Details
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Market Street, looking east from below Twelfth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1869
Date ca. 1869
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen mounted on cardboard; 9 x 9 cm.(3.25 x 3.5 in.)
Description View showing the 1100 block of Market Street, including the Farmers' Market and several storefronts. The Farmer's Market was the largest of several market houses constructed in 1859 after market sheds and stalls were removed from Market Street. Street scene includes a variety of parked horse-drawn carts and wagons, strolling pedestrians, and horse-drawn omnibuses traveling the street.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Half of mounted stereoview.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Misidentified on mount: 19th and Market Sts.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
See clipping in Poulson's 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.
Shops & storefronts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1100 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| stereo - unidentified - Streets [(8)1322.F.51c]
Accession number (8)1322.F.51c