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- Title
- Second & Chestnut Streets
- Description
- View photographed circa 1870 looking east from Second Street, north side, showing the 100 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the first building of the Corn Exchange National Bank (1858 -1951) at 127-135 Chestnut Street; Sprague, Colburn & Co., dry goods at 127 Chestnut Street; and A. Campbell & Co., woolen manufacturers, at 125 Chestnut Street. Also includes James H. Billington & Co., manufacturers' supplies, in the distance at 113 Chestnut Street (northeast corner of Letitia Street). Men and boys stand near the bank, including a boy leaning on a lamppost near a horse-drawn carriage in the street. Sprague, Colburn, & Co,. dry goods, tenated 127 Chestnut Street in 1870., Title from manuscript note on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Inscribed on negative: 206., Printed on mount: No. 7., Pink mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record, original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son
- Date
- c1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.132]
- Title
- [Northeast corner of Chestnut and Second streets]
- Description
- View looking east on Chestnut Street showing the north side of the block including Caspar Souder, bootmaker (43 Chestnut Street), and a leather store., Title supplied by cataloguer., Probably a reproduction of an 1843 daguerreotype by William G. Mason. See P.2282.16., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Chestnut [(3)1322.F.73d]
- Title
- [Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, south side, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View showing the south side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street, including a gentlemen's clothing store, an oyster house, several wool and cotton dealers, and Robert Patterson & Co.,commercial merchants. Men stand in front of the storefronts and horse-drawn drays, crates, and barrels line the street and sidewalks., Attributed to Robert Newell., Unmounted half of stereoview., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(6)1322.F.69e]
- Title
- [View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware]
- Description
- Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37]., Reproduction of daguerreotype by William G. Mason photographed June 5, 1843., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate of [(2)2526.F.37]; (7)1322.F.59c; and (6)1322.F.121b., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Image faded.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- [June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.69c]
- Title
- [View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware]
- Description
- Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37]., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Duplicate of (2)2526.F.37 and (6)1322.F.59c.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.121b]
- Title
- View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware
- Description
- Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Title and name of photographers from manuscript note by collector on mount., Mount inscribed with directions: N. E. S. W., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume II, page 37., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Duplicate of (6)1322.F.121b and (7)1322.F.59c.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets [(2)2526.F.37]
- Title
- Philadelphia, from the State House steeple, north, east and south
- Description
- Panoramic view looking east toward the Delaware River predominantly showing the area east of Fifth Street between Arch and South Streets from Independence Hall. Includes the Court House, i.e. City Hall (500 Chestnut Street); Philadelphia Library, i.e., Library Company of Philadelphia (105 S. Fifth Street); a flag flying on top of the U.S. Bank, i.e., Second Bank of the U.S. (420 Chestnut Street); the spires of Christ Church (22-34 N. Second Street) and St. Peter's Church (300-340 Pine Street). Also shows part of the State House garden; the north side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street, including adjoined storefronts tenanted by the American Hotel (181-183 Chestnut Street); S.L. Simons daguerreotype rooms (179 Chestnut Street); Geo. Earle's Pantechnethica (175 Chestnut Street); Geo. J. Henkels' City Cabinet Wareroom (173 Chestnut Street); and a clothing store on the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets. Also depicts rooftop views (including people on the roofs) of several of the surrounding city blocks; and a few pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage on Chestnut Street and the grounds of the State House. Sailboats and a steamboat are visible on the Delaware River in the distance, along with the horizon of Camden, N.J., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 587, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Elliot, Leo von, 1816-1890, artist
- Date
- c1849
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W287 [P.2125]