Details
Contributor Magee, John L., printer.
Title Bennett's Tower Hall, clothing bazaar, no. 518 Market Street, bet[ween] 5th & 6th, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: J.L. Magee lith 217 Walnut St
Date [1858]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with two stones and mounted on blue paper; 29 x 18 cm. (11.5 x 6.75 in.)
Description Advertisement with a street scene showing "Bennett's Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar." Signage and a flag adorn the tower-shaped storefront in front of which two men converse and ladies approach. Also shows heavy street activity. Two horse-drawn omnibuses travel near an unusually-designed "Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar 518 Market St." wagon and a drayman stopping his dray of goods in front of the store. The "West Philadelphia" omnibus is filled with passengers and a lady departs from the rear of the "Hestonville Market Street Camden Ferry" vehicle. Also shows adjacent buildings. Established at this address in 1849, named Tower Hall in 1853, renumbered as 518 Market Street in 1856 (formerly 182 Market Street).
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1858.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 37
Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Subject Joseph M. Bennett & Co.
Clothing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 518.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Provenance: Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Business [P.2017]
Accession number P.2017