View showing the north side of the 800 block of Market Street. Businesses, many covered with signage and adorned with awnings, include Gould & Co. Union Furniture Depot (cor. Ninth and Market); Buchanan & McClure, glass and queensware (837 Market); Truman & Shaw, hardware and tools (835 Market); H. Kampe & Co., furniture (833 Market); William Penn Hotel (831 Market); John C. Hurst, wholesale druggist; Wm. Ackers & Co., queensware and china (823 Market Street); H. Heller, lace (821 Market); Hood, Bonbright & Co., dry goods (811 Market); and A. Kramer & Co., furniture (809 Market). Also shows John B. Ellison & Sons, importers of cloths, cassimeres, and vestings (723-725 Market). Crates line the sidewalks and horse-drawn wagons line the street in the distance. A telegraph pole adorned with two broadsides stands in the foreground., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: Market St east of 9th., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
May 21, 1875
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.8931.1]
Shows the five-story, multi-section front facade of the department store (established in 1868) at the northwest corner of 8th and Market streets. The expanded Strawbridge & Clothier building was completed circa 1897 after the designs of Philadelphia architect Addison Hutton., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inferred from manuscript note on related print. See related print **Architectural Drawings - unid. - Strawbridge [P.2010.35.9], Gift of David Doret.
Date
[ca. 1891]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **architectural drawings - unid. - Strawbridge [P.2010.35.8]
