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[Letitia Penn House, 8 Letitia Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
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Contributor
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title
[Letitia Penn House, 8 Letitia Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1863
Date
ca. 1863
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.75 x 7 in.)
Description
View showing the building known incorrectly as the Letitia Penn House on Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. The misidentified residence, purportedly built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701, was relocated to Fairmount Park in 1883. A torn Civil War broadside adorns the side of the house. View also includes the adjacent William Penn Hotel.
Notes
Trimmed yellow mount with square corners.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Reproduced in Joseph Jackson's America's most historic highway (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1926), p. 32.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Homes and haunts.
Penn, Letitia -- Homes and haunts.
William Penn Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Letitia Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 8.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Provenance
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Residences [(6)1322.F.60c]
Accession number
(6)1322.F.60c
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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