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Title: The fountain, Mount Auburn Cemetery
Description: View shows people walking around the perimeter of a large fountain in the cemetery founded in 1861. Also shows a large sepulchral monument in the foreground., Title on negative., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Aaron Wunsch.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Union View Company - Cemeteries [P.9963.2]

Title: Tomb of President James K. Polk, corner of Union & Vine St., Nashville, Tenn
Description: View showing the tomb of James Knox Polk, the eleventh president of the United States, on his Polk Place estate before it was relocated to the Tennessee State Capitol in 1893. The columned front facade of Polk Place is partially visible in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow.
Creator: Giers, Carl, 1828-1877
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Giers [P.9022.17]

Title: Moravian Cemetery, Bethlehem
Description: View showing long rows of flat headstones and trees in the Central Moravian Church's cemetery known as "God's Acre" in Bethlehem, Pa. Includes a man sitting against a tree near a grave. Used as a burial place from 1742-1910, only flat gravestones were permitted., Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia., Attributed to R. Newell & Sons., Title from manuscript note on mount., Pink mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Cemeteries [P.9299.121]

Title: [Hamm monument, Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: View showing a standing angel sepulchral monument with a bench at its base surrounded by an iron fence., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Monument in Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa., 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.10]

Title: [William Hill Moore monument, Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: View showing the Gothic monument erected for William Hill Moore, a manager of the Woodlands and an undertaker in Philadelphia., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Monument in Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa., 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.11]

Title: Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View showing rows and clusters of monuments and gravestones in the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Title from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Cemeteries [8353.F.5]

Title: Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View looking toward South Laurel Hill showing the connecting bridge (built 1864) over Hunting Park Avenue between South and Central Laurel Hill. View includes fenced plots, monuments, headstones, and mausoleums. Laurel Hill Cemetery, built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue, acquired the central property in 1863., Title from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893, photographer
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Cemeteries [P.9191.6]

Title: The Oak Hill Cemetery, at Georgetown. D.C
Description: Shows a path near monuments, headstones, and a mausoleum in the Washington, D.C. cemetery established by William Corcoran in 1848., Title printed on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Pink mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of District of Columbia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bell & Bro was operated by Charles Milton Bell and his brothers from the 1860s to early 1870s.
Creator: Bell & Bro. (Washington, D.C.), photographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bell & Bro. - Cemeteries [5740.F.1b]

Title: Oak Hill Cemetery
Description: Shows monuments, headstones, and a vault in the Washington, D.C. cemetery established by William Corcoran in 1848., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of District of Columbia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bell & Bro was operated by Charles Milton Bell and his brothers from the 1860s to early 1870s.
Creator: Bell & Bro. (Washington, D.C.), photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bell & Bro. - Cemeteries [5740.F.1c]

Title: View at North Laurel Hill Phila, Pa
Description: Shows a man laying down and reading near a sarcophagus in the cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Also shows rows of monuments and headstones in the background., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from label on negative., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Union View Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo -Union View Company - Cemeteries [P.9963.4]

Title: [Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing an iron-work bench, headstones, and a sepulchral monument in the cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman. Also shows a section of the Falls Bridge over the Schuylkill River in the distant background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., 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., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.45d]

Title: View from south Laurel Hill Cemetery, looking west
Description: Shows two women standing in front of a fenced plot of gravestones. View also shows surrounding plots and an ironwork chair designed by Robert Wood & Co. Laurel Hill Cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. The cemetery expanded south in 1844., Title from manuscript note on verso., Trimmed yellow mount with rounded corners., 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. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [(3)1322.F.50a]

Title: [General Henry Lee gravestone, Greene's private cemetery, Dungeness, Cumberland Island, Ga.]
Description: Shows a man touching the moss-covered gravestone of the American Revolution soldier and former governor of Virginia who died and was buried on the ancestral island of compatriot Nathaniel Greene. Stone reads "Sacred to the Memory of Henry Lee of Virginia Obiit 25 March 1818. AEtat. 65.", Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - non-Philadelphia - Georgia [5739.F.54c]

Title: View at north Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View showing a man standing next to a monument near a dirt path in the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Also shows rows of monuments and gravestones in the background., Title from label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Stamped on mount: Penn. & Delaware Views, Wholesale Depot for Stereoscopes and Views, 113 Washington Street,... Boston., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Cemeteries [P.8484.2]

Title: Cedar Glenn [sic], Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View showing a man standing in a grove of trees and bushes near a headstone in the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Also shows several residential buildings in the distant background and fencing in the foreground., Title from label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Duplicate of P.9058.147., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Cemeteries [P.8484.16]

