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Title: Philadelphia. Chestnut St. looking east from Broad St
Description: Scene showing the heavily trafficked commercial thoroughfare near Juniper Street. Depicts numerous pedestrians, including African Americans, walking the business-lined sidewalks next to the street congested with automobile traffic. Businesses lining the street include the Western Saving Fund Society, the specialty store, Lousols, the Bailey, Banks, and Biddle Company jewelers building, and the rear entrance of John Wanamaker's department store., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content, Gift of Joseph Kelly. 1982., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: 1949
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8853.17]

Title: 1600 block of Chestnut St., south side looking east
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting commercial store fronts along the south side of the 1600 block Chesnut Street, looking east. The WCAU Building (1618-1622) towers over adjacent three and four story stores and shops. Built circa 1931, purportedly after designs by Harry Sternfeld and Gabriel Blum Roth. Includes Sun Ray drug store (1624); Whitman & Son Retail Store (1626), built in 1929 after designs by Edmund Beaman Gilchrist; Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort Shop (1628), built in 1927 after designs by Rankin & Kellogg; and Mann & Dilks' clothing store (1630). Automobile traffic and parked vehicles are visible in the foreground., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Date: ca. 1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.31]

Title: [1433-1435 South Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by Albert M. Greenfield & Co. probably for publication in the firm's monthly Real Estate Bulletin depicting a three-story commercial building containing empty storefronts. Building contains signage for Greenfield & Co. offering the building for sale or rent. In the left, a woman bundled against the cold sits on the front stoop. In the center, an African American man, attired in a cap, a white collared shirt, a tie, a waistcoat with a pocket watch chain, an overcoat, and pants, stands on the sidewalk with his hands in his pockets and looks left. There is a partial view of an adjoining shoe store and two automobiles., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso and embossed on recto., Manuscript notes on verso: 1433-35 South St. [and] 1433-35 South., Manuscript note on verso: S-128., Purchase 2000., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: 1926-1929
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Greenfield collection [P.9789.5]

Title: Walnut St. Theatre, 9th & Walnut Sts. Built 1808
Description: View showing the Walnut Street Theatre under construction at 827-833 Walnut Street (corner of Ninth and Walnut Streets). The theater, originally built as a circus in 1809, was altered to a theater in 1816, and remodeled from 1827-1828 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Haviland. Other renovations were completed in 1852 by Hoxie & Button, in 1903 by Willis Gaylord Hale and in 1904 by Rush Anderson Plowman. Also shows adjacent buildings and a United Cigar Stores Co. shop in the foreground, the only portion of the theatre building not undergoing construction. The number 13 trolley is depicted on Walnut Street., Inscribed in negative: 3147., Title from negative sleeve., Modern reference print available.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.74]

Title: Merchants' Exchange
Description: View of the east front of the Merchants' Exchange, showing the rotunda and cupola of the building constructed between 1832 and 1833 after designs by William Strickland for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. Photograph taken from the the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut Streets. A cart loaded with boxes sits in the foreground and a sign for H. M. Hillman Metals is visible in a window on the ground level., Inscribed in negative: 3291., Title from negative sleeve., Original negative housed in freezer.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Film Negatives - Hand [P.9259.88]

Title: Girard Bank
Description: View looking northwest from Dock Street showing the bank originally built 1795-1797 after the designs of Samuel Blodgett. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as Girard National Bank. View includes adjacent building tenanted by E. Roger, wood engraver, and the Saturday Evening Post newspaper office (132 South Third Street); the top floors of the Mariner & Merchant Building (300 Chestnut Street) and two commercial buildings on the north side of Dock Street near Third (129 South Third Street and 241 Dock Street)., Inscribed in negative: 3295., Title from negative sleeve., Modern reference print available.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.89]

Title: [Chestnut Street looking east from below Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows several businesses on the 1200-1500 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include Commonwealth Trust Company building built 1901 after the designs of James Windrim & Son (1201-1205 Chestnut); the Crozier Building and American Baptist Publication Society built between 1896-1899 after the designs of Frank Miles Day & Bro. (1420-1422 Chestnut); Child's Restaurant built circa 1906 (1425-1427 Chestnut); Colonnade Hotel built in 1868 and razed in 1925 (1500-1506 Chestnut); the Pennsylvania Building built circa 1903 after the designs of McClure & Sphar (1501-1515 Chestnut); and Showell, Fryer & Co., grocers (1517 Chestnut). Electric signs adorn several of the buildings, including signage for Cafe L'Aiglon adorning the Pennsylvania Building. Also shows several pedestrians, including two African American women, walking on the sidewalks and cars parked in the street., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of the people and dates of operation of the businesses depicted., Purchase 2002., 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.
Date: [ca. 1915]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo -unidentified - Streets [P.2002.17.3]

