Details
Creator McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist.
Title S.W. corner, Broad and So. Penn Square, 1860. [graphic] / Henry B. McIntire.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1939
Date 1939
Physical Description 1 drawing : ink and wash ; mount 46 x 36 cm (18 x 14 in.)
Description View depicting a team of six mules pulling a Pennsylvania Railroad car past the south west corner of Broad Street and South Penn Square, Philadelphia in 1860. The team led by a man travels past a row of three-story residences with shuttered windows and dormers across from the square in which trees grow behind a wrought iron fence. Pedestrians walk in front of the houses.
Notes Title and date from item.
Signed by the artist in the lower right.
Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Biographical / historical note Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Subject Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Mules -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Plazas -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroad cars -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 000 block.
Penn Square (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South.
Genre Ink drawings -- 1930-1940.
Wash drawings -- 1930-1940.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.13]
Accession number P.2019.62.13