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[Bird’s eye view looking west on Chestnut from above Sixth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
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Title
[Bird’s eye view looking west on Chestnut from above Sixth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher
[Philadelphia]
Date
[ca. 1850]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 6 x 6 cm. (2.25 x 2.25 in.)
Description
View predominately shows the businesses (with pre-consolidation addresses) on the 600 block of Chestnut Street. Includes a three-quarter view of William S. Mariten, publisher & bookseller (144, i.e., 608) in addition to full views of the American Sunday School Union tenanted by Howell, Finn & Co. Paper Hangings (146, i.e., 610); the Jones Hotel (148-152, i.e., 616-620); and the William Waln residence, partially obscured by trees, at the corner of 7th and Chestnut streets. A man stands in the doorway of the wallpaper store as nearby a man reads the posted, encased bulletins of the American Sunday School Union. A woman enters the ASSU building that also bears a “Penna. Bible Society” sign. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and a man greets a woman in front of one of the entrances of the hotel at which carriages and a wagon are parked. On the block and at the distant intersection a man rides horseback and a horse-drawn carriage, wagon, and omnibus travel. Also shows blocks of buildings above Seventh Street as part of the vista. William S. Martien printed as an individual in Philadelphia between 1835 and 1854. American Sunday School Union tenanted 146 Chestnut Street 1827-1853. Jones Hotel was originally built circa 1800 by Jacob Vogdes as the residence of Benjamin Say.
Notes
Not in Wainwright.
Title supplied by cataloguer.
Manuscript note on recto: SS Chestnut 6-7 . 144. 146.
pdcp00008
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 46
Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 6th-7th
Subject
Waln, William, 1775-1875 -- Homes and haunts.
American Sunday-School Union -- Buildings.
Howell, Finn & Co.
Jone Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Publishers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Wallpaper industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Bird's eye views -- 1840-1850.
Proofs -- 1840-1850.
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia.| Print and Picture Collection. FLP| FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 6th-7th
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