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Pictures from English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott and Company, MCMXV [1915].
Anne Hollingsworth Wharton was born on 15th December 1845 and died on 29th July 1928, more than 70 years ago, so that this work is out of copyright. She was a descendent of Joseph Wharton and hence related to Thomas Wharton Jr. (1735-1778), the first President of Pennsylvania.
Title: Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans
City: London
Date: 1915
Total items: 12
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: The Post-Office at Penshurst]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/151-Penshurst-PostOffice-267x200.jpg "[picture: The Post-Office at Penshurst]")
Perhaps Tudor or older? [$]
![[picture: The Manor House, Austerfield]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/042-The-Manor-house-Austerfield-323x200.jpg "[picture: The Manor House, Austerfield]")
![[picture: Penshurst Place, Kent]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/147-penshurst-place-kent-303x200.jpg "[picture: Penshurst Place, Kent]")
![[picture: Room in which Lawrence Washington was born, Sulgrave Manor]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/106-Room-Lawrence-Washington-Born-Sulgrave-Manor-q75-287x200.jpg "[picture: Room in which Lawrence Washington was born, Sulgrave Manor]")
Room in which Lawrence Washington was born, Sulgrave Manor
“It was in this rrom that Lawrence Washington, sone of Robert, and great-great-great grandfather of George Washington, was born.” (p. 106) [more...] [$]
![[picture: Prison Cells (wallpaper version)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Wharton/wm/big/046b-Prison-Cells-bg-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Prison Cells (wallpaper version)]")
Prison Cells (wallpaper version)
A version of Prison Cells... for use as a computer desktop background image (root wallpaper or whatever you call it on your system). I cropped the image and increased the contrast to make it more atmospheric. [more...] [$]
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