View looking east from the Market Street Bridge showing the 2300 block of Market Street. Depicts a row of buildings, including S.H. Smith's Union Hotel at 2330 Market Street. The first Philadelphia Gas Works, completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer Samuel V. Merrick is visible on the opposite block. Pennsylvania Railroad tracks run adjacent to a train shed and the gas works and a horse-drawn carriage stands in front of the hotel. The first gas works were expanded in 1850. A second facility, the Point Breeze Gas Works, was built 1851-1854 at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues after the designs of engineer John C. Cresson., Title and series number from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator
R. Newell & Son
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9260.66]
Exterior view looking northeast at the first Philadelphia Gas Works, expanded in 1850 after the designs of John C. Cresson, the second chief engineer of the gas works. View includes the coal stores, retort house, lime and coke sheds, lime kilns and house, purifying houses, gasholders, and railroad tracks situated on the 2200-2300 blocks of Market Street immediately east of the Market Street Permanent Bridge. The gas works were originally completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer Samuel V. Merrick. A second facility, the Point Breeze Gas Works, was built 1851-1854 at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues after the designs of engineer John C. Cresson., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 588, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc885 B786.
Date
[ca. 1852]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W288 [P.2124]
Depicts monument in the shape of an obelisk topped with a sundial which stood at the western approach to the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge at Market Street until 1840, when it was removed to 23rd and Market Streets. Inscriptions describing the bridge and it's construction from 1800 to 1805 decorate the four sides of the obelisk. Industrial building appears in background., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: (Find out what it commemorates)., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 178 [P.8513.178], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson178.htm
