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Ladies' and Gentlemens' Restaurant, Green's Hotel, Chestnut and 8th Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
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Title
Ladies' and Gentlemens' Restaurant, Green's Hotel, Chestnut and 8th Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: Published by Post Card Distributing Co
Date
ca. 1910
Physical Description
1 photomechanical print (postcard): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Interior view of restaurant in Green's Hotel.
Notes
Numbered R-70949 on verso.
Thomas H. Green opened a restaurant on the site of the former Edwards residence at 731 Chestnut Street in 1866. The former site of the Edward Shippen house, Philemon Dickenson house and the Union Building (735 Chestnut Street) were incorporated into Green's Hotel in 1883. The property was sold in 1923 and demolished soon after.
Divided back. Text on verso.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Restaurants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 729-735.
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Hotels - [P.9490.11]
Accession number
P.9490.11
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