Details
Creator Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.) photographer.
Title State House, Philadelphia [graphic] / M.P. Simons, 1320 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Landscape and portrait photographer.
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 showing the front and rear of Independence Hall built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. Includes the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. adorned with lettering reading "Mayors Office" (500 Chestnut); a partial view of Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut); and the entrance to the Prothonotary Office and Supreme Court Eastern District. Also shows a horse-drawn carriage, the Public Ledger Building (600-606 Chestnut), and a street lamp with shades containing text advertising the Mercantile Library.
Notes Photographer's imprint and title printed on mounts.
Orange mounts with rounded corners.
One of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Subject City Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Congress Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Public Ledger Building (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gas street lamps -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 520.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block -- South side.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Evans, David, Jr., fl. 1794-1806, architect.
Associated name Hamilton, Andrew, ca. 1676-1741, architect.
Associated name Woolley, Edmund, ca. 1695-1771, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Simons - Government buildings [(3)1322.F.8d; P.8497.1]
Accession number (3)1322.F.8d
P.8497.1