Details
Creator Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist.
Contributor Dreer, Ferdinand J. 1812-1902, collector.
Title East side of Thirteenth above Callowhill. Occupied in 1844 by Colored Orphan Asylum. [graphic] / B.R. Evans.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1881
Date 1881
Physical Description 1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 26 x 33 cm (10 x 12.75 in.)
Description View depicting the commercial Philadelphia street with the four-story building of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company Office. Building formerly housed "Brotherly Love Hall," the African American orphanage founded by the Society of Friends in 1822. Businesses lining the street include Sullivan & Sweeney, rag and feed store; J. Hunsinker, merchant; J. Neil & Sons, coal dealers; Barber & Son, Edward and Frank, painters; and Haines & Scarlet. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalk.
Notes Title from item.
Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer.
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11.
Purchase 1975.
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 Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co. -- Buildings.
Colored Orphan Asylum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Thirteenth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 400 block.
Genre Watercolors -- 1880-1890.
Provenance Dreer, Ferdinand J. (Ferdinand Julius), 1812-1902, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Evans watercolors [P.2298.93]
Accession number P.2298.93