Details
Creator Newell, Robert, 1822-1897 photographer.
Title [Butchers & farmers market, Market Street, Philadelphia, Penna.] [graphic]
Publisher [Philadelphia: Published by R. Newell, 724 Arch Street]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1869
Date [ca. 1869]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View from the southwest of two market houses located on Market Street between 11th and 12th Streets: the Farmers' Market, the largest of several market houses constructed in 1859 after market sheds and stalls were cleared from Market Street, and the adjoining Franklin Market (also known as the Twelfth Street Market) constructed ca. 1864. Street scene includes a variety of wagons and carriages.
Notes Title from publishers label on duplicate (8)1332.F.17b.
Manuscript note on verso: Market House, Philadelphia, Pa.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
See clipping in Poulson scrapbook vol. 1, pg. 57.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Farmers' markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1100 block -- north side.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - markets [7992.F.17]
Accession number 7992.F.17