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Creator Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927
Title A Vista of Old Front Street
Date ca. 1922
Description Depicts the busy intersection near 11th and Chestnut surrounded by residences and tall commercial buildings. The street is filled with pedestrians, as well as an early automobile and a horse-drawn carriage.
Notes This sketch, from a contemporary photograph, depicts a central section of old Front Street in the period when a once popular residential district had been invaded by business and those then living were crowded into the upper floors. Behind many of these dingy fronts yet remain the cluttered apartments - once ornate parlors and banquet halls wherein vanished generations of the socially elect held carnival, youth made love and portly merchants talked of growling trade and fruitful ventures in far lands. Front Street, in these modern days is crowded with the clutter of such a business as those old timers never visioned.
Taylor Catalog Number: 149
Is part of Frank H. Taylor Collection
Identifier Taylor - Case 1-18 [2717.F]