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Title: ASSU Illustration 3576
Description: Block numbered in two places : 3576, also 1347 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of what appears to be a graveyard behind a church building; there are several tall trees; the yard is surrounded by a wall; a shovel is leaning against a wall and a piece of cloth hangs over the wall beside the shovel., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
Date: [s.a.]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 20

Title: ASSU Illustration 6228
Description: Block numbered in two places: 6228, also 1450 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a man and a woman leaning over the ground at what appears to be a grave; the man holds a shovel, and the woman wears a cloak with a hood and clutches a small branch or sprig; behind them are the spire of a church and a group of figures wearing coats and hats departing the churchyard., “N.J. Wemmer 215 Pear St. Phila” – Back of block. Boxwood dealer Nelson J. Wemmer is listed at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1861 to 1876., “Am.S.S.U” – Back of block in three places., “Prayer [?] do [?]” – Inscribed on side of block.
Date: [between 1861 and 1876?]
Location: ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 28

Title: [Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery entranceway, 4268 Richmond Street]
Description: Depicts the rusticated stone arch entranceway to Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery, situated between two rectangular wings with projecting bay windows. The central tower rises above the two wings and is capped by a pyramidal roof. Shingles unite the taller central block with the shorter wings. Constructed by John Jerome Deery in 1887., Modern reference print #14 available in research file., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.17]

Title: [Graveyard, England]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a view of a small graveyard. A wooden fence runs next to the rounded tombstones., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.26]

Title: Aerial views of the Somerton section of Northeast Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial views of the Somerton neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia. Two views show residential development along Bustleton Avenue with adjacent farmlands. The William Penn Cemetery on Trevose Road is also visible., Negative numbers: 1446, 1469., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1446; P.8990.1469]

Title: Woodlands Cemetery Seal
Description: Gift of Tim Long, 2016., Seal for the Woodlands Cemetery. Reads: Woodlands Cemetery Company of Philaa. Depicted is a cemetery urn with a lyre and a large tree on the right. A garden folly is in the far left background with the sun’s rays filling the sky. The Woodlands, the former country seat of William Hamilton (1745-1813), was established as the Woodlands Cemetery Company of Philadelphia in 1840. Located in West Philadelphia on the banks of the Schuylkill River, it has over 54 acres of land with over 30,000 people buried wherein.
Location: OBJ 906

Title: Woodlands Cemetery. Main entrance. [graphic] / James Queen.
Description: Location: .The Woodlands Estate in West Philadelphia., Frontispiece to The charter, by-laws and regulations of the Woodlands Cemetery Company, with a list of lot holders (Philadelphia: James B. Chandler, printer, 1857), Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1857 Phi Woo Cem 16256.O.1., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
Date: 1857.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W470.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W470 [Am 1857 Phi Woo Cem 16256.O.1]

Title: [East River Drive from the Strawberry Mansion Trolley Bridge, Philadelphia.]
Description: View of East River Drive (Kelly Drive) looking north from the Strawberry Mansion Trolley Bridge. Laurel Hill Cemetery occupies the land east of the tree-lined drive. A Philadelphia and Reading Railroad bridge spanning the Schuylkill River is visible in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.39]

Title: Hood Cemetery postcards
Description: Depicts the marble arch entrance gate and balustrade of Hood Cemetery, designed in 1849 by William L. Johnston and William Struthers. Marble wall, balustrade and gateway commissioned by William Hood., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 104A02 and 104B02., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Miscellaneous - 104]

Title: Entrance to Monument Cemetery
Description: Exterior view looking southwest at the cemetery's Gothic gatehouse, chapel and steeple on the west side of North Broad Street at Berks Street. Includes two pedestrians standing on the sidewalk in front of the cemetery's entrance, and a milkman's coach parked in the street in the left foreground. Designed by Philadelphia artist and engraver John Sartain, the building also served as an office and superitendent's house before it was demolished to open Berks Street between Broad and Sixteenth Streets in 1904. Cemetery was established in 1838 by Dr. John Elkinton., Title on negative., Manuscript note on verso: Phila., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [P.8451.4]

