Details
Title Carpenter's Hall. [graphic]
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1872
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View of the front facade of the Hall looking south down Congress Place. Building on left of alley is being demolished. The Hall, built between 1770 and 1774 by the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia after designs by member Robert Smith, served as the meeting place for the First Continental Congress in 1774.
Is part of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. 92
Notes Title printed on mount.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views relating to Philadelphia.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Carpenters' Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Demolition -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Guildhalls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 320-322.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Smith, Robert, 1722-1777, architect.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister) 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Associations [(8)1322.F.7h]
Accession number (8)1322.F.7h