Details
Creator Chase, William M., 1818 or 1819-1901.
Title [Rear of State House, 520 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / By Wm. Chase.
Publisher [Baltimore]: W.M. Chase]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 18 x 9 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View showing the rear of the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. Includes pedestrian traffic in Independence Square.
Is part of American views. Metropolitan and Suburban views, Philadelphia
Notes Title from manuscript note on mount.
Photographer's imprint stamped on mount.
Yellow mount with square corners.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Chase, a Baltimore photographer, operated as a stereograph photographer and publisher between circa 1872 to 1890.
Subject Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 520.
Independence Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Hamilton, Andrew, ca. 1676-1741, architect.
Associated name Woolley, Edmund, ca. 1695-1771, architect.
Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereos - Chase - Government Buildings [(8)1322.F.9c-1]
Accession number (8)1322.F.9c-1