Details
Contributor Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870, printer.
Title Continental Hotel, corner of Chestnut & Ninth St. Philadelphia. [graphic] : J. B. Kingsley & Co., proprietor.
Publisher Boston: Lith. By John H. Bufford, 313 Washington St
Date [ca. 1860]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 66 x 91 cm.(26 x 35.75 in.)
Description Advertisement showing heavy pedestrian and street activity in front of the large, prominent hotel built 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. at 824-838 Chestnut Street. A group of men gathers at the entrance of the hotel. Several pedestrians walk and peruse shop windows on the block in front of the building. Street traffic includes promenading couples, a woman walking a dog, a delivery boy, a First City Troop officer, carriages, an omnibus, and men on horseback. Also shows adjacent buildings and the brick wall across the street adorned with an arched window below a sign indicating "Chestnut St." (site of the Shippen-Burd residence, demolished circa 1862). Trees stand in front of and behind the wall.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 157
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 C 762
Subject Continental Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Advertisements -- 1860-1870.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania| Print Department | HSP Bc 32 C 762