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Title: [George Bolton Lownes homestead, Baltimore Pike and Woodland Avenue, Springfield township, Delaware County, Pa.]
Description: Exterior views of an three story Italianate residence, with a low pitched roof, square cupola, narrow, shuttered windows and overhanging eaves. The photographer's wife, Jane Lownes Webster, is depicted with her family in Springfield township, Pa., on the front and back porches of the house. Two of the images depict the stone farm buildings in the back of the property, including a distant view of the house., Modern reference prints available in the 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. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.21 & 22, P.9501.101-103]

Title: [Lownes Clovercrest Farm, 321 West Woodland Avenue, Springfield, Pa.]
Description: Exterior views of the rear elevation of the residence on the Lownes Clovercrest Farm in Springfield, Pa., showing the pointed arch dormers projecting from the shingled roof and a one story addition covered with siding. The Lownes family constructed the home in 1827 and resided here until 1913. The photographer's wife, Jane Lownes Webster, is depicted with her family on the front porch of the house. Also includes an image of the barn behind the residence., Images of the property that were catalogued separately include: P.9501.58 and P.9501.85, both views of women sitting on the front porch of the residence on the Lownes Clovercrest Farm., Modern reference prints available in the 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. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.28, P.9501.106]

Title: [Aerial view of Marshall Farm, Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.]
Description: Built circa 1820., Negative number: 71, Inscribed in negative: Aero Service Corp.
Creator: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: 1921
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jennings [P.9480.71]

Title: [Cows in field]
Description: Depicts three cows in a field. Two are standing near a wooden fence. The third is seated underneath the cow in the foreground., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry,edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 56 [P.8513.56], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson56.htm

Title: [Bicycling trip, group with Catharine Rupp Doering stopped in front of an old farm.]
Description: Distant view of four women and two men, including Catharine Rupp Doering (wife of the photographer), Mrs. Schwarts (photographer's sister), and Mrs. Lindsay, standing with their bicycles in front of an old farm. A wooden fence divides the photographer from the group 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.9453.196]

Title: Buckman Farm, Middletown Township, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial views of the Buckman Farm at Highland Avenue and Hulmeville Road in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania, near Langhorne. Distant view (5828) shows the farm amid surrounding croplands, farms and houses. Closer view (5829) shows a large white barn, possibly with livestock in the yard. Probably taken May 1926., Negative numbers: 5828; 5829., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5828; P.8990.5829]

Title: Farm, Solebury Township, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial view of a farm at Aquetong Road & Covered Bridge Road in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Surrounding croplands and Delware River are visible., Negative number: 4283., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1924
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.4283]

Title: Barn house, Walnut Lane, Germantown
Description: Exterior view of west and north facades of dwelling, once the Wyck barn, built in 1796 by J. Frederick Thomas. Architect Mantle Fielding converted the old barn into a residence circa 1891. Recessed porches with wooden banisters are visible on both levels of the west elevation., Inscribed in negative: 2752., Title from negative sleeve., Later known as the Franklin Courtney Residence., Modern reference print available.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.52]

Title: The Chestnut Hill Stock Farm, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Breeders and importers of hackneys and thoroughbreds, hunters, high action pairs, dog-cart horses, ladies cobs, and childrens ponies Hackney and thoroughbred stallions in the stud. Hunters schooled. Horses boarded
Description: Trade card containing a vignette showing a hunter on horseback after clearing a fence and accompanied by hounds., Printed above title: Proprietor, Mitchell Harrison, Lock Box 1630, Phila. Address All Communications to the Farm. Manager, W. Fred. Presgrave, Chestnut Hill, Phila., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.9]

Title: Church Farm School, Penna
Description: Aerial views of the Church Farm School in Exton, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Depicts original school and residential buildings, mainly designed 1918 by Milton B. Medary, Jr. of the firm Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, as well as surrounding barns and farmlands. Founded 1918 by Rev. Charles W. Shreiner as a boarding school for boys, with the goal of combining religious education with agricultural and industrial work., Negative numbers: 4774, 4776-4778, 4781, 4783.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1924
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.4774; P.8990.4776-4778; P.8990.4781; P.8990.4783]

