Details
Creator Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.) photographer.
Title Chestnut Street - east from Continental Hotel. [graphic] / M.P. Simons, 1320 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. Landscape and portrait photographer.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1874
Date ca. 1874
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Rooftop view looking east from the Continental Hotel at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets. Shows the 800-700 blocks of Chestnut Street, predominately storefronts on the north side, including Sharpless Brothers, wholesale wools & dry goods (801-803 Chestnut); a billiard saloon (N.E. cor. Eighth & Chestnut); the Masonic Temple (built 1855, 713-721 Chestnut); Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713 Chestnut); and signage attached to a dry goods business advertising a "Grand Closing Sale."
Notes Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Title printed on mount.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Marxsen & Witte.
Sharpless Brothers.
Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Billiard parlors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Masonic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tableware industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 800 block.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Cityscape photographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Simons - Streets [P.8497.3]
Accession number P.8497.3