Details
Contributor Furness, Evans & Co., architect.
Title Before Girard Bank on Broad & Chestnut [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1900
Date [ca. 1900]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 12 x 10 cm (4.5 x 3.75 in.)
Description View looking north from the east side of Broad and Chestnut Streets showing part of the 000 block of Broad Street and City Hall. Shows in the left, the West End Trust & Safety Deposit Co. skyscraper building built 1898 after the designs of Furness, Evans & Co. at 1404 South Penn Square. Adjacent buildings on Broad Street include one adorned with "For Rent. B. F. Teller & Bro. 606 Chestnut St." signage. View also includes street and pedestrian traffic. In the left foreground, an African American man, attired in a bowler hat and jacket, walks with a bundle under his right arm. In the background, men and women, some as couples walk on the sidewalk near a utility pole and a horse-drawn carriage parked in the street. City Hall is visible in the far background.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Date inferred from attire of pedestrian traffic documented in image.
Description reviewed 2022.
Access points reviewed 2022.
Subject City Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
West End Trust & Safety Deposit Co.
Union League of Philadelphia.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Office buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- south -- 000 block.
South Penn Square (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1400.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1890-1900.
Associated name Furness, Evans & Co., architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Robert Swayne Collection [P.2017.88.61]
Accession number P.2017.88.61