Details
Title [William Penn Hotel, 10 Letitia Street, Philadelphia, Pa.] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher US. 1875
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.75 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the William Penn Hotel on Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. A group of working-class men stands near a fire hydrant in front of the hotel. View also includes the adjacent building incorrectly identified by 19th-century historians as the Letitia Penn House, which was wrongly recorded as built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701. Signage decorated with a beer keg adorns the misidentified Penn house.
Is part of Excelsior series. American views. Philadelphia, Penn'a
Notes Orange mount with rounded corners.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Penn, William, 1644-1718 -- Homes and haunts.
Penn, Letitia -- Homes and haunts.
William Penn Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Taverns (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Letitia Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 10.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9047.26]
Accession number P.9047.26