Details
Creator Souder & Nowell, photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title Stockton Hotel, Cape May, N.J. [graphic] / Souder & Nowell, photographers, 1024 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1874
Date 1874
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 10 x 18 cm.(4 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the seaside hotel opened in 1869 on the entire block between Howard and Gurney streets and Columbia Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. The hotel, destroyed in the great fire of 1878, was rebuilt, and destroyed again by fire in 1889. Includes horse-drawn carriages and guests standing near the entrance.
Notes Black mount with rounded corners.
Title from descriptive label pasted on verso.
Contains label on verso describing the hotel, proprietor Charles Duffy, and the West Jersey Railway Co., which provided transportation between Philadelphia and Cape May.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New Jersey.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Souder & Nowell, a partnership between S.T. Souder and F.A. Nowell, was active in Philadelphia in 1874.
Subject Stockton Hotel(Cape May, N.J.)
Hotels -- New Jersey -- Cape May.
Geographic subject Columbia Avenue (Cape May, N.J.) -- between Howard and Gurney streets.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Souder & Nowell - Cities & towns [5742.F.5c]
Accession number 5742.F.5c