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.
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Notes |
Nonpareil brass mat. |
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Leather case with geometric design. Front cover separated. Losses in leather. |
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Deep blue velvet pad, stamped. |
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Image damaged at upper right along roofline. |
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Similar view reproduced in Robert Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications,
Inc., 1976) page 98.
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Subject |
Grocery stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
Geographic subject |
Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1600 block. |
Genre |
Ambrotypes -- Hand-colored -- 1860-1870. |
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Photograph cases -- 1860-1870. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Cased photos - unidentified [P.9669.17] |
Accession number |
P.9669.17 |