Details
Creator Lightfoot, Frederick S., photographer.
Title Elfreth's Alley, looking west towards Second Street. Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic] / Taken by Fred S. Lightfoot.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1947
Date November 4, 1947
Physical Description 1 photographic print : gelatin silver on stereograph mount ; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View of cobblestone street flanked by small rowhouses looking west toward Second Street. Shows a little girl halfway down the street on the sidewalk near a group of pigeons. Also includes signs for "Coach House Restaurant" and "Olde Alley ... Poor Richard" in the distant background.
Notes Title, photographer and date from manuscript note on verso.
Manuscript note on verso: Bladen's Court extends north at arrow right. Lightfoot's daughter on pavement left by pigeons.
Gray curved mount with rounded corners.
Named after Jeremiah Elfreth, the blacksmith that owned a large number of the properties on Elfreth's Alley between Front and Second Streets. Oldest preserved residential street in Philadelphia consisting of brick Trinity houses built early to mid eighteenth century.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Subject Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Row houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cobblestone streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Restaurants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Elfreth's Alley (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 100 block.
Genre Stereographs -- 1940-1950.
Gelatin silver prints -- 1940-1950.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Lightfoot - Streets [P.9047.36]
Accession number P.9047.36