Title: [Four women, including Jane Lownes Webster, sitting on the porch, Lownes Clovercrest Farm, 321 West Woodland Avenue, Springfield, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the photographer's wife, Jane Lownes Webster, sitting on the steps of the porch, opposite an unidentified young girl. Two older women sit in rocking chairs behind them. A dog sits on the lawn in front of the house. The residence has five bays, an addition on the right and another porch on the left. The residence is part of the Lownes Clovercrest Farm, and was built by the Lownes family in 1827 and occupied by them until 1913., Images of the property that were catalogued separately include: P.9501.28, P.9501.106, and P.9501.85, showing exterior views of the front and back of the residence on the farm, and a detailed view of Jane Lownes Webster sitting with her family on the front porch of their residence., Modern reference print #27 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.9501.58]

Title: [Clement B. Webster, with horse, on Stouton farm, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts Clement B. Webster, attired in a suit, hat and coat, holding the reigns of a horse on the farm behind Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, owned by the Webster family since 1805. A muddy path leads to crude, wooden outbuildings in the distance., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Modern reference print #23 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. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.61]

Title: Landsdown Farm
Description: View showing two farm buildings adjacent to a wide dirt road in West Fairmount Park. A horse-drawn dray rests in between the two buildings, along with piles of lumber. Referred to as "the oldest house in Lansdown" in Newell album [P.9062.63a]., Title one of sixty-eight views in numbered series list printed on label pasted on verso (No. 58-125)., Publisher's imprint printed on label pasted on verso., 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 Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.61]

Title: [View of a farm in a river valley in the mountains, Schuylkill County, Pa.]
Description: View of a farm in a river valley in the mountains. In the foreground, a man stands with a rake or pitchfork looking toward the camera (left). Two warehouses are visible at the tree-lined river bank in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift from the heirs of Paul D.I. and Anna S. Maier: James H. Maier, Anthony M. Maier, Marianna M. Thomas, and Cynthia C. Maier., A.M. Allen, born in Deerfield, Mass., relocated to Pottsville, Pa. ca. 1852 and set up his studio at the southwest corner of West Market and North Centre Streets. He retired from the business in 1894.
Creator: Allen, A. M. (Amos Morrel), 1823-1900, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Allen - Views [P.9844.35]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier. Loose print lacking copyright statement., Issued as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume containing twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2204 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.1 [P.2204]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume containing twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2205 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.2 [P.2205]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue.In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch.Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 6 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 6 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2206 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.4 [P.2206]

Title: [McCauley Mountain Rail Road]
Description: Depicts tracks leading to the McCauley Mountain Railroad bridge on the Catawissa Railroad near a farm residence in Maineville. Four men sit and stand on the tracks. The railroad, incorporated in 1831 and opened in 1854, traveled through the Blue Ridge Mountains connecting Port Clinton and Williamsport, Pennsylvania., Manuscript note on verso: MCauly Mtn. R.R., Attributed to John Moran., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Series title from duplicate stereograph., Duplicate entitled McCauley Bridge, McCauley Mountain R.R., Pa. (P.8992.3)., 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 - Views - Cattawissa Railroad [P.9462.16]

Title: McCauley Bridge, McCauley Mountain R.R., Pa
Description: Depicts tracks leading to the Catawissa Railroad bridge which passes over a farm residence near Maineville. Four men sit and stand on the tracks. The railroad, organized in 1831 and opened in 1854, traveled through the mountains near Blue Ridge connecting Port Clinton and Williamsport, Pennsylvania., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to John Moran., Buff mount with square corners., Contains distributor's stamp on verso: James W. Queen & Co., 924 Chestnut Street Phila., 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. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Views [P.8992.3]

Title: Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. Near Philadelphia
Description: View looking past farmland showing the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two boys sit in a fenced pasture in which cows graze near sheds and an enclosed pond. Ducks swim on the pond. In the background, a farm is visible in front of the prison at which a carriage is parked and a man rides on horseback., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 202, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 26 L 528.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: c1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W106 [P.2042]

Title: Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. Near Philadelphia
Description: View looking past farmland showing the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two boys sit in a fenced pasture in which cows graze near sheds and an enclosed pond. Ducks swim on the pond. In the background, a farm is visible in front of the prison at which a carriage is parked and a man rides on horseback., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 202, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb26 L528., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 19:22
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: c1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W106 [P.2041]

