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Contributor Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Childs & Inman, publisher.
Title Indian Queen Hotel [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia] : From Childs & Inman's press
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1831
Date [1831]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 32 x 29 cm (12.5 x 11.5 in.)
Description Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story hotel at 15 South Fourth Street operated, as indicated by a placard above the door, by Horatio Wade. Wade remained proprietor from 1831 until 1833. Elegantly dressed white guests enter the building, converse on the sidewalk, and rest and read inside near the first floor windows. On the sidewalk, well-dressed white men and women pedestrians stroll. An African American hotel porter, attired in a black top hat, a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, pants, and shoes, pushes a wheelbarrow of luggage. The Indian Queen Hotel established in 1771, the building altered several times until razed in 1851, was until the mid 19th century incorrectly identified as the site of Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Is referenced by Wainwright, 184
Notes Title from item.
Manuscript note on verso: No. 15 So. Fourth Street.
Print trimmed and lacking caption.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 381
Poulson inscription on recto: 1831, no. 15 So. Fourth Street.
Accessioned 1982.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Subject Indian Queen Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotel porters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Reading -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fourth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 15.
Genre Advertisements -- 1830-1840.
Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Printer Childs & Inman, publisher.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W184 [P.2051]
Accession number P.2051