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Title Colonnade Hotel, SW corner 15th & Chestnut, Phila., 1896, showing monument on the ground of Epiphany Ch[urch] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1896
Date [1896]
Physical Description 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Description View of the prominent hotel erected in 1868 at 1500-1506 Chestnut Street. White men and women pedestrians stroll the sidewalk, and an African American man passes by on his horse-drawn cart. Businesses line Chestnut Street, including: George E. Dearborn, piano dealer; a paper hangings store; and a custom shirt proprietor. The hotel, named after the previously existing "Colonnade Row" of early nineteenth-century pillared, porched townhouses, was demolished in 1925 for the erection of the Franklin Trust Company building. Also includes the fenced obelisk monument to James Henry Fowles, former rector of the church previously located at the northwest corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, the Church of the Epiphany.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Purchase 1984.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
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 Colonnade Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carts & wagons -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Monuments & memorials -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stores & shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1500-1506.
Genre Gelatin silver prints -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| photo - unidentified - hotels [P.9005.19]
Accession number P.9005.19