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[View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware] [graphic].
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Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor
Mason, William G. daguerreotypist.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
[View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware] [graphic].
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date
[photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Physical Description
1 photographic print: salted paper; 20 x 15 cm.(7.5 x 5.75 in.)
Description
Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground.
Notes
Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37].
Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114.
Duplicate of (2)2526.F.37 and (6)1322.F.59c.
Subject
Gibson, John.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Distilling industries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania
Refrigerator industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Oyster industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 100 block -- North side.
Genre
Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Reproductions -- 1850-1860.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.121b]
Accession number
(6)1322.F.121b
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Frederick De Bourg Richards Photograph Collection
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