Details
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Title Girard House Philadelphia [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: s.n]
Publisher US. 1857
Date [ca. 1857]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the Girard House hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Signage advertising John O. Mead & Sons, silverplaters, adorns the hotel building. In the foreground, construction work on the foundations of the Continental Hotel (built 1857-1860), also after the designs of McArthur, is visible.
Notes Yellow mount with square corners.
Title from manuscript note on mount.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Girard House (Hotel : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Building construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 823-835.
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Hotels [(8)1322.F.29g]
Accession number (8)1322.F.29g