Details
Contributor Seeler, Edgar, architect.
Title [Curtis Publishing Company Building at 7th and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1940
Date [ca. 1940]
Physical Description 1 drawing : gouache ; sheet 88 x 76 cm (34.5 x 30 in.)
Description Drawing, possibly for an advertisement, of an exterior view depicting the rear of the multi-story complex of the Curtis Publishing Company Building built after the designs of Edgar Seeler in 1911. Shows a line of cars and trucks parked in the garage. Workers move a pallet onto a delivery truck. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalks around the building, and cars travel down the street. In the right is a street light with street signs for “7th St.” and “Sansom St.” The firm occupied a city block between 6th and 7th and Walnut and Sansom Streets and included four structures: publication building; convenience belt; manufacturing building; and power building.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from content and attire of the people.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Subject Curtis Publishing Company.
Automobiles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Publishing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Trucks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Seventh Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Sansom Street.
Genre Gouaches -- 1930-1940.
Associated name Seeler, Edgar, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.26]
Accession number P.2019.62.26