| | 3 | Title: | Views of Fairmount Park | | | | Creator: | | | | | Publication: | Philadelphia?, ca. 1870] | | | | Notes: | Series of five titled, book illustrations of views of Fairmount Park. Includes "Romantic Walks in Lansdowne Glen"; View from Lemon Hill of Fairmount and Vicinity"; "Observatory at Fairmount Reservoir"; "Rockland, looking up"; "View on the Wissahickon." Shows park visitors, including men, women and children on strolls, seated on park benches, travelling in carriages, waiting for a ferryboat below the grounds of Rockland Mansion, and seated on the banks of the Wissahickon Creek. Also shows the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River; Peter's Island; pavilions; a boathouse; paddleboat; and the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount. | | | | Extent: | 5 prints: wood engravings, color; 3 mounted on paper; 22 x 17 cm.(8.75 x 6.5 in.) or smaller. | | | | Subjects: | Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Parks Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Valleys Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Pavilions Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Boathouses Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Paddleboats Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Ferries Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Suspension bridges Pennsylvania Schuylkill River | Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Peter's Island (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Rockland (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate) | Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Wissahickon Creek (Pa.) | Wood engravings Color 1860-1870 | Book illustrations Color 1860-1870
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| 5 | Title: | Drinking fountain at Lemon Hill | | | | Creator: | Cremer, James, 1821-1893 | | | | Publication: | James Cremer, Photographer, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, [ca. 1875]. | | | | Notes: | Date inferred from type of mount. Title from manuscript note on verso. Series title printed on mount. Yellow mount with rounded corners. View of an ornate drinking fountain along a tree-lined walking path near the Lemon Hill estate in East Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. | | | | Extent: | 1 photograph: albumen on card mount ; 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format) | | | | Subjects: | Drinking fountains Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East | Lemon Hill (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate) | Stereographs 1870-1880 | Albumen prints 1870-1880
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| 6 | Title: | The Drive, Lemon Hill | | | | Creator: | Cremer, James, 1821-1893 | | | | Publication: | James Cremer, Photographer, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, [ca. 1875]. | | | | Notes: | Date inferred from type of mount. Title from manuscript note on verso. Series title printed on mount. Yellow mount with rounded corners. Identical view: Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9212.13] View of a small group of men, women and children standing along the tree-lined drive leading to the Lemon Hill estate in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. | | | | Extent: | 1 photograph: albumen on card mount ; 10 x 18 cm (4 x 7 in.) (stereograph format) | | | | Subjects: | Roads Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East | Lemon Hill (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate) | Stereographs 1870-1880 | Albumen prints 1870-1880
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| 8 | Title: | Carnival at G[erman]t[ow]n Boys Club playground | | | | Creator: | Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948 | | | | Notes: | Film negative showing a group of men, women, and children gathered around tables and chairs set up in a field at the Germantown Boys' Club. American flags hand grom the tables and the fence in the background. Three girls sit or stand in the foreground. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. | | | | Extent: | 1 photograph: film negative; 5.75 x 3.5 in. | | | | Subjects: | Germantown Boys' Club (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.) Social life | Children | Fashion | Girls | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Women | Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Film negatives | Philadelphia artists
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| 9 | Title: | Philadelphia fountain cascade in Fairmount Park | | | | Creator: | | | | | Publication: | Philadelphia], [ca. 1895] | | | | Notes: | Title printed on negative. Date inferred from type of mount. Series title printed on mount. Printed on mount: Universal series sold by agents only. View of the cascade fountain in Farimount Park in Philadelphia. The outdoor scene shows the fountain flanked by rows of benches and the rustic pavilion or arbor seen in [P.2011.47.965] is visible in the background. Two women in long dresses, coats and hats sit on a bench on the right side of the fountain. Two men in suits and hats stand further back to the left. More figures can be seen sitting on benches and wandering through the park in the background. | | | | Extent: | 1 photograph : gelatin silver on card mount; 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format) | | | | Subjects: | Fountains Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Parks Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Stereographs 1890-1900 | Gelatin silver prints 1890-1900
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| 10 | Title: | Fairmount Park - Ferndale Bridge and Belmont Dell | | | | Creator: | Miller & Best | | | | Publication: | Miller & Best, Pub's, 67 High St., Boston, Boston, [1875]. | | | | Notes: | Title and series title printed on mount. Date inferred from type of mount. Publisher's imprint printed on verso. Flat yellow mount with rounded corners. Distributor's imprint printed on verso: Fitzgerald & Co., booksellers, stationers, and newsdealers, manufacturers & dealers in picture frames, 196 High Street, Holyoke, Mass. View of tree-lined paths leading to and from the Ferndale Bridge at Belmont Glen in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Three men stand on the rustic bridge. | | | | Extent: | 1 photograph: albumen on card mount; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format) | | | | Subjects: | Bridges Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Parks Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Trails & paths Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- West | Stereographs 1870-1880 | Albumen prints 1870-1880
