Details
Creator Bartlett & French.
Contributor Strickland, William, 1787-1854, architect.
Title U.S. Mint, Chestnut, below Broad St. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date [photographed ca. 1866, printed ca. 1868]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8.5 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. A pile of stones rest on the sidewalk and trees in iron cages line the street in the foreground. The awning for the adjacent Gumpert Bros. cigar shop (1341 Chestnut Street) is partially visible. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed.
Is part of Philadelphia & vicinity. No. 170
Notes Title from photographer's label pasted on verso.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Similar image taken on the same day printed on yellow mount with square corners and included as No. 1038 in the series entitled "American Scenery" (P.8913.7).
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 1867-1869.
Subject United States Mint.
Gumpert Bros.
Mints -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cigar industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1331-1337.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1341.
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.9107.6]
Accession number P.9107.6