Details
Creator Pilliner, E, artist.
Title Western Exchange Hotel, Market Street, west of Penn Square, Philadelphia. [graphic] : Joseph Waterman, proprietor. The proprietor of this hotel, respectfully announces to the public, that he has refitted his hotel and is now prepared to receive his friends and patrons in a manner which he flatters himself they will find that attention to their comforts which will give entire satisfaction. -- This hotel embraces many advantages to the travelling public being contiguous to the great Central and Pennsylvania Rail Road Depot, and in immediate vicinity of the depots of the Baltimore, Wilmington, Pottsville and Reading Rail Roads. The Westchester cars leave the hotel morning and afternoon. -- Terms, one dollar per day. / On stone by E. Pilliner, No 46 1/2 Walnut St. Phila.
Publisher Philadelphia
Date [ca. 1857]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 38 x 39 cm. (15 x 15.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing Joseph Waterman's stately six-story hotel building and adjacent properties on the north side of the 1500 block of Market Street. Gentlemen mingle on the second-story, arcaded balcony overlooking the street. A large cupola and weathervane surmount the penthouse. Horse-drawn carriages and carts labeled "Exchange Wagon," "Waterman's Hotel," and "Western Exchange," congest the street and transport patrons to and from nearby railroad depots. The hotel was patronized by farmers and used as the western terminus of several omnibus lines. Hotel removed circa 1860.
Is referenced by Wainwright 448
Notes Artist probably Frederick J. Pilliner who worked as a lithographer first in Boston in 1853-54 and in Philadelphia between 1856 and 1860.
Philadelphia on Stone
Atwater Kent Museum: 56.25.7
Biographical / historical note Pilliner worked from the address of the Lithographic Institute, which included lithographers Maurice H. Traubel, Theodore Leonhardt, Edward Schnabel, John F. Finkeldey, and William Demme in 1856 and 1857.
Subject Waterman, Joseph.
Western Exchange Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Balconies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cupolas -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1500 block -- North side.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Atwater Kent Museum| Print Department AKM| AKM 56.25.7