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Fifth Street above Arch Street, west side. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A59602
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Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
Fifth Street above Arch Street, west side. [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date
August 1860
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen; 21 x 16 cm.(8.25 x 6.25 in.)
Description
View showing the westside of the 100 block of North Fifth Street. Businesses include Garrigues & Magee, manufacturers of photographic and daguerreian chemicals (108 N. 5th) and Tripple's Shoe Store (110 N. 5th). Also shows the shadow figure of a peddler standing on the sidewalk near his basket in front of the shoe store. Magee, a photographer, operated his chemical business circa 1857 to the early 1890s.
Notes
Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative.
Title from manuscript note on recto
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 99.
Subject
Tripple, Anthony.
Garrigues & Magee.
Chemical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Shoe stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Peddlers and peddling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 100 block -- West side.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Odiorne - F [(7)1322.F.53d]
Accession number
(7)1322.F.53d
In Collections
Henry B. Odiorne Photograph Collection
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