Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title Bellevue Stratford postcards. [graphic].
Date 1900-1960
Physical Description 63 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Contains images of the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, built 1902-1904 by G.W. & W.D. Hewitt. Includes exterior views of the hotel looking southwest. Also depicts interior views of the hotel including the Clover Club Banquet Hall, Vienese Room, Ladies' Restaurant, main office, lobby, grand ballroom and the Oak Hall and South Garden sections of the roof garden. Also includes an image of William Penn holding a model of the Bellevue Stratford in his hand.
Notes Contains 37 postcards printed in color and 26 printed in black and white.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Bellevue-Stratford Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Ballrooms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Banquet halls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dining rooms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lobbies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Roof gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 200-216.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1930.
Photomechanical prints -- 1910-1960.
Postcards -- 1900-1960.
Associated name G.W. & W.D. Hewitt, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bellevue Stratford - 110]
Accession number 110-a01-a
110-a04-b
110-a04-c
110-a10-a