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Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Title [Jayne Building, 242-244 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Date [ca. 1859]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper; 23 x 17 cm.(9 x 6.75 in.)
Description View looking southwest showing the building built 1849-1850 for David Jayne, chemist and manufacturer of patent medicines, after the designs of William Johnston and Thomas Ustick Walter. Building includes the six story wings built 1851 after the designs of Walter (238-40 and 246 Chestnut Street). Signage advertising "Importer of German Woolens" adorns the building. Also shows adjacent businesses including Goodyear's rubber warehouse (226 Chestnut) and the newspaper publishing office, the Public Ledger Building (300 Chestnut).
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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Subject Goodyear, Charles, 1800-1860,
Jayne Building (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Public Ledger Building (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Nonprescription drug industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Chemical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Newspaper publishing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Rubber industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 242-244.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 200 block -- South side.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 300.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Johnston, William L., 1811-1849, architect.
Associated name Walter, Thomas Ustick, 1804-1887, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo- Richards - Businesses - J [(6)1322.F.75b]
Accession number (6)1322.F.75b