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Philadelphia : Girard - College

Description: Image of an eye-level street view of the Girard College campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with five buildings including Founder's Hall behind a fence, and a horse-drawn carriage and trolley, pedestrians, and an African-American man smoking a pipe while leaning against a pipe in the foreground.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1848
Call number: priJLC_EDU_000685
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Philadelphia, : from Girard College - 1850

Visual Materials

Image of an elevated landscape view looking south upon the buildings and grounds of Girard College, with the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Schuylkill River in the background. Founder's Hall is depicted in the front center of the image with people on the rooftop.

priJLC_VIEW_000521

Girard avenue bridge. : Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the Girard Avenue Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, and boats.

priJLC_VIEW_001202

St. Mary's Catholic Church, : Rome, N.Y. dedicated September 22nd,, 1872

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Rome, New York, with steeple, trees, white picket fence, a neighboring house, and a busy street scene with pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage; tinted background.

priJLC_REL_001037

Ohio Female College, : College Hill, Hamilton Co. Ohio

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street view of the Ohio Female College campus in Cincinnati, Ohio, showing a street with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages in the foreground, and the landscaped grounds with pond, rowboat, gazebos, fountain, and college buildings, in the background; information about the college printed in margin.

priJLC_EDU_000637

Miami Commercial College : Dayton, Ohio. Established in 1860

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level street scene centered on the Miami Commercial College building in Dayton, Ohio, with horse-drawn carriages and a trolley, pedestrians, and men on horseback in the foreground; a sign over the front door of the building reads, "Office / Firemens Ins. Co."

priJLC_EDU_001341

Union Straw Works, Foxboro Mass

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Image of an eye-level view of the Union Straw Works factory in Foxboro, Massachusetts, showing pedestrians, equestrians, a horse-drawn carriage, and wagons moving goods in and out.

priJLC_FASH_000647

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