Title: [North side of Columbia Avenue east of 18th Street.]
Description: Depicts businesses along the north side of Columbia Avenue, east of 18th Street., Numbered 6300 on recto., Sheet number: 156B02., Real photo. Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]

Title: Hokey Pokey Man
Description: Depicts a street vendor, with a wagon drawn by a donkey and protected by a striped awning, dispensing his wares to two young boys. Includes horse drawn carts in the background. The awning of The James Bell Co. is also visible in the background., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Slide number 41.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.37]

Title: [Columbia Avenue covered in snow during the Businessmen's Carnival.]
Description: Depicts snow covering Columbia Avenue, along with businesses decorated for the Businessmen's Carnival., Sheet number: 156B02., Real photo. Divided back. VELOX stamp box in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]

Title: [Main Street, 4300 block with patriotic bunting, Manayunk]
Description: Depicts a brick row of shops along the 4300 block of Main Street, decorated with flags and patriotic bunting. Awnings cover the first floor shop windows of businesses like Jos. H. Maurer's Hardware store (4345 Main Street), and a florist shop several units to the north. Pedestrians crowd the sidewalk, especially further north near Levering Street. Depicts the block during the Manayunk Carnival and Parade, an event held from November 8 to 13, 1909, to celebrate the formation of the Manayunk Business Men's Association., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
Creator: Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
Date: November 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8988]

Title: [Unidentified street scene.]
Description: Depicts a large crowd of pedestrians and streetcars on an unidentified street., Sheet number: 156B11., Real photo. Divided back. AZO stamp box with upward pointing triangles in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]

Title: Looking east on Market St. from above 8th St., Philadelphia
Description: View showing street construction by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company of the Market Street Subway on the 700 block of Market Street. Shows the very active street with several trolleys, horse-drawn vehicles, and men and women pedestrians hurrying on the street near the sidewalk mobbed with people. African American construction workers work under a "Danger" sign. Nearby, a man carries a sign advertising "Dr. Hyman" who "will fix your teeth." Several businesses line the street, including Lit Brothers department store (701-739 Market); "Dr. Wyeth's Painless Modern Dentistry" covered with signage; Hanscom's, grocery and lunch room (734 Market); Hertfelder's, tailor and clothiers; Wick Narrow Fabric Co.; and Asam Brothers, wall paper., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 4396., Purchase 1989., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: September 25, 1907
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Construction [P.9260.375]

Title: [Office of surveyors Clement B. and John H. Webster, 4534 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Depicts the west side of the 4500 block of Frankford Avenue, taken from Oxford Street. Three story, brick commercial buildings line the middle of the block, including L.J. Faber's cigar store (4526); three connected brick buildings with glass store fronts (4528-32); the one story office of surveyors Clement B. and John H. Webster; another cigar store (4538) and John J. Stewart's flour, feed, hay and straw business (4540). A small alley leading to the Frankford Meeting House separates L.J. Faber's cigar store from the other businesses. Two men stand on the northeast corner looking toward the camera., Modern reference print #11 available in research file., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.131]

Title: Market Street postcards
Description: Contains images of store fronts, automobile and pedestrian traffic and City Hall looking east and west on Market Street. Views depict Market Street looking: at the Market Street loop; west from 2nd Street; east from 6th Street, showing Wanamaker & Brown; west from 7th Street, showing Lit Brothers and the Ladies' Cafe; Penn National Bank at the southwest corner of 7th and Market Streets; west from 8th Street, showing Strawbridge & Clothier and Gimbel's; north from 8th and Market Streets; east and west from 9th Street; west from 10th Street, showing Woolworth & Co. 5 and 10 store; west of 11th Street showing the Denckla, Inquirer and Reading Terminal buildings and Market Street east from 11th and 12th Streets and City Hall tower. Includes an airplane view of Market Street looking west., Contains 35 postcards printed in color and 13 printed in black and white. Also contains 1 linen postcard., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1935
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Market Street - 135]

