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Title: [Wedding party]
Description: Depicts four couples, including John H. Webster, Jr. and Jane L. Webster, standing in a field, dressed for a wedding. The four women are all attired in white, long-sleeved dresses, gloves and a hat. All of them hold bouquets. The men are attired in three piece suits, which are concealed by the women who stand in front of them., Modern reference print #32 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. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.66 & 67]

Title: [John H. Webster, Sr., with his five sons, on the porch of Stouton, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the five sons of John Hambleton Webster, standing in ascending age order from left to right behind their seated father near the front entrance of Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, owned by the Webster family since 1805. From left to right: Clement B. Webster, John H. Webster, Jr., Howard Webster, George S. Webster, and Albert Webster., 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.9501.62]

Title: [John H. Webster, Sr., with his five sons, on the porch of Stouton, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the five sons of John Hambleton Webster, standing in descending age order from left to right behind their seated father near the front entrance of Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, owned by the Webster family since 1805. From left to right: Albert Webster, George S. Webster, Howard Webster, John H. Webster, Jr. and Clement B. Webster., 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.9501.63]

Title: [Residence, with Webster family portraits on porch]
Description: Exterior views of an unidentified two story residence, with a colonnaded front porch. Architectural images depict the front facade of the house, focusing on the porch and the hammock hanging from two large trees in the front yard. A detail of a shuttered shed window behind the house is also included. Some of the images show Webster family members sitting on the front porch, including the photographer's wife, Jane Lownes Webster, his brothers, Clement B., George S., and Howard Webster, Bertha T. Webster, and many children sitting in the hammock., 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.9501.77-79, P.9501.99-100, P.9501.104, P.9501.115]

Title: [Group standing near tennis net on Stouton lawn, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts two couples and a young woman standing near a tennis net on Stouton's property. Includes from right to left: the photographer, John H. Webster next to his wife, Jane L. Webster. The woman who stands next to Jane, behind the net, is probably one of her sisters, Hannah or Minnie Lownes. Next to Hannah or Minnie is Bertha T. Webster, who is looking at her husband Clement B. Webster. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was 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., Modern reference print #18 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.9501.98]

Title: [Group on hammock on Stouton lawn, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: The photographer's wife, Jane L. Webster, sits in a hammock with a young woman, possibly one of her sisters, Minnie or Hannah Lownes. Jane's husband, the photographer, sits in a rocking chair behind them. Clement B. and Bertha T. Webster sit in the grass in front of the hammock. A camera rests on the folds of Bertha's dress between her and Clement. The photographer's mother, Lydia S. Webster, looks down at the group from her rocking chair on the porch of 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., Modern reference print #16 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.9501.70]

Title: [Webster family portraits on side porch of 4834 Penn Street, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: The Webster family stands on the side porch of 4834 Penn Street in Frankford, the home of the photographer's parents, Lydia S. and John H. Webster, Sr. Identified Webster family members from left to right include: George Smedley, Mary Smedley, Anna Dutton, Clement Biddle, Lydia Smedley, Horace Dutton, Bertha Taylor, Howard, and Jane Lownes. The children standing in the front row are either the photographer's children or his brother Clement's children., Modern reference print #20 available for P.9501.71 and #21 for P.9501.72 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. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.71 & 72]

Title: [John H. Webster, Sr., with his five sons and grandson, on the porch of Stouton, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the five sons and grandson of John Hambleton Webster, standing near the front entrance of Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, owned by the Webster family since 1805. From left to right: George S. Webster, Howard Webster, Clement B. Webster, John H. Webster, Sr., Albert Webster, and John H. Webster, Jr. Horace D. Webster, son of Albert Webster, stands in front of Clement., 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.9501.64]

Title: [Webster family portrait at Stouton, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the photographer's family standing in front of his parent's home, Stouton, at Kensington and Indiana Avenues, their residence before they moved to 4834 Penn Street. Stouton, the former country seat of William MacPherson, was inhabited by the Webster family beginning in 1805. Includes the following family members, from left to right: the photographer, John H. Webster, Jr.; George S. Webster; Howard Webster; a toddler, probably Maurice A. Webster; Mary H. Anderson; Albert Webster; Anna D. Webster; Horace D. Webster; Mary S. Webster; Clement B. Webster; Mabel C. Webster; Lydia S. Webster; and John H. Webster, Sr., 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 #25 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. 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.97]

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