Details
Creator Bartlett & French, photographer.
Contributor Johnston, William L., 1811-1849, architect.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Mercantile Library. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date ca. 1868
Physical Description 3 photographic prints: albumen on stereograph mounts; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Views showing the library built 1844-45 after the designs of William Johnston at 125 South Fifth Street. Demolished circa 1925. Image includes the Library Company of Philadelphia, a partial view of Philadelphia Dispensary, four horse-drawn carriages, and the block of Fifth Street between Market and Chestnut streets in the background.
Is part of Philadelphia and vicinity. No. 135
Notes Yellow mounts, including two with rounded and one with square corners.
Title from labels on versos of P.9260.9 and P.9573.14.
One of images 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 Mercantile Library of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
Library Company of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
Philadelphia Dispensary -- Buildings.
Libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 125.
Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block.
Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 000 block.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Johnston, William L., 1811-1849, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Libraries [(8)1322.F.5f; P.9260.9; P.9573.14]
Accession number (8)1322.F.5f
P.9260.9
P.9573.14