Details
Creator Hand, Alfred, photographer.
Title Old Market, Second & Pine Sts. [graphic].
Date ca. 1920
Physical Description 1 negative: glass; 11 x 8 cm. (4 x 3.25 in.)
Description Distant view of the north front of the fire-engine house (i.e., headhouse) at 2nd and Pine Streets, designed in 1745, with a cupola and alarm bell added in 1819. Two blocks of market sheds extend along 2nd Street from the rear of the headhouse to South Street. Storefronts along South Second Street are visible in the foreground, including a business operated by B & M Cohen at number 342. Includes pedestrians walking along the sidewalks in the front of the shops.
Notes Title from negative sleeve.
Subject Markets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stores & shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Newmarket (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 300 block.
Genre Glass plate negatives -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.12]
Accession number P.9259.12