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Title: Old Johnson House, [Upsala], no. 5206 Main St., Germantown, corner of Washington Lane
Description: Glass negative showing Upsala, a two-story stone house with shuttered windows on the first floor and two gabled windows on the roof at 6430 Germantown Avenue. Trees grow in planters on the sidewalk, which separates the house from a brick road. A wooden fence extends to the left of the house. Originally built by Dirk Jansen circa 1755, Upsala was the staging ground for the Continental army at the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The expanded house, built by Jansen’s descendant John Johnson III in 1798, remained with the Johnson family until 1941. The estate was purchased by the Upsala Foundation in 1944., Time: 9:45, Light: No sun -good 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 25, 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1516]

Title: Old house of Norton Johnson's, [Upsala]. Main St. opp. Cliveden Av[enue], [Germantown]
Description: Glass negative showing Upsala, a large, two-story stone house with shuttered windows and a covered entryway adorned with a pediment at 6430 Germantown Avenue. Tall trees grow in the lawn as a drive circles in front of the house. Originally built by Dirk Jansen circa 1755, Upsala was the staging ground for the Continental army at the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The expanded house, built by Jansen’s descendant John Johnson III in 1798, remained with the Johnson family until 1941. The estate was purchased by the Upsala Foundation in 1944., Time: 11:30, Light: No 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 25, 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1521]

Title: [View of Pelham neighborhood. Includes chicken coop in background]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of two houses among clusters of trees near Pelham Road. A chicken coop stands in the yard of the furthest house. The road runs between the houses and a wooden pole stands in the field in the foreground., 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: ca. 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.13.7]

Title: Philadelphia, from Lapierre House (Girard College.)
Description: Cityscape view looking northwest from the hotel LaPierre House (southwest corner Broad and Sansom) showing Girard College (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in the distant background. Also shows the rear of residences in the foreground, partial view of South Penn Square, and surrounding buildings., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed 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., 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 - Views [(8)1322.F.1e-2]

Title: Philadelphia, from Lapierre House (Girard College.)
Description: Cityscape view looking northwest from the hotel LaPierre House (southwest corner Broad and Sansom) showing Girard College (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in the distant background. Also shows the rear of residences in the foreground, partial view of South Penn Square, and surrounding buildings., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed 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., 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 - Views [(8)1322.F.1e-2]

Title: Philadelphia, from Lapierre House (Girard College.)
Description: Cityscape view looking northwest from the hotel LaPierre House (southwest corner Broad and Sansom) showing Girard College (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in the distant background. Also shows the rear of residences in the foreground, partial view of South Penn Square, and surrounding buildings., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed 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., 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 - Views [(8)1322.F.1e-2]

Title: Kohn's Mansion. Chestnut Street, west of Tenth St. North side. Late "Parkinson's Restaurant, confectionery, garden" &c
Description: Shows the former confectionery with stone frieze carved "Parkinson" above one of the entrances of the double house at 1015-1019 Chestnut Street. J.W. Parkinson opened the restaurant and garden in 1853. Building razed circa 1921., 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 68. 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., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - K [(3)2526.F.68 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f68.jpg

Title: [Exterior of unidentified residence, possibly in Germantown]
Description: Photograph showing a view of two connected houses seen from across a brick road with trolley tracks running down the center. A metal fence separates the houses from the sidewalk, with trees growing on either side. The house on the right has a porch that wraps around the building and a balcony on the third floor. Both houses have shuttered windows., Photograph from negative number 43-12., 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: ca. 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2112]

Title: Tom Moore's Cottage postcards
Description: Exterior views of the cottage located on the west side of the Schuylkill River above the Reading Railway Bridge. The farm house was on the estate of Jacob S. Waln when the Irish poet Tom Moore puportedly stayed here during his visit to Philadelphia in 1804., Also known as Boelson Cottage, Belmont Cottage and Pig's Eye Cottage., 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: 1910-1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Mansions and Houses - Moore's - 82]

