Continental Hotel Philada
Bartlett & Smith
photographer
McAllister, John A. (John Allister)
1822-1896
collector
McArthur, John
1823-1890
architect
still image
Graphic
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870
Stereographs -- 1860-1870
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
ca. 1869
1869
monographic
eng
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 8 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the luxury hotel at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets (824-838 Chestnut). Completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur Jr., the hotel contained several businesses in its lower level including "Charles Oakford & Son" hat shop. View also shows adjacent businesses including publishers and booksellers Porter & Coates operating from the former building of J.E. Caldwell & Co. built 1858 after the designs of McArthur. (822 Chestnut); John Wanamaker & Co., luxury clothing store, established 1869 (818 Chestnut); James S. Earle, looking glasses and picture frame manufactory (816 Chestnut), and John W. Scott, shirt manufactory (814 Chestnut). Includes horse-drawn wagons travelling the street and a partial view of the north side of the block.
Title from manuscript note on mount.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Attributed to Bartlett & Smith.
Earle, James S.
Scott, John W.
Continental Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Porter & Coates
John Wanamaker (Firm)
Hotels
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Clothing stores
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Publishers
Picture frame industry
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Carts & wagons
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Commercial streets
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
824-838
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
800 block
South side
(8)1322.F.29h
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department
stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Hotels [(8)1322.F.29h]
Unidentified series
No. 74
gihc
ppl
010323
20230712140809.0
132932
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