Details
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