Title: Chestnut Street postcards
Description: Contains views of Chestnut Street looking west from Sixth Street, Eighth Street, Ninth Street and Eleventh Street. Also includes views looking east from Sixth Street, Eleventh Street and Sixteenth Street. Depicts one view looking north from Chestnut and Fifth Streets. The Philadelphia Record building, Post Office, United States Custom House and the Pennsylvania Building are the most prominent buildings in these street views., Contains 21 postcards printed in color and 8 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Chestnut Street - 46]

Title: Chestnut Street crowded
Description: View looking along Chestnut Street showing a crowd of spectators packing the street and sidewalks for an unidentified event. A large clock is visible across the street on the sidewalk., Title printed on mount below image., Decorative printed floral pattern flanks image., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9047.125]

Title: North Broad Street postcards
Description: Contains views of North Broad Street from City Hall and views looking south toward City Hall from North Broad Street. Includes the Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad Street); the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (55-65 North Broad Street); the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Building (112-116 North Broad Street); the Mercantile Club (1422-26 North Broad Street), the Parkway Building and the Sweeten Auto Company Building (117-121 North Broad Street). Also includes an aerial view of North Broad Street from City Hall., Contains 14 postcards printed in color and 3 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Broad Street - North - 16]

Title: South Broad Street postcards
Description: Contains views mostly of South Broad Street looking north, with City Hall in the distance. Very few of the images depict South Broad Street looking south from City Hall. Several images document buildings on Broad Street north of Spruce Street including the Stenton Hotel; the Hotel Walton (233-247 South Broad Street); the Ritz Carlton Hotel (201 South Broad Street); the Bellevue Stratford Hotel (200-216 South Broad Street) and the Academy of Music (232-246 South Broad Street). Also includes buildings on South Broad Street closer to City Hall, including the West End Trust Company (1400 South Penn Square); the Girard Trust (34-36 South Broad Street), the Land Title Building (100-118 South Broad Street) and the Real Estate Trust Company (101-113 South Broad Street)., Contains 43 postcards printed in color and 23 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Broad Street - South - 17]

Title: Old houses, N. side of Locust near 5th St. [sic]
Description: Depicts a row of old dwellings and businesses along the north side of Locust Street, near Second Street, including a grocer (left) and L. Bernhardt, tailor, at 241. Includes the back of a delivery wagon, a partial view of a carriage (right) and a single pedestrian passing a row of barrels on the sidewalk., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 21., Arcadia caption text: Philadelphia’s numerous blocks of brick rowhouses are the most striking characteristic of the city’s residential architecture. The great local abundance of high quality clay and lime  used to make mortar  contributed to the prevalence of this style. Photographed at the close of the 19th century, this image captures a row of 18th-century residences on the north side of the 200 block of Locust Street.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.153]

Title: View Chestnut St., Phila
Description: View looking west possibly from below Tenth Street. Shows the commercial street, including a bath house, possibly Silas H. Rowland at 1013 Chestnut Street. Lampposts adorn a building and the sidewalk in the foreground. Horse-drawn carriages and wagons travel the street and several pedestrians walk on the sidewalks., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title inscribed in negative., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Campbell, Alfred S.
Date: c1896
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Campbell - Streets - Chestnut [P.9117.3]

Title: Philadelphia's pride, her public building, Pa., U.S.A
Description: View looking north toward City Hall (built 1871-1901, John McArthur, Jr., architect) from South Broad Street, where construction on the tower, begun in 1884, is still in progress. In the left foreground stands the Lafayette Hotel, formerly La Pierre House built 1853 after designs by Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr., at the northwest corner of Broad and Sansom Streets. The hotel was expanded and renamed in 1876. In the right background stands the Girard Trust Company building at the northeast corner of Broad and Chestnut Streets built 1888-89 after designs by Addison Hutton. Also shows pedestrians on the sidewalks and horse-drawn vehicles, including a double-decker omnibus traveling north on Broad Street and private coaches moving in both directions., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date: c1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Government buildings [P.9047.116]

Title: Chestnut St., E. from 8th, Phila., Pa
Description: View showing the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include The Quaker City National Bank, built in 1888 after the designs of Willis Gaylord Hale (715-719 Chestnut) and the Washington Hotel (709-711 Chestnut). Street and pedestrian traffic include several men wearing bowler hats; horse-drawn carts and wagons; and an omnibus traveling the "Chestnut and Walnut Sts." route. Gas lamps line the street., Title from label on negative., Buff mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9047.141]