Title: Cedar Glenn [sic], Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View showing a man standing in a grove of trees and bushes near a headstone in the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Also shows several residential buildings in the distant background and fencing near a gravestone in the foreground.., Title from label on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Duplicate of P.8484.16., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Cemeteries [P.9058.147]

Title: Baird's monumental works - Spring Garden Hall in distance
Description: Exterior view of John Baird's marble yard and mable works on Spring Garden Street above Ridge Road [i.e. Avenue]. Yard contains a variety of ornate gravestones and monuments. The marble works, founded by John Baird in 1841 specialized in monumental art, principally of Italian marble. The firm was the first marble works of the city to use a steam powered mill., Title stamped on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Moran - Industries [(8)1322.F.17e-2]

Title: Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View looking from the connecting bridge (built 1864) over Hunting Park Avenue between South and Central Laurel Hill showing South Laurel Hill. View includes fenced plots, monuments, headstones, and mausoleums. Laurel Hill Cemetery, built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue, aquired the central property in 1863., Title from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Cemeteries [P.9260.24]

Title: Old tomb of Washington Mount Vernon, Va
Description: View predominately showing the fence around the old tomb that was replaced in 1831 on the Washington family estate., Title from photographer's label on verso., Distributor's imprint stamped on verso: William Y. McAllister, Optician, Philadelphia., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Virginia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bell operated from 1200 Chestnut Street between 1869-1874.
Creator: Bell, William, 1830-1910, photographer
Date: ca. 1872
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bell - Cemeteries [5737.F.1c]

Title: [Entrance to Printers' Cemetery at Woodlands Cemetery, 3900 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows a man standing in front of the Gothic Revival-style gate to the Printers' Cemetery. Woodlands Cemetery was chartered in 1840 on the former estate of botanist William Hamilton at 3900 Woodland Avenue in West Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: ca. 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Cemteries [(8)1322.F.45c]

Title: Brolasky vault, Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: Shows the vault of dry-goods merchant and real estate magnate Simon Brolasky in the cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Vault adorned with two sculptures of female figures., Label on verso listing over sixty cemetery and volunteer fire department views published by the firm., Grey mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Cemeteries [P.9299.24]

Title: Greenwood Cemetery
Description: View showing a man sitting on a bench near a pond and a little girl standing behind him in the cemetery founded in 1838 in Kings County, New York. They look in the direction of the mausoleums and headstones built into the hill in the distance., Title on negative., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Aaron Wunsch., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Union View Company - Cemeteries [P.9963.3]

Title: Lake, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass
Description: Elevated, hillside view shows a lake surrounded by trees in the cemetery founded in 1861. Large sepulchral monuments are visible in the left foreground., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Aaron Wunsch.
Creator: Allen, E. L. (Edward L.)
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Allen - Cemeteries [P.9963.1]

Title: Benjamin Franklin's grave, 5th and Arch St
Description: View showing the flat headstone over the grave of Benjamin Franklin in Christ Church cemetery at 420-424 Arch Street. Includes adjacent headstones, a large crowd of spectators looking at the grave from behind an iron fence, and the front facades of buildings on Arch Street behind the cemetery., Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Pink mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Cemeteries [P.9299.124]

Title: Harris'es monument in Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: 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]

Title: Sec. 108. Bay-side dell. De Witt Clinton
Description: Shows the bas-relief adorned base of the monument, completed in 1853 after the designs of architect Richard Upjohn, dedicated to former New York governor Clinton at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The bas-relief represents Clinton's noted achievement of the Erie Canal and depicts construction of the canal by laborers, engineers, and horse-teams. Greenwood Cemetery was founded in 1838 and landscaped after the designs of civil engineer David Bates Douglass., Photographer's imprint, title, and publisher from label on verso., Buff mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New York., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Beer Bros., photographer
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Beer Bros - Cemeteries [(5)5741.F.3]

Title: [Laurel Hill Cemetery, view looking north from ridge, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows a partial view of a monument and a horse-drawn wagon. Also shows the Falls Bridge over the Schuylkill River in the distant background. Laurel Hill Cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman. Falls Bridge was erected by mason Christian Swartz in 1853., Title supplied by cataloguer., Unmounted trimmed stereograph., 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 [(3)1322.F.127e]

