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John Naylor collection
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Held at: Chestnut Hill Historical Society [Contact Us]8708 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, PA, 19118
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Chestnut Hill Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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John Samuel Naylor was the son of Jacob and Anna M. Naylor and was born in Philadelphia on June 4, 1851. He owned Peoples Iron Foundry in Philadelphia and had an interest in photography and architecture. He was the maternal grandfather of the three individuals who donated the photos, Mrs. Alfred C. Borie (Frances Dorrance Dunning), Mrs. Robert L. Madden (Diana Dunning), and Mr. George Dunning, II. Mr. Dunning's aunt, Marian Naylor Swartley, "who is the last surviving member of that generation of the Naylor clan," (quote from Mr. Dunning) completed the initial identification of the homes on handwritten slips of paper.
This collection includes slide indexes with building indentifications, photocopies of Naylor photographs (the originals were taken with his 4"x5" Speed Graflex camera), label copy from 1995 exhibit at CHHS on Naylor, and notes on photos.
There is also a photocopy of the original list of photos and house owners compiled by Ansie Naylor Dunning and Marian Naylor Swartley, c. 1965. This proved to be the key to the identification of many of the houses in the Naylor photograph collection. Note that the numbering on the list gets off by one number part way through the list. The location of all the houses and sites in the photo collection (1970.23.147) have been indentified but one. There are some duplicate photos in the collection, and there are in some cases, several images of one house.
Original photo album with photos removed by a conservator for placement in an archival photo box, some photos matted by the conservator.
Gift of John Harris and Chestnut Hill Historical Society staff, 1970.
This finding aid was created by staff of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) using information provided by the Chestnut Hill Historical Society. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible through funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2011-2012 as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR), using data provided by the Chestnut Hill Historical Society. The HCI-PSAR project was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was done in the HCI-PSAR project.
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- Finding aid prepared by staff of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories using data provided by the Chestnut Hill Historical Society.
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- This preliminary finding aid was created by staff of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) using data provided by the Chestnut Hill Historical Society. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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