Details
Creator Magee, John L., artist.
Contributor Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title The Bull's Head, Drovers' Hotel, corner of Vine & 65th sts. 24th ward. West Philada. On the estate of the Butchers & Drovers Association. [graphic] / J. Magee, del.
Publisher Philadelphia: T. Sinclair's lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with three stones; 54 x 70 cm.(21.25 x 27.25 in.)
Description View showing the front facade of the three-story hotel operated by Mr. Nelson Werntz. The hotel, opened in 1855 for the use of drovers who supplied the Pennsylvania market, includes a verandah and cupola. Cupola adorned with a flag decorated with a bull's head. Also shows red and blue drapery lining the windows. The Butcher's And Drover's Association purchased the West Philadelphia estate in 1855 and sold the hotel and property in 1866.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 68
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Bull's Head, Drover's Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Vine Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 6400 block.
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.8970.27]
Accession number P.8970.27