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Title: Too late. Kings Highway, Haddonfield, N.J. Dec. 1, 1882
Description: Pencil sketch of scene looking down King's Highway toward a train traveling past the partially visible train station. A woman pedestrian attired in a shawl and bonnet walks on the sidewalk past the side of a building, toward the moving train in the left. In the right, a man pedestrian attired in a jacket, pants, and wide -brimmed hat and followed by a girl pedestrian holding a package toward her chest walk on the opposite sidewalk, near a tree, away from the train. The girl wears a cap, overcoat, and calf-length skirt., Artist's signature lower right corner., Title from manuscript note on recto of item., Manuscript note on verso: Abbie A. Peacock, Designing Room, Dec. 1, 1882. Original., Date from title., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Abigail "Abbie" A. Peacock (1864-1927) was an artist who trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women 1880-1884. A resident of Friends Insane Asylum, Philadelphia by 1900, Peacock later was a resident of the Camden County Hospital for the Insane beginning in 1905.
Creator: Peacock, Abigail A., 1864-1927, artist
Date: [December 1, 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.61.8]

Title: At the close of the day, 200 Berlin Rd, Haddonfield, N.J., Feb. 17, 1882
Description: Pencil sketch of scene showing a horse-drawn cart and man shepherding a cow traveling on Berlin Road and in front of a three-story, Victorian-style residence. An ornamental fence lines the property. Two women sit on rockers on the porch and near the open front door of the residence. Trees adorn the property. In the left background, two men row a boat on a waterway., Artist's signature lower left corner., Title from manuscript note on verso of item., Manuscript note on verso: Abbie A. Peacock. No. 31. Original., Date from title., Caption in pencil lower right: Berlin Road., Scribbling in pencil lower left corner., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Abigail "Abbie" A. Peacock (1864-1927) was an artist who trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women 1880-1884. A resident of Friends Insane Asylum, Philadelphia by 1900, Peacock later was a resident of the Camden County Hospital for the Insane beginning in 1905.
Creator: Peacock, Abigail A., 1864-1927, artist
Date: [February 17, 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.61.7]

Title: Caught
Description: Drawing depicting a young white girl, in front of a small garden of flower bushes, and holding up a flower to her mother who stands in the doorway of a residence. In the left, the girl holds a flower up with her right hand near a basket of picked flowers and several flowers lying on the ground. In the right, in the doorway the mother, portrayed with an expression of dismay on her face, raises both her hands up. Image also includes a residence in the left background., Title and date from item., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2020., Abigail "Abbie" A. Peacock (1864-1927) was an artist who trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women 1880-1884. A resident of Friends Insane Asylum, Philadelphia by 1900, Peacock later was a resident of the Camden County Hospital for the Insane beginning in 1905.
Creator: Peacock, Abigail A., 1864-1927, artist
Date: April 13, 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2020.40.14]

Title: First city hall, court house and jail
Description: Pencil drawing showing the Camden, NJ three-story, municipal building built in 1829. Two trees stand in front of the building near a fenced walkway. The building was replaced by a market house in 1877., Title written on recto., Date inferred from complementary drawing signed E. Craft 1890 [P.2018.62.7]., Artist possibly Edward Craft, a fireman, listed in the 1890 Camden City Directory., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-12].
Creator: Craft, E., artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.6]

Title: Old Browning home, Pea Shore, De Lair Bridge
Description: Pencil drawing showing the two-and-one-half-story residence of George Browning who settled near Pea Shore (later Stockton Township) during the mid 1700s. Residence includes a covered porch. Two rocking chairs are visible on the porch. A tree stands on the property to the right of the dwelling., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7 and 9-12].
Creator: Duffield, artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.8]

Title: Old Diamond Cottage
Description: Pencil drawing showing the two-story wooden cottage with shingle roof, double entryway, and diamond-paned windows at Penn Street below Seventh street, Camden, N.J. A horse is bridled near one of three trees (in the right) adorning the property. The building was torn down in 1891 and was a part of the pleasure garden Diamond Cottage Garden, later Diamond Cottage Park., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-8 and 10-12].
Creator: Haines, D., artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.9]

Title: Old Federal Street Ferry
Description: Pencil drawing showing the Federal Street Ferry house with a mansard roof. The Federal Street Ferry was established circa 1764 by Daniel Cooper. A new ferry house and ships were built about 1863 and about 1900., Title written on recto., Date inferred from complementary dated drawings., Contains incomplete pencil sketch depicting part of a building and a tree on verso. Similar to Old Browning House image [P.2018.62.8]., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-11].
Creator: Miller, Max, artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.12]

Title: Home of Walt Whitman, 330 Mickle St., Camden, N.J
Description: Pencil drawing showing the front facade of the two-story, wood-slat, row house residence purchased by poet Walt Whitman in Camden in 1884. Building includes a stoop to the doorway and seven windows, including three upper ones with shutters and two on the cellar level. Also includes partial sketches of adjacent buildings. Whitman died in the residence in 1892., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-10 and 12].
Creator: Miller, Max, artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.11]

Title: [Joseph] Cooper home, Park Bouelvard
Description: Pencil drawing showing the 18th-century Georgian residence, also known as Pomona Hall, originally built in the 1710s and expanded in 1726 and 1788 at Park Boulevard and Euclid Avenue in Camden, N.J. "12 M" and "1726" are written on a chimney on the left of the building. Trees line the front of the property. Erected by Quaker yeoman and slave owner Joseph Cooper, Jr., the residence was inherited by his nephew Marmaduke Cooper in 1767. The estate became the property of the Camden County Historical Society in 1924 following the sale of the building to the city in 1915., Title written on recto. Misidentifies name of original owner of residence: Jacob M. Cooper Home, Park Boulevard., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Artist possibly Edward Craft, a fireman, listed in the 1890 Camden City Directory., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.6 and 8-12].
Creator: Craft, E., artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.7]

Title: Pyne Point Mansion
Description: Pencil drawing showing the one-story residence with two-and-one-half-story addition, known as Cope House, originally built in 1695 in Camden above the Delaware River. Leafless trees line the property. The dwelling was acquired by first Camden settler William Cooper's son Joseph in 1709. The addition was built for Joseph's son Isaac before 1785. William Cooper settled in Camden circa 1680s and named the adjacent land to his residence Pyne Ponte because of the numerous pine trees., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-9 and 11-12].
Creator: Haines, D., artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.10]

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