View of the brick rowhouses also known as Portico Row built 1833-1835 after the designs of Thomas U. Walter at 900-930 Spruce Street. Tenants of the row included the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (1836-1841), commodore Isaac Hull (1842-1843), and author Sarah Josepha Hale (1859-1861). Also shows surrounding dwellings north and south of Spruce Street. Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies was a private school established circa 1830 that provided its students with an education based on religious principles, including courses in art, languages, and sciences., Published as frontispiece to Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (Philadelphia, 1837)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 617, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reassigned McAllister accession number., Poor condition., Rosienkiewicz was the professor of drawing and painting at the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies.
Creator
Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date
[1837]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W297 [(8)1322.F.7g]
View of the brick rowhouses also known as Portico Row built 1833-1835 after the designs of Thomas U. Walter at 900-930 Spruce Street. Tenants of the row included the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (1836-1841), commodore Isaac Hull (1842-1843), and author Sarah Josepha Hale (1859-1861). Also shows surrounding dwellings north and south of Spruce Street., Variant published as frontispiece to Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (Philadelphia, 1837)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 617, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook., Trimmed., Rosienkiewicz was the professor of drawing and painting at the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies.
Creator
Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date
[1837]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W297 [(1)1525.F.47g]
View, probably from an atlas, showing the Victorian-style house and substantial property of the state legislator at 1109 Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia. The property, surrounded by a fence, contains a carriage house and large landscaped garden, including a wall of trellises, a green house, and a dog house. A gardener works near the trellises. Neighboring buildings, including row houses and W.C. Gill, apothecary, are visible in the background. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages; a lamppost with mailbox at the corner; and the names of the streets inscribed on the sidewalks., Contains inset of a view showing three elegant row houses. Includes pedestrian traffic., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 194, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 16 H 716
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Residences [7810.F]
