Details
Creator R. Newell & Son.
Contributor Merrick, S. V. 1801-1870, engineer.
Title Market St. looking east from Schuylkill [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: From R. Newell & Son, landscape and general business photographers 626 Arch St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View looking east from the Market Street Bridge showing the 2300 block of Market Street. Depicts a row of buildings, including S.H. Smith's Union Hotel at 2330 Market Street. The first Philadelphia Gas Works, completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer Samuel V. Merrick is visible on the opposite block. Pennsylvania Railroad tracks run adjacent to a train shed and the gas works and a horse-drawn carriage stands in front of the hotel. The first gas works were expanded in 1850. A second facility, the Point Breeze Gas Works, was built 1851-1854 at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues after the designs of engineer John C. Cresson.
Is part of Unidentified series. 385
Notes Title and series number from manuscript note on verso.
Photographer's label pasted on verso.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Subject Pennsylvania Railroad.
Philadelphia Gas Works.
Union Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gas industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Public utility companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2300 block.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Merrick, S. V. (Samuel Vaughan), 1801-1870, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9260.66]
Accession number P.9260.66