Details
Creator Bartlett & French.
Title Press Building, Seventh and Chesnut [sic] Sts. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
Description View of the south side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street looking west toward Eighth Street, with the multi-storied office building of the the Philadelphia Press newspaper established in 1857 by John W. Forney in the foreground. Signs on the Seventh Street side of the building include "J. Restein & Sons plain & fancy paper coloring & card printing establishment," "Engraver on wood," and "Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company." A sign for Wheeler & Wilson's sewing machines at 704 Chestnut is also visible, but signage beyond this shop is illegible. One man stands at the southwest corner in front of the Press building reading a broadside, while another crosses the street at the northeast corner. Gas street lamps are spaced at intervals along the block, with the largest situated in front of the Press Building. Two horse-drawn carriages travel in the street in the distance. Newspaper merged with the Public Ledger in 1920.
Is part of Philadelphia and vicinity. No. 139
Notes Title from photographer's label pasted on verso.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Biographical / historical note Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Subject The Philadelphia Press -- Buildings.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company -- Buildings.
J. Restein & Sons -- Buildings.
Wheeler & Wilson Company -- Buildings.
Commerical streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Newspaper industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Insurance companies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lithographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Engravers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Gas street lamps -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700-702.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 704.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block -- south side.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Business [P.9260.10]
Accession number P.9260.10