Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Hart's Building, north side of Chestnut east from Sixth St. [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1861
Date 1861
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper; 20 x 15 cm.(7.75 x 6 in.)
Description View looking east from Sixth Street showing Hart's Building, a store and office building owned by prominent Jewish publisher and philanthropist, Abraham Hart, erected 1848 at 537-539 Chestnut. Signage advertising E.B. Mear, stereotype foundry, and Gilbert & Gihon, engravers on wood, adorns the building. Also shows adjacent businesses including T.& J.W. Johnson, law book publisher (535 Chestnut); Eagle Hotel (530 Chestnut); J.W. Moore, importer and bookseller (531 Chestnut); and William J. Kern, French warehouse, and China Hall (529 Chestnut).
Notes Reproduction of a daguerreotype originally photographed June 1851 by F.De B. Richards.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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Subject Kern, William J.
Mear, E.B.
Moore, J.W.
Eagle Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Gilbert & Gihon.
Hart's Building (Philadelphia, Pa.)
T. & J.W. Johnson.
Bookstores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Home furnishings stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Publishing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Wood-engravers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 537-539.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1860-1870.
Reproductions -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Businesses - H [(6)1322.F.83b]
Accession number (6)1322.F.83b