View of two semi-detatched, two-story homes in Camden, New Jersey. A fence surrounds the houses. Includes two women standing on the porch and two men, a boy, and a baby in a carriage posing on the sidewalk in the foreground. Also shows row houses with mansard roofs in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note on verso: S.C. Muschamp., 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 Mr. Saul Koltnow.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Non-Philadelphia - New Jersey [P.9022.49]
Pencil drawing showing the two-and-one-half-story residence of George Browning who settled near Pea Shore (later Stockton Township) during the mid 1700s. Residence includes a covered porch. Two rocking chairs are visible on the porch. A tree stands on the property to the right of the dwelling., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7 and 9-12].
Creator
Duffield, artist
Date
[1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.8]
Pencil drawing showing the two-story wooden cottage with shingle roof, double entryway, and diamond-paned windows at Penn Street below Seventh street, Camden, N.J. A horse is bridled near one of three trees (in the right) adorning the property. The building was torn down in 1891 and was a part of the pleasure garden Diamond Cottage Garden, later Diamond Cottage Park., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-8 and 10-12].
Creator
Haines, D., artist
Date
[1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.9]
Pencil drawing showing the front facade of the two-story, wood-slat, row house residence purchased by poet Walt Whitman in Camden in 1884. Building includes a stoop to the doorway and seven windows, including three upper ones with shutters and two on the cellar level. Also includes partial sketches of adjacent buildings. Whitman died in the residence in 1892., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-10 and 12].
Creator
Miller, Max, artist
Date
[1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.11]
Pencil drawing showing the 18th-century Georgian residence, also known as Pomona Hall, originally built in the 1710s and expanded in 1726 and 1788 at Park Boulevard and Euclid Avenue in Camden, N.J. "12 M" and "1726" are written on a chimney on the left of the building. Trees line the front of the property. Erected by Quaker yeoman and slave owner Joseph Cooper, Jr., the residence was inherited by his nephew Marmaduke Cooper in 1767. The estate became the property of the Camden County Historical Society in 1924 following the sale of the building to the city in 1915., Title written on recto. Misidentifies name of original owner of residence: Jacob M. Cooper Home, Park Boulevard., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Artist possibly Edward Craft, a fireman, listed in the 1890 Camden City Directory., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.6 and 8-12].
Creator
Craft, E., artist
Date
[1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.7]
Pencil drawing showing the one-story residence with two-and-one-half-story addition, known as Cope House, originally built in 1695 in Camden above the Delaware River. Leafless trees line the property. The dwelling was acquired by first Camden settler William Cooper's son Joseph in 1709. The addition was built for Joseph's son Isaac before 1785. William Cooper settled in Camden circa 1680s and named the adjacent land to his residence Pyne Ponte because of the numerous pine trees., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-9 and 11-12].
Creator
Haines, D., artist
Date
[1890]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.10]
