Details
Contributor McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Title Girard House, Phila. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1876
Date [ca. 1876]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View from above Ninth Street looking east showing the hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. (823-835 Chestnut). Signage for businesses operating within the hotel adorn the building. Businesses advertised include: the Broadway Oyster House; Noonan's Bowling, Billiard, and Shuffle Board rooms; and a newspaper subscription agency. Also shows a lamppost at the corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets with advertisements for Oldenbergh's "Prize Medal" shirts; a partial view of the Pennsylvania Railroad city ticket office (901 Chestnut Street); and horse-drawn carriages parked in front of the hotel.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Green mount with rounded corners.
Gift of Jane Carson James.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Girard House (Hotel : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Restaurants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 823-835.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9299.23]
Accession number P.9299.23 (James)