Details
Contributor Hale, Willis Gaylord, 1848-1907, architect.
Title Chestnut St., E. from 8th, Phila., Pa. [graphic].
Publisher United States
Publisher US. 1890
Date ca. 1890
Physical Description 1 photographic print: gelatin silver on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include The Quaker City National Bank, built in 1888 after the designs of Willis Gaylord Hale (715-719 Chestnut) and the Washington Hotel (709-711 Chestnut). Street and pedestrian traffic include several men wearing bowler hats; horse-drawn carts and wagons; and an omnibus traveling the "Chestnut and Walnut Sts." route. Gas lamps line the street.
Notes Title from label on negative.
Buff mount with rounded corners.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Quaker City National Bank.
Washington Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Banks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block -- North side.
Genre Stereographs -- 1880-1890.
Gelatin silver prints -- 1880-1890.
Associated name Hale, Willis Gaylord, 1848-1907, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9047.141]
Accession number P.9047.141