Details
Creator W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer.
Contributor McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector.
Title State House, Philadelphia, from Walnut Street. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856
Date ca. 1856
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description Shows four men and a boy standing at the rear gate of the State House on Walnut Street. Also shows a man seated on the gate steps. State House (520 Chestnut) built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley.
Notes Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim.
Title printed on mount.
Buff paper mount with square corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Biographical / historical note The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Subject Independence Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Geographic subject Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 500 block.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 520.
Genre Stereographs -- 1850-1860.
Albumen prints -- 1850-1860.
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Government Buildings [(3)1322.F.9f]
Accession number (3)1322.F.9f