Details
Contributor Provenance: Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Printer Childs & Inman, publisher.
Title Indian Queen Hotel. [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia:] From Childs & Inman's Press]
Date [[1831]
Extent 1 print: lithograph; 32 x 29 cm. (12.5 x 11.5 in.)
Description Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story hotel at 15 South Fourth Street operated, as indicated by a placard above the door, by Horatio Wade. Wade remained proprietor from 1831 until 1833. Elegantly dressed guests enter the building, converse on the sidewalk, and rest and read inside near the first floor windows. On the sidewalk, well-dressed pedestrians stroll and an African American hotel porter pushes a wheelbarrow of luggage. The Indian Queen Hotel established in 1771, the building altered several times until razed in 1851, was until the mid 19th century incorrectly identified as the site of Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Notes Manuscript note on verso: No. 15 So. Fourth Street.
Print trimmed and lacking caption.
Poulson inscription on recto: 1831, no. 15 So. Fourth Street.
Genre Lithographs 1830-1840.
Advertisements 1830-1840.
Subject Indian Queen Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Hotel porters--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
African American men--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Spatial coverage Fourth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)--South--15.
Is part of Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by Wainwright 184.
Has format TMP.objres.4481.jpg
Related resource http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W184.htm
Call number Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W184 [P.2051]
Accession number P.2051