Details
Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
J. & A. Ferguson, architect.
Title [Library Street, southside, between Goldsmith's Hall and Fourth Street] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date ca. 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: salted paper; 23 x 18 cm.(9 x 7 in.)
Description Photographic reproduction of view looking east on the 400 block of Library Street. Shows the office building of Howell Evans, card and fancy printer, built 1855 after the designs of J. & A. Ferguson (402 Library); Isaiah Bryan's Our House hotel (408 Library); William Jack, carriage repository (410 Library); the public hall, Military Hall, the former arsenal building, built 1810 (412 Library); and William Quinn, manufacturer of velocipedes (418 Library). Lager beer signs adorn the hotel and military hall, carriages line the sidewalk, and an individual stands in the doorway of the former arsenal. Brewer Gustavus Bergner managed Military Hall in the late 1850s.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Reproduction of photograph dated January 1859.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Bryan, Isaiah.
Evans, Howell
Jack, William.
Quinn, William.
Military Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Beer halls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printing industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriage manufacturers and dealers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Library Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block.
Genre Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.
Reproductions -- 1850-1860.
Associated name J. & A. Ferguson, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - Richards - Streets - Library [(6)1322.F.130c]
Accession number (6)1322.F.130c