Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [J. Struthers & Son marble yard, including a crane, 22nd and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia.] [graphic]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1854
Date August 1858
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen; 36 x 25 cm.(14.25 x 10 in.)
Description Shows the crane in the stone yard of the firm founded in 1816, which provided the marble for nearly all the prominent public buildings of the city. Marble blocks cover the yard. Also shows a dray in the foreground and surrounding buildings in the background.
Notes Title and date from manuscript note on verso: Chestnut & 22nd St.; Aug. 1858.
Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 58.
Arcadia caption text: In 1816 John Struthers established one of Philadelphia’s first marble yards. When this photograph was taken in the summer of 1858, John’s son William ran the marble yard located at Chestnut and Twenty-second streets. By the late 1850s Philadelphia supported about 60 marble cutting establishments. Marble from the Struthers’ business was used to construct many significant Philadelphia buildings including City Hall, the Public Ledger building, the Continental Hotel, and the Second Bank of the United States.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #135.
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 John Struthers & Son.
Marble industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2100 block.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *photo - McClees [8339.F.20]
Accession number 8339.F.20