Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Mouns Jones |
Title |
Southwest perspective view |
Archive Number |
MJHPH96 |
Description |
Digital copy of an original black and white photographic print showing a southwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House, taken by H. Winslow Fegley from the ramp to the covered bridge across the Schuylkill River.. Details include: 19th-century half-hip roofed porch; 19th- and 20th-entury fenestration (compare window openings, proportions, and alignment in this photo to the artist's woodcut rendition [c.1886, rendered from the same perspective] in MJHDWG2--1000.01.089 and MJHTX4--1000.01.063) and other photo records in these archives; fully pargeted masonry walls; datestone [variously described as "granite," and a "soapstone tablet" in the January, 1902 article in the "Pennsylvania German" periodical cited in record MJHPH65--1000.01.070 Note written in lower right corner reads, "OLDEST HOUSE IN BERKS COUNTY/DOUGLASSVILLE, PA (SEPT 12, 1911)" Laurence Ward, Sept. 2010 |
Search Terms |
MJPH MJHPH MJH Mouns Jones House Mouns Jones House Photo Perspective Photo Datestone Fenestration Fegley Photo Porch Vintage Photo Porch Roof Hipped Porch Roof Half-hipped Roof Hung-sash window |
People |
Jones, Mouns |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Accession number |
1000.01 |
Date |
09/12/1911 |
Photographer |
Fegley, H. Winslow |
Notes |
Image is generously provided by the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center, Pennsburg, PA, from its extensive collection of Fegley photographic prints, many of which appear in the book of Fegley photographs entitled "Farming Always Farming, A Photographic Essay…", published as Volume 20 [2d series] by The Pennsylvania German Society in 1986. |
Catalog Number |
1000.01.107 |