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Post Office, Philadelphia. [graphic] / M. P. Simons, 1320 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, landscape and portrait photographer.
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Creator
Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Title
Post Office, Philadelphia. [graphic] / M. P. Simons, 1320 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, landscape and portrait photographer.
Publisher
Philadelphia: M. P. Simons
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date
[ca. 1868]
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
View showing the U.S. Post Office (1863 to 1884) at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Also shows the adjacent businesses on the south side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include W. F. Warbuton and Son's hat manufactory (430 Chestnut) and Moss & Co., blank books and stationery (432 Chestnut). Moss displays signage advertising revenue stamps. A person displays printed materials on the steps of the customhouse in the left of the image. Also shows a peddler pushing a handcart and a horse-drawn carriage and wagon in the street.
Notes
Purple mount with rounded corners.
Title and photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Moss & Co.
United States Custom House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
W. F. Warbuton and Son.
Customhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Post offices -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hat industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stationery trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Peddlers and peddling -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block -- south side.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Simons - Government Buildings [P.8497.2]
Accession number
P.8497.2
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
Stereograph Collection
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