Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title [715-719 Arch Street, Bowen, Dungan & Co. under renovation, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1906
Date ca. 1906
Physical Description 1 photograph: glass negative; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
Description Glass negative showing a view of a large brick building owned by Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris under construction at 715-719 Arch Street. Telephone wires travel through the air in front of the building as wooden scaffolding shields the street below. Two signs hang from the scaffolding. The left sign reads "Bowen, Dungan & Co. have resumed business 728 Arch St." The right sign reads "Doyle & Doak Contractors and Builders [..] 609 Sansom St." A sign in the first floor window behind the scaffolding reads "Uncle Tom's Cabin Co." The building was damaged by a fire in 1900.
Notes See *P.9895.8.12 and *P.9895.8.13.
Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris.
Edited.
Subject Bowen, Dungan & Co.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 715-719.
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.8.9]
Accession number *P.9895.8.9