Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Collection |
Mouns Jones |
Title |
Postcards and Photography |
Archive Number |
MJHPH62 |
Description |
MJHPH62: DescriptionTwo versions of a postcard, color and in black and white (see NOTE for more information on the images): From Morton Montgomery's 1886 History of Berks County: "Mounce Jones, an early Swede, built the first stone house in 1716 along the Schuylkill River. This is the oldest structure in Berks County. Mounce Jones and Ingabo, his wife, took up [a] the tract of land on which this building is situated on October 21, 1701. At this point of the river there was a ford used until 1833 when a private bridge was erected by a stock company. After his death and previous to 1820, the building was used for some years as a tavern known as "Lamb's Inn." The township of Amity is the earliest settled part of Berks County and was established in 1718. The name of Amity is said to have been suggested because of the friendly relations between the Swedes and Indians. They dealt fairly with the Indians and always purchased from them the lands which they occupied. There is only one mention of hostilities in May 1728. A small party of Shawanese with an apparently hostile intent hovered in the neighborhood. A number of settlers gathered and sent out a scouting party which attacked the Indians. The Governor, Patrick Gordon, visited the area and commissioned John Pauling, Marcus Hulings, and Mordecai Lincoln to preserve the peace. Conferences were held with the Indians at Conestoga and Philadelphia and by means of explanations and presents, the Red Men were conciliated. Two notable chiefs of the Delawares, Sassoonan and Opekasset stopped on the way to and from Philadelphia at Mounce Jones' house at Morlatton." [a] this is the date of the warrant to Mouns Jones under the grant of the Swede's Tract from William Penn to Andreas Rudman. See also the third image, which is a digital photograph scanned from an original color version of the same postcard view from a photograph by H. Winslow Fegley of Hereford and Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. This 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 entitled "Farming Always Farming, A Photographic Essay…", published as Volume 20 [2d series] by The Pennsylvania German Society in 1986. Image #4 is from a contemporary photographic print of Image #1, with the photographer's copyright notice in white ink, lower-left. A high-resolution digitally-produced print of the Fegley photograph used for the two postcard views [Image#4] {b}. {b}This strikingly detailed image provides accurate gauging of the scale and alignment of the casement window in the second story's north bay and the later vertical hung-sash windows in the other three openings. The casement window remained in place after installation of the three vertical hung-sash windows, probably because a hung-sash opening of the same size as the others would have extended below the top of the porch roof-line. The porch roof was deflected downward ["hipped"] to pass below the sill of the 2d story window in the south [right] bay. "Hipping" the porch roof under the upper window in the north bay was more problematic, since any deflection would have crowded the doorway lintel directly beneath that window. The gable-end brick chimney; 19th-century porch; early casement window in second story, north [left] bay; 19th-century hung-sash windows; stucco-parged ["pargeted"] masonry walls can also be seen. Laurence Ward, April, 2019 |
Search Terms |
MJPH MJHPH MJH Mouns Jones House Mouns Jones House Photo Perspective Photo Casement Window Hung-sash Window Fegley Photo Schwenkfelder Library Porch Gable-end Chimney Parged Masonry Vintage Photo Hipped Porch Roof Porch Roof Postcard Brick Chimney |
People |
Jones, Mouns Fegley, H. Winslow |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Accession number |
1000.01 |
Date |
9/14/2010 |
Photographer |
Fegley, H. Winslow |
Notes |
The postcards [Images#1, #2, and #3]are part of of the collection at the Scwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center. It is published online with permission as of 9/14/2010. HD photography [Images#4] copyright to photographer H. Winslow Fegley of Hereford and Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. This 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 |
1000.01.067 |
Copyright |
Images#4: Photographer H. Winslow Fegley of Hereford and Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. |