Details
Creator Hand, Alfred, photographer.
Title Walnut St. Theatre, 9th & Walnut Sts. Built 1808. [graphic].
Date ca. 1920
Physical Description 1 negative: glass; 11 x 8 cm. (4 x 3.25 in.)
Description View showing the Walnut Street Theatre under construction at 827-833 Walnut Street (corner of Ninth and Walnut Streets). The theater, originally built as a circus in 1809, was altered to a theater in 1816, and remodeled from 1827-1828 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Haviland. Other renovations were completed in 1852 by Hoxie & Button, in 1903 by Willis Gaylord Hale and in 1904 by Rush Anderson Plowman. Also shows adjacent buildings and a United Cigar Stores Co. shop in the foreground, the only portion of the theatre building not undergoing construction. The number 13 trolley is depicted on Walnut Street.
Notes Inscribed in negative: 3147.
Title from negative sleeve.
Modern reference print available.
Subject Walnut Street Theatre.
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Theaters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Walnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 827-833.
Genre Glass plate negatives -- 1910-1920.
Associated name Hale, Willis Gaylord, 1848-1907, architect.
Associated name Haviland, John, 1792-1852, architect.
Associated name Hoxie & Button, architect.
Associated name Plowman, Rush Anderson, fl. 1896-1935, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.74]
Accession number P.9259.74