Details
Contributor Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881, printer.
Title Eagle Hotel, No. 139 North 3rd. Street Philadelphia. [graphic] : Allmond & Stem. Proprietors.
Publisher Philadelphia: T. Sinclairs lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1855
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with three stones; 40 x 27 cm. (15.88 x 10.75 in.)
Description Advertisement showing the multi-storied hotel at 139, i.e., 227-229 North Third Street. Guests sit, stand, and converse on the second floor balcony protected by an awning printed with the names of the owners. Others stand under the balcony and near the "Private Entrance" to which a lady approaches. Dogs walk near an omnibus parked in front of the hotel. Also shows the adjacent businesses of Worman & Ely, merchants, and Eckel & Robinson, "Brooms, Cedar & Willow Ware" (137 North Third Street). Merchandise, including a hobby horse, brooms, pram, basin, and baskets, lines the sidewalk and is visible in the windows and doorways of Eckel & Robinson. Two men also converse near one of that store's entrances. The hotel's post-consolidation address became 227 North Third Street in 1857.
Is referenced by Wainwright 102
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 196
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Eagle Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Eckel & Robinson.
Worman & Ely.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Home furnishing stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Merchandise displays -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 227.
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 200 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1850-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W102 [P.2040]
Accession number P.2040