Details
Creator Broadbent & Co., photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title [Construction at Ninth and Sansom streets] [graphic] / Broadbent & Co., 912 & 914 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date September 6, 1862
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 10 x 7 cm (4 x 2.5 in.) (carte de visite format)
Description Depicts four African American men construction workers on the framework of store fronts (i.e., Burd Building) under construction on the former grounds of the Shippen Burd mansion, demolished in 1861. In the background stands the hippodrome-shaped auction house of "Alfred M. Herkness Philadelphia Horse & Carriage Bazaar," in operation from around 1848 until 1913.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from manuscript note on verso.
Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, 1980), p. 180.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Alfred M. Herkness & Co.
African American men.
Auctions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
African American laborers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department | cdv - Non-Portraits - Broadbent & Co. [(8)1322.F.47f]
Accession number (8)1322.F.47f