Title: [House with shutters, England]
Description: Film negative likely taken during Marriott C. Morris’ European honeymoon showing a two-story house with shuttered windows and a steep roof seen from across a field. A wooden fence stands between the house and a small graveyard on the other side., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.24]

Title: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. [graphic] / [J. C. Wild].
Description: Originally published as plate 20 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2090 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846., creator
Date: c1840, 1848.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W216-3.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W216.3 [P.2090]

Title: General view of Laurel Hill Cemetery. [graphic] / J. Notman Archt. et del. ; On stone by Pinkerton.
Description: Location: between Ridge Road and the Schuylkill four miles from Philadelphia., Frontispiece to Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia (Philadelphia: For sale at the cemetery, and by the treasurer, etc.; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.6 and in *Am 1844 Phi Lau 11129.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Pinkerton, E. J. lithographer., creator
Date: 1844.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W148-1.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W148.1 [P.9830.6]

Title: Philadelphia Cemetery. On the Passyunk Road. [graphic].
Description: Location: Passyunk Avenue between 20th and 22nd Sts., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date: ca. 1850.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W282.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W282 [P.2126]

Title: General view of Laurel Hill Cemetery. [graphic].
Description: Location: between Ridge Road and the Schuylkill four miles from Philadelphia., Frontispiece to Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: For sale at the cemetery, and by the treasurer, 1847)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.7 and in Am 1847 Phi Lau 10497.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: 1851.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W148-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W148.2 [P.9830.7]

Title: [Cemetery, with distant view of windmill, Long Island, N.Y.]
Description: Depicts gravestones behind a white picket fence, with a large windmill and barn structure in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.215]

Title: Northwood Cemetery entrance. The beauty and adaptibility of the grounds are unsurpassed by any cemetery in the country Northwood Cemetery, near York Road and Haines St., Oak Lane Station, N.P.R.R. Office: 217 South Sixth Street. A. Austin, general manager
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting trees flanking Northwood Cemetery's entrance gate near Fifteenth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia. Headstones are visible in the distance., Advertising text printed on verso: Northwood Cemetery. Lots for sale as low as $25.00. Terms on a $25.00 lot: $1.00 to be paid at time of purchase; $1.00 per month thereafter, with the privilege to bury at any time after $10.00 are paid on said lot. Larger lots in same proportion. For further information, address by postal card or letter to B.F. Wilson, 1511 Stiles St., Philadelphia., Address for B.F. Wilson annotated on verso. Printed "1228 Citron Street" and crossed out., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Northwood [P.2004.36.4]

Title: Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa
Description: Aerial views of Ursinus College, located at 601 East Main Street, Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Includes Bomberger Hall, built 1891. The college was established in 1869 and originally occupied the former buildings of the Freeland Seminary for boys in Collegeville (formerly Freeland). Views show a cemetery across Main Street, surrounding houses, and farmland., Negative numbers: 4384, 4385., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1924
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.4384; P.8990.4385]

Title: Rinkermink (Cobb) Creek, Mount Moriah Cemetery
Description: View of leafy branches from trees and bushes on the creek's banks extending over the water. Mount Moriah Cemetery is divided by Cobbs Creek, the boundry between Philadelphia and Delaware Counties., Distributor's stamp on verso: William Y. McAllister, Phila., Jun. 27, 1868., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging 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
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Views [P.9085.3]

Title: Philadelphia Cemetery. On the Passyunk Road
Description: View showing the chapel of Philadelphia Cemetery, also referred to as New Philadelphia Cemetery, fronting on Passyunk Avenue between Twentieth and Twenty-second Streets. Pedestrians linger outside of the stone wall and carriage gate. Philadelphia Cemetery opened in 1828, and the last burial occurred in 1902. The bodies were removed to Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill circa 1915., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 576, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W282 [P.2126]

