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. "Drawn from nature by Aug. Kollner."--text, bottom left. "Paris & New-York, published by Goupil, Vibert & Co. / 9"--text, bottom centered. "Lith. by Deroy. Printed by Cattier."--text, bottom right margin. "Entered according to act of congress, in the year 1848, by Aug. Kollner, in the clerk's office of the district court for the southern district of New-York."--text, bottom margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 32.39 x 43.18 cm (12 3/4 x 17 in.)
Girard College--Pictorial works Philadelphia (Pa.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works College campuses--Pictorial works Horse-drawn vehicles--Pictorial works Local transit--Pictorial works African Americans--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1825-1850. (gmgpc) Views. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Education Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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