Details
Creator Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Little Dock and Spruce streets, northwest corner, Philadelphia.] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date ca. 1860
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen; 21 x 16 cm.(8.25 x 6.25 in.)
Description View looking west on Spruce Street from below Little Dock Street (i.e., Mattis Street). Shows a ramshackle building tenanted by B. Naylor's Hotel, including an oyster saloon at 127 Spruce (i.e., n.w. corner Spruce and Little Dock). Also shows an adjacent sign painting shop and a boy near the entranceway to the saloon.
Notes Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Manuscript note on recto: Dock St. -- Westside - opposite Tobacco store.
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: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 40.
Subject Naylor, Benjamin
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Oyster industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Paint shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Spruce Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 127.
Mattis 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 - L [(7)1322.F.37c]
Accession number (7)1322.F.37c