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Title: Thos. Livezey House on Wissahickon
Description: Exterior view of the front facade of dwelling built for Thomas Shoemaker from 1733-1739. Thomas Livezey bought the property, including a grist mill, from Shoemaker in 1747 and named it Glen Fern. The house was enlarged and raised one story in 1765, and sometime before 1853 a rear ell was constructed., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Also known as Glen Fern, the Thomas Shoemaker House and the Valley Green Canoe Club (1909).
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: February 15, 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.121]

Title: Built by Jos. Spencer 1746. N. side Old York Road opposite Church Lane. Sold to Dr. Benneville in 1758 & named Silver Farm
Description: Exterior view of dilapidated dwelling, surrounded by weeds at the northeast corner of Old York Road and Church Lane. Built in 1746 by Joseph Spencer, purchased by Dr. Benneville in 1758 and named "Silver Pine Farm" by Benneville's son., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date 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.9731.108]

Title: Old House. Ridge Ave. above Falls of Schuylkill on property of Powers & Weightman
Description: Depicts a run down house behind a white picket fence atop a stone wall. Other dwellings are visible in the background. Located along Ridge Avenue on the property of Powers & Weightman, near the chemical plant that spanned several blocks immediately south of Wissahickon Drive., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date: Negative 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.170]

Title: Harmer House. East bank of Schuylkill below Grays Ferry. Torn down for the B & O R.R
Description: Exterior view of front facade of dwelling built circa 1764 for Samuel Rhoads and torn down to make way for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks. Located near Reed Street between Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Streets. Occupied by the Harmar family before it was demolished., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Also known as Rhoads' Place and Harmar's Retreat.
Creator: Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date: Negative November 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.169]

Title: Morris House, door, 225 S. 8th St., blt. 1785
Description: Exterior detail of west front of dwelling, showing Flemish bond construction, pilasters flanking the front doorway and windows surmounted by keystone lintels. Built 1786-87 by John Reynolds and sold to Luke Wistar Morris in 1817., Inscribed in negative: 2207., Title from negative sleeve., Also identified as the Reynolds-Morris House, Israel Wistar Morris House and Luke Wistar Morris House.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.14]

Title: Morris House
Description: Exterior view of west front of dwelling built 1786-87 by John Reynolds and sold to Luke Wistar Morris in 1817., Inscribed in negative: 2210., Title from negative sleeve., Also identified as the Reynolds-Morris House, Israel Wistar Morris House and Luke Wistar Morris House.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.15]

Title: 4825 Germantown Ave., home of Christian Ottinger, a soldier of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolutionary War
Description: Depicts the west fronts of neighboring dwellings along Germantown Avenue, 4821 in the foreground and 4825 in the background, the latter built circa 1781 by Christopher Ottinger, a Revolutionary soldier who became a master coach maker after the war. A man stands on the steps of the Ottinger House., Inscribed in negative: 2211., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.16]

Title: John & Mildred Keen house cor. of Chestnut & Mansion Sts. on site of present Drexel Institute
Description: Copy photograph depicting the south and west elevations of the Keen residence at the northeast corner of 32nd and Chestnut Streets. Two people stand in a doorway facing 32nd Street. Demolished and occupied by the Drexel Institute building in 1891., Inscribed in negative: 1874., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.6]

Title: Peter Robeson House in 1789. Ridge Road & mouth of the Wissahickon
Description: Copy of a sketch depicting the dwelling above Schuylkill Falls along Ridge Avenue as it looked in 1789. Several carriages and horses pass by on the road in front of the house., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Andrew Robeson purchased Shoomac Park in 1690 and operated a flour mill on the land. Andrew Robeson, Jr., the nephew of the original owner, purchased the property in 1702, managed operations until circa 1750 and sold the land. Shoomac Park did not return to the Robeson family until December of 1789, when Peter and Jonathan Robeson bought the park and mill from the Vandereen estate. Peter and his family lived here until his death in 1838. The Fairmount Park Commission purchased Shoomac Park in 1872.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.131]

Title: Whitby Hall, 58th & Florence Ave
Description: Rear view of country dwelling built in 1754 on land acquired by Philadelphia merchant James Coultas in 1741. Portions of the house were used to construct Whitby New in Haverford circa 1922., Inscribed in negative: 2257., Title from negative sleeve., Also identified as the Thomas Mansion.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.30]

Title: Whitby Hall, 58th & Florence Ave
Description: Depicts the front of the country dwelling built in 1754 on land acquired by Philadelphia merchant James Coultas in 1741. Portions of the house were used to construct Whitby New in Haverford circa 1922., Inscribed in negative: 2258., Title from negative sleeve., Also identified as the Thomas Mansion.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.31]

