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Title: David Rittenhouse home
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.133]

Title: Pennypacker place, near Schwenksville
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 23, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.126]

Title: Pennypacker Mansion, on Perkioman Creek, near Schwenksville, Montg. Co., Pa. Built about 1747 (not later) by Hans Joest Heijt. Washington made his headquarters in the mansion after the Battle of the Brandywine
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 23, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.125]

Title: [Stamper - Bingham - Blackwell House, 224 Pine Street.]
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.91]

Title: [Upsala, 6430 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia.]
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.63]

Title: The Ivy, pump and fireplace (now occupied by Mrs. Joseph Bosler)
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.105]

Title: [St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, S.W. corner of 3rd & Pine Streets, Philadelphia.]
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.92]

Title: Loudoun, 4650 Germantown Ave
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.97]

Title: 5434 Germantown Ave., home of Jno. Ashmead, father of Capt.. Albert Ashmead
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 5, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.113]

Title: Church of the Advocate. Interior, N. transept, Phila
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.103]

Title: John Bechtel House, 5226 Germantown Ave
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.110]

Title: Genl. Wayne Tavern, Montgomery Pike
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.66]

Title: Merion Meeting House, blt 1682 [sic], attended by Wm. Penn
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.64]

Title: Carlton, in lower part of Germantown. Built by Henry Hill. Year not known. Burned in the Revolutionary War in 1777. Rebuilt by Hill, it is said, in 1780. Now occupied by Mrs. Newhall, cor. Stokley St. & Midvale Ave
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: September 20, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.94]

Title: Church of the Advocate, (South Memorial), 18th & Diamond Sts
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.101]

Title: Toland House, 4810 Germantown Ave., built in 1734. At time of Battle of Germantown was home of Geo. Miller, an officer in the American Army, whose wife was forced to bake bread for British. Hotchkin says interior very interesting. Open stairway. Franklin Stove & harpsichord in parlor
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: September 23, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.99]

Title: 5300 Germantown Ave., N.W. cor. Queen Lane
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.111]

Title: Tablet concerning Star Gazer's Stone
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.135]

Title: Andalusia, Bensalem Township, Bucks Co., Pa. John Craig, a merchant, bought the tract of land in 1794 & his wife designed the house. Nicholas Biddle married their daughter & Andalusia became his residence. Charles Biddle now occupies it
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 15, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.121]

Title: Star Gazer's Stone
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.136]

Title: Valley Green, Fairmount Park, Phila
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.140]

Title: [Byberry Friends' Meeting House.]
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.127]

Title: Church of the Advocate. Interior, showing pulpit
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.102]

Title: Rose Tree Inn, Media, built 1837
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.148]

Title: 5140 Germantown Ave. The "Cory" or Crows' Nest. Wm. Wynn Wister's Place. Gilbert Stewart lived there from 1796 to 1800. He painted Washington's portrait in the barn, which is not now standing
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 5, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.106]

Title: 5430 Germantown Ave. Home of Captain Albert Ashmead of the American Army
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 5, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.112]

Title: Jonathan Evans' House, 322 Union Street, now DeLancey
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.131]

Title: Germantown Academy cor. School Lane & Greene St., built 1760
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.149]

Title: Merchants' Exchange
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.88]

Title: Mason & Dixon Line stone marking boundry between Delaware & Maryland, on farm of Dr. H. A. Cleaves of Wilmington (Baker.) Side showing arms of Wm. Penn. Probably the 75-mile stone
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: May 15, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.138]

Title: 5214 Germantown Ave. The Hacker House. Site of the British encampment during the Battle of Germantown
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.107]

Title: Haverford Meeting
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.143]

Title: 5267 [sic] Germantown Ave. I have no record of when it was built. Anthony Gilbert, a blacksmith, renowned for his strength, lived there in 1809. It is next door above "Grumblethorp."
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 13, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.117]

Title: Old farm building on the Pastorius Estate, back of the n.e. cor. of the Methodist Church at corner of Germantown Ave. & High Street
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 13, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.118]

Title: [Mason & Dixon Line stone marking boundry between Delaware & Maryland, on farm of Dr. H. A. Cleaves of Wilmington (Baker.) Side showing arms of Lord Baltimore.]
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: May 15, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.139]

Title: Andalusia, back door [sic]
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.122]

Title: Cigar Indian chief. S.E. cor. 4th & Race [sic]. Note the feather headdress. Most of the cigar indians were squaws
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.145]

Title: Cedar Grove, Harrowgate Road, Kensington. Elizabeth Coates Paschall built the original portion in 1748. Newer part built in 1799. Its last occupant & owner was John T. Morris, who died about 1916
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 8, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.115]

Title: Penn Rhyn. Built by Abraham Bickley in 1744 & enlarged in 1782. In the stable is still preserved the coach he imported from England. The house is now occupied by Thomas Mitten. It is now owned by Mrs. (Joseph R.?) Drexel, to whom it descended by the Bickleys who were her relatives. For many years occupied by Drexel family
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 15, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.123]

Title: Loudoun, 4650 Germantown Ave., built by Thos. Armat. occupied in 1920 by Mr. Albanus Chas. Logan & Miss Maria D. Logan
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.96]

Title: Newtown Meeting, Newtown, Pennsylvania, built 1711
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.130]

Title: Merion Meeting House
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.65]

Title: 4518 & 4520 Germantown Ave. Neglee House. When built, uncertain, but Jas. Logan lived in it while Stenton was being built, 1727-1734
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.95]

Title: Castle of the State in Schuylkill. Built 1732. Present Governor Hon. Willis Martin. Famous for historical Fish House Punch
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 21, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.124]

Title: Pastorius Estate. Building on the estate
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.119]

Title: Shoemaker or Rock Hill, 347 E. Penn St., possibly the oldest house in Germantown
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.93]

Title: 5218 Germantown Ave
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.108]

Title: Haverford Meeting
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.144]

Title: Star Gazers' Stone about 9 miles west of West Chester, Pa. West of Country Home
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.134]

Title: The Ivy, Old York Road at Church Road, Ogontz. Oldest part built by Richard Wall in 1682. He came from Cheltenham, England in that year. It was one of the very earliest meeting houses in Philada. County & the only one now standing
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: October 4, 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.104]

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