View showing loaded horse-drawn carts in front of the auction store. Also shows adjacent businesses, including a drugstore and Joseph C. Grubb & Co., guns, rifles, pistols, cutlery, and plated wares. Grubb & Co. storefront adorned with a large model of a rifle. Also shows a man leaning on a crate standing next to barrels at the street corner. Auction store razed December 1860., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: corner of Bank and Market St., Inscribed in negative: 17., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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. 56., Arcadia caption text: In 1836 John B. Myers and John W. Claghorn established an auction and commission merchant business and were soon joined by Claghorn’s son and future partner James. This view, taken c. 1860, shows the Myers, Claghorn & Co. building located on the south side of Market between Second and Third streets. A ramp at the front entrance facilitated easier movement of goods in and out of the building. After retiring from the business in 1861, James Claghorn worked tirelessly for the Union League and became a well-known art collector and patron of the arts.
Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - M [(7)1322.F.37a]
