Stark advertisement showing the front facade of the hotel at 625-631 Chestnut Street. A couple walks toward the entrance. Edmund Badger, a former proprietor of The City Hotel, operated the Marshall House at 207 Chestnut Street 1837-1841. Hotel was later renamed the Columbia House and razed in 1856., Title and date from Poulson inscription on recto: Feb. 1, 1837. E. Badger, Proprietor. Chestnut St. near Seventh St., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 458, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date
[February 1, 1837]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W228 [P.2102]
View showing Jayne's Hall, an office building built in 1856 for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne, at 625-631 Chestnut Street. Also shows Jayne's other office building, Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860) and adjacent businesses, including Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605 Chestnut) and the Bulletin Building (607 Chestnut, built 1866). Jayne buildings tenanted by: Atwood, Ralston & Co., carpet manufacturers and merchants; Farrel, Herring & Co., safes; Furness, Brinley & Co., auctioneers and merchants; Keystone Collar Company; Lafourcades Bros. & Irwin, importers of cloths, cassimeres, and vestings; Lynch & Fisher, dry goods; Merchant's Express Company; M.L. Hallowell & Co., merchants; Van Deusen, Boehmer & Co., men's furnishing goods; Yard, Gilmore & Co., silk goods. Street railroad tracks run down the street., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from label on negative., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Union View Co.
Date
[ca. 1868, printed ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo -Union View Company - Streets [P.9189.5]
