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Green's Hotel postcards. [graphic].
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Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title
Green's Hotel postcards. [graphic].
Date
1910-1925
Physical Description
6 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Contains images of Green's Hotel at the northeast corner of 8th and Chestnut Streets. Depicts an exterior view looking northeast and interior views of the writing and smoking room, dining room, tea room, the lobby and writing room. Also includes an advertisement for the hotel, with an inset of the exterior of the hotel building. Places of interest in Philadelphia printed on verso of advertisement.
Notes
Contains 5 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white.
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.
Sheet numbers: 112A05, 112A06 and 112B05.
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
Advertisements -- 1910-1930.
Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1910-1930.
Photomechanical prints -- 1910-1930.
Postcards -- 1910-1930.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bingham through Green's - 112]
Accession number
Brightbill 112
112-a05-b
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