| Creator |
Bartlett & French, photographer. |
| Contributor |
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector. |
|
Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect. |
| Title |
[Chestnut Street, above Fourth, south side] [graphic] |
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia: Bartlett & French] |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1868 |
| 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 |
