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House, (tree in front,) where the first U.S. flag was made, [graphic] / Photographed by M.P. Simons.
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Creator
Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Title
House, (tree in front,) where the first U.S. flag was made, [graphic] / Photographed by M.P. Simons.
Publisher
Philadelphia: M.P. Simons, 1320 Chestnut St. Landscape and portrait photographer
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1871
Date
May 1871
Physical Description
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
View showing the Betsy Ross House at 239 (formerly 89) Arch Street. House tenanted by tailor Gustavus Franke. View also includes the buildings tenanted by fur dealer Rudolph Reisky (237 Arch) and brass cock manufacturers J. & H. Jones (243 Arch). A horse-drawn carriage stands idle in front of J. & H. Jones's building.
Notes
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Text explicating the historical significance of the house on verso.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Title printed on mount.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's and Susan Oyama's Philadelphia then and now (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 108.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Ross, Betsy, 1752-1836 -- Homes and haunts.
Reisky, Rudolph.
J. & H. Jones.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Shops & stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 239.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Simons - Historic Sites and Bldgs [P.8451.1]
Accession number
P.8451.1
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