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Creator Brown, Mannevillette Elihu Dearing, 1810-1896.
Title The City Hotel, No. 41 North Third St. near Market St. Philadelphia. [graphic] : Is one of the most extensive establishments in the city, having in addition to its numerous double and single bedded chambers, for gentlemen. Parlors, with chambers attached, fitted up expressly for families. This house is in the centre of business and convenient to the post office, banks, and other public institutions of the city. R. W. Dunlap. Proprietor.
Publisher Philadelphia: M. E. D. Brown delr. his lith no. 5 Library St
Date [ca. 1832]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph; 48 x 28 cm.(19 x 11 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the very busy four-and-a-half story hotel opened in 1807 on Third Street below Arch Street. Includes partial views of adjacent buildings. Several male guests lounge on the porch as a gentleman enters the hotel. Also shows pedestrians and a valet hauling luggage with a hand cart. Contains a N.B. about "charges moderate" for a "ladies' dining room, for the accommodation of families, that do not wish a private parlor." The hotel closed soon before the Civil War.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 133
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 32 B 813
Subject City Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Advertisements -- 1830-1840.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 32 B 813