Details
Creator Rease, W. H., artist.
Contributor Haviland, John, 1792-1852, architect.
Poulson, Charles A. 1789-1866, collector.
Title Public baths. Thos. E. J. Kerrison's arcade-baths. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17 S. 5th St.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1847
Date [August 1847]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 19 x 29 cm. (7.25 x 11.5 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the public bathhouse originally built 1826-1827 as a shop gallery after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Patrons enter one of the four arches to the visible interior of the arcade that contains stairs over a central enclosed space that is flanked by corridors of rooms. The front facade also contains statuary and advertising signs in two niches above gated cellar entrances to "D. Gibb, Franklin House." The signs promote the tenant oyster house. Also shows a boy posting a broadside on the building and a man and woman passerby. Kerrison operated the baths 1845-1849. Building demolished circa 1859-1860.
Is referenced by Wainwright 301
Notes Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. Chestnut between Sixth and Seventh St.
Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 628
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
LCP copy trimmed and lacking caption.
Subject Gibb, D.
Kerrison, Thomas E.J.
Arcade Building (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Public baths -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Oyster industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 615-619.
Genre Lithographs -- 1840-1850.
Advertisements -- 1840-1850.
Associated name Haviland, John, 1792-1852, architect.
Provenance Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| W301 [P.2176]
Accession number P.2176