Title: [The house and farm of Thomas Godfrey on the corner of Limekiln Road and Church Lane, Germantown]
Description: Shows the former residence of Thomas Godfrey, inventor of the mariner's quadrant. Farm surrounded by a white picket fence. Godfrey family purchased the farm from Samuel Carpenter in 1697., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inscribed on photograph., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 89. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial Views of Houses & Places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.7)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 #206., Reaccessioned as P.2294., Corresponding album page describing "Godfrey's House" [(2)2526.F.89 (Poulson)] housed with photograph
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - G [(3)2526.F.89 (Poulson)

Title: Art Colony, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial view of Art Colony along the Delaware River, immediately north of the Rte. 202 bridge, north of New Hope, Pennsylvania. View shows a number of buildings surrounded by croplands. The towpath is also visible., Negative number: 5532., Record created with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5532]

Title: Marshall Farm, Abington Township, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial views of the Marshall Farm in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Farm located on what is now Sharpless Road in Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania. Revelation and Meadowbrook Roads and Washington Lane are visible. Bryn Athyn Cathedral can be seen in the distance in 1322., Negative numbers: 1318; 1322; 1329., 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.8990.1318; P.8990.1322; P.8990.1329]

Title: Aerial views of real estate and farmlands on the outskirts of Norristown, Pennsylvania
Description: Aerial views of Norristown, Pennsylvania show areas outside the city center, including areas thick with housing developments alongside sparsely populated farmlands. Schools, farmhouses, streets and portions of the Schuylkill River and Stony Creek are also visible. Manuscript notes on some negative sleeves indicate the areas shown may be adjacent to the Norristown State Hospital, but the hospital is not visible in any of the images., Negative numbers: 6816, 6817, 6818, 6820, 6822, 6823, 6824, 6826, 6827, 6828, 6829, 6833aa., 6828 not digitized; zoom-in view of 6827.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6816-6818; P.8990.6820; P.8990.6822-6824; P.8990.6826-6829; P.8990.6833aa]

Title: The farm. A scene near Gray's Ferry, Philada. Co., Pa Design XXVII. pl. I
Description: Plate in architectural design book illustrating an Italianate mansion at the intersection of two roads in Gray's Ferry near Philadelphia. In the foreground, three boys fish in a stream that runs parallel to the property leading to the Schuylkill River in the background (left). An orchard occupies the land in front of the house, and farm land sprawls across the property behind the house. A team of two horses plows the farm land, and a sailboat is visible on the river in the distance., The lithography firm of Peter S. Duval operated as P.S. Duval & Co. from 1851-1857., Published in Samuel Sloan's The model architect. (Philadelphia: Published by E.S. Jones & Co. S.W. corner of Fourth & Race Sts., c1852), vol. II, plate I, design XXVII., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 243, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1852 Sloan (2)1382.F, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Farms
Creator: Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date: [1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W376 [*Am 1852 Sloan (2)1382.F.opp10]

Title: View of the farm where the murder of the Deering [sic] Family was committed by the fiend Antoine Probst on April 7th 1866
Description: News print showing the farm at Jones Lane in South Philadelphia of the Philadelphia family murdered by their farmhand Anton Probst on April 7, 1866. The victims included Christopher Dearing, aged 38 years; his wife, Julia Dearing, aged 45 years; their son, John Dearing, aged 8 years; their son, Thomas Dearing, aged 6 years; their daughter, Anna Dearing, aged 4 years; their daughter, Emily Dearing, aged 2 years; family friend Elizabeth Dolan, aged 25 years; and fieldhand Cornelius Cary, aged 17 years. Depicts (left to right) "1. The Haystack" where the headless body of the first murdered, field hand Cary, was hidden; "2. The Dwelling" Probst ransacked for money and in which he shaved, changed, napped, and ate after the murder; "3. The Stable" where Probst fed the animals before his departure; and "4. The Barn" where the family was lured one by one, killed, and discovered by neighbors a few days later. Individuals walk the property, including spectators and police, and a cow stands across from two policemen in a field tilled for planting in the foreground. Also shows barren trees, carts, wagons, and other farm equipment. Probst, a German immigrant and swindler, was a disgruntled former farmhand of the Dearings who murdered the family by hammer and ax for revenge and money. He was convicted in May 1866 and executed the following month at Moyamensing Prison for the largest murder in Philadelphia at that time., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00022, Manuscript note on verso: In the ‘neck’ Philada a farm close to the Delaware River., Key to buildings depicted printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Farms
Date: [1866]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Philadelphiana - Farms

