Details
Creator Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Second Street Market, Second and Pine [graphic] / M.P. Simons, 1320 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, landscape and portrait photographer.
Publisher [Philadelphia: M.P. Simons]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1866
Date [ca. 1866]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 6.75 in.)
Description View showing Second Street, looking south, east side, including a partial view of the "Headhouse" Market, extending from Pine to South Street. The market sheds, erected about 1745 to accommodate the growing number of South Philadelphia residents, were expanded to included a fire engine house with cupola around 1804. The market was razed in 1956 and the market with headhouse was rebuilt between 1959 and 1963. A covered wagon stands between the market and the opposite block of storefronts. The storefronts, including a barber, are adorned with awnings.
Notes Title printed on mount.
Coral mount with rounder corners.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Right edge of mount tinted purple.
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 Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Newmarket (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 400 block.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Simons - Squares [(8)1322.F.9e]
Accession number (8)1322.F.9e