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Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street below Eighth. [graphic].
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Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer.
Title
Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street below Eighth. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Date
ca. 1868
Physical Description
2 photographic prints: albumen on stereograph mounts; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description
Views looking east from below Eighth Street showing the Masonic Hall at 713-721 Chestnut. The hall, built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart, was razed by fire in 1886. Shows adjacent and tenant businesses, including Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713 Chestnut); Marvin & Co., safes (721 Chestnut); E.H. Godshalk, carpets (723 Chestnut); and Wood & Cary, straw goods (725 Chestnut). Also includes views of signs on the south side of the block including the sign for Willis P. Hazard, bookseller and publisher (724 Chestnut).
Is part of
Philadelphia and vicinity. No. 140
Notes
Attributed to Bartlett & French.
Title from labels pasted on mount and verso.
Yellow mounts with rounded corners.
One image 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.
Biographical / historical note
Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Subject
Godshalk, E.H.
Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope), 1825-1913,
Marxsen & Witte.
Marvin & Co.
Wood & Cary.
Masonic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stores & shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Publishing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rug and carpet industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Safes.
Straw industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tableware industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 713-721.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 600 block -- North side.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block -- North side.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name
Sloan & Stewart, architect.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Associations [(8)1322.F.27a; P.9260.8]
Accession number
(8)1322.F.27a
P.9260.8
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