Details
Creator Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer.
Title [Peace Jubilee, Triumphal Arch and Court of Honor, looking north from Walnut Street.] [graphic].
Date October 1898
Physical Description 1 slide: lantern; 8 x 11 cm.(3 x 4 in.)
Description Depicts the Triumphal Arch (i.e. Athenean Arch) and temporary columns of the Court of Honor along South Broad Street, showing pedestrians and horse drawn carts, looking north from Walnut Street. The south facade of City Hall is decorated with patriotic bunting. The Triumphal Arch and Court of Honor were erected after designs by Joseph M. Huston for the Peace Jubilee, a celebration of the end of the Spanish American War in 1898. Included a military parade that passed through the Court of Honor, along with other festivities that lasted several days in October. Includes the Lafayette Hotel, erected in 1853 as the LaPierre House, expanded and renamed in 1876, and razed circa 1900 (southwest corner Broad and Sansom); Land Title Building, built 1897-1898 after the designs of Daniel H. Burnham & Co. (100-118 S. Broad) and the Real Estate Title & Trust Company Building, built 1897-1898 after designs by Edgar Viguers Seeler (101-113 S. Broad).
Notes Title supplied by cataloguer.
Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Subject City Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Peace.
City & town halls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Memorial arches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Office buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block.
Genre Lantern slides -- 1890-1900.
Associated name Huston, Joseph M., 1866-1940, architect.
Associated name Seeler, Edgar Viguers, 1867-1929, architect.
Associated name Daniel H. Burnham & Company, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.240]
Accession number P.9453.240