Creator |
R. Newell & Son, photographer. |
Title |
[Fifth and Market streets looking west.] [graphic] / Photo. by R. Newell & Son. |
Publisher |
Philadelphia: Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros |
Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1876 |
Date |
ca. 1871, 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 500 block of Market Street. Businesses include: A. Hirsch & Brothers, umbrellas and parasols
(500 Market); Charles Hirsch & Brothers , clothiers, and Samuel Vendig, shirt manufacturer (502 Market); F. Paxson & Co.,
fancy and white goods (504 Market); C.D. McClees & Co., auctioneers (506 Market); Jacob Goldsmith, Jr., clothing (508 Market);
Capitol Clothing House (510 Market); Graff Watkins & Co., boots and shoes (512 Market); Bennett's Tower Hall, clothier (518
Market); and Wanamaker and Brown's Oak Hall, clothiers (534 Market). Businesses are heavily adorned with signage. Also includes
horse-drawn wagons lining the street, crates lining the sidewalk, individuals standing in front of the shops, and a telegraph
pole on the corner.
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Notes |
Title supplied by cataloguer. |
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Manuscript note on verso: 5th & Market looking west. |
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Photographer's imprint printed on mount. |
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Publisher's imprint printed on verso. |
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Inscribed on negative: 218. |
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Pink mount with rounded corners. |
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Printed on mount: No. 4. |
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Reproduced in Joseph Jackson's America's most historic highway Market Street, Philadelphia, New ed. (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker,
1926), p. 153.
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Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. |
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Gift of Jane Carson James. |
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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.
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Subject |
Bennet, Joseph M. |
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Goldsmith, Jacob, Jr. |
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A. Hirsch & Brothers. |
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Capitol Clothing House. |
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C.D. McClees & Co. |
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Charles Hirsch & Brothers. |
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F. Paxson & Co. |
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Graff Watkins & Co. |
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Wanamaker & Brown. |
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Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Stores & shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Umbrella industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Dry goods stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Auctioneers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Shoemakers. |
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Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
Geographic subject |
Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block -- South side. |
Genre |
Stereographs -- 1870-1880. |
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Albumen prints -- 1870-1880. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.130] |
Accession number |
P.9299.130 |