Title: Moore Institute of Art, Science and Industry
Description: Exterior view of front facade of Moore Institute of Art, Science and Industry, originally known as Philadelphia School of Design for Women, founded in 1848 and located in the Edwin Forrest Mansion since 1881. Moore Institute and the School of Design merged in 1932. Educational facility constructed as a dwelling in 1853-1854 by Stephen Decatur Button., Sheet number: 153B03., Divided back. Text on verso., 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. 1932
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Schools - Miscellaneous - 153]

Title: 5267 [sic] Germantown Ave. I have no record of when it was built. Anthony Gilbert, a blacksmith, renowned for his strength, lived there in 1809. It is next door above "Grumblethorp."
Description: Exterior view of front facade of dwelling occupied by Anthony Gilbert in 1809, a blacksmith who was known for his great physical strength. Original portion of house built circa 1745 as Wister's Tenant House, immediately north of Wister's Big House. An advertisement for Kansis City Beef is visible on the butcher shop awning next to Wister's Tenant House., Inscribed in negative: 3369., Title from negative sleeve., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 13, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.117]

Title: Loudoun, 4650 Germantown Ave., built by Thos. Armat. occupied in 1920 by Mr. Albanus Chas. Logan & Miss Maria D. Logan
Description: Exterior view of porticoed front facade. Original portion (i.e. east end) of house constructed in 1801 for Philadelphia merchant Thomas Armat by builders Peter L. Berry and John Ardis. Armat had the house built for his only son, Thomas Wright Armat. The west end was built in 1810 and the Greek portico in 1830. Named after Loudoun County, Virginia where Armat first settled in America., Inscribed in negative: 3329., 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.9259.96]

Title: Loudoun, 4650 Germantown Ave
Description: Distant view of porticoed front facade, with a partial view of an outbuilding. Original portion (i.e. east end) of house constructed in 1801 for Philadelphia merchant Thomas Armat by builders Peter L. Berry and John Ardis. Armat had the house built for his only son, Thomas Wright Armat. The west end was built in 1810 and the Greek portico in 1830. Named after Loudoun County, Virginia where Armat first settled in America., Inscribed in negative: 3330., 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.9259.97]

Title: [Woodward Estate gate, Cresheim Valley, Philadelphia.]
Description: Depicts a man and a woman standing on either side of the tall stone and iron entrance gate marking the Woodward Estate. A tudor style dwelling sits in the background., 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.9453.202]

Title: Office and residence of Geo. L. Maitland, piano tuner, 4806 Fairmount Ave., Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for the piano tuning and repairing business of George L. Maitland, showing the exterior of his office and residence at 4806 Fairmount Avenue in West Philadelphia., Publisher's monogram on verso., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Residences - A - M - [P.2002.67.20]

Title: Loudoun, built 1801 by Thos. Armat for his son
Description: Exterior view of front facade. Original portion (i.e. east end) of house constructed in 1801 for Philadelphia merchant Thomas Armat by builders Peter L. Berry and John Ardis. Armat had the house built for his only son, Thomas Wright Armat. The west end was built in 1810 and the Greek portico in 1830. Named after Loudoun County, Virginia where Armat first settled in America., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date 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.9731.2]

Title: 5112-14 Main St
Description: Exterior view of front facade of house. Includes John Harris's furniture shop which occupies the ground floor of 5114 Main Street (i.e. Germantown Avenue)., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: March 19, 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.14]

Title: Morris-Littel House, Main & High St
Description: Exterior view of south flank and west front of house owned by the Morris-Littell family from 1776 until 1888. Dr. Christopher Wit (1675-1765) planted one of the first botanical gardens in North America on this site. The house was torn down for the construction of Germantown High School in 1915. Includes a view of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Germantown at the northeast corner of Germantown Avenue and High Street., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: January 30, 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.48]

Title: Parsonage of St. Stephens Church, 5213 Main St
Description: Exterior view of front facade of St. Stephen's rectory, built at the end of the 18th century as a dwelling for Henry Fraley, carpenter and drum maker. Acquired by St. Stephen's as a rectory in 1856. Two women pass the rectory, walking in opposite directions., 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.9731.18]

