a631, W.T. Purviance Stereoview, # -, View of Wissahickon Creek, PA., 1870\'s For Sale

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a631, W.T. Purviance Stereoview, # -, View of Wissahickon Creek, PA., 1870\'s:
$60.00

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You are offerding on an original Stereoview/Stereograph SV card, titled: View of Wissahickon Creek near Philadelphia, PA., card # -, 1870\'s.

Looking at this Stereoview through a Viewer, is like using Google 3D when looking at a Map.

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Notes:
Wissahickon Creek is a tributary of the Schuylkill />
Wissahickon Creek rises in Montgomery County, runs approximately 23 miles (37 km) passing through and dividing Northwest Philadelphia before emptying into the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia. Its watershed covers about 64 square miles (170 km2).

Much of the creek now runs through or next to parkland, with the last few miles running through a deep gorge. The beauty of this area attracted the attention of literary personages like Edgar Allan Poe and John Greenleaf Whittier. The gorge area is now part of Wissahickon Valley Park in Philadelphia, and the Wissahickon Valley is known as one of 600 National Natural Landmarks of the United States.

The name of the creek comes from the Lenape word wiessahitkonk, for \"catfish creek\" or \"stream of yellowish color.\" On the earliest map of this region of Pennsylvania, by Thomas Holme, the stream is called Whitpaine\'s creek, after one of the original settlers Richard Whitpaine, who owned several large tracts on the creek. Whitpaine was an early land owner in the days of William Penn.

Industry sprang up along the Wissahickon not long after European settlement, with America\'s first paper mill set up on one of the Wissahickon\'s tributaries. A few of the dams built for the mills remain visible today. (ref. wikipedia)

Photographer William T. Purviance was born in Pennsylvania circa 1830. He was married to Nancy (last name unknown, born circa 1830) and the couple had four daughters and a son. William apparently took up the practice of photography in the 1850‘s and in 1857 was in Allegheny, Pennsylvania working as a daguerreotype and ambrotype artist on Sandusky Street. In 1859-1860, he had a studio in Pittsburgh at the corner of Diamond and Market Streets. In the 1860 census he was listed as living in Allegheny with $300 in personal property; living with William, Nancy, and four children was fellow photographer William Rorach. In 1862 the studio was at the corner of Wood and Fifth Streets, and from 1864 through 1866 he was located in Pittsburgh at 21 Fifth Street and the corner of Penn and St. Clair Streets. During the Civil War, William paid for Class B licenses for a photographer making more than $1,000 a year. Around 1867, Purviance was hired by the Pennsylvania Central Railroad as an official photographer; he maintained a business in Pittsburgh until 1869, but beginning in 1867 established his residence in Philadelphia. In the 1870 census, William, Nancy, and five children were living in Philadelphia. In Philadelphia directories William was listed as a photographer but without a business address. In this period he took numerous stereographic views of central Pennsylvania, indicating he spent a good deal of time outside Philadelphia. From 1883 through at least 1889, William was listed in New York City directories as a photographer, but it was his only son William E. Purviance who headed Purviance and Company Photographers. He died in New York City in 1905 and is buried at Mt Olivet Cemetery.

On the reverse there is stamped \"The Treadwell Collection\", indicating that this view is from the extensive collection of Thurman Kelso “Tex” Treadwell (1920-2003). Tex was an active enthusiast of stereo photography and was a well known and respected member of the National Stereoscopic Association throughout much of his lifetime.

Size: 3.25\" by 7\"

Subjects: Scenic, Trees, Stream, Dam, People

Photographer: William T. Purviance, (1830-1905)

Date: circa 1870\'s.

Info:
Stereoscopy or Stereoviews have two nearly identical images mounted side by side and were taken by a Stereo Camera. When looked at through a stereo viewer they give a three-dimensional image. Most popular from 1850’s to 1930’s and they usually measure about 3 ½\" by 7\" (please see images).

Some of the subjects will be:

Alaska, Austria, Boston, California, Celebrities, Chicago, Colorado, Comedy, Cuba, Egypt, Florida, Industry, Ireland, Italy, Japan, London, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York City, Niagara Falls, Paris, Pennsylvania, People, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Rome, San Francisco, Scotland, St. Louis, Tragedies, Virginia, Volcano\'s, Washington DC, Wisconsin, Yellowstone and Yosemite.
 

Condition: VG/EX-EX (edge & corner wear, Writing on the back, Previous Owner’s Stamp on the Back), (please see the images).

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a631, W.T. Purviance Stereoview, # -, View of Wissahickon Creek, PA., 1870's

$60.00