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Title: Pavilion at George's Hill
Description: View of the bandstand, built in 1872, on George's Hill near Fifty-Second Street in West Fairmount Park. Benches and gardens surround the pavilion. The hill was given to the city by siblings Jesse and Rebecca George in 1868., Written on negative: 106, Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved 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, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.101]

Title: George's Hill
Description: View of the bandstand, built in 1872, on George's Hill near Fifty-Second Street in West Fairmount Park. Also shows a flag pole and three horse-drawn coaches with passengers parked in the foreground. Two African American men, possibly carriage drivers, stand nearby. The hill was given to the city by siblings Jesse and Rebecca George in 1868., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint obscured by photograph pasted on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James, 1990., Digitized.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.83]

Title: T.C. Foster's sloop yacht The Restless in race of Quaker City Yacht Club
Description: Glass negative showing a sailboat on the Delaware River near the shore of Gloucester City, NJ. Other boats, a boardwalk, pavilions, and the tree-lined shore are visible in the background. Buildings include Billy Thompson's Hotel & Pavilion (left); Frank Fath's Pavilion (center); and Patrick McGlades' Pavilion (right)., Photographer remarks: Intens. 10/1888, Time: 10:45, 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 28, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1367]

Title: [Photographic reproduction of an allegorical view including Abraham Lincoln, a pavilion, and marching soldiers]
Description: Boudoir card depicting a photographic reproduction of an allegorical Civil War painting by Paul Philippoteaux, possibly a panel from one of his four versions of "The Gettysburg Cyclorama." Shows a figure resembling General George McClellan pointing to Lincoln, his hand on his chest and standing on the steps of a pavilion. A white and African American man stand next to Lincoln. The pavilion is comprised of a tent adorned with ornate shields and stone columns marked "Union" and "Liberty." Urns rest atop the columns. Smoke rises from them. A large statue of the figure of Liberty rises over the pavilion. Inside the pavilion, men in suits sit at a long table at which two other men, one in shirt sleeves, stand and sign documents. A crowd of men stand behind and beside the table. Near the "Liberty" column in the right, a white man breaks the shackles of a male slave as armed African Americans rush by. Troops of soldiers march around the pavilion in front of cheering men, women, and children, including blacksmiths near an anvil, flags, and a shield in the right foreground. In the left foreground, an older man holds the reigns of a rider less grey horse next to a man astride a black horse. In the left background, the U.S. Capitol is visible and in the right background ironclads sail on the ocean. French artist Paul Phillipoteaux was commissioned to create the Gettysburg Cyclorama painting in 1879. Depicting Pickett's charge, he created four versions, with the first completed in 1883 and displayed in Chicago. The second version was first shown in Boston in 1884, with the third and fourth versions shown in Philadelphia and New York in 1886. Two of the four versions are known to be extant (Chicago and Boston). Contemporary descriptions of the extant cyclorama paintings do not include the scene reproduced by Allen & Rowell, who also reproduced "The Gettysburg Cyclorama" as boudoir cards circa 1884., Date inferred from possible provenance and its year of display in Boston., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program (Junto 2015)
Creator: Allen & Rowell
Date: [ca. 1884]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Allen & Rowell [P.2017.83]

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