Title: Northwest corner of Eleventh and Pine Streets. Demolished 1889. Present site of the Gladstone
Description: View depicting the commercial Philadelphia street corner with the grey wood shack of Michael Traynor, licensed tavern and oyster house, for sale. Storefronts include a stove and heater manufactory; a store selling birds; Schriber, tin and sheet iron worker; a "segar" store; and a lager beer hall. Street trolleys are partially visible to the far right and left. Several pedestrians, predominately African Americans, walk the sidewalks. Individuals board and depart the trolleys. The Gladstone, erected between 1889 to 1890, was the city's first apartment hotel. In the nineteenth century, the neighborhood, known as Washington Square West, contained one of the city's largest populations of African Americans., Title from item., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Purchase 1975., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1883, circa 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.121], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc121.html

Title: Northwest corner of Eleventh and Pine Streets. Demolished 1889. Present site of the Gladstone
Description: View depicting the commercial Philadelphia street corner with the grey wood shack of Michael Traynor, licensed tavern and oyster house, for sale. Storefronts include a stove and heater manufactory; a store selling birds; Schriber, tin and sheet iron worker; a "segar" store; and a lager beer hall. Street trolleys are partially visible to the far right and left. Several pedestrians, predominately African Americans, walk the sidewalks. Individuals board and depart the trolleys. The Gladstone, erected between 1889 to 1890, was the city's first apartment hotel. In the nineteenth century, the neighborhood, known as Washington Square West, contained one of the city's largest populations of African Americans., Title from item., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Purchase 1975., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1883, circa 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.121], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc121.html

Title: Centennial of the U.S. Constitution. 9 mo. 15, 16 + 17, 1887. The Arch at Broad and Chestnut, [Philadelphia]
Description: Photograph showing Broad Street filled with people and carriages during the Centennial celebrations. Spanning the street is a large archway decorated with coats of arms and surmounted by an eagle. Flags fly from the surrounding buildings and people lean out windows to look down on the street. The Centennial Anniversary of the framing and creation of the Constitution was held on September 16-18, 1887 in Philadelphia. Organized by representatives from the various states and territories, the festivities included a military display, orations and concerts, and an industrial parade., Photograph from negative number 1223., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 17, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9844.49]

Title: East from Independence Hall
Description: Panoramic view showing Banker's Row on the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Company, completed in 1874 after the designs of James Hamilton Windrim (413-417 Chestnut); the Philadelphia National Bank built 1857-1859 after the designs of John M. Gries (419-423 Chestnut); the Farmers and Mechanics Bank built 1854-1855 after the designs of Gries (425-429 Chestnut); the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives & Granting Annuities built 1871-1873 after the designs of Addison Hutton (431 Chestnut); and the Girard Building built circa 1871 after the designs of Windrim (435 Chestnut)., Curved orange mount with rounded corners., Title from label on negative., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Views [P.9567.14]

Title: Jaynes' Hall, Chestnut Street below Seventh
Description: View showing Jayne's Hall, an office building built in 1856 for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne, at 625-631 Chestnut Street. Also shows Jayne's other office building, Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860) and adjacent businesses, including Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605 Chestnut) and the Bulletin Building (607 Chestnut, built 1866). Jayne buildings tenanted by: Atwood, Ralston & Co., carpet manufacturers and merchants; Farrel, Herring & Co., safes; Furness, Brinley & Co., auctioneers and merchants; Keystone Collar Company; Lafourcades Bros. & Irwin, importers of cloths, cassimeres, and vestings; Lynch & Fisher, dry goods; Merchant's Express Company; M.L. Hallowell & Co., merchants; Van Deusen, Boehmer & Co., men's furnishing goods; Yard, Gilmore & Co., silk goods. Street railroad tracks run down the street., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from label on negative., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Union View Co.
Date: [ca. 1868, printed ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo -Union View Company - Streets [P.9189.5]