Title: 5845 Main St. Standing at time of Revolution
Description: Exterior view of west front of the 18th-century residence converted into a storefront. Hats are displayed in the storefront. Includes a partial view of display in Sample Shoe's adjoining storefront., 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.9731.44]

Title: Doorway, N. E. Walnut Lane & Main St
Description: Exterior detail of front doorway. An ornate iron fence is visible in the foreground. Residence built by the Reverend Samuel Blair for his son Samuel Blair, Jr. in 1806. John Button, manufacturer of hosiery and owner of the Germantown Hosiery Mills, owned the property from 1835 until his death in 1882. His grandson Priestly owned the house until 1912, when Dr. Richard Deaver purchased it. Demolished in 1935., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Also known as the Blair-Button-Deaver House.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: February 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.65]

Title: Old building, Fisher's Hollow, used as a powder mill during Revolution
Description: Exterior view of a whitewashed stone dwelling used during the Revolution for storage of gunpowder. Near the Wakefield Mills., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative March 31, 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.105]

Title: Main St. above Upsal, S.W. side
Description: Depicts businesses and dwellings looking north along the 6500 block of Germantown, above Weaver Street, showing (from south to north) the small building occupied by public notary, John B Crowson; the south flank and east front of two attached dwellings and a row of commercial buildings., Slide number 101., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative April 1899
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.96]

Title: 5112-5114 Main St
Description: Exterior view of east fronts of the adjoining houses. Includes the furniture shop of John Harris which occupies the ground floor of 5114 Main Sreet (i.e. Germantown Avenue). Wooden chairs and tables sit near the entrance to the shop., 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.9731.126]

Title: Old houses, N. side of Locust near 5th St. [sic]
Description: Depicts a row of old dwellings and businesses along the north side of Locust Street, near Second Street, including a grocer (left) and L. Bernhardt, tailor, at 241. Includes the back of a delivery wagon, a partial view of a carriage (right) and a single pedestrian passing a row of barrels on the sidewalk., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 21., Arcadia caption text: Philadelphia’s numerous blocks of brick rowhouses are the most striking characteristic of the city’s residential architecture. The great local abundance of high quality clay and lime  used to make mortar  contributed to the prevalence of this style. Photographed at the close of the 19th century, this image captures a row of 18th-century residences on the north side of the 200 block of Locust Street.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.153]

Title: Riverside Mansion, Ridge Road, Phil
Description: Exterior view of unusually broad, two-story mansion from dirt drive, showing the words "Riverside Mansion" painted on the side addition. Occupied by a beer garden operated by John F. Betz some time after 1880., 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.9731.156]

Title: Riverside Mansion, formerly Milverton
Description: Exterior view of unusually broad, two-story mansion. Occupied by a beer garden operated by John F. Betz some time after 1880., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: 1914
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.139]

Title: Jaques Marie Roset House, Germantown, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of front facade and flank of the Roset House at the corner of West Manheim Street and Portico Street (Spring Alley), showing advertisements for a cigar store on the first floor. Originally home of Jacques Marie Roset who came to America in 1792 and moved to Germantown in 1821. One of his granddaughters married Anthony J. Drexel., Sheet number: 102B13., 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 [Germantown - Mansions - 102]

Title: Tom Moore's Cottage
Description: View of dwelling at the top of a hill in Fairmount Park, Located on the west side of the Schuylkill River above the Reading Railway Bridge. A steep set of stairs extends from the entrance of the stone farm house to the bottom of the hill in the foreground. The farm house was on the estate of Jacob S. Waln when the Irish poet Tom Moore puportedly stayed here during his visit to Philadelphia in 1804., Inscribed in transparency: 4021., Title from transparency sleeve., Also known as Boelson Cottage, Belmont Cottage and Pig's Eye Cottage.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Transparencies - Hand [P.9259.166]

