Details
Title [Swaim's building, s.e. corner of Chestnut and Seventh street] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 10 x 23 cm. (4.25 x 9 in.)
Description View looking southeast from a terrace showing the Swaim's Building tenanted by Barnum's Museum at 628-632 Chestnut Street. Flags and posters adorn the building. Several pedestrians traverse and a horse-drawn wagon are parked in front of the museum. Also shows a partial view of 700 Chestnut Street and neighboring buildings on the 600 block of the street. Patent medicine purveyor William Swaim acquired the Waln House in 1826. Barnum opened his Philadelphia Museum in 1849.
Notes Title from duplicate on mount with Poulson inscription.
Black paper frame pasted on print.
Contains watercolor sketches of windows on verso.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 730/731
Subject Barnum's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Swaim's Building (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Galleries & museums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 628-632.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Museums - Barnum [P.8970.2]
Accession number P.8970.2