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Title: [Chestnut Street, rooftop view east from Odiorne's studio at 920 Chestnut]
Description: Rooftop view looking east from Odiorne's Studio at 920 Chestnut showing the 800 and 900 blocks, north side, of the commercial street. Businesses include a boys clothing store and the Girard House hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr,.(823-835 Chestnut). Includes partial view of the south side of the street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from manuscript note on mount., Manuscript note on mount: Chestnut St. E. from 9th., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Image faded., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Odiorne operated from Philadelphia photographer Isaac Rehn's Gallery at 920 Chestnut Street between 1859 and 1860.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.27e]

Title: [Little Dock and Spruce streets, at Second Street]
Description: View showing the businesses at 303 South Second Street at the intersection of Second and Little Dock (i.e., Mattis) streets. Shows the ramshackle building tenanted by J.T. Wells, clothier; Jacob Reed, clothing rooms; and J. & R. Hattuck, locksmiths and bell hangers. Includes two gentlemen in top hats conversing on the Little Dock Street side of the building; a freight car and sign post for a hotel in the right background; and surrounding businesses., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative of (7)1322.F.39., Inscribed in negative of (7)1322.F.39: 23., Manuscript note on recto of (7)1322.F.55e: S.e. cor 2nd & Spruce., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Image (7)1322.F.39 reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #64.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: March 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - L [(7)1322.F.39d & 55e]

Title: Chestnut St. from 10th
Description: View looking east from Tenth Street showing the north side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: H.P. & W.C. Taylor, perfumery; M.L. Spooner, ladies and children furnishings; and the Girard House hotel (823-835 Chestnut), built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. A partial view of the old masonic temple is seen in the distance. Lampposts line the sidewalk., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Date and title from manuscript note on mount., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.27g]

Title: [Chestnut Street, rooftop view east from Odiorne's studio at 920 Chestnut Street]
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include the hotels built after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 and the Girard House hotel (823-825 Chestnut) built 1851. Also shows the Masonic Temple(713-721 Chestnut); the roof of the Burd mansion (900-906 Chestnut); building signage advertising a boy's clothing bazaar at the northwest corner of Ninth and Chestnut; and street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn omnibus., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Manuscript note on recto of (6)1322.F.69a: Chestnut E. from 9th., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - C [(6)1322.F.27e & 69a]

Title: [Chestnut Street, rooftop view east from Odiorne's studio at 920 Chestnut Street]
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include the hotels built after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 and the Girard House hotel (823-825 Chestnut) built 1851. Also shows the Masonic Temple(713-721 Chestnut); the roof of the Burd mansion (900-906 Chestnut); building signage advertising a boy's clothing bazaar at the northwest corner of Ninth and Chestnut; and street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Manuscript note on verso: Snow storm April 10, 1862., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - C [P.2282.13]

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