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Hotel Pennsylvania postcards. [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A97499
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Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector.
Contributor
Wunder, Clarence Edmond, 1886-1940, architect.
Title
Hotel Pennsylvania postcards. [graphic].
Date
1922-1950
Physical Description
10 photomechanical prints (postcards): photolithograph; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description
Contains images of the Hotel Pennsylvania, built in 1922 after designs by Clarence Edmond Wunder. Depicts exterior views of the hotel looking southwest at the 39th Street front. Also includes interior views of the lobby, lounge, men's club and the gentlemen's smoking room.
Notes
Contains 3 postcards printed in color and 5 printed in black and white. Also includes 2 linen postcards.
Also identified as the Chestnut Hall Apartments, the Penn Sherwood and Hotel Philadelphian.
Sheet numbers: 117A04, 117B01C and 117B01D.
Divided backs.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Apartment houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3900.
Genre
Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1920-1950.
Photomechanical prints -- 1920-1950.
Postcards -- 1920-1950.
Associated name
Wunder, Clarence Edmond, 1886-1940, architect.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Lauber's through Stenton - 117]
Accession number
Brightbill 117
117-b01c-b
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
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