Details
Title Franklin Institute, Seventh Street between Chestnut and Market, Philadelphia [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 24 x 14 cm.(9.25 x 5.25 in.)
Description Book illustration, possibly from a business directory, showing the science and technology institute building built 1825-27 after the designs of John Haviland. A man stands on the steps leading to the entrance. The building served as the Franklin Institute from 1827 to 1933.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Contains advertisements for Philadelphia businesses Leibrandt & McDowell Stove Co. (123 N. 2nd), and Orr, Painter & Co. distributor of Reading Stove Works (64 & 66 N. 2nd) on verso. Orr advertisement includes a vignette depicting a stove.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 83
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 43 An 791
Subject Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Mechanics' institutes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Book illustrations -- 1870-1880.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Ba 43 An 791