View focuses on the entrance way showing four columns. Includes man standing at the base of a column., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet with an oval design in the center, surrounded by leafy scroll work., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. Geometric design with broken scrolls in the center surrounded by swirls. A leafy design is at each corner., See Board Report dated September 17, 1991 which describes the building in more detail. The architect was Thomas U. Walter
Date
ca. 1848
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9336]
Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet. No design., Mat: Octagonal., Case: Leather. Small central circle surrounded by flowers and leaves within a larger circle. Circles surrounded by diamond shaped scroll pattern with additional scrolls at each corner. All within rectangular border. Photographer's blindstamp appears running vertically along the edge of the border nearest the clasps. No design on verso., Quarter of a Millennium #199., Gift of John A. McAllister., 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. 90., Arcadia caption text: This daguerreotype image is the earliest extant photograph of America’s oldest bank building. Constructed between 1795 and 1797 as the First Bank of the United States after designs by Samuel Blodget, Jr., the building still stands at 120 South Third Street. Photographers William and Frederick Langenheim captured this view of a crowd gathered in front of the bank, the temporary headquarters of the militia in the aftermath of anti-Catholic riots, on May 9, 1844, creating the earliest known Philadelphia “news” photograph.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim, photographer
Date
May 9, 1844
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [59541.D]
Exterior view showing storefront at 1601 Market Street. Also depicts adjoining businesses including John S. Hansell, produce dealer at 1605 Market. Image includes two delivery wagons, barrels lining the sidewalk, and street railway tracks. Graham and Hansell are first listed in city directories simultaneously at this location in 1862., Nonpareil brass mat., Leather case with geometric design. Front cover separated. Losses in leather., Deep blue velvet pad, stamped., Image damaged at upper right along roofline., Similar view reproduced in Robert Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976) page 98.
Date
ca. 1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - unidentified [P.9669.17]
Title from manuscript note pasted to lower edge of case., Pad: Dark green velvet., Mat: Lacking mat., Case: Leather. No design., Gift of John Archibald McAllister., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Resealed by CRH [Christine Hindle] 1/79.
Creator
Mason, William G.
Date
ca. 1843
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Mason [59542.D]
