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Title: [M. L. Hallowell & Co. Importer and jobbers in silk goods, 147 Market Street, Philadelphia] Philadelphia Market Street
Description: Advertisement showing the 4-story ornamented sandstone storefronts completed in 1853 after the designs of Gustav Runge at 145, 147, 149 (i.e., 300 block) Market Street. Businesses include Maddock Raymond & Co., watches & jewelry, Spring Oaks & Co., dry goods (145); M. L. Hallowell & Co., importers & jobbers in silk goods, Guillou Walton & Co., hosiery & linen goods (147, later 333); and De Courcey Lafourcade & Co., importers of mens wear and cloth warehouse. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic. An older gentleman walks near two women peering into the windows of Lafourcade as a man stands at the entrance of Hallowell. In the street, a horse-drawn dray races past two laborers loading crates onto three drays parked in front of Hallowell & Co. Nearby, a man carrying a wood pole over his shoulder rushes behind two dogs chasing one another past a man carrying a satchel on his back. Also contains two female allegorical figures bordering the image in the upper corners. One figure holds the coat of arms of Pennsylvania and the other holds a horn of plenty., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 445, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 H 193, Newspaper clipping dated June 23, 1853 describing the completion of the building in LCP Poulson Scrapook, vol. 7, p. 79.
Creator: Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908, artist
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 H 193

Title: [Philadephia Bank building] Country merchants will be supplied with goods at any of the above stores, on the most favorable terms. S. W. corner 4th & Chestnut sts. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the storefronts tenanting the Philadelphia Bank building completed in 1836 after the designs of William Strickland at Bank Place, i.e., 400-408 Chestnut Street. Businesses include Hancock, Bennett & Wolfe, importers of fancy goods and manufacturers of silver and plated ware (No. 1 Bank Place); Levi Eldridge, carpet & floor cloth warehouse (No. 2); W. F. Slaughter, paper hangings (No. 3); C. Bulkley, hat, cap, & fur store (No. 4); and Robb & Swift, successors to Browne & Robb, tailors (132 Chestnut). A family strolls on the sidewalk and patrons exit and enter the businesses that display merchandise, including rolled carpets, in the shop windows and in front of the stores. Partial views of adjacent buildings, including the Second Bank of the U.S., in addition to a horse pulling a vehicle, are visible. Also contains advertising text for each of the businesses that lists specific merchandises and promotes customer services, printed below the image. Merchandise includes chandeliers and Japannery Brittania & block tin wares; hearth rugs, floor baizes, stair-rods, and carpet bindings; fire-board figures; and muffs, pellerines & boas., Title and date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 573, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 87 C 525, Described in Public Ledger, April 2, 1838.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 87 C 525

Title: Chestnut Strasse, Sudwetseite der 4th.= Chestnut Street, west of Fourth
Description: Street scene showing the south side of Chestnut Street between 4th and 5th Streets depicting two bank buildings designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland: the Philadelphia Bank building (built 1836) and the custom house (formerly the Second Bank of the U.S., built 1818-24). Philadelphia Bank building (400-408 Chestnut, after renumbering) houses and includes signage for the Western Bank and Girard Life & Trust Company, as well as H.S. & C. Ogden, tailors; Kelly & Bright, stationers; Edward Borheck, optician; Martin Leans, engraver; Wilcox & Delleker, custom house brokers; and Wm. H. Patton, dealer in decorative wall papers. Street scene includes a vendor, two coaches, a man on horseback, and pedestrians., Title and imprint variant of one in the series "Panorama of Philadelphia" published 1856 by Schnabel, Finkelday & Demme., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00019, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 4th-5th, Schnable & Finkelday operated as a partnership 1858-1860 following the departure of partner Willliam Demme in 1857.
Creator: Collins & Autenrieth, artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 4th-5th

