Thomas H. Shoemaker Germantown and Philadelphia portraits and views collection, 1863-1922 bulk ca. 1910-ca. 1915.

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Thomas H. Shoemaker Germantown and Philadelphia portraits and views collection, 1863-1922 bulk ca. 1910-ca. 1915.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299170154

The Thomas H. Shoemaker Germantown and Philadelphia prints and views collection consists of over twelve thousand images of historical places and colonial houses (many of which no longer exist) in and around the Germanton, Chestnut Hill, and Mount Airy sections of Philadelphia. In addition to exterior shots of houses, there are also images of doorways and some house interiors. There are also photographs of views along the Wissahickon Creek; images of graveyards, meeting houses, and churches; various portraits, and pictures of historic houses in other states, such as South Carolina and Massachusetts. While the collection contains mostly photographs, there are also lithographs, india ink drawings, prints, engravings, and silhouettes.

33 boxes, 4 volumes, ( 9 linear feet)

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 7280486

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Shoemaker, Thomas H. (Thomas Howard), 1851-1936

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Thomas H. Shoemaker (1851-1936) was a resident of Germantown and author of "The Inhabitants of Germantown of Chestnut Hill in 1809,"which was published in volumes fifteen and sixteen of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. He was an informal Germantown historian and recognized, in the late 1880s, that his hometown's landscape was changing. Many of the local old colonial homes were being torn down in favor of shops and row houses, and Shoemaker wished to somehow document the disapp...