Details
Creator M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer.
Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Le Brun & Runge, architect.
Title Academy of Music - or operahouse - S.W. cor. Broad & Locust St. [graphic] / James E. McClees.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA Philadelphia. 1857
Date ca. 1857
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper print; 26 x 21 cm. (10.25 x 8 in.)
Description View of front and partial side facades of brick and sandstone Italianate style building. Architects Napoleon LeBrun and Gustav Runge formed a short-lived partnership to win design competition. Building constructed 1855-1857. Served as home of Philadelphia Orchestra from 1900-2000.
Notes Photographer's blind stamp on duplicate.
Title from scrapbook inscription.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of Poulson scrapbook of material relating to Philadelphia.
Subject Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Concert halls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Opera houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 232-246.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Le Brun & Runge, architect.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - McClees [8339.F.32]
Accession number 8339.F.32