Title: [View of row homes near Stouton homestead, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Row homes and neighboring businesses near the Stouton homestead are visible from the farm. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was inhabited by the Webster family beginning in 1805., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.26]

Title: [View of row homes and businesses near Stouton homestead, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Row homes, neighboring businesses and factory smokestacks near the Stouton homestead are visible from the farm. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was inhabited by the Webster family beginning in 1805., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.27]

Title: [Hay bales, with view of the farm behind Stouton, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts hay bales in a field near crude, wooden stables and farm outbuildings on the Stouton homestead. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was inhabited by the Webster family beginning in 1805., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.23]

Title: [John H. Webster, Sr., and Albert Webster with a horse-drawn harvester on Stouton farm, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts Albert Webster sitting on a horse-drawn plow, and his father, John H. Webster, Sr., standing in front of the horse with a pitchfork. Bales of hay cover the field in the background. They're on the farm behind Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, owned by the Webster family since 1805., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.65]

Title: [Farm outbuilding on Stouton homestead, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts a farm building surrounded by a wooden fence near the main house on the Stouton homestead. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was inhabited by the Webster family beginning in 1805., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.116]

Title: Louella: Home of J. Henry Askin Album
Description: Album containing 27 photographs showing the grounds and residence of the estate in Radnor Township, later Wayne, Pa.

Title: [Men harvesting hay on the Stouton farm, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts a group of men harvesting hay in the field behind Stouton. Three African American men stand on and near a horse-drawn cart overloaded with hay, while a white man and two boys stand near a horse-drawn plow, operated by a man neatly attired in a long shirt and tie. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was inhabited by the Webster family beginning in 1805., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.24]

Title: [Men harvesting hay on the Stouton farm, with row homes in the distance, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Hay bales are piled in the foreground, and in the background a group of men are harvesting hay in the field behind Stouton. A horse-drawn cart is overloaded with hay, and nearby a man and two boys stand near a horse-drawn plow, operated by a man neatly attired in a long shirt and tie. Row homes and neighboring businesses near the homestead are visible in the distance. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was inhabited by the Webster family beginning in 1805., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.25]

Title: [John H. Webster, Sr., about to feed cows on the farm behind Stouton, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts cows poking their heads out of a crude, wooden stable. John H. Webster, attired in a dark suit and hat, stands nearby, holding two metal pails, about to feed the cows. Other farm buildings on the Stouton homestead are visible in the distance. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was inhabited by the Webster family beginning in 1805., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.20]

Title: [Men harvesting hay on the Stouton farm, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts a group of men harvesting hay in the field behind Stouton. Three African American men stand on and near a horse-drawn cart overloaded with hay, while a white man and two boys stand near a horse-drawn plow, operated by a man neatly attired in a long shirt and tie. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was inhabited by the Webster family beginning in 1805., William MacPherson was the son of Captain John MacPherson (1726-1792) from Edinburgh. William served as lieutenant for the British army during the first year of the Revolutionary War, but joined the Colonial army under the leadership of Lafayette. Appointed surveyor of the Port of Philadelphia in 1789 and commanded the Philadelphia battalion, the "MacPherson Blues", during the Whiskey Insurrection in 1794. Married Margaret Stout and resided at their country seat "Stouton". Site later named MacPherson Park., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.24]

Title: Views of Ashwood, Gulph Mills, and other sites in Delaware County and surrounding counties in Pennsylvania
Description: Album containing 24 photographs showing landscape views of Delaware County and portraiture of family and acquaintances. Images include exterior and interior views of the Leaming family estate Ashwood near Villanova and views of Conshohocken, Darby Creek near Lewis Mill, Valley Forge, Gulph and Morris mills and dams, Hammer Hollow, and farmland in Cream and Pleasant valleys. Also contains an image of Radnor Meeting House and a photographic reproduction of a cloud filled sky captioned "Sic Itur ad Astra" (i.e., thus you shall go the stars). Many of the views include Leaming's wife and children and others posed in parlors; with animals; on bridges and dirt paths; at brooks, creeks, spring houses, and barns; and in modes of transportion, including canoes and horse-drawn vehicles. Other portrait sitters include Alice Bourda and children Ernie Law, Tommy Gaffney, Henny Lewis, and Og Hoffman., Wooden binding., Title supplied by cataloger., Captions by Robert Waln Leaming on the recto and verso of the album pages., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See LCP AR [Annual Report] 1999, p. 45-46., Gift of Mrs. Clifford Lewis III., Housed in phase box., Robert Waln Leaming, grandson of China Trade merchant Robert Waln (1765-1836), was a merchant by trade who also painted and practiced photography. He was married to Julia Scott, descended from the royal Scotts of Ancrum, with whom he had four children Rebecca, i.e., Reb (1850-1911); Mary, i.e., Mame (1851-1911); Julia, i.e., Duly (1854-1913), and Thomas (1856-1911). Leaming was also an active member of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. His residence Ashwood, not to be confused with the Penn-Gaskell/DeCosta property of the same name (208 Ashwood Road, Villanova), was razed in the late 19th century.
Creator: Leaming, Robert Waln, 1824-1884, photographer
Date: ca. 1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9759.2]