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| 12 | Title: | Lemon Hill | | | | Creator: | | | | | Publication: | s.n, Boston, 1855] | | | | Notes: | Manuscript note on recto: May 1855. Accompanied by corresponding article describing the use of the former estate as a beer garden and the German patronage of the establishment. [(8)1322.F.10d] Published in Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, May 12, 1855, vol. 8, no. 19, p. 297. View showing several patrons on the tree-lined grounds of the beer garden and former estate of Philadelphia lawyer Henry Pratt in Fairmount Park. Couples stroll, children play, and small groups sit and converse. | | | | Extent: | 1 print: wood engraving; 13 x 24 cm. (5 x 9.25 in.) | | | | Subjects: | Beer halls Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Lemon Hill (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate) | Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Wood engravings 1850-1860 | Periodical illustrations 1850-1860
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| 13 | Title: | Fairmount gardens, with the Schuylkill Bridge, (Philadelphia)= Jardins de joli mont et pont de Schuylkill = Der kunstgarten von | | | | Creator: | Giles, J. | Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809-1854 | | | | Publication: | Published for the proprietors by Geo. Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, London, 1839. | | | | Notes: | Published in N.P. Willis's American scenery, or land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature:. (London: George Virtue, 1840). [LCP *Am 1840 Wil, 13236.Q]. View showing a family strolling on a walkway above the waterworks in Fairmount Garden, i.e. Fairmount Park. Includes garden visitors near a water fountain and the Upper Ferry Bridge (i.e., Lancaster Schuylkill Bridge) over the Schuylkill River in the distance. Bridge erected 1809-1812 with Robert Mills serving as architect, and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. Burned 1838. | | | | Extent: | 1 print: engraving; 18 x 22 cm.(7 x 8.5 in.) | | | | Subjects: | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Covered bridges Pennsylvania Schuylkill River | Fountains Pennsylvania Schuylkill River | Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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| 15 | Title: | Skating Rink, Chestnut St. west of 23rd St., 1884 | | | | Creator: | Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), fl. 1857-1891 | | | | Publication: | Philadelphia, 1884. | | | | Notes: | Location: Chestnut St. West of 23rd St. Depicts businesses along Twenty-third Street near Chestnut Street looking west from an aerial perspective including the east flank of a Skating Rink opened in 1872 (northwest cor. Chestnut Street and Twenty-third Street); David Steer's tavern on the south side of the street (2302 Chestnut Street) and L. Power's Wood Working Co. (20 South Twenty-third). Also includes a view of other unidentified businesses along with pedestrian and street traffic along Chestnut Street looking west. | | | | Extent: | 1 drawing : watercolor ; 25 x 32 cm. (10 x 12.5 in.) | | | | Subjects: | Bars Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Skating rinks Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2300 block | Watercolors 1880-1890
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| 17 | Title: | Ormiston Glen E. Park | | | | Creator: | Cremer, James, 1821-1893 | | | | Publication: | James Cremer, Philadelphia, [ca. 1870] | | | | Notes: | Title from manuscript note on verso. Photographer's imprint in red text on mount. Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of Fairmount Park entitled, "Fairmount Park and Water Works, Philadelphia" printed on verso. Text surmounted by vignette of state seal of Pennsylvania and surrounded by decorative border. Yellow mount with rounded corners. View showing a man sitting in a bare tree in the woods on the Ormiston estate in East Fairmount Park. Ormiston, located near the East Park Reservoir, was a farm and place of recreation with extensive orchards. | | | | Extent: | 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.) | | | | Subjects: | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East | Stereographs 1860-1870 | Albumen prints 1860-1870 | Landscape photographs 1860-1870 | Philadelphia artists
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| 20 | Title: | [Belmont boat landing and bridge, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia] | | | | Creator: | Cremer, James, 1821-1893 | | | | Publication: | James Cremer, photographer and publisher, 18 South Eighth Street, Philadelphia, [ca. 1870]. | | | | Notes: | Title from manuscript note on verso: 140 Belmont boat landing & bridge. Series title printed in red text on mount. Date inferred from similar items [P.8923.10]. Photographer and publisher's imprint printed in red text on mount. Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of Fairmount Park entitled, "Fairmount Park and Water Works, Philadelphia" printed on verso. Text surmounted by vignette of state seal of Pennsylvania and decorative border. Yellow mount with rounded corners. View of the Belmont boat landing on Lansdowne Island on the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. The view looks through bare trees in the foreground towards the boat landing in the distance. A young boy is visible standing next to a bench on the landing. | | | | Extent: | 1 photograph: albumen on card mount; 10 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format) | | | | Subjects: | Pedestrian bridges Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Piers & wharves Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Recreation Pennsylvania Philadelphia | Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Schuylkill River (Pa.) | Stereographs 1860-1870 | Albumen prints 1860-1870 | Philadelphia artists
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