View showing the west side of Second Street between Market and Arch streets. Businesses include: Du Hadway & Dodson, cloths, cassimeres, and vestings (Market and Second); the second of two stores of Edward T. Steele & Co., cloths and cassimeres (4 North 2nd); Bartram, cloths and cassimeres (8 North 2nd); Holland & Develin, confectioners (14 North 2nd); and F.D. Kramer & Co., furniture (36 North 2nd). Several men stand in front of Du Hadway & Dodson near a telegraph pole and merchandise displays., Paper label on verso listing over one hundred views published by the firm., Buff mount with rounded corners., 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. 1869]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9805]
View showing an African American man laborer and two horse-drawn carts in front of the Philadelphia Gas Works building. Shows the man, attired in a cap, a coat, pants, and shoes, standing in the street with his right hand on top of the cart. Trolley tracks line the street. Includes partial view of a railroad overpass., Inscribed in negative: 215011., Inscribed in negative: 9 30 13., Title from manuscript note on negative envelope: Penna. R.R. Co. 22nd St. W. side North of Market St. September 29, 1913. Pennsylvania Railroad No. 177. 214924., Photograph commissioned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company., Purchase 1981., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date
September 30, 1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jennings [P.9480.215811]
