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Views of Old Philadelphia
Drawings by Edward Mumford
from theLIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA

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Edward Mumford was born in 1812 and died in 1858. In this time, he produced many small (less than three by five inches), detailed scenes of Philadelphia-area buildings and history. Because the actual image dates are unknown, it is often difficult to know if his sketches were copied, done from life, or drawn from local legends.

A list of LCP's Mumford Collection, ordered by catalogue number, follows. Each entry may include:

catalogue number: title
[any manuscript on verso]
(date or any other information)

Each title is linked to the relevant image, which will open in a second browser window. It is best to slightly minimize each window, keeping one at the left edge of your screen, the other to the right -- doing so will make it easier to switch between the image and associated text.

The originals of the thirty images digitized here are owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia. Contact LCP's Print Room if you are interested in viewing or reproducing Mumford's drawings.

THE FINE PRINT
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LCP Rights
and Reproductions

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Title 17, U.S. Code

Mumford's Drawings

P.8758.1: Harris' House, Harrisburg
[Original John F. Watson May ¹⁸/₆₀]

P.8758.2: Loxley House, So 2^nd St.

P.8758.3: Nedowaway leaving the Susquehana

P.8758.4: Duche's House

P.8758.5: Friends Almshouse
[Orig . . . John F. Watson May ¹⁸/₆₀]

P.8758.6: Friends Meeting, Front St.

P.8758.7: Logans Place -- Stenton

P.8758.8: Penny Pot Landing

P.8758.9: Friends Meeting and Court House
[Original John F. Watson May ¹⁸/₆₀]