Details
Creator Bartlett & French, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Post Office. [graphic] / Photographed by Bartlett & French, Phila.
Publisher [Philadelphia: Bartlett & French]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 2 photographic prints: 1 albumen on stereograph mount; 1 albumen 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 and includes pedestrians, a produce wagon and people distributing printed materials on the steps of the custom house.
Is part of Gems of Penn'a scenery. Philadelphia and vicinity. 10
Notes Title, photographer's imprint and series number from accompanying printed label with stereograph.
Stereograph on yellow mount with square corners.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
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 ca. 1867-1869.
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 & French - Government Buildings [(8)1322.F.1e-1 & 21c]
Accession number (8)1322.F.1e-1
(8)1322.F.21c