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Creator Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer.
Title Arch St. Theatre, above 6th St., Phila. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 2 photographic prints : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Shows the theater built 1826-28 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland at 609-615 Arch Street. Also shows two women and a man posed in front of the building; a playbill on display; street lamps; and adjacent businesses, including Christian Bird's Billiard Hall.
Notes Title from manuscript note on mount of (8)1322.F.5d.
Orange and yellow paper mounts with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
One of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Manuscript note on mount of 7992.F.1: Arch St. Theatre, Philadelphia.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Bird, Christian.
Arch Street Theatre (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Billiard parlors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gas street lamps -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Playbills -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 609-615.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Theaters [(8)1322.F.5d-2; 7992.F.1]
Accession number (8)1322.F.5d-2
7992.F.1

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