Pastoral view depicting children playing on the hillside surrounding the Wakefield mills, established by William Logan Fisher circa 1815 at Eighteenth Street and Fisher's Lane. Six children play, one with a basket over his head, in the foreground (center), while a man drives a horse-drawn cart loaded with boxes marked "hosiery" (left). Mill buildings are visible in the distance, behind which more people are frolicking on the green. A large residence is partially visible through the woods on the hill in the far distance (center). Owned by the Fisher family of Wakefield, the mills stopped operating in the 1880s., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 816b, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Creator
Smith, B. F., Jr., artist
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W441 [P.2265]
Pastoral view depicting children playing on the hillside surrounding the Wakefield mills, established by William Logan Fisher circa 1815 at Eighteenth Street and Fisher's Lane. Six children play, one with a basket over his head, in the foreground (center), while a man drives a horse-drawn cart loaded with boxes marked "hosiery" (left). Mill buildings are visible in the distance, behind which more people are frolicking on the green. A large residence is partially visible through the woods on the hill in the far distance (center). Owned by the Fisher family of Wakefield, the mills stopped operating in the 1880s., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 816a, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Creator
Smith, B. F., Jr., artist
Date
[ca. 1850]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W441 [P.2266]
