
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>Girard House Hotel, northeast corner of Chestnut &amp; 9th St. [graphic] : As viewed from the southwest across the foundation walls of the new hotel on the s.e. corner of Chestnut and Ninth Street / Photograph by Richards.</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer.</dc:creator>
  <dc:subject>Girard House (Hotel : Philadelphia, Pa.)</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>View looking northeast from the construction site of the Continental Hotel showing the Girard House hotel, built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Signage advertising John O. Mead &amp; Sons, silverplaters, adorns the hotel building. Also shows an advertisement promoting &quot;Bathing Robes at Sloans&quot; visible on a building adjacent to the construction and a man standing on a section of the foundation. The Continental Hotel was built 1857-1860 after the designs of McArthur.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Title, date, and photographer&apos;s imprint from Poulson inscription on (3)2526.F.115.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. (</dc:description>
  <dc:description>One of the images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled &quot;Illustrations of Philadelphia&quot; volume 3, page 115. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>Select link below for a digital image.</dc:description>
  <dc:description>(6)1322.F.65b reproduction of (3)2526.F.115</dc:description>
  <dc:description>(3)2526.F.115 reaccessioned as 8339.F.4.</dc:description>
  <dc:publisher>PA. Philadelphia. 1858</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Provenance: Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:date>March 1858</dc:date>
  <dc:type>Salted paper prints -- 1850-1860.</dc:type>
  <dc:type>Reproductions -- 1850-1860.</dc:type>
  <dc:format>2 photographic prints: salted paper; 1 mounted on paper; 14 x 18 cm.(5.5 x 7 in.) or smaller.</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>Islandora:63139</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. photo - Richards - Hotels - G [(6)1322.F.65b; (3)2526.F.115]</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>(6)1322.F.65b</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>(3)2526.F.114</dc:identifier>
  <dc:coverage>Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 823-835.</dc:coverage>
</oai_dc:dc>