Details
Creator Bartlett & French.
Contributor Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Title U.S. Mint, Chestnut below Broad St., Phila. Pa. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1866
Date [ca. 1866]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View looking northeast from Juniper Street showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. Men sit on the columns supporting the lamp posts in front of the mint building, while others stand near the partially ripped-up cobblestone street. A pile of stones rest on the sidewalk and trees in iron cages line the street in the foreground. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed.
Is part of American Scenery. No. 1038
Notes Yellow mount with square corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Professor Otto Albrecht.
Biographical / historical note Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Subject United States Mint.
Mints -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1331-1337.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Government Buildings [P.8913.7]
Accession number P.8913.7