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Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. Edward T. Stotesbury home, Whitermarsh Hall"" – Historic Reproduction

Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. Edward T. Stotesbury home, Whitermarsh Hall"", [1922?] — historic photograph
Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. Edward T. Stotesbury home, Whitermarsh Hall"", [1922?]. Historic photograph from the Philadelphia collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Among the largest private houses of its era, Whitemarsh Hall was the country estate that financier Edward T. Stotesbury built outside Philadelphia, and this interior view is noted for its organ. Stotesbury, a partner in the Drexel banking firm, commissioned the French-inspired mansion from architect Horace Trumbauer, and it was completed in the early 1920s as a showcase for his wealth and lavish entertaining. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a photographer known for documenting American architecture and interiors, made the picture, which is dated here to about 1922. It captures the period's taste for European-style grandeur among Philadelphia's wealthiest families.

Created / published[1922?]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsNo. 269. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Musical instruments--Organs; Interiors; BI--RESIDENCES; Pa.--Phila.--W- Hall; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,233 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141799

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