Advertisement depicting the factory during the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 adorned with several signs, including ones illustrated with allegorical figures and patriotic imagery. Passersby look at displays of boxes in the window near pedestrians walking on the sidewalk. In the street, a man on horseback, and a horse-drawn carriage and omnibus travel. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Gumpert Bros, originally W.H. Grumpert, was established in 1856. The firm name changed to Gumpert Bros in 1866 and the business removed from the site in 1879., Probably engraved by John Serz., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
Date
[1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76e]
View looking northeast from Juniper Street showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. Men sit on the columns supporting the lamp posts in front of the mint building. A pile of stones rest on the sidewalk and trees in iron cages line the street in the foreground. The awning for the adjacent Gumpert Bros. cigar shop (1341 Chestnut Street) is partially visible. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Similar image taken on the same day printed on yellow mount with square corners and included as No. 1038 in the series entitled "American Scenery" (P.8913.7)., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French
Date
[photographed ca. 1866, printed ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Government Buildings [P.9107.6]