Title: Chestnut St. west from Fourth
Description: View showing the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street, including Banker's Row. Banker's Row includes three buildings after the designs of John M. Gries: Girard Building (435 Chestnut, built 1857-1859); the Farmers and Mechanics Bank (425-429 Chestnut, built 1854-1855); and the Philadelphia National Bank (419-423 Chestnut, built 1857-1859). Also shows the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Company (413-417 Chestnut, completed 1874, James Hamilton Windrim, archt.) and the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives & Granting Annuities (431 Chestnut, built 1871-1873, Addison Hutton, archt.). Adjacent businesses include: William E. Harpur, watchmaker (407 Chestnut); Jacob Langsdorf, cigar importer, and Thomas W. Bovell, lithographer (409 Chestnut); McCully & Co., printers (411 Chestnut); and R. Penistan, wine dealer (439 Chestnut). Horse-drawn vehicles line the street, including an ice delivery wagon., Curved orange mount with rounded corners., Title annotated on negative., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1877, ca. 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9208.5]

Title: Up Chestnut Street from Ledger Building, Phila
Description: View showing the north side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street, including the office buildings constructed for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne. Depicts Jayne Office Building (611-613 Chestnut); Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860); and Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut, built 1865). Jayne's Marble Building tenanted by Lawrence & Co. Also depicts adjacent buildings, including the North American Building (701 Chestnut). Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and horse-drawn omnibuses travel down the street., Title annotated on negative., Buff mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9047.81]

Title: Looking up Market St. from Front
Description: Wagons, trolleys and pedestrians crowd the street and sidewalks in front of the shops along the north side of Market Street, west of Front Street. Names of businesses are painted on signboards along the block. Visible names include F. Frenzell, Vance & Co. and Coates Bros. Wool. A cigar shop occupies the southwest corner lot in the foreground., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date: Negative July 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.173]

Title: East side of Thirteenth above Callowhill. Occupied in 1844 by Colored Orphan Asylum
Description: View depicting the commercial Philadelphia street with the four-story building of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company Office. Building formerly housed "Brotherly Love Hall," the African American orphanage founded by the Society of Friends in 1822. Businesses lining the street include Sullivan & Sweeney, rag and feed store; J. Hunsinker, merchant; J. Neil & Sons, coal dealers; Barber & Son, Edward and Frank, painters; and Haines & Scarlet. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalk., Title from item., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Purchase 1975., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.93], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc093.html

Title: North side of Chestnut St., extending from Sixth to Seventh St., 1851
Description: Street view depicting businesses along the north side of Chestnut Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets. Most of the buildings include signage. Includes, right to left, the four-story brick building with Blood’s Dispatch and Dr. J.H. Schenck & Co. "Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup" (601 Chestnut Street); the second building of the Chestnut Street Theatre (603-609 Chestnut Street, built 1820-1822 after the designs of William Strickland); the three-and one-half story hotel Bolivar House (611-613 Chestnut Street); Dr. Jayne's Philada Arcade & Dr. Davidson's Arcade Baths (615-619 Chestnut Street); Columbia House hotel operated by Ferguson & Bro. and tenanted by tailor E. G. Dorsey (625-631 Chestnut Street); and the three-story red brick building tenanted by L. Benkert's Boot Store (633 Chestnut Street), "Philadelphia Fashions" publisher Francis Mahan(635 Chestnut Street), and druggist A. Smith (637-639 Chestnut Street). Also includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including horse drawn carriages and carts and an omnibus, strolling couples, couples in conversations, and a newspaper boy at work., Title from item., Date inferred from commission date of other drawings in collection., Inscribed in lower left corner: 1851., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Library Company. Annual Report, 1975, p. 6-11., Watercolor commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer circa 1880 and probably based on Julio H. Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser (Philadelphia: Julio H. Rae, 1851) plate 9, north side and plate 10, north side.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.44], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc044.html

Title: North side of Chestnut St., extending from Sixth to Seventh St., 1851
Description: Street view depicting businesses along the north side of Chestnut Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets. Most of the buildings include signage. Includes, right to left, the four-story brick building with Blood’s Dispatch and Dr. J.H. Schenck & Co. "Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup" (601 Chestnut Street); the second building of the Chestnut Street Theatre (603-609 Chestnut Street, built 1820-1822 after the designs of William Strickland); the three-and one-half story hotel Bolivar House (611-613 Chestnut Street); Dr. Jayne's Philada Arcade & Dr. Davidson's Arcade Baths (615-619 Chestnut Street); Columbia House hotel operated by Ferguson & Bro. and tenanted by tailor E. G. Dorsey (625-631 Chestnut Street); and the three-story red brick building tenanted by L. Benkert's Boot Store (633 Chestnut Street), "Philadelphia Fashions" publisher Francis Mahan(635 Chestnut Street), and druggist A. Smith (637-639 Chestnut Street). Also includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including horse drawn carriages and carts and an omnibus, strolling couples, couples in conversations, and a newspaper boy at work., Title from item., Date inferred from commission date of other drawings in collection., Inscribed in lower left corner: 1851., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Library Company. Annual Report, 1975, p. 6-11., Watercolor commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer circa 1880 and probably based on Julio H. Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser (Philadelphia: Julio H. Rae, 1851) plate 9, north side and plate 10, north side.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.44], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc044.html

