Details
Creator R. Newell & Son.
Title Marble Terrace, West Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Stereoscopic views published by R. Newell & Son, photographers
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1872
Date [ca. 1872]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 17.5 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View looking east from Thirty-third Street and Woodland Avenue at "marble row" (i.e., marble terrace), a block of marble-fronted row houses with mansard roofs on the south side of Chestnut Street between Thirty-second and Thirty-third Streets. Also shows three men standing in the entrance of the storefront in the westernmost house on the block (3264 Chestnut Street). Built ca. 1870.
Is part of Public Buildings and Street Views No. 231
Notes Title from publisher's series list printed with 106 other numbered titles in the series (No. 139-245).
Manuscript note on mount: Marble Terrace - West Phila.
Photographer's imprint from series list pasted on verso.
Mint green 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.
Biographical / historical note Robert Newell's son Henry entered the business in 1872 and the name changed to "R. Newell & Son".
Subject Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Row houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stores & shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3200 block.
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3264.
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Newell - Residences [P.9299.25]
Accession number P.9299.25