Title: Woodlands Cemetery. Main entrance
Description: Shows the arched gateway entrance to the cemetery chartered in 1840 on the former estate of botanist William Hamilton at 3900 Woodland Avenue in West Philadelphia. View includes a carriage passing under the arch and two families, one entering and one exiting, both attired in black. The entranceway, built after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., was razed in 1936., Frontispiece to The charter, by-laws and regulations of the Woodlands Cemetery Company, with a list of lot holders (Philadelphia: James B. Chandler, printer, 1857)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 866, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1857 Phi Woo Cem 16256.O.1., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ws*.161
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W470 [Am 1857 Phi Woo Cem 16256.O.1.frontispiece], http://www.lcpimages.org/wainwright/W470.htm

Title: Old Moravian burying ground - summer
Description: Shows two boys sitting in a tree-lined path in the cemetery established in the mid-eighteenth century in Bethlehem. Includes partial views of flat gravestones (i.e. breaststones) and a building in the background. Cemetery also called "God's Acre.", Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's imprinted printed on mount., Paper backing pasted on verso., 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., Kleckner, a Moravian, operated a studio in Pennsylvania until 1883.
Creator: Kleckner, M. A.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kleckner - Cemetery [(8)1322.F.a]

Title: Entrance to Woodlands Cemetery
Description: Shows the arched gateway entrance to the cemetery chartered in 1840 on the former estate of botanist William Hamilton at 3900 Woodland Avenue in West Philadelphia. View includes a workmen's shed to the right of the image. The entranceway, built after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., was razed in 1936., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #153., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: November 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [8339.F.21]

Title: Hood's Cemetery entrance
Description: Shows a side view of the marble gateway and entrance to the cemetery built 1849 by marble mason William Struthers after the designs of William Johnston at 4901 Germantown Ave. View includes a street lamp, possibly a fire hydrant, and adjacent buildings. Gateway commissioned by Germantown resident William Hood in exchange for a vault in the cemetery (organized 1690). Cemetery rechartered as the Hood Cemetery Company in 1866., White paper mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's stamp embossed on mount., 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. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Cemeteries [(6)1322.F.205a]

Title: Hood Cemetery, Germantown
Description: Shows the marble gateway and entrance to the cemetery built 1849 by marble mason William Struthers after the designs of William Johnston at 4901 Germantown Ave. Gateway commissioned by Germantown resident William Hood in exchange for a vault in the cemetery (organized 1690). Cemetery rechartered as the Hood Cemetery Company in 1866., Title from label pasted on mount., Attributed to John Moran., White 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
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Cemeteries [(8)1322.F.47d]

Title: Chapel. [graphic] / J. Notman, Archt. & del.
Description: Location: Laurel Hill Cemetery, Ridge Road., Published in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia (Philadelphia: For sale at the cemetery, and by the treasurer, etc.; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am1844 Phi Lau 11129.O copy 1 & 2., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Notman, John, 1810-1865 architect., creator
Date: 1844.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W051.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W51 [*Am 1844 Phi Lau 11129.O]

Title: Franklin's grave postcards
Description: Depicts Benjamin Franklin's grave in Christ Church's cemetery at the southeast corner of Fifth and Arch Streets. Includes sightseers behind the iron fence that replaced a section of the stone wall built in 1858 to allow for a better view of the tomb., Contains 20 postcards printed in color and 6 printed in black and white. Also includes 1 linen postcard., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Franklin's Grave - 99]

Title: [St. David's Church & cemetery, Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.]
Description: View of the cemetery of St. David's Church in Radnor and border of Wayne, Pa., showing the side of the stone church. An episcopal Welsh speaking congregation built the church from 1715 to 1717., Inscribed in negative: 2462., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.41]