Title: [Laurel Hill Cemetery, Maria Miles Heyward monument, 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows the tomb for the wife of U.S. Representative William Drayton. Reads "Maria Miles Heyward of South Carolina. Widow of William Drayton. Born October XX MDCCLXXXIV (i.e. October 20, 1784), Died January XVII MDCCCLXII (i.e. January 17, 1863)." Also shows surrounding plots. Laurel Hill Cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman., Title supplied by cataloguer., Trimmed yellow paper mount., 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 [(3)1322.F.50g]

Title: Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: View showing a man leaning on fencing surrounding a plot in the rural cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Also shows several surrounding monuments and headstones in fenced plots including headstones in the foreground dedicated to Joseph Cake and Margaret Bishop., Title from label on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Cemeteries [P.8484.14]

Title: Monuments at Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia
Description: Views showing the monument for Stephen H. Tyng, reverend of the Church of Epiphany and an elaborate sculpture monument, including a reclining female figure, inscribed "Hobson." Views also include iron work fencing and surrounding gravesites., Yellow paper mounts with square corners., 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.45f-g]

Title: Monuments at Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia
Description: Views showing the monument for Stephen H. Tyng, reverend of the Church of Epiphany and an elaborate sculpture monument, including a reclining female figure, inscribed "Hobson." Views also include iron work fencing and surrounding gravesites., Yellow paper mounts with square corners., 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.45f-g]

Title: Warerooms of Baird's monumental works
Description: Interior view of warehouse on Spring Garden Street above Ridge Road [i.e. Avenue] showing carved marble monuments including ornate gravestones, a fountain, and statues. The marble works, founded by John Baird in 1841 specialized in monumental art, principally of Italian marble. The firm was the first marble works of the city to use a steam powered mill., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Published in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-Century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1980), plate 117., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Businesses [P.8464.26]

Title: [Entrance to Printers' Cemetery at Woodlands Cemetery, 3900 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: Side-view showing a man standing in front of the Gothic Revival-style gate to the Printers' Cemetery. Woodlands Cemetery was chartered in 1840 on the former estate of botanist William Hamilton at 3900 Woodland Avenue in West Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: ca. 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.45i]

Title: Statue of Stephen Girard, Girard College, Phila
Description: View of the full-length Girard College statue of Stephen Girard, his hands crossed at his waist. The life-size marble statue, instated in 1846, was installed in front of Girard's sarcophagus in the Main Hall (i.e., Founder's Hall) of Girard College around 1851., Title printed on mount., Photographer's blind stamp on mount., Publisher's label pasted on verso., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James W. Queen & Co., opticians, No. 924 Chestnut St., Philadelphia., White mount with square corners., Founder's Hall, also identified as the main building, built 1833-1847 after designs by Thomas Ustick Walter. Endowed by philanthropist Stephen Girard to educate boys without fathers. Girard ran away from home in France at the age of fourteen, worked his way up to ship captain and landed in the states in 1776. He became one of the wealthiest men in America before his death seventeen years before the opening of Girard College in 1848., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim Brothers copyrighted a series of stereographs with labels inscribed: "American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia" in 1858. They continued to produce stereographs until 1865, when they withdrew from the American Stereoscopic Co.
Creator: American Stereoscopic Company
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Monuments and statues [P.9462.4]

Title: Gardel Memorial, Mt. Vernon Cemetry
Description: View of the pyramid-shaped marble Gardel Monument erected in 1864 in Mount Vernon Cemetery. Commissioned by French teacher Bertrand Gardel for his wife, Julia Hawks Gardel, who died while touring Damascus, Syria., Title printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [P.9047.46]

Title: Tombs in Laurel Hill Cemetery
Description: Shows a man standing next to the rock-altar monument for Philadelphia humorist John Clay Neal. Monument includes plaque that reads "Joseph C. Neal Born 1807-Died 1847. A tribute of affectionate regret from those who loved him as a man and admired him as an author." View also shows ironwork fencing designed by Robert Wood & Co. and adjacent burial vaults. Cemetery built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman., Title printed on mount., Name of photographer from duplicate. [(8)1322.F.49m]., Buff mount with square corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Cemeteries [P.8979.2]

Title: [Mansion at Woodlands Cemetery, 3900 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: 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]

Title: St. James the Less
Description: Views showing the Gothic-style Protestant Episcopal church built 1846-1850 after the designs of English architect George Gordon Place at 3200-3230 West Clearfield Street in East Falls near Laurel Hill Cemetery. Images predominately depict the church exterior, burial ground, and individual headstones and monuments, including a nautical-themed grave marker. Also includes an interior view showing the church altar, pews, and archways. The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish., Coral or orange mounts with rounded corners., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mounts., Five of images 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.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Religion [1322.F.87c-2; (4)1322.F.84c & f; 87a, b & d; P.9047.114-115; P.9134]