Title: [Seventh & Chestnut streets, looking west]
Description: View looking west from Seventh Street showing the south side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: J. Restein & Sons, enamelers, George W. Crosscup, engraver on wood, P. Garrett & Co., publishers, Dr. L. Lindoman, podiatrist, and E. Christmann, perfumery (702 Chestnut); the Parham Sewing Machine Co. (704 Chestnut); Thomas & Co., men's furnishing goods and Burton Mansfield, clothiers & tailors (706 Chestnut); Warne, Brothers & Co., importer of watches and jewelery and the One Dollar Store, fancy goods (712 Chestnut). A group of men read broadsides pasted on the side of the building at the corner. Many of the buildings are heavily adorned with signage. Also includes lamppost on the corner with an advertisement promoting Forney's Press. The Parham Sewing Machine Company operated at 704 Chestnut Street in 1870., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: 7th & Chestnut stts[sic], looking west., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher' s imprint printed on verso., Printed on mount: No. 7., Inscribed on negative: 207., Pink mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., R. 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, photographer
Date: [ca. 1870], c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.129]

Title: Second & Chestnut Streets
Description: View photographed circa 1870 looking east from Second Street, north side, showing the 100 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the first building of the Corn Exchange National Bank (1858 -1951) at 127-135 Chestnut Street; Sprague, Colburn & Co., dry goods at 127 Chestnut Street; and A. Campbell & Co., woolen manufacturers, at 125 Chestnut Street. Also includes James H. Billington & Co., manufacturers' supplies, in the distance at 113 Chestnut Street (northeast corner of Letitia Street). Men and boys stand near the bank, including a boy leaning on a lamppost near a horse-drawn carriage in the street. Sprague, Colburn, & Co,. dry goods, tenated 127 Chestnut Street in 1870., Title from manuscript note on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Inscribed on negative: 206., Printed on mount: No. 7., Pink mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record, original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.132]

Title: Exchange, Phila. Pa
Description: Exterior view of the exchange building built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland at the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets (143 South Third). A man reading a newspaper sits in the window of the exchange. Lettering advertising resident stock brokers Bowen and Fox adorns the facade. Also includes partial views of surrounding businesses, including the Sunday Times newspaper office (136 South Third), which occupied the site from 1863 until 1882., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Negative annotated with title., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Banks [P.9260.3]

Title: [Chestnut Street looking east from Thirteenth Street]
Description: View showing the south side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Lacey & Phillips, saddlery and harnessmaker (1220 Chestnut); Reeve L. Knight & Son, carpets (1222 Chestnut); T.L. Jacobs & Co., shirt manufacturer (1226 Chestnut); Peck & Co., druggists (1228 Chestnut); Edward Borhek & Son, opticians (1230 Chestnut); and Carrington, DeZouche & Co., window shades and paper hangings (Chestnut and Thirteenth). Lacey & Phillip's building is adorned with signage advertising the business's awards for excellence. A woman stands in front of Carrington, DeZouche & Co. A boy leans on a lamppost and letterbox at the street corner., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: Thirteenth & Chestnut St., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Pink mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: No. 4., Inscribed on negative: 308., 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, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.131]

Title: [Fifth and Market streets looking west.]
Description: View showing the south side of the 500 block of Market Street. Businesses include: A. Hirsch & Brothers, umbrellas and parasols (500 Market); Charles Hirsch & Brothers , clothiers, and Samuel Vendig, shirt manufacturer (502 Market); F. Paxson & Co., fancy and white goods (504 Market); C.D. McClees & Co., auctioneers (506 Market); Jacob Goldsmith, Jr., clothing (508 Market); Capitol Clothing House (510 Market); Graff Watkins & Co., boots and shoes (512 Market); Bennett's Tower Hall, clothier (518 Market); and Wanamaker and Brown's Oak Hall, clothiers (534 Market). Businesses are heavily adorned with signage. Also includes horse-drawn wagons lining the street, crates lining the sidewalk, individuals standing in front of the shops, and a telegraph pole on the corner., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on verso: 5th & Market looking west., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Inscribed on negative: 218., Pink mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: No. 4., Reproduced in Joseph Jackson's America's most historic highway Market Street, Philadelphia, New ed. (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1926), p. 153., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., 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, photographer
Date: ca. 1871, c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.130]

