Details
Creator Worcester, Fernando Edwards, 1818-, engraver.
Contributor Cummings, Gordon Parker, 1809-1889,
Title Office of the Penn Life Insurance Company. [graphic] / Worcester, sc.
Publisher [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1851
Date [1851]
Physical Description 1 print : wood engraving mounted on paper ; sheet 39 x 28 cm (15.5 x 11 in.)
Description View depicting the four-and-one-half story building of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company built 1850-1851 after the designs of Gordon Parker Cummings at 129 South Third Street. A statue of William Penn adorns the alcove above the doorway. A man enters the building near a man at the foot of the entryway. On the sidewalk, in the right, two men and a boy converse. The men wear top hats and overcoats. The boy wears a suit and a cap. Building was demolished in 1956. Penn Mutual Life Insurance was founded, chartered, and opened in 1847.
Notes Title from item.
Date from manuscript note on recto.
Gift of David Doret.
Fernando E. Woods was an antebellum Boston wood engraver.
Subject Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Insurance companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 129.
Genre Wood engravings -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Cummings, Gordon Parker, 1809-1889,
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.18]
Accession number P.2018.63.18