Details
Creator Bartlett & Smith, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Post Office. [graphic] / Bartlett & Smith, Photographers.
Publisher [Philadelphia: Bartlett & Smith]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1869
Date [ca. 1869]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View of the U.S. Post Office and U.S. Courts building at the southwest corner of Chestnut and 5th Streets. Opened February 23, 1863, the building was used as a post office until 1884. View also shows commercial buildings on the south side of Chestnut.
Notes Photographer's imprint stamped on recto.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Manuscript note on mount: Post Office. Chestnut St. above 4th Street.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Post offices -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block -- south side.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & Smith - government buildings [(8)1322.F.21b]
Accession number (8)1322.F.21b