Title: Tom Moore's Cottage, Fairmount Park, Phila
Description: View of dwelling at the top of a hill in Fairmount Park, Located on the west side of the Schuylkill River above the Reading Railway Bridge. A steep set of stairs extends from the entrance of the stone farm house to the bottom of the hill in the foreground. The farm house was on the estate of Jacob S. Waln when the Irish poet Tom Moore puportedly stayed here during his visit to Philadelphia in 1804., Inscribed in negative: 4025., Title from negative sleeve., Also known as Boelson Cottage, Belmont Cottage and Pig's Eye Cottage., Duplicate of Hand P.9259.166.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.167]

Title: View at Germantown
Description: View of two men near a small stream in the foreground and a large house in the distant background. One man stands near one bank of the stream as the other reclines in the grass on the other., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on 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.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Views [P.9212.12]

Title: Broad St. east side bel. Oxford St. Phila
Description: View looking southeast at the fronts of residences on the 1500 block of North Broad Street below Oxford Street. Trees planted at evenly-spaced intervals partially obscure the houses., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's label pasted on verso., Orange 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. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9191.3]

Title: North side of Green St. east of 22nd, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the front elevations of two brick row houses on the north side of the 2100 block of Green Street. Shows round arch doorways and shutters obscuring all the windows. Ornate iron railings separate the front lawns from the sidewalk., Title from manuscript note on verso., Initials and date from manuscript note on verso: J.B. 9/10/61., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: September 10, 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9751.2]

Title: [Rectory of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Wissahickon, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts a dwelling, probably the rectory of the neighboring Protestant Episcopal church, along the 3900 block of Terrace Street, near Hermit Lane., The church was constructed in 1876 and enlarged twenty years later in 1896. Services stopped in 1968 and the building demolished in 1975., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
Creator: Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
Date: ca. 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.16]

Title: Pine St. from 17th to 18th
Description: View of four-story, Italianate row houses on the 1700 block of Pine Street., Title inscribed on mount., Numbered 249 on mount., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 30., Arcadia caption text: One of the earliest speculative rows constructed west of Broad Street, this block of four-story, Italianate rowhouses on Pine Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets was built for an upper middle-class market. ..., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Hemple, Alfred H., fl. 1860-1879, photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hemple - Residences [P.9047.57]

Title: Windmill at Torresdale, Philadelphia
Description: View showing a man standing in front of a windmill with a small building and porch at its base. A dwelling is visible in the background., Title printed on mount., Publisher's printed label pasted on verso., Stamped on verso: G. Pfund, 4731 N. Front St., Phila., Pa., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim Brothers copyrighted a series of stereographs with labels inscribed: "American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia" in 1858. They continued to produce stereographs until 1865, when they withdrew from the American Stereoscopic Co.
Creator: American Stereoscopic Company
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Agriculture and horticulture [P.9082.1]

Title: Twin houses, Green St. Philadelphia
Description: View of two identical brick Italianate twin houses with central towers capped by a flat roof with overhanging eaves. Towers extend above the main rooflines. View includes balustrades on the second level and trees in adjacent yards and on sidewalk., Title from manuscript note on mount., Numbers and mathematical equations written on verso of mount in ink., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.8931.5]

Title: Old log cabin
Description: View showing an old log cabin at Richmond and Vienna Streets (i.e., Berks Street) in Fishtown. A woman leans against the side of the house and shields her eyes from the sun. Cabin was a typical example of those built in the neighborhood around the time of the Revolutionary War., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Manuscript note in pencil on verso: No. 15 papa 1876, 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 William Schaeffer.
Creator: Hemple, Alfred H., fl. 1860-1879, photographer
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hemple - Historic buildings and sites [P.9191.x]

Title: [Dwelling on west bank of Schuylkill River from Laurel Hill Cemetery]
Description: Landscape view from the hillside of Laurel Hill Cemetery on the east bank of the Schuylkill River showing a dwelling on the west bank. In the foreground, a man sits in a guard house at the base of the rocky hill. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks, not visible in this photograph, were situated behind the dwelling., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Mount Prospect from east park., 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.8923.6]

Title: River Road at Fairmount Park
Description: View of River Road running parallel to the Schuylkill River. Shows a gazebo in the distance, along with a dwelling on the opposite bank., Title from photographer's label pasted 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., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Parks [P.8484.3]

