Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title 7th & Filbert streets, [Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1900
Date ca. 1900
Physical Description 1 photograph: glass negative; 6.5 x 8.5 in.
Description Glass negative showing a view of the corner of Seventh and Filbert Streets. Signs are also visible for Tom Keene Cigar on an adjacent building and on the relocated Philada Photo Electrotype Co. Designer & Engravers (705-707 Filbert Street). Includes the storefronts, adorned with signs, for Rider Erickson Engine Company; H.W.B. Conrad Publishers (705-707 Filbert Street); Quindlen Company Ladies Undergarments (707-709 Filbert Street); and Lit Brothers Jobbers in Cotton & Woolen Dress Goods (714-738 Filbert Street). For Sale and For Rent signs hang from the Quindlen Company building in the left. Telephone poles and wires line the brick road. A fire escape winds down the side of the four-story building (705-707 Filbert Street) in the center of the image. Philadelphia Photo Electroype Company relocated from the Filbert Street address in January 1894.
Notes 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 Conrad, H.W.B.
Keene, Tom.
Philadelphia Photo Electrotype Company -- Buildings.
Quindlen Company.
Rider Erickson Engine Company.
Lit Brothers.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Filbert Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block.
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Seventh Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.11.7]
Accession number *P.9895.11.7