Shows the tunnel-like entrance at Greenwood Cemetery. Cemetery was founded in 1838 and landscaped after the designs of civil engineer David Bates Douglass., Photographer's imprint, title, and publisher from label on verso., Buff mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New York., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Beer Bros., photographer
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Beer Bros - Cemeteries [5741.F.2f]
View showing a man sitting on a bench near a pond and a little girl standing behind him in the cemetery founded in 1838 in Kings County, New York. They look in the direction of the mausoleums and headstones built into the hill in the distance., Title on negative., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Aaron Wunsch., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Union View Company - Cemeteries [P.9963.3]
Shows the bas-relief adorned base of the monument, completed in 1853 after the designs of architect Richard Upjohn, dedicated to former New York governor Clinton at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The bas-relief represents Clinton's noted achievement of the Erie Canal and depicts construction of the canal by laborers, engineers, and horse-teams. Greenwood Cemetery was founded in 1838 and landscaped after the designs of civil engineer David Bates Douglass., Photographer's imprint, title, and publisher from label on verso., Buff mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New York., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Beer Bros., photographer
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Beer Bros - Cemeteries [(5)5741.F.3]
