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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: Woodlands Cemetery. Main entrance
Description: Shows the arched gateway entrance to the cemetery chartered in 1840 on the former estate of botanist William Hamilton at 3900 Woodland Avenue in West Philadelphia. View includes a carriage passing under the arch and two families, one entering and one exiting, both attired in black. The entranceway, built after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., was razed in 1936., Frontispiece to The charter, by-laws and regulations of the Woodlands Cemetery Company, with a list of lot holders (Philadelphia: James B. Chandler, printer, 1857)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 866, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1857 Phi Woo Cem 16256.O.1., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ws*.161
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W470 [Am 1857 Phi Woo Cem 16256.O.1.frontispiece], http://www.lcpimages.org/wainwright/W470.htm

Title: [Unidentified woman standing at gateway]
Description: Depicts woman dressed in long fur coat, white gloves, purse, hat, sheer black stockings, and low-heeled shoes standing near brick gatepost and open gate door. Ironwork connects the two gateposts above the woman's head and lantern hangs from ironwork's center., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.5: same neg., 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 94 [P.8513.94], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson94.htm

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

Title: [University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, entrance gate, 34th and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts gateway surrounded by trees and shrubs. Architect Wilson Eyre, Jr. headed the team of architects who designed the University Museum buildings and surrounding gardens. Construction of the original buildings began in 1899 and ended in 1929., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Gateway. U of P Musium [sic]. 34th & Spruce., 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 158 [P.8513.158], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson158.htm

Title: [University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, entrance gate, 34th and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of small pool and brick gate with ceramic-tile roof that serves as entrance to University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, designed by architect Wilson Eyre. Franklin Field appears beyond gate., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: U. of P. Museum gateway from inside. Most pictures are made from the outside., 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 164 [P.8513.164], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson164.htm

Title: [Mikveh Israel Cemetery gate, 12th and Federal Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of Mikveh Israel's Second Cemetery Gate built in 1849 at 1114 Federal St., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Cemetary [sic] Gate 12th and Federal Sts. Did my ears deceive me, or was somebody having a joke. I was told that the name of the burial place was the McIsrael. Note - Eastern style of architecture. (Get data on this place.), 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 185 [P.8513.185], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson185.htm

Title: [Mount Sinai Cemetery gate, 1905 Bridge Street, Frankford, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts ivy-covered gate to cemetery, with automobile parked in front., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Jewish Cemetary [sic] Gate - Bridge St., Frankford, Phila., 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 122 [P.8513.122], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson122.htm

Title: Old graveyard. N.S. Spruce bet 8th & 9th
Description: View showing the front gate, adorned with a stone marker, of the Jewish Philadelphia cemetery Mikveh Israel. A brick wall surrounds the entrance with a wrought iron gate, which leads to a path through the cemetery. In the left, two men, including an African American, sit with their legs crossed on crates near the gate. Trees flank the gate, and more trees are visible beyond on the grounds. Established as a private burial ground in 1738 by Jewish businessman Nathan Levy, the cemetery was deeded to the Mikveh Israel congregation in 1774., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Gift of Mrs. Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.132], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson132.htm

Title: Old graveyard. N.S. Spruce bet 8th & 9th
Description: View showing the front gate, adorned with a stone marker, of the Jewish Philadelphia cemetery Mikveh Israel. A brick wall surrounds the entrance with a wrought iron gate, which leads to a path through the cemetery. In the left, two men, including an African American, sit with their legs crossed on crates near the gate. Trees flank the gate, and more trees are visible beyond on the grounds. Established as a private burial ground in 1738 by Jewish businessman Nathan Levy, the cemetery was deeded to the Mikveh Israel congregation in 1774., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Gift of Mrs. Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.132], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson132.htm

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