Details
Contributor Van Ingen & Snyder, printer.
Title Plan of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia. 10th Street above Chestnut. [graphic] / On Stone by Van Ingen & Snyder, Phila.
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1869
Date [ca. 1869]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 48 x 30 cm. (19 x 12 in.)
Description Plan for the library building originally built circa 1859 after the designs of John McArthur as a market house. Shows the ground and second floor plans including dimensions, "Front Elevation on 10th Street," and "Interior elevation of Rear Wall." Floor plans include reading rooms for ladies and gentlemen, library room containing "desks for changing books" and book cases, toilet, ladies parlor, desk for umbrellas, writing and business room, lecture room, gentleman's conversation room, work room, committee room, board room, librarian's and janitor's residences, chess room, and newspaper room. Interior elevation contains a sky light and stained glass window. The library, organized in 1821 for the benefit of merchants and merchant clerks, purchased the building in 1867 and relocated in 1869.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 608
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Mercantile Library of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
Libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Tenth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 000 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Plans -- 1860-1870.
Elevations -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *BW - Libraries - Mercantile [P.8922]
Accession number P.8922