View showing men, women and children sitting and standing around a pond in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Also shows geese in the water, a small gazebo, and trees., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's stamp on verso: From Pierce & Snyder, 122 Dearborn St., Chicago., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Melander, L. M.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Melander - Parks [P.9022.53]
View showing three men standing on a stone footbridge spanning a creek in Jefferson Park, Chicago., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's stamp on verso: From Pierce & Snyder, 122 Dearborn St., Chicago., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Melander, L. M.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Melander - Parks [P.9022.52]
View of the four-story building at the southeast corner of Clark and Washington Streets in Chicago that housed the First Methodist Episcopal Church on its upper floors from about 1857 until 1871. A signboard for the church is visible along with signs for a dentist and millinery & strawgoods store on the ground floor of the building. Businesses situated at the northeast corner of Clark and Washington Streets, including Bryant & Stratton's business college and Fifth National Bank, are also visible. Also depicts a large gas lamp in front of the Clark Street entrance to the church with "First Methodist Church" inscribed onto the glass panes. Building destroyed by the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James Cremer's stereoscopic emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Family groups taken for the stereoscope, and photography in all its branches., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp - 17, Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., John Carbutt operated a photography studio and resided in Chicago from 1861-1870.
Creator
Carbutt, John, 1832-1905
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Carbutt - Religion [P.9022.64]
Oblique view of the church's third location designed by Loring & Jenney in 1868 on Wabash Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets in Chicago. Also shows adjacent dwellings and wooden sidewalk in the foreground., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James Cremer's stereoscopic emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Family groups taken for the stereoscope, and photography in all its branches., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp - 12, Small, circular burn mark on left side of stereograph., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., John Carbutt operated a photography studio and resided in Chicago from 1861-1870.
Creator
Carbutt, John, 1832-1905
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Carbutt - Religion [P.9022.65]