Title: View from State House
Description: Panoramic view showing the north side of the the 600 block of Chestnut Street, including the office buildings constructed for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne. Includes Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605 Chestnut); the Bulletin Building (607 Chestnut, built 1866); the Jayne Office Building known as the Commonwealth Building (611-613 Chestnut); Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860); and Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut, built 1856). Visible on the 700 block is a sign for "Greene's" and the front facade of the old Masonic Hall (713-721 Chestnut, built 1852-1853)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount below image., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Views [P.9644.27]

Title: Chestnut St. above 4th St
Description: View showing the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut, built 1836); the U.S. Customhouse, (420 Chestnut, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, completed in 1824 after the designs of William Strickland); and the U.S Post Office and U.S. Courts Building (426-428 Chestnut, 1863-1884). Signage adorns the Philadelphia Bank Building, including advertisements for the resident businesses of William M. Clark, engraver on wood, and Boswell & Co., insurance agents. Also includes vendor stands in front of the U.S. Customhouse and pedestrians walking on the sidewalk., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to James Cremer based on other stereographs with same series title and mount, with the photographer's label pasted on verso., Publication information from duplicate and variant stereoviews. (P.9260.49a and P.8931.2)., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [May 21, 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government buildings - C [P.8931.2]

Title: Bird's eye view of Philadelphia, east from State House steeple
Description: Cityscape view looking northeast from State House (520 Chestnut) showing the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street before construction began on the Provident Life & Trust Company building (401-411 Chestnut) in 1876. Includes Peoples Bank (433-437 Chestnut, i.e., Girard Building, built ca. 1874); Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives & Granting Annuities (431 Chestnut, built 1871-73, Addison Hutton, architect); Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank (425-429 Chestnut, built 1854-55, John M. Gries, architect); Philadelphia National Bank (419-423 Chestnut, built 1857-59, John M. Gries, architect); and the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Co. (413-417 Chestnut, built 1873-74, James H. Windrim, architect). Also shows surrounding buildings including the steeple of Christ Church (22-34 North Second Street)., Title printed on mount and in manuscript note on verso of P.2010.6.2., Alternate title on negative of P.9168.17: "East from Sixth and Chestnut"., Photographer's imprint on mounts; in black text on P.2010.6.2 and red text on P.9168.17., Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of the city entitled, "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," printed on verso of P.2010.6.2. Text surmounted by vignette of state seal of Pennsylvania and surrounded by decorative border., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One of the images gift of David Doret (P.2010.6.2).
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.2010.6.2 and P.9168.17]

Title: [Chestnut Street, east of Fourth Street]
Description: View showing the 300 block, north side, of the commercial Philadelphia street around 1867. Businesses include: Stein & Jones (Rudolph Stein & Alfred T. Jones), printers and lithographers at 321 Chestnut; the First National Bank (completed 1867 after designs of John McArthur Jr.) at 315 Chestnut Street; the Bank of North America (established 1781, building completed 1848 after designs of John Notman) at 307-309 Chestnut; and Richard Magee stationery at 316 Chestnut Street. Horse-drawn wagons line the street., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on verso incorrectly identifying location: Chestnut St. E. of 3rd., Orange mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9047.17]

Title: Ches[t]nut Street, [west from 13th Street], Philadelphia
Description: View of the commercial street, above Thirteenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Keystone Bank and F.A. Wenderoth & Co., photographers (1326 Chestnut); Cornelius & Sons, gas fixtures, (1332 Chestnut); Garriston Cornelius's "Arcadian Billiards" saloon (1338 Chestnut); and the Parisian Kid Glove Company (1344 Chestnut). Laborers work in the street in front of the Keystone Bank. Includes partial view of the U.S. Mint. Horse-drawn carriages travel down the street., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Manuscript note on verso: West from 13th St., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9168.15]