Title: Louella Home of J. Henry Askin, Wayne Station, Penna. Rail Road, Radnor Township, Delaware Co. Pa. Views of mansion, farm houses, surrounding scenery, etc
Description: Album containing 27 photographs showing the grounds and residence of the estate in Radnor Township, later Wayne, Pa. Includes No. 1 the Wayne Pennsylvania Rail Road station; No. 2 "mansion as seen from the S.W."; No. 3 the "north side of Mansion"; No. 4 "Entire northern side of Mansion"; No. 5 "Full front view taken from the South, and as fronting on "The Pike," i.e, Lancaster Pike; No. 6 "Main Entrance and Vestibule, taken from the interior"; No. 7 "Scenery and Grounds, and Summer House, east of Dwelling"; No. 8 and No. 9 "South view" and North view of "late residence," known formerly as the 'Old Maule Manor House'"; No. 10 'View from the S.S.W. showing Lawn, Flower Garden, etc.; No. 11 "Partial view of the old and principal Barn and Implement House"; No. 12 "South View of the Main Barn and Granary, Stables for pleasure horses, and coach house"; No. 13 "Meadow north of the Pike"; No. 14 "Principal Spring and Dairy Houses"; No. 15 the public, lecture and library hall "'Wayne Hall' as seen from the S.W."; No. 16 "Modernized dwelling, formerly known as the "Old Barber Farm House"; No. 17 "Spring House," etc. belonging to the Barber Farm"; No. 18 "Cottage at the extreme eastern boundary of the 'Louella Farm' "; No. 19 "View from the N.W. of the old 'Jno. Richards Manor House,' built in 1792"; No. 20 "Northern view of the Sheep Houses, Fold, etc."; No. 21 "Two cottages "built on a hill," south of the Pike, on line with the Mansion"; No. 22 "The New Reservoir, (covered), with scenery to the East" at Wayne and Bloomingdale avenues; No. 23 "Meadow south of the Pike"; No. 24 "Wheel House"; No. 25 "The Riding horse 'Frank'"; No. 26 horse 'Billy Button' "; and No. 27 'Elizabeth' our favorite, a thorough-bred Guernsey cow." Views also show the cottage of Jane Kissick (widow of Center Square Water Works engineer John Kissick) attached to the Wayne train station; members of the Askin family, and their grounds keepers., Brown leather binding, grained., Contains lithographed title page and Table of "Contents" with a numbered and explanatory list of the photographs. Photographs listed as No. 1 - No. 27., Insert: Loose albumen print showing an oblique view of the mansion. Members of the Askin family sit on the porch. The landscaped estate lawn is partially visible in the foreground., Album pages contain lithographed decorative borders, tinted with one stone., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., LCP AR [Annual Report] 2002, p. 62., Variant copies held in the collections of William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan and the University of Delware Special Collections., Housed in red-clothed clamshell box., Louella, the estate of successful Philadelphia real estate broker and banker J. Henry Askin, was built in 1867 on hundreds of acres of land along the Lancaster Pike and the Pennsylvania Railroad in Wayne, Pa. The residence contained eighty rooms, was powered with gas retorts, and received water from a reservoir erected on a neighboring hill. The estate also sustained a green house; conservatory; farm; a public lecture hall, library, and place of worship; as well as landscaped lawns and flower gardens. In 1880, Askin sold the property to Philadelphia editor George Childs and banker Anthony J. Drexel for development into the Wayne Estates. The Louella residence was later used as a summer resort hotel, school for girls, and apartments.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.2002.20]

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