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Digitial image of a Black and white halftone photographic print of Mouns Jones House from page 105 of the book "The Swedish Race in America" by Abram Ottey and published by the author in Philadelphia in 1940. Photo shows a southeast perspective view. Details include: random rubble masonry with pargeting remnants; corner chimney [left of center]; gable-end
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Black and white photographic print showing a southeast perspective view of the Mouns Jones House with new wooden-shingle roof, remnants of 19th-century stucco parging, replicated second-floor casement windows, and un-restored first-floor hung-sash windows. Other details shown in this image include: restored corner and gable-end chimneys, re-opened doorway
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Black and white photograph with caption appearing on page 3 of the January 1975 (Vol. III No. 4) issue of "American Folklife," the monthly newspaper of the American Folklife Society (Richard Shaner--Managing Editor). Details include: gable-end chimney, random rubble masonry, corner chimney, projecting water table.
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Description: Black and white photographic print showing southeast perspective view of the Mouns Jones House after restoration of masonry walls and chimneys(a), and installation of replacement casement window frames and shingled roof, but prior to re-creation of bake oven in eastern bay of north [right] gable wall and before re-opening the walled-in doorway
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“Black and white photographic print of an earlier photograph (published as hal?one at p. 132 of vol. III of the Proceedings of the Historical Society of Berks County) showing southwest perspec%ve view of the Mouns Jones House”. Details include: gable-end chimney [left]; post-1886 porch [see 1886 woodcut view without porch in MJHDWG2--1000.01.089]; 19
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Digital image from original photographic print showing southeast perspective view. Details include: corner chimney [right of tree in foreground], gable-end chimney [right of center in background]; surviving 19th random-rubble masonry; surviving south gable and east eaves walls masonry; casement window frame in second story, south bay{1} {1} This caseme
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Black and white photographic print showing southwest elevation view of the Mouns Jones House after restoration. Details include replaced roof, wooden casement windows, re-created bake oven, new board-and-batten shutters, 18th-century period-type [but lacking ogee, cyma, or other mouldings] doorway frame replacing 19th-century board-sheathed recessed
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Description: Black and white photographic print showing southwest elevation view of the Mouns Jones House as received by HPTBC in 1964. Details include: surviving southwest eaves wall; gable-end [left] and corner [right] chimneys; early casement [second story, north (left) bay], and 19th-century hung-sash window frames; 19th-century board-sheathed doorway.
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Color photographic print showing southwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House. Details include: horizontally sliding casement windows{1}; southeast corner chimney; north gable-end chimney; board-and-batten shutters; replaced roof; random-rubble masonry. {1}See record MJHPH40 regarding the form and materials [iron-framed leaded glass panes] to b
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Black and white photographic print of a drawing pictured in the book "Berks County History" by Morton Montgomery, copyright 1886. Drawing shows southwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House. Details include: northern gable-end chimney; SE corner chimney; stone tablet [exaggerated scale] with initials of Mouns and Ingeborg Jones and date [1716]; 19th-ce
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Black and white photographic print showing southwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House after roof replacement, restoration of masonry walls and chimneys. Details include: pargeting remnants, new brick gable-end chimney [left], restored random rubble masonry corner chimney [right], replaced wooden-shingle roof, commemorative plaque, new attic win
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Black and white photographic print showing southwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House showing the gable-end chimney on the north wall; the datestone niche, defined by stone lintel and sill, to the right [south] of the second-story window opening immediately under the topmost remaining stone course; surviving north and central bays of the west eaves
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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 alignme
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Black and white halftone image from a photograph by Nicholas B. Phillipson showing a southwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House. Details include: 19th-century hip-roofed porch, 19th-20th century fenestration, parged masonry walls. Compare window openings, proportions, and alignment in this photo to the artist's woodcut rendition [c.1886] in MJHD
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Black and white photographic print showing southwest perspective view of Mouns Jones south after restoration of the masonry and replacement of attic window. Details include: XXXX Laurence Ward, Sept. 2010
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Black and white photographic print showing southwest perspective view of Mouns Jones House after restoration of the masonry and replacement of attic window. Details include: XXXX Laurence Ward, Sept. 2010
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Black and white photographic print showing southwest perspective view of the Mouns Jones House after roof replacement, restoration of masonry walls and chimneys, and replacement square window frame in attic [see same new frame in c.1967, without board cover, in MJHPH71--1000.01.076 and MJHPH9---1000.01.009, a view showing the new casement sash installed. See
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Digital image of a perspective view of Mouns Jones House from woodcut engraving published on page 945 of “History of Berks County, Pennsylvania” by Morton Montgomery, pub. by Everts & Peck, Philadelphia. Montgomery describes the building as in a “good state of preservation”, of dimensions 36 by 21 feet. This is the earliest known image of Mouns Jones House,
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Digital image from original photographic print showing southwest perspective view. Details include: corner chimney [near-right], north gable-end chimney [left background], pargeted random-rubble masonry. The coverage of the remaining "stucco," a 19th-century application designed to protect the mortar joints and "modernize" the exterior with a white-washed
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c. 1688 Thomas Holme’s map of Pennsylvania, showing the land of “Mouns Johnson” (Mouns Jones) west of the Schuylkill River, in Kingsessing, near Cobb’s Creek. Under his father Jonas Nilsson’s Will of 1693, Mouns inherited an additional 100 acres [see record MJTX1]. This map is held in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, a
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Temporary support during the wall restoration at Mouns Jones House in Morlatton Village, Douglassville, PA. This structure [see conceptual drawing MJH shor scaff, 020414 ] combines: (A) the “raking” shores necessary to support the portion of the roof thrusts previously supported by the stone wall ranges removed during this project, (B) th
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Three black and white photographic prints (two showing southeastern perspective views and one southwest perspective view), of the Mouns Jones House in the 1940s, before its partial collapse prior to 1958; a photo of notes on the verso of Image #1; one color photo of subgrade masonry on the river-side of the house; a map of the “Philadelphia Trading Area”; an
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Black and white photographic print showing west elevation view of the Mouns Jones House after partial restoration, with unidentified person standing in front of building. The window openings have been modified to receive casement windows, perhaps based on consistently with an 1886 woodcut rendering of a southwest perspective view [see MJHDWG2--1000.01.089] a
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Details include: random rubble masonry; replacement casement windows; beaded board replacement door and frame; gable-end chimney centered on roof ridge; 1716 date-stone; replacement wooden-shingle roof; projecting "water table"{a} stonework at above-grade foundation of eaves wall; alternating-stone corner piers ["quoins"]; board-and-batten shutter. {a} A s
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