View looking west on Spruce Street from below Little Dock Street (i.e., Mattis Street). Shows a ramshackle building tenanted by B. Naylor's Hotel, including an oyster saloon at 127 Spruce (i.e., n.w. corner Spruce and Little Dock). Also shows an adjacent sign painting shop and a boy near the entranceway to the saloon., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on recto: Dock St. -- Westside - opposite Tobacco store., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in early photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 40.
Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - L [(7)1322.F.37c]
