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Creator Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist.
Title Northwest corner of Eleventh and Pine Streets. Demolished 1889. Present site of the Gladstone. [graphic] / B.R. Evans.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date 1883, circa 1890
Physical Description 1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 26 x 33 cm (10 x 12.75 in.)
Description View depicting the commercial Philadelphia street corner with the grey wood shack of Michael Traynor, licensed tavern and oyster house, for sale. Storefronts include a stove and heater manufactory; a store selling birds; Schriber, tin and sheet iron worker; a "segar" store; and a lager beer hall. Street trolleys are partially visible to the far right and left. Several pedestrians, predominately African Americans, walk the sidewalks. Individuals board and depart the trolleys. The Gladstone, erected between 1889 to 1890, was the city's first apartment hotel. In the nineteenth century, the neighborhood, known as Washington Square West, contained one of the city's largest populations of African Americans.
Notes Title from item.
Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11.
Purchase 1975.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Shops & stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Street railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Taverns (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Pine Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1100 block.
Washington Square West (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Watercolors -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Dreer, Ferdinand J. (Ferdinand Julius), 1812-1902, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Evans watercolors [P.2298.121]
Accession number P.2298.121