Details
Creator W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer.
Contributor Baxter, De Witt Clinton, ca. 1829-1881 engraver.
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Collins & Autenrieth, architect.
Sloan & Stewart, architect.
Title Grand Lodge Room, New Masonic Hall, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860
Date c1860
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Interior of the Masonic Hall built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart at 713-721 Chestnut Street. Shows the west wall of the Grand Lodge Room constructed after the designs of Collins & Autenrieth. Includes statuary, carpeting, a chandelier, the Grand Master 's chair, ornately decorated architectural elements, and a book on a pedestal. Hall razed by fire in 1886.
Notes Title printed on mount.
Photographer's imprint stamped on mount.
Buff mount with square corners.
Accompanied by label containing an engraving of the front facade of the hall by Dewitt C. Baxter, a brief description of the construction of the building, and a list of Grand Officers who participated in the dedication.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry # 101.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Subject Masonic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Interiors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Architectural decorations & ornaments -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 713-721.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Collins & Autenrieth, architect.
Associated name Sloan & Stewart, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Langenheim - Associations [(8)1322.F.37e]
Accession number (8)1322.F.37e