isaac Franks' owned the house when George Washington sought refuge here from the Yellow Fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793. Nicknamed the "Germantown White House" during his occupation. The Morris family occupied the house for more than 100 years until they donated it to the National Park Service in 1948., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
ca. 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.29]
Exterior view of east front of house built circa 1790. Purchased by merchant and philanthropist Thomas Armat in 1807. Armat resided here until his death in 1831. His family owned the property until 1841. The home was later occupied by Dr. William Ashmead., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Thomas Armat was one of the founders of St. Luke's Episcopal Church and donated the land on which the church was built. He also had Loudoun constructed for his only son, Thomas Wright Armat in 1801.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
ca. 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.30]
Exterior view of north front of dwelling built in 1810 for faculty of Germantown Academy. Identified in some sources as the residence of James Matthew. Also depicts two men riding past the house on bicycles., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
ca. 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.33]
Exterior view of west front and south side of house built circa 1750 and purchased by Dr. William Shippen as a summer residence in 1775. Dr. Samuel Blair, Shippen's son-in-law and president of Princeton University , also lived here. House was later occupied by the Pennsylvania Manual Labor School under the direction of Dr. George Junkin. Also owned by actress Charlotte Cushman., Slide number 66., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Also known as The Laurens.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
Negative 1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.61]
Exterior view of west front of house built by Dirck Keyser, a Mennonite preacher and silk merchant who immigrated from Amsterdam in 1688. Demolished in 1950 for a supermarket., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
April 20, 1912
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.67]
Exterior view of west front of the Beggarstown one-room school house on the property of St. Michael's Lutheran Church. Built circa 1740 and restored in 1915. Also identified as the dwelling of a sexton of St. Michael's at one time., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
Negative April 20, 1912
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.98]
Exterior view of west front of house purchased by Henry Paul, sadler, in 1813. Owned by the Paul family until 1915., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
January 28, 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.99]
Depicts a boy sitting on a fire hydrant near the log home proportedly built in 1743 for Christopher Yeakel, a cooper, at the northeast corner of Mermaid Lane and Germantown Avenue. Property surrounded by a wooden fence. Demolished circa 1905., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., The street names on the sign post in the image are backward, which means that the orientation of the slide is incorrect.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
Negative June 1896
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.101]
Depicts the south flank of the ivy-covered Bardsley House from Upsal Street, obscured by trees in the rear yard. Built circa 1770 and occupied in the 1870s by English painter, John Bardsley, who brought the English sparrow to Germantown to fight the caterpillars that were infesting local trees., Slide number 97., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Also known as the Sparrow Jack House.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
Negative 1899
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.92]
Exterior view of south side and front elevation of house built in 1727 for the Deshler family. In 1788 German printer, Michael Billmyer, bought the property and continued his printing trade from the dwelling., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
January 28, 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.93]
Exterior view of dwelling north of Upsal Street on the west side of Germantown Avenue. Built circa 1730, purchased by Michael Billmeyer in 1793, inherited by his son Daniel Billmeyer in 1831 and descended through the Billmeyer family until 1913., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Incorrectly identified as the Cope House on Germantown Avenue, north of Johnson Street.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
Negative April 1899
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.94]
Exterior view of south flank and east front of home, showing a partial view of the rear dining room, added circa 1880. Includes two men standing in front of the house looking north along Germantown Avenue. A bicycle is propped against the front of the house near the entrance stairs. The main portion of the house was built in 1798 on land owned by Christopher Mason, but the earliest part is believed to be the kitchen, probably built circa 1765., Slide number 100., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
Negative 1899
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.95]
Exterior view of the residence from Lincoln Drive. David Rittenhouse was born in this house in 1732. Built circa 1770 by William Rittenhouse as part of a complex occupied by the first paper making business in the colonies., Slide number 123., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
Negative 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.116]
Distant view of front facade of dwelling constructed by William Rittenhouse in 1736. Later occupied by John Welsh until his death in 1886. Welsh donated land to Fairmount Park, including Molly Runker's Rock, near which he erected the statue of William Penn., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
ca. 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.117]
Depicts the north front of the stone dwelling of Christopher Ludwig sitting very close to the edge of the road. Ludwig was appointed Baker General to the American army in 1777 and received a certificate of good conduct from George Washington in 1785., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
Negative February 21, 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.127]