Details
Title [Walter Graham, wholesale & retail grocer, northwest corner of Market and Sixteenth Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic]
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date ca. 1862
Physical Description 1 photograph: ambrotype, hand-colored; quarter plate, overall 12 x 9.5 cm. (4.75 x 3.75 in.)
Description Exterior view showing storefront at 1601 Market Street. Also depicts adjoining businesses including John S. Hansell, produce dealer at 1605 Market. Image includes two delivery wagons, barrels lining the sidewalk, and street railway tracks. Graham and Hansell are first listed in city directories simultaneously at this location in 1862.
Notes Nonpareil brass mat.
Leather case with geometric design. Front cover separated. Losses in leather.
Deep blue velvet pad, stamped.
Image damaged at upper right along roofline.
Similar view reproduced in Robert Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976) page 98.
Subject Grocery stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1600 block.
Genre Ambrotypes -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870.
Photograph cases -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos - unidentified [P.9669.17]
Accession number P.9669.17