Details
Creator Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [S.E. corner of South and Second streets] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date May 1860
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen; 22 x 17 cm.(8.75 x 6.75 in.)
Description View looking southeast from the Second Street Market showing several businesses lining the intersection of South and Second streets. Includes John A. Evers, leather store (142 South); C.P. Elfreth's Southern Drug Store(148 South); David Donaldson, photographer (601 S. 2nd); and C. Brown's lace and ribbon store (603 S. 2nd). Includes a market shed in the foreground. Many of the businesses covered in signage, including Donaldson's building, which advertises "ambrotypes, melanotypes, and photographs."
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #231.
Subject Brown, C.
Donaldson, David.
Elfreth, C.P.
Evers, John A.
Drugstores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Leather industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Photographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Ribbon industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 600 block.
South Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 100 block.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Odiorne - S [(7)1322.F.69a]
Accession number (7)1322.F.69a