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Creator Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927
Title Along Lower Chestnut Street - 1845
Date ca. 1922
Description Cobblestone street lined with stores and residences. Horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians populate the street.
Notes A sixty-year-old daguerreotype was the basis of this drawing portraying the quaint jumble of buildings facing southward upon Chestnut street eastward from Second street. Note how the determined, yes, indignant little houses of an earlier era are being elbowed by heartless warehouses. Note, also, the then typical wooden awning posts and the quaint street lamp of the time. When Mason, with his camera, saved this bit of old Philadelphia for us he did a good day's work.
Taylor Catalog Number: 404
Is part of Frank H. Taylor Collection
Identifier Taylor - Case 2-1 [2717.F]