View looking northeast at the first permanent red-brick building of the subscription library, organized by Benjamin Franklin and his Junto in 1731, built 1789-1790 after the designs of Dr. William Thornton. View includes the Benjamin Franklin statue sculpted by Francesco Lazzarini and installed in the niche above the building entrance in 1792. Also shows a man digging up the street near a pile of stones and dirt, a partial view of a horse traveling north on Fifth Street, and men standing near the building on the corner. The library sold the building 1880 and it was demolished in 1887., Title printed on mount below image., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging 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 - Libraries [P.9058.170]
Shows the first permanent building of the subscription library, organized by Benjamin Franklin and his Junto in 1731, built 1789-1790 after the designs of Dr. William Thornton. View includes the Benjamin Franklin statue sculpted by Francesco Lazzarini and installed in the niche above the building entrance in 1792., Half-stereographic prints including one on white paper mount with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Libraries [(6)1322.F.20b; P.2282.41]
Views showing the library built 1844-45 after the designs of William Johnston at 125 South Fifth Street. Demolished circa 1925. Image includes the Library Company of Philadelphia, a partial view of Philadelphia Dispensary, four horse-drawn carriages, and the block of Fifth Street between Market and Chestnut streets in the background., Yellow mounts, including two with rounded and one with square corners., Title from labels on versos of P.9260.9 and P.9573.14., One of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer
Date
ca. 1868
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Libraries [(8)1322.F.5f; P.9260.9; P.9573.14]
