Depicts a man diving from a small rowboat into an unidentified body of water. Three companions hold onto the edge of the boat and stabilize it for the diver., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.125]
Depicts two older men sitting on wooden rocking chairs in a gazebo near their home, looking at the Delaware River below them. One man's back faces the camera., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.130]
The steamboat Columbia overshadows several small rowboats on the Delaware River. Men sit on the bank of the river watching the steamboat pass by., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.131]
Depicts an unidentified steamboat on the Delaware River near Beverly N.J. In the foreground three women stand with their backs to the camera, looking toward the boat on the river. A small rowboat floats near the bank of the river., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.132]
Depicts one large boat and two smaller sailboats on the Delaware River near Beverly N.J. Two women and a man sit near the river, looking at the boats as they pass by., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.133]
Depicts the crowded Willie K. Ridgway steamboat prior to docking near Beverly, N.J. on the Delaware River., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.134]
View of Catharine Rupp Doering, wife of the photographer, posing with her son Albert on her back. She is wearing a bathing suit and is standing in the sand. Large piles of lumber sit near a dwelling and two outbuildings in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1896
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.135]
Depicts people walking along the beach near a three-masted sailing ship, identified as the "Robert Morgan" from New Haven, Connecticut. The ship came ashore at Atlantic City on January 9th, 1884, during the Great Storm, and passed within a few inches of the immense frame work of Applegate's Ocean Pavilion, making a narrow escape from a total wreck and now lies high and dry uninjured on the beach. In 1883 J.R. Applegate purchased 100 feet of beach property in Atlantic City at the foot of Tennessee Avenue, next to his "picture galleries." He built a two tier pier extending 625 feet beyond the boardwalk with an amusement pavillion at the outer end. Although Applegate's pier was not damaged by the "Robert Morgan," the outer pavillion of another pier was damaged., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.136]
Depicts the Wissahickon Falls, with the stone arches of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge at the junction of Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River. The bridge marks the entrance to Wissahickon Creek, Wissahickon Drive and Wissahickon Park. Includes a small wooden shed on the bank of the river., Title supplied by cataloguer., Construction of the bridge (also known as the Wissahickon Creek Viaduct or High Stone Bridge) was begun in 1874 by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Due to budgetary constraints, construction was halted and later completed from 1881-1882., 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.9453.25]
View of the Ridge Avenue Bridge, built in 1888 near the junction of the Wissahickon Creek and the Schuylkill River. A train is crossing the larger Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge in the background. Construction of the bridge (also known as the Wissahickon Creek Viaduct or High Stone Bridge) was begun in 1874 by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Due to budgetary constraints, construction was halted and later completed from 1881-1882., 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.9453.26]
Depicts a locomotive crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over the Schuylkill River near Girard Avenue. Wooden scaffolding supporting a new Pratt truss flanks both sides of the bridge over the main channel of the river. The Pratt truss, which could hold heavier train loads, replaced the old Whipple truss in October of 1897., Title supplied by cataloguer., The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, completed in 1867 after the designs of P.R.R. Chief Engineer John A. Wilson, served as the first connecting railway between Philadelphia and New York City., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1897
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.27]
View of a stone arch bridge spanning an unidentified body of water and partially obscured by a tree. A house sits at the top of a hill nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.28]
Depicts the Hudson Bay Wolves Quarreling over the Carcass of a Deer, created by Edward Kemeys in 1872 for the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens. First purchase of the Fairmount Park Art Association., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.29]
View of the bronze Orestes and Pylades Fountain, showing the seated figures of Orestes and Pylades near the bust of Diana on a plinth in the background. Created by Carl Johann Steinhauser in 1884 and cast in bronze by Bureau Brothers. Located in East Fairmount Park near Thirty-third Street and Columbia Avenue (Cecil B. Moore Avenue). A sign for Renz Park is visible in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.30]
Depicts the bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln holding the Emancipation Proclamation, sitting on a granite pedestal decorated with four eagles and garland. Located at East River (i.e. Kelly) and Lemon Hill Drives. Designed by Randolph Rogers in 1871 and was the third bronze memorial of Lincoln to be erected in the United States. The observation tower built for the Centennial Exhibition is visible in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Commissioned by the Lincoln Monument Association., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.31]
View of the seated figure of Morton McMichael atop a pedestal in East Fairmount Park, created by John H. Mahoney in 1881. McMichael was a Philadelphia journalist and editor, mayor of Philadelphia (1866-1869), and the first President of the Fairmount Park Commission (1867-1879)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.32]
View of the standing figure of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on a tall pedestal, decorated with a wreath and surrounded by flowering shrubs. Created by Heinrich Manger in 1890., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.33]
View of the equestrian statue of George Washington on a pedestal above allegorical figures, along with "typical" American people. Photographer William Doering (left), Albert Lindsay (center) and an unidentified man stand in front of the monument with their bicycles. Other men admire the monument in the background. Designed by Rudolf Siemering in 1897 and unveiled at the Green Street entrance to Fairmount Park. Moved to the end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1928. Depicts the monument at Green Street entrance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Monument commissioned by the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, whose members were descendants of Washington's soldiers., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1897
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.34]
View of hall from lily ponds. Built 1875 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann, demolished in 1955 even though the 383' long, 193' wide building was supposed to remain a permanent botanical conservatory, showcasing exotic plant species and Victorian gardens., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.35]
