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[Robert Morris Hotel & Fairmount House, Coates Street wharf on the Schuylkill opposite Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia] [graphic]
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Creator
M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer.
Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
[Robert Morris Hotel & Fairmount House, Coates Street wharf on the Schuylkill opposite Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia] [graphic]
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date
ca. 1858
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen; 23 x 24 cm.(9 x 9.5 in.)
Description
Shows the hotel opposite the race bridge of the waterworks. The hotel, adorned with lettering advertising ice cream, was often used as a meeting place by the boat clubs nearby on the Schuylkill River. Also shows adjacent businesses. Hotel razed circa 1868.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
*McClees 1858-16.
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
Robert Morris Hotel & Fairmount House.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Waterworks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Millraces -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Coates Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *photo - McClees [(6)1322.F.164]
Accession number
(6)1322.F.164
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James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection
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