Details
Creator Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Little Dock and Spruce streets, at Second Street] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date March 1860
Physical Description 2 photographic prints: 1 albumen; 1 salted paper; 22 x 17 cm.(8.75 x 6.75 in.) or smaller.
Description View showing the businesses at 303 South Second Street at the intersection of Second and Little Dock (i.e., Mattis) streets. Shows the ramshackle building tenanted by J.T. Wells, clothier; Jacob Reed, clothing rooms; and J. & R. Hattuck, locksmiths and bell hangers. Includes two gentlemen in top hats conversing on the Little Dock Street side of the building; a freight car and sign post for a hotel in the right background; and surrounding businesses.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative of (7)1322.F.39.
Inscribed in negative of (7)1322.F.39: 23.
Manuscript note on recto of (7)1322.F.55e: S.e. cor 2nd & Spruce.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Image (7)1322.F.39 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 #64.
Subject Reed, Jacob.
Wells, J.T.
J. & R. Hattuck.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Locksmiths -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad freight cars -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 303.
Mattis Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Odiorne - L [(7)1322.F.39d & 55e]
Accession number (7)1322.F.39d
(7)1322.F.55e