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Fairmount Park Glass Plate Negatives 1971.597 Fairmount Park glass plate negatives 1971.597 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 14, 2021. Description is written in: English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard Audiovisual Collections PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Fairmount Park glass plate negatives 1971.597 Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3 Historical Note ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Scope and Content ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 4 Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 4 - Page 2 - Fairmount Park glass plate negatives 1971.597 Summary Information Repository: Audiovisual Collections Creator: Unknown Title: Fairmount Park glass plate negatives ID: 1971.597 Date [inclusive]: after 1908 Physical Description: 35 item(s) General Physical 36 glass plate negatives : b&w ; 4.25 x 6.5 in. 1 box. Description note: Language of the English . Material: Abstract: This collection consists of thirty-five glass negatives and one box. It documents locations in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Fairmount Park system. While the photographer is unidentified, and the images are undated and unlabeled, most images appear to depict Wissahickon Valley Park, historically part of the Fairmount Park system. ^ Return to Table of Contents Historical Note This collection was purchased in 1971 as part of a lot that included a number of other small collections. The photographer is unknown, but a box included in the collection identifies the images as originating in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Fairmount Park system. This network of parks began being developed by the city in 1820 in an effort to establish a sustainable water supply for the city and to preserve its diminishing green spaces. Most of the photographs appear to have been taken in Wissahickon Valley Park, which, from 1867 to 2010 was also part of and managed by the Fairmount Park System. The Wissahickon Valley Park is located in Northwest Philadelphia, and includes Wissahickon Creek from its confluence with the Schuylkill River, and extends to the northwestern boundary of the city with eastern Montgomery County. ^ Return to Table of Contents - Page 3- Fairmount Park glass plate negatives 1971.597 Scope and Content This collection consists of thirty-five glass negatives and one original box. The negatives themselves include no identifying information, but a sticker on the box indicates that the images are of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many of the images include identifiable landmarks. While the photographs are undated, it is estimated that they were taken no earlier than 1908, based on the presence of what appears to be Walnut Lane Bridge, completed in October of that year, in one of the images. ^ Return to Table of Contents Administrative Information Publication Statement Audiovisual Collections PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Access to Collection Collection is open for research. Existence and Location of Copies This collection has been digitized and can be viewed in Hagley's Digital Archives. ^ Return to Table of Contents Collection Inventory Title/Description Instances Valley Green Restaurant, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 1 - Page 4- Fairmount Park glass plate negatives 1971.597 Scope and Contents note Valley Green Restaurant in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Valley Green Restaurant, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 2 Scope and Contents note Valley Green Restaurant in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Valley Green Restaurant, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 3 Scope and Contents note Valley Green Restaurant in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Valley Green Restaurant, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 4 Scope and Contents note Valley Green Restaurant in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Winter Scene, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 5 Scope and Contents note Snow-covered, unidentified area in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Bridge and Seating, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 6 Scope and Contents note May be the Cresheim Creek Bridge, a wooden footbridge crossing the Devil's Pool area in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Bridge and Seating in Winter, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 7 Scope and Contents note May be the Cresheim Creek Bridge, a wooden footbridge crossing the Devil's Pool area in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Tedyuscung Statue, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 8 Scope and Contents note Tedyuscung statue in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. The statue - Page 5- Fairmount Park glass plate negatives 1971.597 was a limestone replica of an older, wooden version, and was designed by John Massey Rhind and erected in 1902. Forbidden Drive, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 9 Scope and Contents note Appears to be Forbidden Drive in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. If so, the Pro Bono Publico fountain is visible in the distance on the right hand side of the roadway. The fountain, erected in 1854, was the first public drinking fountain in the city. Forbidden Drive, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 10 Scope and Contents note Appears to be Forbidden Drive in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. If so, the Pro Bono Publico fountain is visible in the distance on the right hand side of the roadway. The fountain, erected in 1854, was the first public drinking fountain in the city. Forbidden Drive, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 11 Scope and Contents note Appears to be Forbidden Drive in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Rock Formations, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 12 Scope and Contents note Unidentified area in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Kitchen's Lane Bridge, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 13 Scope and Contents note Unidentified area in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. The structure in the background might be the original Kitchen's Lane Bridge over the Wissahickon Creek in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Kitchen's Lane Bridge connected the neighborhoods of Germantown and Roxborough. Devil's Pool, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 14 Scope and Contents note May be the Devil's Pool area of Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. If so, the larger, single-arch stone bridge visible in the distance was one constructed in 1892 to support a sewer line from Chestnut Hill that needed to cross the Cresheim Valley and Cresheim Creek before emptying into the Wissahickon Creek. - Page 6- Fairmount Park glass plate negatives 1971.597 The wooden footbridge, visible below the larger bridge, would be the Cresheim Creek Bridge. Water View, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 15 Scope and Contents note Unidentified waterway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 16 Scope and Contents note Unidentified area in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Water View, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 17 Scope and Contents note Unidentified waterway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Deer, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 18 Scope and Contents note Deer in the snow in an unidentified area of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Laurel Hill Cemetery, seen from Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 19 Scope and Contents note Appears to be Laurel Hill Cemetery, as seen from across the Schuykill River from Fairmount Park. Forbidden Drive, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 20 Scope and Contents note Appears to be Forbidden Drive in Wissahickon Valley Park, one of the parks in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Winter Scene, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 21 Scope and Contents note Snow-covered, unidentified area in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Cutting logs, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 22 - Page 7- Fairmount Park glass plate negatives 1971.597 Scope and Contents note Men cutting logs from a tree in an unidentified section of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Cutting logs, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 23 Scope and Contents note Men cutting logs from a tree in an unidentified section of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Winter Scene, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 24 Scope and Contents note Snow-covered, unidentified section of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Tedyuscung Statue, Fairmount Park, after 1908 box 1 folder 25 Scope and Contents
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