Details
Creator Hemple, Alfred H., fl. 1860-1879, photographer.
Contributor Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Title Horticultural Hall. [graphic] / Hemple's photographic rooms, Harrison Tryon, manager, N.E. corner 15th and Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 11 x 18 cm. (4.25 x 7 in.)
Description Oblique view of the front and south elevations of Horticultural Hall, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's headquarters on South Broad Street. A group of men and women are gathered near the entrance of the hall. Broadside posters adorn the corners 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 Unidentified series 114
Notes Title on negative.
Photographer's imprint printed on mount.
Buff 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.
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 250.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Hemple - Theaters and halls [P.9260.56]
Accession number P.9260.56