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Black & white photographic print showing stone access ramp to covered bridge before its removal. Note written in blue pen on verso reads, "Stone Ramp to the Covered Bridge at the Mouns Jones House--Douglassville, Pa. facing River Picture taken 1968"
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Black & white photographic print showing stone access ramp to covered bridge before its removal. Note written in blue pen on verso reads, "Mouns Jones House Showing Ramp to Covered Bridge and Schuylkill River -- Douglassville, Pa"
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Gray scale copy, possibly of a previous copy with the following in pencil on verso: "Mouns Jones House built 1716 by Mouns Jones + Ingabo Yocum Jones. [The penciled "Yocum" is crossed out and replaced with penned "Leicon"… Datestone stolen{n}, will be replaced. This is a copy of an oil painting - painted by Miles Dechant" (an artist and architect born
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Digital image of an east perspective view of the covered bridge and Michael Fulp (Bridge Keeper's) House. This photo is from "The Passing Scene," vol. 3, page 202, by George Meiser, IX and Gloria Meiser published in Reading, 1984, and is included here with the generous permission of George Meiser IX. Image #2 is another early 20th century
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The proximity of the house to the bridge ramp suggested the name “Bridge Keeper’s House” despite the historical fact that the original owner, Michael Fulp, died [in 1808] about a quarter-century prior to the bridge’s construction [c. 1832]. The only known “Bridge Keeper” was Alice Garber, who lived in the house in the 1940s. The stove chimney, integrated
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Black & white photographic print showing removal and regrading of access ramp to covered bridge. See additional image for note written in blue pen on verso.
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Black & white photographic print showing removal and regrading of access ramp to covered bridge. Note written in blue pen on verso reads, "REMOVING RAMP."
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Black & white photographic print showing removal and regrading of access ramp to covered bridge. Note written in blue pen on verso reads, "Ramp being removed at Mouns Jones Hse showing the House 1970" Note stamped in black ink on verso reads, "Photography by John A. Beard XXXX [street address withheld] Douglassville, Pa. 19518 Reproduction Prohibit
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Black & white photographic print showing removal of access ramp to covered bridge. Masonry along right edge of photo is the northwest corner-pier of Bridge Keeper’s House, standing after the April, 1970 collapse of the roof and its framing, and portions of the eaves and gable walls. This photo was taken from a short distance to the south of the vantage point
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Black & white photographic print showing removal of access ramp to covered bridge. Details include: surviving portions of the north gable wall and west eaves wall of the Bridge Keeper’s House [top of photo, above and behind wooden barricade]; to the left of the large tree trunk is the off-center chimney in the south gable wall; the interior frame of the o
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Black & white photographic print showing removal and regrading of access ramp to covered bridge. Note written in red pen on verso reads, "Taking the ramp away--Mouns Jones"
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Black & white photographic print showing removal and regrading of access ramp to covered bridge. Note written in blue pen on verso reads, "REMOVING STONES FROM RAMP APPROACH TO COVERED BRIDGE"
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Series of four color digital photographs showing water levels after heavy rainfall on September 30 & October 1, 2010. From mid-morning on September 30, 2010 through mid-morning October 1st, six inches of rain fell in the Schuylkill River channel at Pottstown, PA, as measured at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Station located 75 feet upstream from
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Series of 2 black and white photos showing a southwest (image #1) and northwest (image#2) perspective view of the Michael Fulp House. Image #1: A c.1964-66 black and white photographic print showing a southwest perspective view of the west eaves wall, south gable wall, and severely damaged roof. An entry in the Trust's Board minutes of the meeting of 3/29
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Black & white photographic print showing view of former access road & ramp to covered bridge before removal. Road to bridge ran between Bridge Keeper's House and mouns Jones House. See additional image for notes stamped in black ink and written in blue pen on verso.
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Series of 9 images showing various views of the covered bridge at Morlatton Village. Image #1: Interior black and white photograph of one lane of the “double-barrel” covered bridge crossing Schuylkill river from Morlatton Village, Douglassville, Berks County to Union Township, Berks County. This bridge was constructed c.1832-33 and appears in this locati
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