View looking south on Fourth Street, including Daniel Donnelly's tavern (310 S. 4th). Three men stand near the entranceway of the tavern. Also shows the adjacent business, "Browning's new cheap store," possibly the cigar store of Ellen Browning. Browning tenanted 315 S. 4th Street in 1858., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Title from manuscript note on mount: 4th above Pine., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in early photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 53.
Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date
August 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - F [(7)1322.F.71a
View looking north from below Pine Street showing the 300 block of South Fourth Street. Shows two women with a parasol conversing at the street corner. They stand in front of a residential building adorned with a small placard advertising "Schuylkill & Lehigh coal cheap" (401-407 Pine). Also shows individuals posed at the doorways of their residences, which line the street., Title from manuscript note on recto: 4th & Pine., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 21., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 22., Arcadia caption text: Taken on a hot summer day in August of 1860, this photograph shows a block of row homes on Fourth Street at the corner of Pine shuttered against the steamy Philadelphia heat. Those who could afford to leave fled the city in the summer months, taking up residence in suburban “cottages” and summer resorts in order to escape the oppressive weather and the frequent outbreaks of disease.
Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date
August 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - N [(7)1322.F.55f]
View showing a large residential building partially converted to a grocery store. Building contains large picture windows and an awning above displays of groceries on Fourth Street. Also shows to left of image, the Williams-Hopkinson House built circa 1785-circa 1791 at 338 Spruce Street. Joseph Hopkinson, author of the song "Hail Columbia" resided in the house 1794-1800. In the foreground, a man leans on a lamppost containing a letter box., Title from manuscript note on mount., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 14., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date
August 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - S [(7)1322.F.61a]
