Details
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 [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 of illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37].
Reproduction of daguerreotype by William G. Mason photographed June 5, 1843.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Duplicate of [(2)2526.F.37]; (7)1322.F.59c; and (6)1322.F.121b.
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.
Image faded.
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 print -- 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.69c]
Accession number (6)1322.F.69c