Title: Cottage & race on the valley above Wakefield place, [Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Glass negative showing an overgrown pathway leading to a stone cottage. A large tree stands to the left of the hosue and various outbuildings flank the path., Time: 1, Light: good sunlight., 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 17, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1289]

Title: The old Wakefield house, [Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Glass negative showing Wakefield, a three-story stone home with a covered entryway and shuttered windows. The house is set among the trees with a path running in front of it. Wakefield was built in 1798 for Sarah and Thomas Fisher. It was owned by the Fisher family until 1918, and then razed by fire in 1985., Time: 1:20, 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 17, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1290]

Title: Old house, Little Wakefield. Mrs. Carpenter's place. [Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Glass negative showing Little Wakefield, a two-story house covered in ivy. The house has shuttered windows, four chimneys, a wide lawn and trees on either side. A young girl stands outside the door. Wakefield was built in 1798 for Sarah and Thomas Fisher. It was owned by the Fisher family until 1918, and then razed by fire in 1985. Thomas Rodman Fisher constructed Little Wakefield, located within the Wakefield estate, in 1829. It was expanded in 1844. Owned by the Fisher family until 1946, it then housed the Saint Basil’s Orphanage for the Sisters of Saint Basil the Great. LaSalle University bought the Wakefield property in 1989 and turned it into the St. Mutien's Christian Brothers Residence, an international student center., Time: 1:40, 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 17, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1291]

Title: Old house [Negley house at Wayne Junction, Philadelphia] farther from R[ail]R[oad] than last house
Description: Glass negative showing a large house with columns lining the front facade owned by the Naglee family. The house is surrounded by a wooden fence and large trees. A window on the right side of the house is open, allowing the curtains to spill out. "Naglee" House was likely part of the property bought by John Naglee in 1727 in what would later be Wayne Junction., Photographer remarks: Also on old Negley property. Developed at Sea Girt 8 mo. 1891, Time: 8:55 A.M., 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 17, 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1615]

Title: [Family posed in front of clapboard house]
Description: View showing a family, including a baby in a carriage, posed in front of their residence, probably in Philadelphia. Family members stand on the porch and on the sidewalk. Trees adorn the front yard., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inscribed on recto., Photographer's monogram inscribed on recto., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American views., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: September 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - C [5739.F.87b]

Title: [The Hamilton mansion, S.E. corner of Seventh and Carpenter, now Jayne St., taken down this spring.]
Description: Exterior view of the residence on South Seventh Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Also shows adjoining building and a store clerk standing in in the street to the left of the image., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson scrapbook duplicate., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: January 18, 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Residences - H [(6)1322.F.67a]

Title: Frame houses and an odd skyline at Thompson St. and Susquehanna Ave. -- Kensington, Phila
Description: Depicts wood row houses., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., 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 139 [P.8513.139], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson139.htm

Title: [House and court on Fourth Street above Arch Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Nighttime view of three-story brick house and adjacent courtyard., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The atmosphere of Soho or Whitechapel, London. As one of our friends said "A good place for a murder." It is a night picture of a house and court on 4" ab. Arch St. (Note reflection of St. lamp on walls up the court. The party residing in the house has been living there 60 years. Rent of houses in court - [$]9.00 per mo. (Tell about Pud's Poolroom across the street)., 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.8513.221], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson221.htm

Title: [Row houses, Cherry Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of row houses along narrow street. People walk along sidewalk in distance., Manuscript note on verso: Cherry St. bet. 2nd and 3rd Sts., 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 [P.8513.14)], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson14.htm

Title: Old house on the southeast corner of Fifth and Spruce Street
Description: Shows the old house tenanted by a grocery on the 300 block of South Fifth Street. Signage adorns the store window and chickens hang in the entranceway. Also shows partial views of surrounding buildings and carts resting on the sidewalk., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Detailed manuscript note on verso describing the establishment of the Friends Pine Street Meetinghouse. See [(3)2526.F.65 (Poulson)], Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 11, page 63. 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 - Streets - Fifth [(3)2526.F.63a]

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