Details
Contributor Smith, Robert, 1722-1777, architect.
Title Interior of Carpenter's Hall. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View of the interior of the hall built 1770-1774 by the builders association, Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, after designs by member Robert Smith. Shows a table with chairs in the middle of the room below a chandelier surrounded by chairs and benches lining the wall. Building served as the meeting place for the First Continental Congress in 1774. The Carpenter's Company, organized 1724, was formed to provide instruction in the science of architecture and financial assistance to members and members families in need.
Notes Title from faint manuscript note on verso.
Buff mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Subject Carpenters' Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Guildhalls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Interiors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 320-322.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Smith, Robert, 1722-1777, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Associations [P.9299.28]
Accession number P.9299.28