View showing the large monument in the cemetery at 3900 Woodland Avenue. The monument is comprised of a stone canopy enshrining a sculpted figure kneeling at a cross atop a pedestal. The canopy is adorned by an urn and the monument is surrounded by a stone enclosure. Also shows the Woodlands Mansion, built 1742, remodeled and enlarged between 1787 and 1790 for William Hamilton, in the right background. The estate was purchased in 1840 by the Woodlands Cemetery Company., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title from manuscript note 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
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Cemeteries [7992.F.20]
Shows the mansion built for botanist William Hamilton in the 1780s on the West Philadelphia estate converted to a cemetery in 1840. Mansion was used as the residence of the cemetery superintendent., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount of stereograph: Woodland Cemetery., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains one stereographic print on pale yellow paper mount with square corners, one unmounted stereographic print; and one unmounted half-stereographic print., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
ca. 1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.39d & 43f; P.2005.2.4]
Shows the mansion built for botanist William Hamilton in the 1780s on the West Philadelphia estate converted to a cemetery in 1840. Mansion was used as the residence of the cemetery superintendent., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount of stereograph: Woodland Cemetery., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains one stereographic print on pale yellow paper mount with square corners, one unmounted stereographic print; and one unmounted half-stereographic print., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
ca. 1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.39d & 43f; P.2005.2.4]
Shows the mansion built for botanist William Hamilton in the 1780s on the West Philadelphia estate converted to a cemetery in 1840. Mansion was used as the residence of the cemetery superintendent., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount of stereograph: Woodland Cemetery., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains one stereographic print on pale yellow paper mount with square corners, one unmounted stereographic print; and one unmounted half-stereographic print., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
ca. 1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.39d & 43f; P.2005.2.4]
Shows the mansion built for botanist William Hamilton in the 1780s on the West Philadelphia estate converted to a cemetery in 1840. Also shows a man and a woman with a parasol standing near a mausoleum in front of the mansion. Mansion was used as the residence of the cemetery superintendent., Title supplied by cataloguer., Orange mount with square corners., Manuscript note on accompanying label: Mansion Woodlands., 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.
Date
ca. 1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.43e]