Title: Market Street east of 9th Street
Description: View showing the north side of the 800 block of Market Street. Businesses, many covered with signage and adorned with awnings, include Gould & Co. Union Furniture Depot (cor. Ninth and Market); Buchanan & McClure, glass and queensware (837 Market); Truman & Shaw, hardware and tools (835 Market); H. Kampe & Co., furniture (833 Market); William Penn Hotel (831 Market); John C. Hurst, wholesale druggist; Wm. Ackers & Co., queensware and china (823 Market Street); H. Heller, lace (821 Market); Hood, Bonbright & Co., dry goods (811 Market); and A. Kramer & Co., furniture (809 Market). Also shows John B. Ellison & Sons, importers of cloths, cassimeres, and vestings (723-725 Market). Crates line the sidewalks and horse-drawn wagons line the street in the distance. A telegraph pole adorned with two broadsides stands in the foreground., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: Market St east of 9th., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: May 21, 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.8931.1]

Title: [Third Street, east side, north of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the east side of Third Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Depicts the speculative office building built by Borie Brothers after the designs of Fraser, Furness & Hewitt at the northeast corner of Third and Chestnut. The building adorned wtih signage for the tenanting businesses of Franklin Telegraph Office, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and a banker's office, also housed the office of Frank Furness on the top story from 1871 to 1875. Also shows a flags, awnings, and stencil cuttings store adorned with an awning illustrated with a female figure and a partial view of the building at the northwest corner of Third and Chestnut tenanted by bankers, B.K. Jamison & Co., and L. Pelouze & Son's Philadelphia Type Foundry., Title supplied by cataloguer., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: 3 St. north of Chestnut., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9047.19]

Title: Bird's eye view of Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view looking north from Cherry Street showing North Broad Street. Businesses line the street including Convery's Coal Yard (Lehigh & Schuylkill coal), a carriage manufactory, and Philadelphia Ice and Coal Company. Pedestrians crowd the sidewalks and streets., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: May 21, 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.8931.3]

Title: Chestnut above Fourth, North side
Description: View of Chestnut Street, between 4th and 5th Streets, north side, looking west depicting a variety of commercial establishments including Walker & Co.'s cigar store; Kromer's news and patent medicine depot displaying advertisements for Wright's Great Consumptive Cure and Wright's Tar Syrup; William E. Harpur, chromometers; Philip Wilson & Co., gun dealers displaying a rifle three stories high; and Traubel's lithographic establishment., Reissue of a circa 1868 view entitled "Chestnut St., above Fourth, North side" by Bartlett & French of Philadelphia., Orange mount with rounded corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French ca. 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [P.9573.15]

Title: Chestnut St. above 4th St. south side
Description: View showing the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut, built 1836); the U.S. Customhouse, (420 Chestnut, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, completed in 1824 after the designs of William Strickland); and the U.S Post Office and U.S. Courts Building (426-428 Chestnut, 1863-1884). Signage adorns the Philadelphia Bank Building, including advertisements for the resident businesses of William M. Clark, engraver on wood, and Boswell & Co., insurance agents. Also includes vendor stands in front of the U.S. Customhouse and pedestrians walking on the sidewalk., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to James Cremer based on other stereographs with same series title and mount, with the photographer's label pasted on verso., Publication information from duplicate and variant stereoviews. (P.9260.49a and P.8931.2)., Orange mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Mount discolored., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [May 21, 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government buildings - C [(8)1322.F.19h]

Title: Chestnut St. west from 4th
Description: View showing the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut Street, built 1836); the U.S. Customhouse, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, completed in 1824 after the designs of William Strickland (420 Chestnut Street); and the U.S Post Office and U.S. Courts Building (426-428 Chestnut, 1863-1884). Signage adorns the bank building, including advertisements for the resident businesses of William M. Clark, engraver on wood, and Boswell & Co. insurance agents. Also includes vendor stands in front of the U.S. Custom House and pedestrians walking on the sidewalk., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to James Cremer based on other stereographs with same series title and mount, with the photographer's label pasted on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate of (8)1322.F.19h., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 92., Arcadia caption text: Designed by William Strickland, the Philadelphia Bank building accommodated commercial tenants at street level while the bank occupied the upper floors. Businesses sharing bank premises were chosen with care. Although bank robberies were extremely rare in the 19th century, burglars tunneling into banks through the ground, or breaking through the adjoining walls of neighboring structures posed a very real threat to bank security., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [May 21, 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government buildings - C [P.9260.49a]

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