Press Building, Seventh and Chesnut [sic] Sts
Bartlett & French
still image
Graphic
Stereographs -- 1860-1870
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870
pau
Philadelphia
PA. Philadelphia
[ca. 1868]
1868
monographic
eng
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 8 x 17 cm. (3.25 x 6.75 in.)
View of the south side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street looking west toward Eighth Street, with the multi-storied office building of the the Philadelphia Press newspaper established in 1857 by John W. Forney in the foreground. Signs on the Seventh Street side of the building include "J. Restein & Sons plain & fancy paper coloring & card printing establishment," "Engraver on wood," and "Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company." A sign for Wheeler & Wilson's sewing machines at 704 Chestnut is also visible, but signage beyond this shop is illegible. One man stands at the southwest corner in front of the Press building reading a broadside, while another crosses the street at the northeast corner. Gas street lamps are spaced at intervals along the block, with the largest situated in front of the Press Building. Two horse-drawn carriages travel in the street in the distance. Newspaper merged with the Public Ledger in 1920.
Title from photographer's label pasted on verso.
Yellow mount with rounded corners.
Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
The Philadelphia Press
Buildings
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Buildings
J. Restein & Sons
Buildings
Wheeler & Wilson Company
Buildings
Commerical streets
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Newspaper industry
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Insurance companies
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Lithographers
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Engravers
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Gas street lamps
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
700-702
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
704
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
700 block
south side
P.9260.10
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stereo - Bartlett & French - Business [P.9260.10]
Philadelphia and vicinity. No. 139
Philadelphia and vicinity
No. 139
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