Item 93: Lithograph advertisement for Mountain Houses by James Queen (Removed to Black Case #8), 1870
Item — Box: 21, Folder: 93
Dates
- Created: 1870
Creator
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Advertisement/Lithograph
Title:
Lithograph
Description:
A copy of a colored lithograph which hangs in Wyoming Valley Historical Society illustrated by James Queen around 1870 and lithographed by Duval & Son. The advertisement explains the location and significance of these mountain houses. It conveys them as vacation homes and resorts for leisure. Wilkes-Barre is located in northeastern Pennsylvania in Luzerne county. It was founded in 1769 and re-incorporated as a city in 1869. The city’s rich coal mining history employed thousands of immigrants in the 19th century. The mining of anthracite coal was popular until the Knox Mine disaster that ultimately accelerated the collapse of the industry after World War II. The Wyoming Valley was originally inhabited by the Shawnee and Lenape Native Americans prior to its new settlement.
James Queen, known for his composition and attention to detail, was the premier Philadelphia artist, lithographer, and chromolithographer. He was born in Philadelphia in either 1820 or 1821, and was the son of William Queen. William was a cordwainer and apprenticed under George Lehman and P. S. Duval. He later began a career around the age of 14 years old.
Peter Stephen Duval, (also known as P. S. Duval) was born around 1804 or 1805 in France and was the most prominent Philadelphia lithographer in the 19th century. He began his career by accepting a job from the printing firm of Childs & Inman. He established his own lithographic print shop in 1837 and later retired in 1869. The firm was run by Duval’s son for a few years after. On February 9, 1886, Duval died due to an “enlargement of the heart.”
Location:
Wyoming Valley, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Transcription:
S WILLIAMS.
Prospect Rock
Observatory
Trout Pond
Romantic Walk
MOUNTAIN HOUSES
Duval & Son Lith Phila
PROSPECT AND SPRING HOUSES, Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. {Presented by [illegible]}
The Mountain Houses are located in the centre of the Valley of Wyoming, on the mountain East of WIlkes-Barre, two miles from the town, and one thousand feet above the Valley. The view from the Observatory, on the top of the house, is generally admitted to be one of the finest in the United States. For invalids and others, this locality is unsurpassed, the pure mountain air rendering it remarkably healthy. The har-farmed Prospect Rock is immediately ajoining the house, from whose hoary summit may be obtained an unobstructed view of the entire Wyoming Valley, eighteen miles in length, with the Susquehanna River, dotted with island, winding through its midst and the blue peaks of the Alleghanies in the distance.
The subscriber has refitted and refurnished the Mountain Houses, and will spare no pains to make this a first class Hotel and Summer Resort. The drives and walks in the vicinity are unsurpassed for pleasant beauty. Carriages always in attendance, and visitors by sending word, will be called for by the carriages of the establishment. Good Fishing and Hunting Grounds in the immediate vicinity.
S. WILLIAMS Proprietor,
WILKES-BARRE LUZERNE CO. PA.
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Copy of
Colored Lithograph which hangs in
Wyoming Valley {illegible} Society
drawn by James Queen about 1870
lithographed by Duval & Son.
#4.
Creator
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
Contact:
84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu
84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu