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Girard House Polka Composed & respectfully dedicated to Miss Flora Davis by C.F. Stein member of the Germania Musical Society.
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Creator
Stein, C.F., composer.
Contributor
Sinclair, Thomas, b. ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Lee & Walker, publisher.
William Hall & Son, publisher.
Title
Girard House Polka Composed & respectfully dedicated to Miss Flora Davis by C.F. Stein member of the Germania Musical Society.
Publisher
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 188 Chestnut St., New York : Wm. Hall & Son, 239 Broadway
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1852
Date
c1852
Physical Description
5 p.: ill.; 34 cm.
Is referenced by
Wainwright 157
Notes
Cover illustration is a lithograph, hand-colored, showing the Girard House hotel built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Several pedestrians, including men, women, and children, walk in front of the hotel and neighboring buildings on the block. Men stand on the verandah of the hotel and in the doorway of an adjacent building. Also shows horse-drawn carriages parked in the street. A number of the women carry parasols.
Printer: T. Sinclair's lith., Phila.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 315
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 G 517
Gift of David Doret.
Subject
Girard House (Hotel : Philadelphia)
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Sheet music
Printer
Sinclair, Thomas, b. ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Lee & Walker, publisher.
William Hall & Son, publisher.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books Rare| *Sheet Music Girard 10076.F (Doret)
Accession number
10076.F (Doret)
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Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Philadelphia on Stone: Library Company of Philadelphia
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