Title: White Cottage, Gtn., Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of front facade of home on Manheim west of Greene Street. Although the house was owned by Col. Thomas Forrest, one of his daughers lived here with her husband, Samuel Betton, Jr. The octagonal shaped room was built by Dr. Samuel Betton, Jr. Demolished circa 1905., Sheet number: 100B11A., 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 - Buildings - 100]

Title: Residence of William P. M. Braun, Pelham, Germantown
Description: Depicts the front facade of William P. M. Braun's residence in Pelham, an area where many members of Philadelphia's mercantile class erected mansions., Numbered 509 on verso., Sheet number: 100B01A., Divided 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. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]

Title: Thones Kunder's House, Germantown, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of front facade of house built on the site of Thones Kunder's original house, built in 1683. The first meetings of the Society of Friends were held in this house, along with the first public protests against slavery written here by Daniel Pastorius in 1688., Numbered 571 on recto., Sheet number: 102B09., Undivided back. Post marked 1906., 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. 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Mansions - 102]

Title: Henry House postcards
Description: Exterior view of the front facade of the Wachsmuth-Henry House built in 1760., Numbered 580 on recto., Sheet number: 102B05., Undivided back. Post marked 1905., 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: St. Aulyn's mansion, Chelten Hills, Pa
Description: Exterior views of the front facade of a stone mansion with a large, wraparound porch., Yellow mounts with square corners., Photographer's imprint blind stamped on mount of P.2002.21.1. Manuscript note on verso of 7992.F.3: Aulin's mansion, near Philadelphia, Pa. Manuscript note on verso of P.2001.21.1: St. Auylin's, Chelten Hills., 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 - Residences [7992.F.3 and P.2002.21.1]

Title: Privat [sic] residence near Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of residence partially obscured by trees. Includes a family (father, mother, and daughter) posed on the front lawn., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to Robert Newell., 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. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Residences [7992.F.21]

Title: [Redfield residence, 211 Upland Way, Wayne, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Exterior views the photographer's home in Wayne. One shows two boys standing on the boarded sidewalk in front of house. The younger boy is sitting in a wheelbarrow held steady by an older boy. In the background, the asymmetrical stone house is depicted from the street, showing a projecting two-story oval-shaped wing topped by a balustrade. Shingles unite the bell-shaped roof of the opposite corner wing with the hipped roof of the central body. The front of the house is shaded by a wide, ivy-covered porch. A large brick chimney rises from the house, near the front entrance., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: September 1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.15a & b]

Title: [Redfield residence, 211 Upland Way, Wayne, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Dog and young boy in front of the photographer's home in Wayne. In the background, the asymmetrical stone house is depicted from the street, showing a projecting two-story oval-shaped wing topped by a balustrade. Shingles unite the bell-shaped roof of the opposite corner wing with the hipped roof of the central body. The front of the house is shaded by a wide, ivy-covered porch and striped awnings cover each of the windows. A large brick chimney rises from the house, near the front entrance., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: October 19, 1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.16]

Title: [Redfield residence, 211 Upland Way, Wayne, Pennsylvania]
Description: Views of the photographer's home in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The asymmetrical stone house is depicted from the street, showing a projecting two-story oval-shaped wing topped by a balustrade. Shingles unite the bell-shaped roof of the opposite corner wing with the hipped roof of the central body. The front of the house is shaded by a wide porch. A large brick chimney rises from the house, near the front entrance. Men are working on the porch of the house and a woman stands with a baby stroller on the grass nearby., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: 1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.14a & b]

Title: [George Bolton Lownes homestead, Baltimore Pike and Woodland Avenue, Springfield township, Delaware County, Pa.]
Description: Exterior views of an three story Italianate residence, with a low pitched roof, square cupola, narrow, shuttered windows and overhanging eaves. The photographer's wife, Jane Lownes Webster, is depicted with her family in Springfield township, Pa., on the front and back porches of the house. Two of the images depict the stone farm buildings in the back of the property, including a distant view of the house., Modern reference prints available in the research file., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.21 & 22, P.9501.101-103]

Title: [Lownes Clovercrest Farm, 321 West Woodland Avenue, Springfield, Pa.]
Description: Exterior views of the rear elevation of the residence on the Lownes Clovercrest Farm in Springfield, Pa., showing the pointed arch dormers projecting from the shingled roof and a one story addition covered with siding. The Lownes family constructed the home in 1827 and resided here until 1913. The photographer's wife, Jane Lownes Webster, is depicted with her family on the front porch of the house. Also includes an image of the barn behind the residence., Images of the property that were catalogued separately include: P.9501.58 and P.9501.85, both views of women sitting on the front porch of the residence on the Lownes Clovercrest Farm., Modern reference prints available in the research file., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.28, P.9501.106]

