Details
Creator Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer.
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
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1866
Date ca. 1866
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the "Headhouse" of the New Market (established 1745) near Pine Street. The fire-engine house (i.e., headhouse), designed with a cupola and alarm bell, was added around 1804 with the extension of the market sheds to South Street. Also includes partial view of the sheds. A man and boy lean and sit on one of two stalls in front of the headhouse. The market was razed in 1956 and rebuilt between 1959 and 1963.
Notes Title printed on mount.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Coral mount with rounded corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
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.
Geographic subject Newmarket (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 400 block.
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 - Simons - Squares [(8)1322.F.9c-2]
Accession number (8)1322.F.9c-2