Details
Creator Broadbent and Taylor, photographer.
Title [Half-length portrait of Dr. Alexander C. Hart] [graphic] / Broadbent and Taylor.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 11 x 17 cm (4.25 x 6.5 in.) (cabinet card format)
Description Half-length portrait of Alexander C. Hart. Hart, wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, looks left. Alexander Chambers Hart (1811-1884) was a physician and surgeon. He helped found the Charity Hospital of Philadelphia and served during the Civil War.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from dates of operation of the photographer and attire of the sitter.
Photographer's imprint on recto: Broadbent & Taylor, 914 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Photographer's imprint on verso: Broadbent & Taylor. 914 Chestnut St., Philadelphia [icon of an artist's palette]; S. Broadbent. W. Curtis Taylor.
Manuscript note written on verso: Dr. Alexander C. Hart. Husband of Mary T. Clark. 48 831.
Gift of David Doret, 2017.
Biographical / historical note Broadbent & Taylor, the partnership between Samuel Broadbent (1810-1880) and William Curtis Taylor (1825-1905), was active at 914 Chestnut Street from 1877-1884. Broadbent died in 1880, leaving his interest in the business to his two sons, who bought out Taylor in 1884.
Subject Hart, Alexander Chambers, 1811-1884 -- Portraits.
Men -- Portraits.
Philadelphia artists.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Portrait photographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Phila Certificates - Military - Hart Collection [P.2010.21.5.1]
Accession number P.2010.21.5.1