Title: [Mitchell House, southwest corner of Greene Street and Walnut Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia]
Description: View looking southwest at the west and north elevations of the stone country house built ca. 1856 after designs by Samuel Sloan at 200 West Walnut Lane in Germantown., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: [Walnut Lane + Greene St.], Creme mount with square corners., Cataloging 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 - Residences [8353.F.23]

Title: [Residence, corner of Walnut Lane and Greene Street, Germantown, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing a man leaning against the gate of a Gothic-style residence built in Germantown after the designs of Samuel Sloan. The design of the residence is a near mirror of another commissioned by Chestnut Hill developer Charles Taylor and built at Chestnut Hill and Norwood Avenues in 1861 after the designs of Samuel Sloan. Mirrored architectural details included recessed gable fronts on opposite sides of the house., Title supplied by cataloger., Creme mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Image previously misidentified as "Charles Taylor residence, northwest corner of Chestnut Hill and Norwood Avenues, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia." The Chestnut Hill property was sold to Horace Brown in the fall of 1861 and was later purchased by Dr. Robert Bolling and then Colonel George H. North in 1883. The residence was demolished in 1928.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Residences [8353.F.17]

Title: [Unidentified residence, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of front facade of a two story residence. An illegible sign protrudes from the building near the entrance door. Includes a partial view of a carriage house and adjacent houses and yards., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Manuscript note on verso: H.M.B.S., Gray mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schofield, John, 1835-1910
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schofield - Residences [P.9774.6]

Title: Broad St
Description: View looking from the southwest corner of Broad and Stiles Streets showing dwellings lining the east side of Broad Street. Also shows trees spaced evenly in front of the dwellings and a lamppost in the foreground with "Stiles" etched into it., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's printed 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.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9260.42]

Title: [Unidentified residence and outbuildings]
Description: Views depict unidentified residences and the rear of these properties with a circular tent and flagpole., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint from printed red text on versos., Yellow mounts with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown - Residences [8353.F.31-32]

Title: River Road at Fairmount Park. Phil. Pa
Description: Landscape view of River Road running parallel to the Schuylkill River. Shows a pavilion in the distance, along with dwellings on the opposite bank., Title and series number on negative., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging 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 - Parks [P.8731.10]

Title: View from international gallery at Honesdale, Pa
Description: Elevated view showing frame houses and yards from R.B. Whittaker's "International Photograph Gallery" in rural Honesdale in upstate Pennsylvania., Title from manuscript note in ink on mount., Photographer's name from manuscript note in red ink on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Whittaker, R. B.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Whittaker [P.9212.6]

Title: Pine Cottage
Description: View of a Victorian residence and adjacent hexagonal building adorned with battlements sitting on the slope of a tree-covered hill in the distance. Livestock, probably sheep, graze in the pasture in the foreground., Title and photographer's imprint from label pasted on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Cream mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift from the heirs of Paul D.I. and Anna S. Maier: James H. Maier, Anthony M. Maier, Marianna M. Thomas, and Cynthia C. Maier., A.M. Allen, born in Deerfield, Mass., relocated to Pottsville, Pa. ca. 1852 and set up his studio at the southwest corner of West Market and North Centre Streets. He retired from the business in 1894.
Creator: Allen, A. M. (Amos Morrel), 1823-1900, photographer
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Allen - Views [P.9844.22]

Title: Morris-Littell House postcards
Description: Depicts exterior views of the house owned by the Morris-Littell family from 1776 until 1888. Dr. Christopher Wit (1675-1765) planted one of the first botanical gardens in America on this site. The house was torn down after the construction of Germantown High School in 1915., Sheet numbers: 27B05 and 102B12., Undivided 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: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Buildings - Miscellaneous - 27] and [Germantown - Mansions - 102]

Title: Butler Place. Branchtown
Description: Exterior view of residence including part of the grounds., Also known as Bramblethope and Brambleton., Sheet number: 27B01B, 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. 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Buildings - Miscellaneous - 27]

Title: Odd house, 3803 Locust [Street]
Description: Exterior view showing one of two speculative houses commissioned in 1851 by Philadelphia developer Samuel Aden Harrison. Built after the designs of Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan, the gothic-style house with bay windows was to be a model for a proposed upper class residential suburb in West Philadelphia., 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 photo - Wilson [P.8513.196], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson196.htm

Title: [House at Pine Street between 21st and 22nd streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the residence at 2103 Pine Street near Rittenhouse Square., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: House. Pine St. bet. 21" and 22" Sts. Note: Canopy form of cornish makes building seem top heavy. Little balcony with bay window. Probably an adaption [sic] of some Italian style. Florentine. Venetian., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.189], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson189.htm

Title: Old houses, from the southeast corner of Fourth and Union Street, to the northeast corner of Pine and Fourth Street
Description: Shows the former residential buildings on the east side of the 300 block of South Fourth Street. Awning frames adorn most of the 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 60. 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: March 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Fourth [(3)2526.F.60 (Poulson)]

