Details
Creator Baxter, De Witt Clinton, ca. 1829-1881 engraver.
Contributor Rawlings & Zeising, printer.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, compiler.
Title [Chestnut Street Theatre]. North East corner of Sixth and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn and engraved on wood, by D.C. Baxter, (successor to Wm. B. Gihon,)
Publisher [Philadelphia]: Rawlings & Zeising, prs
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; 27 x 19 cm.(10.75 x 7.25 in.)
Description View of the second building of the theater, built 1820-1822 after the designs of William Strickland, Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and read playbills on display. Also shows partial views of neighboring buildings, including Hart’s Building owned by prominent Jewish publisher and philanthropist, Abraham Hart, erected 1848 (537-539 Chestnut). A gas light with a shade illustrated with a dancer adorns the Melodeon (611-613 Chestnut) and signage advertising D. C. Baxter, engraver on wood, is partially visible on Hart’s Building. Theater razed 1856.
Notes Forms part of Poulson scrapbooks, Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume 4.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Baxter, De Witt Clinton, ca. 1829-1881.
Hart's Building (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Melodeon (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gaslight fixtures -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Wood-engravers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 603-609.
Genre Wood Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 4 [(4)2526.F.73a]
Accession number (4)2526.F.73a