Details
Creator Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Water Street at Spruce Street, Philadelphia.] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date September 1860
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen; 22 x 16 cm.(8.75 x 6.25 in.)
Description View looking north from below Spruce Street showing several businesses occupying rundown rowhouses on the 200 block of Water Street. Depicts a wine & liquor store, boarding houses with taverns, and an oyster house, including Hughes Hotel and the Saffin House. Also shows a peddler with his basket posed at the street corner and a cart and horse in the background.
Notes Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in early photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), plate #26.
Subject Liquor stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lodging houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Oyster industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Peddlers and peddling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Water Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 200 block.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Odiorne - W [(7)1322.F.37b]
Accession number (7)1322.F.37b