Title: [Manayunk, Philadelphia, in winter]
Description: Winter scene depicting buildings next to the Schuylkill River in the foreground. The hills of Manayunk and the houses built on them rise in the background., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Many people in Manayunk live on a bluff. The Schuylkill river is in the foreground., 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 192 [P.8513.192], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson192.htm

Title: [Mediterranean-style residence with terra cotta roof, unidentified location, Philadelphia]
Description: Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Moresque. Italian - S[p]anish., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.197], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson197.htm

Title: [Residence and garden at 42nd Street and Woodland Avenue, West Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts the front facade of a West Philadelphia stone house with an overgrown garden., Title from photographer's descriptive manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Would you think this old house with its weed grown garden is at 42 and Woodland Ave? Well it is. (1923), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.123], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson123.htm

Title: A quiet and restful looking old home on Paul St. Frankford Phila[delphia]
Description: View showing the side and front facade of a three-story dwelling, covered in vines, beside a fenced yard. Includes a partial view of a "low racing car" parked in front of the house., Title from photographer's descriptive manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: However, the snorting exhausts of a low racing car is it drew up and stopped in front of this door seemed to us the heighth of the incongrous [sic]., 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.8513.152], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson152.htm

Title: Rear of houses on Paul and ___ Sts. Frankford, Phila[delphia]
Description: Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: This neighborhood is full of quaint scenes ready for the artist's brush., 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 205 [P.8513.205], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson205.htm

Title: [Court on Carpenter Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View of rear of differently shaped dwellings and industrial buildings built close together., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A modernistic composition. It is a court on Carpenter St. near ____ St., 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 144 [P.8513.144], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson144.htm

Title: [Exterior view of stone house in rural setting]
Description: Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Old colonial., 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 222 [P.8513.222], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson222.htm

Title: Old House 58[th] and Chestnut Sts
Description: View showing a West Philadelphia residence., Title from photographer's descriptive manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: This is a rural house of the revolutionary period and the present occupant of it is very proud of his place of abode. Not 200 ft away is a public school of the most modern style. For revolutionary., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate of P.8513.23., 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.8513.218], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson218.htm

Title: [Chestnut Street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets]
Description: Photographic reproduction of a view showing a residential building on the 1000 block of Chestnut Street. Includes partial view of signage reading "1011-" adorning the adjacent building., Reproduction of February 1859 photograph., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Chestnut [8339.F.10]

Title: Northwest corner Fourth and Pine streets
Description: View looking north from below Pine Street showing the 300 block of South Fourth Street. Shows two women with a parasol conversing at the street corner. They stand in front of a residential building adorned with a small placard advertising "Schuylkill & Lehigh coal cheap" (401-407 Pine). Also shows individuals posed at the doorways of their residences, which line the street., Title from manuscript note on recto: 4th & Pine., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 21., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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. 22., Arcadia caption text: Taken on a hot summer day in August of 1860, this photograph shows a block of row homes on Fourth Street at the corner of Pine shuttered against the steamy Philadelphia heat. Those who could afford to leave fled the city in the summer months, taking up residence in suburban “cottages” and summer resorts in order to escape the oppressive weather and the frequent outbreaks of disease.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: August 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - N [(7)1322.F.55f]

Title: [Multi-storied, ivy-covered Philadelphia residence, unidentified location]
Description: Shows a corner residence with several windows, an outside cellar entranceway, and a gated yard., Title supplied by cataloguer., 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.8513.26], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson26.htm

Title: [Bungalow-style residence near a row of hedges, unidentified location, Philadelphia]
Description: Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note by photographer on verso: Bungalo., 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.8513.237], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson237.htm

Title: House 6th and Wharton Sts
Description: Depicts facade and side wall of dilapidated frame house., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Soon due for a fall. Note bridge in side wall. About 90 years old. (Tell about man and woman in first floor window.), 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 142 [P.8513.142], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson142.htm

Title: Odd house 33rd and Hamilton Sts
Description: Shows a cottage-style residence with a truncated roof and fenced lawn in West Philadelphia. House surrounded by small trees, shrubbery, and an ivy-covered lawn., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Note how roof seems to form a canopy set over first story. Suggests French villa or small English country home. (block out background of walls. find out more about this house.), Duplicate of P.8513.17., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson 212 [P.8513.212], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson212.htm

Title: House n.w. corner of Prune and Fourth street
Description: Exterior view of the residences located at the northwest corner of Prune [i.e. Locust] and 4th Streets. Shows a gentleman standing on the corner., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., 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 45. 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., Previously misidentified as the Wistar-Shippen House located at the s.w. corner of Prune and 4th.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: September 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Fourth [(5)2526.F.5b (Poulson)]

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