Details
Title Hotel Aubry [sic], West Philadelphia, Pa. [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 showing the "dwelling house" hotel built on Walnut Street between 33rd and 34th streets for the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. The hotel, built on inexpensive land considered undesirable for a permanent hotel, was composed of rows of several houses that were to be later sold or leased as individual dwellings. Guests stand on the porch of the twenty-six house hotel. Horse-drawn carriages travel in the street.
Notes Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Title from manuscript note on mount.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Aubrey Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3300 block.
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9047.51]
Accession number P.9047.51