Details
Creator Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist.
Contributor Childs & Lehman, printer.
Title Robert Morris Hotel & Fairmount House [graphic] : Kept by B.W. Brackin. Coates Street Wharf, Schuylkill. Opposite Fairmount Waterworks near Philadelphia / G. Lehman del.; B. W. Brackin art.; Henry Libe carpenter; G. Rockenburg painter; J. Harper esqr. brik maker.
Publisher Philadelphia: Childs & Lehman lithrs
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1833
Date [ca. 1833]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 47 x 35 cm. (18.25 x 13.75 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the four-story hotel opposite the race bridge of the waterworks. Guests stand and walk on the verandahs, roof deck, and observatory tower, and are visible in the entranceways of the hotel. A horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers passes and a horse-drawn dray is parked across from barrels in front of the building. The back of a coach is also visible under an adjacent passageway. The hotel was often used as a meeting place by the boat clubs nearby on the Schuylkill River. Also shows adjacent businesses. Hotel razed circa 1868.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 653
Subject Robert Morris Hotel & Fairmount House.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1830-1840.
Advertisements -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Hotels, Inns and Taverns [6484.F]
Accession number 6484.F