Details
Creator R. Newell & Son, photographer.
Contributor Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Title Interior of Horticultural Hall, Phila. [graphic] / Photographed by R. Newell & Son, 626 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date ca. 1875
Physical Description 1 photographic print: stereograph on albumen mount; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Interior view of an exhibition or flower show in Horticultural Hall, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's headquarters on South Broad Street. Potted plants and flowers surround marble fountains and statues on tables erected around the room. In the center of the room stands a large shrub sculpted in a towering monument-like form. Samuel Sloan designed the hall in 1867.
Notes Photographer's label mounted on verso.
Title from manuscript note on verso.
Numbered 422 on verso.
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 85.
Arcadia caption text: Organized in 1827, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society began with 53 members, who according to their constitution hoped “to inspire a taste for one of the most rational and pleasing amusements of man.” In 1829 the Society held its first exhibition, beginning the tradition that continues today as the Philadelphia Flower Show. This c. 1875 view shows one of the Society’s exhibitions held in Horticultural Hall, the Society’s first permanent home erected in 1867 next to the Academy of Music on the west side of Broad Street below Locust Street.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Pennsylvania Horticultural Society -- Buildings.
Organizations' facilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 250.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Theaters and halls [P.9099.4]
Accession number P.9099.4