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Horticultural Hall. [graphic].
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Creator
Hurn, J. W. (John White), d. 1887, photographer.
Contributor
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, engineer.
Title
Horticultural Hall. [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia
Publisher
PA. Philadelphia. 1868
Date
[ca. 1868]
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3 x 6.75 in.)
Description
View of the front elevation of Horticultural Hall, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's headquarters on South Broad Street. Broadside posters adorn the front of the building and can be seen along the fence separating the hall from the Academy of Music. Gas lamps flank the entrance stairs and stones are piled in the street in front of the building. Samuel Sloan designed the hall in 1867. A fire destroyed this hall in early 1881, and it was rebuilt in 1882 after designs by Addison Hutton.
Is part of
Hurn's Philadelphia No. 21
Notes
Title and photographer from series list printed on blue paper and pasted on verso with thirty-one other titles (No. 1-31).
Photographer's printed label pasted on verso.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society -- Buildings.
Organizations' facilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 250.
Genre
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, engineer.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Hurn - Theatres and halls [P.9260.57]
Accession number
P.9260.57
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Printed and Graphic Ephemera
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