Details
Creator R. Newell & Sons photographer.
Title [Chestnut Street looking east from Thirteenth Street] [graphic] / Photo. by R. Newell & Son.
Publisher Philadelphia: Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros
Date c1876
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 10 x 18 cm.(4 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the south side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Lacey & Phillips, saddlery and harnessmaker (1220 Chestnut); Reeve L. Knight & Son, carpets (1222 Chestnut); T.L. Jacobs & Co., shirt manufacturer (1226 Chestnut); Peck & Co., druggists (1228 Chestnut); Edward Borhek & Son, opticians (1230 Chestnut); and Carrington, DeZouche & Co., window shades and paper hangings (Chestnut and Thirteenth). Lacey & Phillip's building is adorned with signage advertising the business's awards for excellence. A woman stands in front of Carrington, DeZouche & Co. A boy leans on a lamppost and letterbox at the street corner.
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Manuscript note on mount: Thirteenth & Chestnut St.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Publisher's imprint printed on verso.
Pink mount with rounded corners.
Printed on mount: No. 4.
Inscribed on negative: 308.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Subject Carrington, DeZouche & Co.
Edward Borhek & Son.
Lacey & Phillips.
Peck & Co.
Reeve L. Knight & Son.
T.L. Jacobs & Co.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stores & shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Saddlery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Home furnishings stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Opticians' shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1200 block -- north side.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Printer Kiralfy Bros., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.131]
Accession number P.9299.131