| Creator |
Cremer, James, 1821-1893. |
| Contributor |
Furness, Frank, 1839-1912, associated name. |
|
Fraser, Furness & Hewitt, architect. |
| Title |
[Third Street, east side, north of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia: James Cremer, publisher of stereoscopic views, 18 South Eighth St] |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1875 |
| Date |
[ca. 1875] |
| Physical Description |
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.) |
| Description |
View showing the east side of Third Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Depicts the speculative office building built
by Borie Brothers after the designs of Fraser, Furness & Hewitt at the northeast corner of Third and Chestnut. The building
adorned wtih signage for the tenanting businesses of Franklin Telegraph Office, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and a
banker's office, also housed the office of Frank Furness on the top story from 1871 to 1875. Also shows a flags, awnings,
and stencil cuttings store adorned with an awning illustrated with a female figure and a partial view of the building at the
northwest corner of Third and Chestnut tenanted by bankers, B.K. Jamison & Co., and L. Pelouze & Son's Philadelphia Type Foundry.
|
| Is part of |
Excelsior series. American views. Philadelphia, Penn'a |
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloguer. |
|
Orange mount with rounded corners. |
|
Manuscript note on verso: 3 St. north of Chestnut. |
|
Gift of Robert M. Vogel. |
|
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
| Subject |
B.K. Jamison & Co. |
|
L. Pelouze & Son. |
|
Franklin Telegraph Office. |
|
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. |
|
Philadelphia Type Foundry, |
|
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Telegraph offices -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Insurance companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Bankers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Foundries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Awnings industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 000 block -- East side. |
| Genre |
Stereographs -- 1870-1880. |
|
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880. |
| Associated name |
Fraser, Furness & Hewitt, architect. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9047.19] |
| Accession number |
P.9047.19 |
