Details
Creator Bartlett & French, photographer.
Title [Chestnut Street, above Fourth, south side] [graphic]
Publisher [Philadelphia: Bartlett & French]
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View of Chestnut Street, between 4th and 5th Streets, south side, looking west. Primarily depicts the Philadelphia Bank building (400-408 Chestnut, designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland, built 1836) which served as an office building and displays signage for Aetna Life Insurance Company; Commonwealth Bank; Edward Borheck, optician; and Alfred J. Reach's cigar store. Includes a partial view of the U.S. custom house (formerly the Second Bank of the U.S., also designed by Strickland, built 1818-24) and the U.S. Post Office building (1863-1884). Right hand corner of the image contains a large sign advertising card and job printing probably for the firm of Glessner & Co.; and a sign advertising a patent medicine, Wright's tar syrup. Also contains two horse-drawn carriages and a street vendor's stall.
Is part of Gems of Penn'a scenery. Philadelphia and vicinity. 7
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Yellow mount with sqaure 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 Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Office buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Customs houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Banks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Post offices -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block -- South side.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [(8)1322.F.21f]
Accession number (8)1322.F.21f