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The United States Mint, Chestnut Street at Juniper [graphic].
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James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection
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Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Title
The United States Mint, Chestnut Street at Juniper [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date
1855
Physical Description
1 photographic print: salted paper; 22 x 19 cm.(8.75 x 7.5 in.)
Description
View showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. Includes adjacent fenced lot lined with barrels of minted coins and partial view of neighboring building. Also shows a man standing in the entranceway of the building. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed.
Notes
Title and date from transcribed manuscript note.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980), entry #92.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Biographical / historical note
McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Subject
United States Mint.
Mints -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1331-1337.
Genre
Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name
Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Government Buildings [(7)1322.F.xa]
Accession number
(7)1322.F.xa
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James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection
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