Name/Title
Shippen HouseEntry/Object ID
2013.5.4.109Description
A photograph of the Shippen House, 6043 Germantown Avenue, found on page 109 of scrapbook 2, "Pictorial Germantown Road and the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants. Compiled by George Clarence Johnson. Volume I. East Side."
The view is from the northwest showing the intersection of Germantown Avenue and East Walnut Lane. A caption gives the history of the house and mentions Dr. William Shippen, Alice Lee, Thomas Lee, Richard Henry Lee, the Battle of Germantown, Rev. Samuel Blair, Pennsylvania Manual Labor School, Dr. George Junkin, Washington and Lee University, General Stonewall Jackson, Charlotte Cushman, Dr. Bensell, Susanna Shippen Blair, Charles Harland, Sherriff William Deal, Charles H. Shoemaker, George W. Carpenter, Conyers Button, Walter Crowder.Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection