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Contributor Town, Samuel R., printer.
Title Hotel Aubry, Walnut Street from 33rd to 34th Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] : Jas. T. Stover manager. Geo. A. Kelly, president. Jas. W. Packer, treasurer. Reuben C. Kelly, secretary. Directors: Geo. A. Kelly, Wm. T.B. Roberts, Jno. C. Allen, Jr., Jas. W. Packer, David C. Moore, Frederick Shinn, Wm. S. Kimball, Andrew M. Jones.
Publisher Philadelphia : Samuel R. Town, 614 Chestnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date ca. 1870
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, tinted with one stone ; 40 x 68 cm. (16 x 27 in.)
Description View showing the "dwelling house" hotel built on Walnut Street between 33rd and 34th streets for the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. Guests stand on the porch of the twenty-six house hotel and elegantly dressed men, women and children stroll the grounds in front of the hotel. The house number of each of the twenty-six properties, from 3300-3350, is labeled above the roof line. A Chestnut and Walnut Street streetcar filled with passengers travels east as horse-drawn carriages and coaches travel in both directions on Walnut Street. The hotel, built on inexpensive land considered undesirable for a permanent hotel, was composed of rows of several houses that were to be later sold or leased as individual dwellings. During the Centennial Exhibition, Hotel Aubry accommodated about 50,000 people between April and November of 1876.
Is referenced by Bloomsburg Auctions (Firm). Jay T. Snider Collections, 359
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 364
Subject Hotel Aubry (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Pedestrians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3300-3350.
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW-Hotels [P.2008.34.25]
Accession number P.2008.34.25