Details
Creator De Young's Palace Dollar Store (Firm)
Contributor Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, engineer.
Title Horticultural Hall, Phila. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia : Published by De Young's Palace Dollar Store, 704 Chestnut St., established 1830
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1876
Date [ca. 1876]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View looking west at the front elevation of Horticultural Hall, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's headquarters on South Broad Street. Gas lamps flank the entrance stairs and broadside posters adorn the front of the building and can be seen along the fence separating the hall from the Academy of Music. Includes a partial view of Lardner Street (i.e. Back Place). 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 American Scenery of all Parts of the Continent.
Notes Title from manuscript note on verso.
Publisher's imprint printed on mount.
Stamped twice on verso: J.B. Sample.
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 David Doret.
Subject Pennsylvania Horticultural Society -- Buildings.
Organizations' facilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 250.
Bach Place (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1400 block.
Genre Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, engineer.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - De Young's - Theatres and halls [P.2010.6.3]
Accession number P.2010.6.3