Between Sedgewick and Gowan

2013.5.4.162a-c

2013.5.4.162a-c

Name/Title

Between Sedgewick and Gowan

Entry/Object ID

2013.5.4.162a-c

Description

Three images found on page 162 of scrapbook 2, "Pictorial Germantown Road and the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants. Compiled by George Clarence Johnson. Volume I. East Side." Image a, at the top of the page, is a photograph of the "Steamboat House, on Germantown Avenue between Sedgewick Street and Mt. Pleasant Avenue, dated to 1863. A caption gives a short history and identifies the owner as Erasmus James Pierce. Image b, bottom left, is of a sketch by John Richards of the Unruh homestead near Gorgas andChew Streets. Image c, bottom right, is a sketch of the Mount Airy College, later the site of the Lutheran Theological Seminary.

Collection

GHS Scrapbook Collection