Details
Contributor Franklin, M.I., distributor.
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Title New market house, 10th Street, Philada. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1859
Date ca. 1859
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Interior view showing the Franklin Market, named in honor of Benjamin Franklin, under construction at Tenth and Marble, i.e. Ludlow streets (between Market and Chestnut streets). Completed after the designs of John McArthur, the building served as a market until sold to the Mercantile Library in 1867. The market relocated to a newly constructed building adjacent to the Farmer's Market at Twelfth and Market streets. Shows five men looking over the building's framework including a nearly completed ceiling and dirt sub-floor. Scaffolding covers the inside walls and stands in the center of the construction site.
Notes Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Title printed on mount.
Distributor's label pasted on verso: M.I. Franklin, optician, 112 S. Fourth St., Philad'a.
See clipping in Poulson's scrapbook vol 1, p.19-20.
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 113.
Arcadia caption text: This 1859 construction view shows the Franklin Market, designed by Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr., on [South Tenth Street between Market and Chestnut streets]. Built by the Centre Market Company to house several of the displaced farmers and butchers, who previously occupied sheds on Market Street, the market house, named in honor of Benjamin Franklin, accommodated nearly 300 stalls under its fireproof roof. Around 1864, as a result of poor business, the market relocated to a different facility at Twelfth and Market streets adjacent to the successful Butchers’ and Farmers’ Market.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Franklin Market (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Tenth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 000 block.
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Printer Franklin, M.I., distributor.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Markets [P.8931.4]
Accession number P.8931.4