Title: St. James the Less
Description: Views showing the Gothic-style Protestant Episcopal church built 1846-1850 after the designs of English architect George Gordon Place at 3200-3230 West Clearfield Street in East Falls near Laurel Hill Cemetery. Images depict the church exterior, doorway, burial ground, and individual headstones and monuments, including the tomb of "Mark M. Collet, M.D., Col. 3rd N.J. Vols. killed at Chancellorsville." The Ecclesiological Society, a British church architecture society, provided the plans for the church to be recreated in the style of a 13th-century English country parish., Yellow or buff paper mounts with square corners, including nine with manuscript titles and one with accompanying label., Paper backings pasted on versos., 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. 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Religion [(4)1322.F.83a & e; (4)1322.F.84a & b; (4)1322.F.84d & e; (4)1322.F.85b-d; (4)1322.F.87c]

Title: [Scrapbook of European views]
Description: Scrapbook containing photographic and printed views of European cities, landmarks, and historical sites. Images depict the city and landscapes; castles, palaces, and estates; cathedrals and chuches; and hotels and resorts of Germany, Russia, Spain, Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Great Britain. Images also show bridges, sailing vessels, pedestrians and street traffic, persons on promenades, horse-drawn vehicles, waterways, mountains, and squares and parks. Views (interiors and exteriors) of prominent sites include Vienna Arsenal (as a museum - 1874); Crucis and Netley Abbeys; Chester Cathedral; Staffordshire-in-Arms; the resting place and residence of Wordsworth; tomb of the Lafayette family; the house and bedroom where Msr. Le Duc D'Orleans died; Ripon Cathedral; Haddon Hall; the Crescent (Buxton); Shangana Castle (includes notes by Smith about her "happy days" spent there and the death of Augustus William Heyman); and Peveril Castle. Also includes several Laurie & Whittle vues d'optique published by "act of parliament May 12, 1794" depicting views of European cities, including Venice, Rome, Madrid, Paris and Versailles, as well as a number of plates from F. Sinnett's "La France de nos jours" (ca. 1860). Views of the Wilhelm monuments at Charlottenberg; Derwentwater; Lausanne; and the Druid Stones are also included in the scrapbook., Title supplied by cataloger., Some items contain manuscript notes by Smith inscribed on mount or verso. Notes often detail personal memories., Various artists and photographers, including Alfred Lorens, G. Zocchi, Anth. Canale (Canaletto), M. Marieschi, J. Rigaud, J. Philippe, Asselineau, Chapuy, Wegelin, E. Dardoize, L. L. Raze, E. H. Buckler, T. Bailey, G. Hawkins, J. Croston, T. Allom, H. Gastineau, J. Brandard, W. Coles; L. Aspland, and W. Westall., Various engravers, including T. Bowles, Parr, J. Robert, J. Tinney, Johann Baptist Marie Chamouin, T. Speorli, S. Lacey, W. Le Petit, H. Adlard, W. Floyd, and W. Banks., Various printers and publishers, including Cuvillier, Lemercier, Laurie & Whittle, A. Hauser (Veith et Hauser), Destouches, Deroy, Bulla Freres et Jouy, Tirpenne, Jacottet, Spengler, Becquet frères, William Judson, A. LaRiviere, Day & Son, J. Gow, J. C. Bates, Newman & Co., James Gratton, and M & N. Hanhart., Forms part of M. Rebecca Darby Smith Scrapbooks Collection., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Smith, Mary Rebecca Darby
Date: [ca. 1794-ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4-Alcove 2 [Is 6 1518.Q, vol. 3]

Title: Views of Woodlands Cemetery, 3900 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia
Description: Views of tombs and mausoleums in the cemetery chartered in 1840 on the former estate of botanist William Hamilton in West Philadelphia. Shows the Drexel family mausoleum (completed 1863 after the designs of Collins & Autenrieth), the Edward Alexander Orme monument, the Commodore David Porter obelisk; and the tomb of optician John McAllister, Jr. and his wife Eliza Young McAllister. Views also include trees and iron work and marble fencing., Three of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Stereographic prints mounted on yellow mounts with square corners, including one [(5)1322.F.80a], hand-colored. Two also contain labels printed with titles, including the series title: Views in Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.43g; (8)1322.F.47c; (5)1322.F.80a; P.9389.10]

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