Girard House Hotel, northeast corner of Chestnut & 9th St. [graphic] : As viewed from the southwest across the foundation walls of the new hotel on the s.e. corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street / Photograph by Richards.

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Creator	Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor	McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
	Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
	McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Title	Girard House Hotel, northeast corner of Chestnut & 9th St. [graphic] : As viewed from the southwest across the foundation walls of the new hotel on the s.e. corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street / Photograph by Richards.
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1858
Date	March 1858
Physical Description	2 photographic prints: salted paper; 1 mounted on paper; 14 x 18 cm.(5.5 x 7 in.) or smaller.
Description	View looking northeast from the construction site of the Continental Hotel showing the Girard House hotel, built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Signage advertising John O. Mead & Sons, silverplaters, adorns the hotel building. Also shows an advertisement promoting "Bathing Robes at Sloans" visible on a building adjacent to the construction and a man standing on a section of the foundation. The Continental Hotel was built 1857-1860 after the designs of McArthur.
Notes	Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on (3)2526.F.115.
	One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. (
	One of the images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 115. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.
	Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
	Select link below for a digital image.
	(6)1322.F.65b reproduction of (3)2526.F.115
	(3)2526.F.115 reaccessioned as 8339.F.4.
Subject	Girard House (Hotel : Philadelphia, Pa.)
	Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject	Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 823-835.
Genre	Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
	Reproductions -- 1850-1860.
Associated name	McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Provenance	McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
	Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location	Library Company of Philadelphia\| Print Department\| photo - Richards - Hotels - G [(6)1322.F.65b; (3)2526.F.115]
Accession number	(6)1322.F.65b
	(3)2526.F.114

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