Photo, Print, Drawing Philadelphia Cemetery on the Passyunk Road. Philadelphia Cemetery. On the Passyunk Road
About this Item
Title
- Philadelphia Cemetery on the Passyunk Road.
Other Title
- Philadelphia Cemetery. On the Passyunk Road
Summary
- This lithograph from circa 1850 shows a view of the chapel at Philadelphia Cemetery (also referred to as New Philadelphia Cemetery), fronting on Passyunk Avenue between Twentieth and Twenty-second Streets. Pedestrians linger outside of the stone wall and carriage gate. Philadelphia Cemetery opened in 1828; the last burial there occurred in 1902. The bodies were removed to Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill circa 1915. The print was produced by Thomas S. Sinclair (circa 1805--81). Sinclair was born in the Orkney Islands of Scotland and was active in Philadelphia by 1833, where he soon had his own business and was one of the first local printmakers to experiment with color lithography. A practical lithographer throughout his career, Sinclair produced all genres of lithographs, including maps, advertisements, city and landscape views, sheet music covers, portraiture, political cartoons, certificates, and book illustrations.
Created / Published
- Philadelphia : T. Sinclair's Lithography, 1850.
Headings
- - United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- - 1850
- - Cemeteries
- - Chapels
- - Lithographs
- - Street scenes
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Digital catalog number: POS 576"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone ; 40 x 56 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
- - Content in English.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Philadelphia on Stone
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021670315
Online Format
- compressed data
- image