View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Horse-drawn carriages are parked in front of the building., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9047.43]
View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the Girard House hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Horse-drawn carriages are parked in front of the hotel. Also shows partial view of the Continental Hotel, also built after the designs of McArthur from 1857-1860, on the south side of the street. A street lamp with an advertisement for the Chestnut Street Theater stands in front of the Continental., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Negative annotated with title., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9733]
View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the Girard House hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Horse-drawn carriages are parked in front of the hotel. Also shows partial view of the Continental Hotel, also built after the designs of McArthur from 1857-1860, on the south side of the street. A street lamp with an advertisement for the Chestnut Street Theater stands in front of the Continental., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Negative annotated with title., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9013.6]
View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Horse-drawn carriages are parked in front of the hotel. Also shows partial view of the Continental Hotel, also built after the designs of McArthur from 1857-1860, on the south side of the street. A street lamp with an advertisement for Chestnut Street Theater stands in front of the Continental., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Negative annotated with title., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
L.D. & Co.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9047.16]
View showing the Girard House hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Signage advertising John O. Mead & Sons, silverplaters, adorns the hotel building. In the foreground, construction work on the foundations of the Continental Hotel (built 1857-1860), also after the designs of McArthur, is visible., Yellow mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1857]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [(8)1322.F.29g]
View from above Ninth Street looking east showing the hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. (823-835 Chestnut). Signage for businesses operating within the hotel adorn the building. Businesses advertised include: the Broadway Oyster House; Noonan's Bowling, Billiard, and Shuffle Board rooms; and a newspaper subscription agency. Also shows a lamppost at the corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets with advertisements for Oldenbergh's "Prize Medal" shirts; a partial view of the Pennsylvania Railroad city ticket office (901 Chestnut Street); and horse-drawn carriages parked in front of the hotel., Title from manuscript note on verso., Green mount with rounded corners., Gift of Jane Carson James., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9299.23]
