Palmer's Mills

Artist Unknown

Dateca. 1860

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsImage: 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (16.51 x 21.59 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.187

Inscribedtitle in pencil on back of mount

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DescriptionImage of two buildings next to a body of water with a stack of wood in the foreground. Figures and horse-drawn carriages are gathered outside.Gallery Label

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The subject of this elegant photograph may be the flour and saw mills of T. Chalkley Palmer, on the bank of the Crum River in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

Published References

Henry Graham Ashmead, History of Delaware County (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts & Co., 1884): 672.

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