Details
Creator Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Sloan & Stewart, architect.
Title [Chestnut Street, west from Seventh Street, north side, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date ca. 1870
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen; 9 x 8 cm.(3.25 x 3.125 in.)
Description View showing the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Joseph Monier, bookbinder and printer (Chestnut and Seventh); Washington Hotel (711 Chestnut); and the Masonic Hall (713-721 Chestnut), built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart and razed by fire in 1886. Also includes partial view of Girard Fire Insurance Company (639 Chestnut) and signage for the The One Dollar Store, variety store, on the south side of the block.
Notes Attributed to Robert Newell.
Unmounted half of stereoview.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
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 Monier, Joseph.
Washington Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bookbinders -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Printers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Masonic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block -- North side.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Sloan & Stewart, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Streets [(7)1322.F.59a]
Accession number (7)1322.F.59a