Title: South east corner of Fifth & Market sts. Phila
Description: Advertisement showing storefronts with pre-consolidation addresses on the 400 block of Market Street. Businesses include Rockhill & Co., clothiers, Levick, Jenkins & Co., shoes, bonnets, hats, & caps/ Levick, Brothers & Co., boots, shoes, & straw goods, and Rhoads Brother & Co., importer of Paris fancy goods (160); Atwood & Co., dry goods (162); Chaffees & Stout, dry goods (164); Haddock Reed & Co./Haddock, Haseltine & Reed, boots, shoes, caps & straw goods (164-166) ; Field & Langstroth, hardware (166); and T. E. Chapman, stationer & blank book manufacturer, E. Morris & Co., silk hat manufactory, Henry C. Baird, publisher & bookseller, G. W. & L. B. Taylor, boots & shoes (168). Signage adorns the storefronts. Trunks and barrels line the sidewalk on which a laborer creates a pile of crates. Two gentlemen stand in the doorway of Haddock Reed & Co. and a woman holding a parasol strolls past the Taylor storefront. Also shows E. Morris, hat manufactory on North Fifth Street. Two men converse under an awning adorning the building., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 700, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 87 M 345
Creator: Jones, Paul, artist
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 87 M 345

Title: View of Chestnut Street between 8 & 9 sts. (south side,) Philadelphia
Description: Busy street view showing businesses on the 800 block (802-824) of Chestnut Street. Majority of the storefronts show merchandise displays in the windows. Includes a storefront to let (800); Lewis Ladomus & Co., watches, jewelry & silver ware (802); Theodore H. McCalla, hats and caps (lower floor) and A. F. Lupus, morocco cases "upstairs" (804); Anthony Mustin, trimmings (806); Charles Dummin, importer, musical instruments, fancy goods & toys (812); J.W. Scott, gentleman's furnishing store and shirt manufactory (814); James S. Earle & Son, looking glasses & picture frames (816); Root Photographic Gallery operated by Dr. Bushnell and Ladd Webster & Co., sewing machines (818); Caldwell & Co., jewelers (822); and the Continental Hotel tenanted by Charles Stokes, "First Class Clothing One Price" and "Made to Order Short Notice," Charles Oakford & Sons, "hatters, furriers, hats, caps, cans [sic] & umbrellas, gentleman's furnishing goods" (near the ladies entrance of the hotel) and Frederick Brown Jr., druggist (824-838). Hotel also includes window shades for an unidentified store advertising watches and jewelry. In the foreground, heavy street and pedestrian traffic is visible in front and across from the storefronts. Several horse-drawn vehicles travel in the street past the sidewalks congested with pedestrians. Pedestrians include a newspaper boy, couples on promenade, a gentleman escorting two ladies greeting another gentleman, and patrons looking at store windows and entering the businesses., Vehicles include a "Chestnut & Walnut Sts." omnibus, horse-drawn carriages, a partially unloaded dray, and a Farrel & Herring (safe manufactory) delivery wagon drawn by three horses. Also shows men waiting at the main entrance of the hotel, mannequins attired in suits displayed outside of Stokes, and a model eagle holding a watch adorning the roof of the store of Ladomus., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 786, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 87 C 525a, Print torn in two.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: 1860
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bc 87 C 525a

Title: Chestnut Street, east of Third
Description: Reproduction of lithographic view showing the 200 block of Chestnut Street with pre-consolidation addressed buildings. Businesses include Lewis Brothers & Co., importers of silk goods, Senat, Perot & Co., importers, Cottringer, Boyd & Gibbons, importers, and Lawrence Stone & Co. (80-82, i.e., 238-240); the Jayne Building (built 1849-1850) tenanted by Wesendock & Co. importers of silks & cloths, Dr. D. Jayne & Son, patent medicine, and Ellwood Shannon, tea dealer (84-86, i.e., 242-244); Oberteuffer & Freytag, importers, and Samuel Robinson, importers of Irish linens (88, i.e., 246); N. Thouron & Sons, importers of French goods, and Harden’s [sic] Express, probably A. Howard & Co. express (92, i.e., 248); and the U.S. Life Insurance Annuity & Trust Saving Fund building tenanted by Draper, Welsh & Co. Bank Note Engraving (94, i.e., 250). Includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic. Horse-drawn carriages, wagons, an omnibus, and drays travel in the street in addition to a dray situated to be loaded in front of the Jayne Building. Clusters of pedestrians walk near the Jayne and the Saving Fund buildings. In the foreground, on the opposite side of the street, families stroll, converse, and are greeted by other individuals near men, including laborers, talking near a pile of crates and a loaded dray. Also shows lettering reading "Howard" above the doorway of 92 Chestnut Street and a partial view of adjacent buildings., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00010, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 113, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street 2nd-3rd
Creator: Collins & Autenrieth, artist
Date: c1857
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street - 2nd-3rd

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