Depicts Catharine Rupp Doering, wife of the photographer, drinking from the Leonidas Spring Fountain in Fairmount Park, located near the Henry Avenue Bridge. Water spouts from a lion's head that decorates the center wall of the fountain., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.36]
Two women stand next to an older man as he demonstrates something to them. They stand on rocks near an unidentified stream in the Pocono Mountains. A boy sits on the rocks in the foreground. Bicycles stand in the background near a dirt path., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.101]
Depicts the curve of the Delaware River with cliffs in the distance. Includes the top of a house near the river, obscured by surrounding trees., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.104-106]
Depicts three women and a man collecting chestnuts near a large chestnut tree. The man is climbing the tall tree in search of chestnuts. Catharine Rupp Doering, the wife of the photographer, is depicted, but the others are unidentified., 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.9453.107-109]
Depicts three men, two in the foreground and one in the background, rowing a sailboat with wooden oars., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.110]
Depicts a group of men and women swimming in the Chesapeake Bay. A sailboat full of spectators sits in the distance. An empty row boat floats nearby., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.114]
Depicts bathers swimming near a log canoe with two sails carrying at least five people in the Chesapeake Bay. A woman stands in the foreground with her back to the camera, facing the canoe in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.116]
Depicts the five heads of people swimming in a deep body of water, not far from a rocky ledge and trees in the background., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.123]
View of the cabin used by Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant on the east side of Carriage Drive in Fairmount Park. Photographer William Doering is seated on a bench in front of the cabin and Al Lindsay stands in the doorway, reading a posted sign. A camera is set up in the foreground. Served as Grant's headquarters and the supply center for the Union armies during the seige of Richmond. Moved to Philadelphia circa 1870 from City Point, Virginia as a gift to citizens of Philadelphia for their support during the Civil War. Transfered back to Virginia and rebuilt there in 1983., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.37]
Depicts the photographer's son, Karl Doering, as a boy, leaning against a boulder near an unidentified man on a path in the Wissahickon section of Fairmount Park., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.38]
View of East River Drive (Kelly Drive) looking north from the Strawberry Mansion Trolley Bridge. Laurel Hill Cemetery occupies the land east of the tree-lined drive. A Philadelphia and Reading Railroad bridge spanning the Schuylkill River is visible in the distance., 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.9453.39]
Depicts the backs of two men walking along a dirt path flanked by trees near Wissahickon Creek., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.43]
Depicts the back of a man walking along a path near Wissahickon Creek. A foot bridge spanning the creek is visible in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.44]
View of two men drawing and drinking water from the creek and one man standing and drying his hands with a hankerchief., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.45]
View of three people standing near a thatch-roof pavilion made of interwoven logs and branches. Stairs lead from the pavilion, which rests on large boulders, up a narrow path to higher ground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1890
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.46]
Profile view of an unidentified man standing amidst rocks and trees near dilapidated stone outbuildings on Livezey Lane., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.51 & 52]
Depicts a three and a half story mill building along a dirt road. A group of three or four women are standing in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.53]
View of the manicured lawn and trees of Druid Hill Park, taken from the top of a hill looking down at people strolling by. Purchased in 1860 to provide recreational space for city residents., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.60]
Depicts a large crowd watching a white horse leap from a high wooden platform in Carlin's Park, near Druid Hill Park in Baltimore, Md. A pool of water awaits the horse underneath of the platform. The word "tintypes" is advertised on the side of a building in the background., 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.9453.61]
Depicts a large crowd watching a white horse leap from a high wooden platform in Carlin's Park, near Druid Hill Park in Baltimore, Md. A pool of water awaits the horse underneath of the platform. The word "tintypes" is advertised on the side of a building in the background., 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.9453.62]
View of a mule standing near a wooden fence, dividing the mule from the man holding its ears., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1890
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.72]
Depicts three men (with others out of view) demonstrating the large size of a tree trunk in a wooded area by clasping hands around its circumference., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.79]
Contains scenic views of waterfalls, streams, large boulders and trails in the Pocono Mountains. Unidentified men, women and children lounge by the waterfalls and streams and climb rocks in some of the images., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1890
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.80-93]
Depicts two couples in Ringing Rocks Park in Bucks County, Pa, known for its igneous boulders that ring if struck by a hammer. In one image they're sitting on the rocks and posing in the distance. In another, the men are guiding the women over large boulders. One of the couples might be Catharine Rupp and William H. Doering., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1890
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.94 & 95]
View of an old mill building covered in shingles with a stone foundation. Catharine Rupp Doering, wife of the photographer, stands on a steep wooden staircase (left), opposite an old wooden water wheel (right)., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.54]
View of the front facade of dwelling built for Thomas Shoemaker from 1733-1739. Two men stand in the front yard, one leaning on a tree stump, the other sawing wood with a bow saw. Thomas Livezey bought the property, including a grist mill, from Shoemaker in 1747 and named it Glen Fern. The house was enlarged and raised one story in 1765, and sometime before 1853 a rear ell was constructed. In 1909 became the Valley Green Canoe Club., Title supplied by cataloguer., Also known as Glen Fern, the Thomas Shoemaker House and the Valley Green Canoe Club (1909)., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.55]
Distant view of the Valley Green Inn built by Thomas Livezey circa 1850 near the Wissahickon Creek. The inn, managed by several proprietors under the Livezey family, was purchased by the city in 1872 and given over to the supervision of a patriotic women's society circa 1900. Lettering spelling "Valley Green" is visible on the side of the inn. Also shows young boys sitting on benches and stones across from the inn and the incline of the Valley Green Bridge in the distance., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.57]
