Details
Creator Bartlett & Smith, photographer.
Title La Pierre House Philada. [graphic] / Bartlett & Smith, photographers.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1869
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View from above Chestnut Street showing the hotel at Broad and Sansom streets opened by George W. and J.G. Edwards in 1853. The hotel built after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. was expanded and renamed the Lafayette Hotel in 1876. View also depicts adjacent buildings, including the Academy of Natural Sciences and the Union League; parked horse-drawn carriages; and broadsides pasted on a brick wall.
Notes Title from manuscript note on mount.
Photographer's imprint embossed on mount.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
La Pierre House (Hotel : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Union League of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Galleries & museums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block.
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 - Hotels [(8)1322.F.31d]
Accession number (8)1322.F.31d