Indian Rock Hotel
Title
Indian Rock Hotel
Description
Exterior, oblique view depicting the roadhouse hotel opened in 1848 by Reuben Sands north of Rex Avenue Bridge near Indian Rock in the Wissahickon Valley. Shows the two-story building with a covered veranda. Two white men stand leaning against the columns on the veranda, while another man stands on the ground. A white woman with a young girl stand behind the bannisters on the second-story veranda. An African American man, attired in an apron, stands in the left on a staircase beside the house. The hotel was sold to the Fairmount Park Commission in 1872 and Sands opened a second Indian Rock Hotel at a nearby location., Pale pink mount with rounded corners., Paper label on verso listing over sixty Fairmount Park stereoscopic views published by the firm., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Joseph D. Bicknell's The Wissahickon in History, Song, and Story written for the City History Society of Philadelphia and read at the meeting of October 10, 1906 (Philadelphia, 1908), p. 18., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell and 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. 1872]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Newell - Hotels [P.9260.69]
[African American serving boy]
Title
[African American boy carrying a serving tray]
Description
Full-length portrait of a smiling African American boy, attired in a long-sleeved white shirt, black pants, black shoes, and a white apron, standing in front of a balustrade. He holds in front of him a serving tray of dishware., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Date based on the active working dates of the photographer and attire of the subject., Purchase 2001., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Keenan operated his studio at 526 South Second Street from around 1855 until 1867.
Creator
Keenan, John A., photographer
Date
[ca. 1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits – photographer – Keenan [P.9981.3]
Chew house, Germantown, 1867. [graphic].
Title
Chew house, Germantown, 1867
Description
Exterior view of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. Shows an African American man, James Smith, posed near the front door of the home. He is attired in a hat, a white collared shirt, white gloves, a dark-colored jacket, pants, and shoes. A smaller building used as a kitchen or for laundry is visible in the rear (left). Smith was enslaved in Chestertown, Maryland before buying his freedom. He began work for the Chews as a coachman in 1819 and later worked as a general servant until his death in 1871. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Title and date from inscription on mount., Originally part of an album of seventy eight views by John Moran entitled "A collection of photographic views in Philadelphia & its vicinity taken in the year 1868-1869" (Philadelphia, 1870)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Photograph pasted on verso: Stenton 1900., See website "Cliveden. Know it. Feel it. Share it." (link above)., Purchase 1870., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator
Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date
1867
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Moran album [1717.F.123], http://www.cliveden.org/