Details
Creator Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Baird's monumental works - Spring Garden Hall in distance. [graphic]
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1864
Date [ca. 1864]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on buff paper stereograph mount ; 9 x18 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.]
Description Exterior view of John Baird's marble yard and mable works on Spring Garden Street above Ridge Road [i.e. Avenue]. Yard contains a variety of ornate gravestones and monuments. The marble works, founded by John Baird in 1841 specialized in monumental art, principally of Italian marble. The firm was the first marble works of the city to use a steam powered mill.
Notes Title stamped on mount.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Baird's Marble Works.
Monument builders -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Marble industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments.
Geographic subject Spring Garden Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1200 block.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereos - Moran - Industries [(8)1322.F.17e-2]
Accession number (8)1322.F.17e-2