Details
Title [Library Company of Philadelphia, southeast corner Fifth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 2 photographic prints: albumen; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Shows the first permanent building of the subscription library, organized by Benjamin Franklin and his Junto in 1731, built 1789-1790 after the designs of Dr. William Thornton. View includes the Benjamin Franklin statue sculpted by Francesco Lazzarini and installed in the niche above the building entrance in 1792.
Notes Half-stereographic prints including one on white paper mount with square corners.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Statues.
Library Company of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
Libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block.
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Lazzarini, Francesco, d. 1808, sculptor.
Associated name Thornton, William, 1759-1828, architect.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Libraries [(6)1322.F.20b; P.2282.41]
Accession number (6)1322.F.20b
P.2282.41