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Juniata Schoenhut Knapp essay, 1900 or 1901.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 23 Folder 17
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Knapp, Juniata Schoenhut, 1889-1962.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)--History.
- Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Historic buildings--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Historic buildings.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Germantown, Battle of, Philadelphia, Pa., 1777.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Manuscripts, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Eclectibles (Tolland, Connecticut), 2017.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (8 leaves)
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 23 Folder 17
- Place of Publication:
- 1900 or 1901.
- Biography/History:
- Juniata Schoenhut was the ninth of ten children born to Agnes Wayne Lyle and Henry Edwin Schoenhut, an insurance agent, in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Juniata was educated in Philadelphia. She married Harvey Seiler Knapp (1890-1974) in 1915. Knapp worked as an accountant for a Germantown bank. They had four children June, Mary, Harvey, and Helen and lived in Mount Airy on East Gorgas Street.
- Summary:
- An essay entitled "Historic Germantown" written on ruled legal size paper by Juniata Schoenhut in 1900 or 1901 for a seventh grade class assignment. The essay provides informational descriptions of nine historic landmarks along Germantown Avenue. Juniata described the significance and use of each building during the Revolutionary War and the Battle of Germantown. She included the date each building was erected and the history of ownership. There are black-and-white illustrations accompanying each description. The landmarks presented in the essay include, First Church of the Brethren (Dunkards), Johnson House, Chew House (Cliveden), Concord School House, Wyck House, Morris House (Germantown White House), Town Hall, Wister House (Vernon-Wister House), and Germantown Academy. The essay is written on the verso of eight numbered leaves. A small portion at the bottom of the first leaf is lacking. The illustration of Town Hall is wanting.
- OCLC:
- 987304075
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