View showing the William Penn Hotel on Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. A group of working-class men stands near a fire hydrant in front of the hotel. View also includes the adjacent building incorrectly identified by 19th-century historians as the Letitia Penn House, which was wrongly recorded as built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701. Signage decorated with a beer keg adorns the misidentified Penn house., 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.9047.26]
