Details
Creator Bartlett, George O., photographer.
Contributor Ketcham, John, builder.
Title Post office, Chestnut St., below Fifth. (Instantaneous). [graphic] / GOB.
Publisher Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date [ca. 1868]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the post office and courthouse completed in 1863 under the supervision of builder John Ketcham at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Includes a partial view of the Custom House at 420 Chestnut Street constructed in 1818 after designs by William Strickland. Heavy pedestrian traffic, including women carrying parasols, and horse-drawn carriages and coaches travelling along Chestnut Street are also visible.
Is part of Pennsylvania Scenery. Philadelphia No. 173
Notes Title from photographer's label on verso. Also lists forty-one other titles in the series (No. 140-180).
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Post offices -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Customhouses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 426-428.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 420.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Ketcham, John, builder.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett - Government Buildings [P.2002.21.3]
Accession number P.2002.21.3