Details
Creator McClees & Germon.
Title [Spring Garden Hall, N.W. corner Thirteenth & Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia.] [graphic] / McClees & Germon, patent crystalotype, 160 Chestnut St. Philada.
Date ca. 1855
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 39 x 35 cm.(15.75 x 14 in.)
Description Exterior view of the hall containing the district's police station and Mayor's office completed in 1848 after the designs of William L. Johnston at Spring Garden and North Thirteenth streets. Shows the Greek-Revival style building, the largest of the commissioners' halls buildings, adorned with a steeple built by Jacob Berger and containing a clock made by T. Tyson. Prior to the city's consolidation with bordering townships in 1854, neighborhoods maintained and housed their own police stations, mayors, and other government officials in commissioners' halls, including Spring Garden. Razed circa 1892.
Notes Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount.
Manuscript note on recto: 12th and Spring Garden; 13th & Sp. Garden.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Biographical / historical note McClees & Germon, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon, was active between 1854-1855.
Subject Commissioners' Hall (Spring Garden, Philadelphia, Pa.)
City & town halls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Police stations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Spring Garden Street (Philadephia, Pa.) -- 1300 block.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Berger, Jacob, builder.
Associated name Johnston, William L., 1811-1849, architect.
Associated name Tyson, T.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *photo - McClees [8339.F.18]
Accession number 8339.F.18