Details
Contributor Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Title Custom House and Post Office, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher Boston
Publisher MA. Boston. 1875
Date ca. 1875
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description Promotional stereograph showing the U.S. Customhouse (1845 to 1935) at 420 Chestnut Street, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, and the U.S. Post Office (1863-1884) at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Customhouse building built in 1824 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland. In the foreground, street work is visible near three horse-drawn carts and wagons.
Is part of Peoples' series. American views
Notes Orange mount with rounded corners.
Title printed on mount.
Contains advertisements for six Boston businesses, including a piano showroom, perfumery, ladies hat bleachery, children's carriage manufacturer, a tea company, and William E. Chester, patent medicine dealer, printed on verso.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject United States Custom House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Customhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Post offices -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Business enterprises -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 400 block.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Advertisements -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Government Buildings [8353.F.26]
Accession number 8353.F.26