Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
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 117-b01c-b