View includes a small crowd of boy spectators in the background and a dog sitting on the engine. Company founded February 3, 1830., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Paper backing pasted on verso., 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
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Fires & fire fighting [(8)1322.F.5j]
Exterior view of building constructed in 1680. Demolished circa 1912., Also identified as the Old Jolly Post Inn and the Jolly Post Boy Tavern. Located on Frankford Road, which formed part of the main passage that connected New York and Philadelphia. John Worrell purchased the property in 1698. His son Isaiah may have been the first to operate the inn from this location., Sheet number: 115A02., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Huylers through Keystone - 115]
