Details
Creator Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Contributor Windrim, James H. 1840-1919, architect.
Title Masonic Temple. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : By Purviance, publisher of the scenery of the Adirondacks, Watkins Glen, Erie Railway, Onoko Glen, Ithica Gorge, Philadelphia, Fairmount Park, Mauch Chunk, &c
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1873
Date [ca. 1873]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 11 x 18 cm. (4.25 x 7 in.)
Description View looking northeast at the west front and south flank of the temple on North Broad Street built 1868-1873 after the designs of Freemason and Philadelphia architect James H. Windrim to accommodate the local lodge's increasing membership. Includes large slabs of stone and horse-drawn carts and drays in the foreground, presumably for construction of City Hall (not pictured). Also shows the front facade of the building at the northwest corner of North Broad and Filbert Streets.
Is part of Gems of American Scenery.
Notes Title on negative.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Yellow curved mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of F.J. Dallet.
Subject Masonic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 1-33.
Filbert Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1501.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Windrim, James H. (James Hamilton), 1840-1919, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Purviance - Associations [P.9418.4]
Accession number P.9418.4