Details
Creator Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Sloan & Stewart.
Title Chestnut Street from Eighth to Seventh north side. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date ca. 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 8 x 17 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View showing the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Washington House hotel (711 Chestnut), the Masonic Hall (713-721 Chestnut), built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart and razed by fire in 1886, and Horstmann and Bros.'s military goods and trimmings store (723 Chestnut Street, 1858 to 1861). Street traffic includes: a horse-drawn cart, a horse-drawn carriage, and a horse-drawn omnibus.
Notes Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne.
Pale yellow mount with square corners.
Title from manuscript note on verso.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publication, Inc. in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), plate 228.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject William H. Horstmann & Sons.
Washington House (Hotel : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Masonic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Trimmings stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block -- North side.
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Sloan & Stewart.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.25f]
Accession number (8)1322.F.25f