Title: [Stone church and graveyard, probably St. David's Church, Radnor, Pa.]
Description: Exterior view of unidentified ivy-covered stone church, with gravestones of church cemetery in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.181]

Title: [Stone church, arched entranceway from dirt path, probably St. David's Church, Radnor, Pa.]
Description: Distant view of unidentified man and woman standing on either side of a dirt path leading to an arched entranceway of an ivy-covered stone church. Includes partial views of tombs in cemetery in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.182]

Title: [Stone church, side view, probably St. David's Church, Radnor, Pa..]
Description: Exterior view of ivy-covered stone church, showing arched entranceway and wooden window shutters. Includes small gravestones in nearby cemetery., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.183]

Title: Benjamin Franklin's grave postcards
Description: Depicts Benjamin Franklin's grave in Christ Church's cemetery at the southeast corner of Fifth and Arch Streets. Includes sightseers behind the iron fence that replaced a section of the stone wall built in 1858 to allow for a better view of the tomb., Contains 5 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Accession numbers: P.8712.5f, P.9048.282, P.9049.13 - 15a, P.9105.8 and P.9441.25., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Cemeteries - [various]

Title: Christ Church burying ground. 5th & Arch Sts. Phila
Description: Depicts the opening in the brick wall of Christ Church cemetery that exposes the grave of Benjamin Franklin near the southeast corner of 5th and Arch Streets. The scene is viewed from the northwest corner of the intersection. Several pedestrians are visible in the foreground, one of whom is looking at Franklin's grave., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.150]

Title: [Gloria Dei Church, 929 S. Water Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Exterior view, showing headstones in the cemetery of the oldest church in Pennsylvania, built 1698-1700 after designs by John I. Harrison and Reverend Andrew Rudman. The wings were added 1703-1705 and the tower circa 1733., Title from negative sleeve., Also known as Old Swedes' Church. Stands on the site of the first Swedish Lutheran Church in Philadelphia.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.26]

Title: [Strawberry Mansion Music Pavilion, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia]
Description: Aerial view of the rectangular music pavilion at Strawberry Mansion in Fairmount Park designed in 1905 by Horace Trumbauer. The pavilion was razed in 1930 when replaced by Robin Hood Dell. View includes the Schuylkill River and Laurel Hill Cemetery., Title supplied by cataloger., Negative number: 12703n., Negative 12703 dated June 23, 1930.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1930
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.12703]

Title: Odd Fellows' Cemetery, Islington Lane Philadelphia
Description: View showing the gatehouse, designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, to the cemetery chartered 1849 near Diamond and Twenty-Fourth streets. Street and pedestrian traffic is visible in the foreground. Men, women, and children walk and stand on the sidewalk to and in front of the gatehouse. In the street, a carriage and wagon pass as several individuals ride on horseback, including a man fending off a barking dog raised on his hind legs. Also shows trees, a chapel, and a monument on the cemetery grounds. Cemetery removed 1951. Per contemporary published accounts, architects Hoxie & Button designed the gatehouse constructed., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 518, See Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine (April 1860), p. 316.
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: c1849
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Cemeteries [P.8613]

Title: Gloria Dei Or old Swede's Church, Swanson below Christian, Philadelphia. The oldest church organization in the city. Founded 1667, five years prior to the landing of William Penn. Present edifice erected 1700, and has been worshipped in continuously from that time
Description: Exterior view of the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church known as Gloria Dei Church, built 1700-1703 by master builder John Harrison I at 929 South Water Street in Southwark. Shows a couple walking past the gravestones in the church cemetery and up the path to the entrance of Gloria Dei. Also includes neighboring buildings, trees on the cemetery grounds, and masts of ships in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 317, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Religion - G [P.2007.28.16]

Title: Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia East window of Chapel
Description: Depicts the pointed arched east window, with Gothic tracery, in the funerary chapel at Laurel Hill Cemetery. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Added title page in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 335, Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PR327.
Creator: Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
Date: 1844
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.title page], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.title page]

