Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Joseph Waterman's Western Exchange Hotel, 15th & Market streets. [graphic] / Photograph by McClees 626 Chestnut St. Philada.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date April 19, 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen mounted on paper; 15 x 20 cm.(6 x 7.75 in.)
Description Exterior view of the hotel patronized by farmers and used as the western terminus of several omnibus lines. Also shows, in the foreground, vendors and a horse-drawn wagon parked in front of the market sheds above Fifteenth Street. The market sheds were removed April 1859 following the completion of the Western Market House at Sixteenth and Market streets. Hotel removed circa 1860.
Notes Title and date from transcribed scrapbook inscription.
Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
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. 112.
Arcadia caption text: In 1830, a western branch of sheds on Market Street was built between Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets. Known as the Western Market, the stalls stood near the Western Hotel, a resting spot for many of the farmers who rented at the market. The hotel also served as a western terminus for several omnibus lines. The market sheds were removed soon after this 1859 photograph was taken and replaced by the Western Market House at Sixteenth and Market streets. A year later, the hotel met the same fate as the sheds.
Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in early photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 94.
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 Western Exchange Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1500 block -- North side.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees - Hotels, Inns, and Taverns [(9)1322.F.49b]
Accession number (9)1322.F.49b