View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware [graphic] / Photographed from a daguerreotype by Mason - 1845 [sic] - by Richards. | Library Company of Philadelphia Digital Collections

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Creator	Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor	Mason, William G. daguerreotypist.
	Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title	View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware [graphic] / Photographed from a daguerreotype by Mason - 1845 [sic] - by Richards.
Publisher	PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date	[photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Physical Description	1 photographic print : salted paper mounted on paper; 22 x 21 cm.(8.75 x 8 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	Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason.
	Title and name of photographers from manuscript note by collector on mount.
	Mount inscribed with directions: N. E. S. W.
	Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume II, page 37.
	Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
	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 (6)1322.F.121b and (7)1322.F.59c.
Subject	Gibson, John.
	Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Distilling industries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
	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	Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location	Library Company of Philadelphia\| Print Department\| photo - Richards - Streets [(2)2526.F.37]
Accession number	(2)2526.F.37

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View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware [graphic] / Photographed from a daguerreotype by Mason - 1845 [sic] - by Richards.

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