Title: Old Swedes' Church
Description: Exterior view of the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church known as Gloria Dei Church, built 1700-1703 by master builder John Harrison I at 929 South Water Street. View includes two boys standing on the sidewalk in front of the fence surrounding the church property and the very tops of tombstones in the adjacent burial ground., Title on negative., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Religion [P.9260.87]

Title: Mount Vernon Cemetery
Description: View of the cemetery gateway built 1856-1858 after the designs of John Notman at 3301 West Lehigh Avenue., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Buff 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.
Creator: Hemple, Alfred H., fl. 1860-1879, photographer
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hemple - Cemeteries [P.9047.64]

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: Mount Vernon Cemetery, Phila
Description: View of the cemetery gateway built 1856-1858 after the designs of John Notman at 3301 West Lehigh Avenue. A man stands on the dirt path in the foreground., Title from manuscript note on verso., Distibutor's printed pink label pasted on verso., Mint green mount with square corners., Cataloging 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 [P.9107.4]

Title: Entrance to Mt. Vernon Cemetery, Phila., Pa
Description: View of the cemetery gateway built 1856-1858 after the designs of John Notman at 3301 West Lehigh Avenue. A man stands on the dirt path in the foreground., Title on negative., 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 F.J. Dallet.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Cemeteries [P.9164.2]

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: The Bible Christian Church, 3rd St., above Girard Avenue, Phila., 10/77
Description: Exterior views, one an elevated view, of the east front of the second church edifice constructed in 1845 on North Third Street above Girard Avenue to replace the frame structure built on the same site in 1817. Also shows the tombstones in the small burial ground surrounding the church. Includes adjacent brick row houses accessed from Gray's Court (i.e., Gay's Court)., Title from manuscript notes on versos., Photographer's imprint printed on mounts., Gray mounts 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.
Creator: Schofield, John, 1835-1910
Date: 1877
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schofield - Religion [P.9047.78-79]

Title: St. David's [near Radnor]
Description: Glass negative showing St. David's, a small stone chuch with rounded doorways and window arches. There is a cemetery behind the church with a small portion on the left surrounded by an elaborately scrolled metal fence. St. David’s, originally a Welsh Anglican church built in 1715, became Episcopalian during the Revolution. While the original building was still used for worship and events, the growing congregation led to the construction of new chapels in 1956 and again in 2006., Photographer remarks: In a neg. preserver., Time: 3:40, Light: Same as last two [Fairly strong, no sun], Same direction as #233. A little more distant., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: March 28, 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.235]

Title: Mennonite Meeting house. Main St., [Germantown]
Description: Glass negative showing a stone Mennonite meeting house at 6119 Germantown Avenue standing next to a cemetary surrounded by a metal fence. Trolley tracks run through the center of the street. A tree grows to the left of the meeting house and other buildings are visible in the background. A Mennonite meeting house was originally built on Main Street in 1705. The stone building replaced the wooden structure in 1770. The meeting house had one addition in 1908, and was restored to its colonial appearance in 1952., Photographer remarks: Beautiful negative., Time: 10:35 A.M., Light: Bright., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 7, 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.185]

Title: [Friend's] Library & graveyard [5418 Germantown Avenue] from roof of [James S.] Jones' store [5401-5 Germantown Avenue]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of the Friends' Library, a large stone building at 5418 Germantown Avenue. A fenced in field in front of the library contains trees and a few small gravestones. A cobblestone road runs to the right of the library and two men stand on the sidewalk next to the fenced field. The Friends Free Library was originally housed in the Germantown Friends School, starting in 1845. In 1874, a separate library building was built, endowed by Alfred Cope. The Friends Free Library was an independent organization until 1977 when it was taken over by the school., Time: 12, Light: No sun, fair light., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: April 19, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1266]

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