Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Hoxie & Button, architect.
Title [Spring Garden Institute, northeast corner Broad and Spring Garden streets, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1853
Date ca. 1853
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen; 15 x 20 cm.(6 x 7.75 in.)
Description Shows the vocational school built 1851-1852 after the designs of Hoxie & Button at 523-525 North Broad Street. Also shows partial views of surrounding buildings. The institute, comprised of a lecture-room, a lending library, a free reading room, classrooms, and a boardroom, educated youth for employment in the practical sciences and technologies.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Manuscript note on mount: Sp. Garden Hall - N.E. Cor Broad and Sp. Garden St.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Biographical / historical note McClees, an early prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Subject Spring Garden Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Trade schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 523-525.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Hoxie & Button, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Spring Garden [(7)1322.F.45b]
Accession number (7)1322.F.45b