Background image credits
The pictures behind each page header and page body are period paintings, photographs and maps of Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley. They set the scene; none of them shows the Carter land itself. None is AI-generated.
| Image | What and where it really is | Used on | Source and licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Header pictures (darkened) | |||
| Xanthus Russell Smith, A View of the Brandywine River Near Louviers, 1883 (oil) | The Brandywine valley near Louviers, just over the line in northern Delaware: real neighbouring country, not the Carter land on Chester Creek | Home, Notables, other pages | Wikimedia Commons (image: Vallejo Gallery) · public domain |
| Edward Hicks, The Residence of David Twining in 1785, c.1845–47 (oil) | A Quaker farmstead in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, painted from memory by the Quaker artist Edward Hicks | Graveyard, People | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; image via Wikimedia Commons · public domain |
| Historic American Buildings Survey, Thomas Mill, Crum Creek, west side (photograph) | An old stone mill on Crum Creek in Willistown Township, Chester County, the next valley over from Chester Creek | The Land, Family Line | Library of Congress, HABS PA,15-WHIHO.V,2-3 (LoC record; Commons) · public domain (US government work) |
| Benjamin West, The Treaty of Penn with the Indians, 1771–72 (oil, in colour) | An idealised Shackamaxon (Philadelphia) treaty scene, not Chester | Timeline, Carterville | As below · public domain |
| Faint page backgrounds | |||
| Thomas Holme, A Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsilvania, 1687 (crop) | Early map of land purchasers in Penn's province; the crop is approximate | The Land, Family Line (page background) | Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons · public domain |
| Thomas Doughty, Pennsylvania Landscape, early 19th century | A generic Pennsylvania landscape painting, not a specific site | Home, Notables, other pages (page background) | National Gallery of Art (46823) via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 |
| Thomas Doughty, Pennsylvania Landscape, c. 1810–1830 | A generic Pennsylvania landscape painting, not a specific site | Graveyard, People (page background) | National Gallery of Art (169713) via Wikimedia Commons · CC0 |
| Benjamin West, The Treaty of Penn with the Indians, 1771–72 | A romanticised scene of Penn's 1682–83 treaty at Shackamaxon (Philadelphia), painted ninety years later, not at Chester | Timeline, Carterville (page background) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; image via Wikimedia Commons · public domain |
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