View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Joseph M. Durr's restaurant (1211 Chestnut) at street level, Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall west of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "The Black Crook" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks and three horse-drawn coaches travelling in the street., Titles from printed label pasted on mount., Yellow paper mount with square corners., The Black Crook played at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1868., See duplicates: Bartlett & French (8)1322.F.29b and (8)1322.F.35i, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Cataloging 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 circa 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French
Date
[1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - theaters [(8)1322.F.29b]
View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Joseph M. Durr's restaurant (1211 Chestnut) at street level, Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall west of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "The Black Crook" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks and three horse-drawn coaches travelling in the street., Titles from printed label on duplicate: (8)1322.F.29b., Yellow paper mount with square corners., The Black Crook played at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1868., See duplicates: Bartlett & French (7)1322.F.1c and (8)1322.F.35i, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Cataloging 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 circa 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French
Date
[1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Theaters [(8)1322.F.35i]
