View from Chestnut Street looking south down Congress Place, a gated alley, toward Carpenters' Hall. Contains partial views of businesses adjoining the alley including a portion of the window display for Montgomery Hart & Co., wallpaper, and advertising broadsides for ships displayed in front of Adams Express Company, a private mail service. The Hall, built between 1770 and 1774 after designs by member Robert Smith., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 11, page 89. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape. unknown volume, page 89., Reproduced in Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976), entry #314b.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
May 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Organizations - C [2526.F.89], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f89.jpg
View of the front of Carpenters' Hall, surrounded by large office buildings on three sides, including the Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co. (left), the Bullitt Building (rear) and the new Carpenters' Hall (right). Built between 1770 and 1774 by the Carpenter's Company of the City and County of Philadelphia after designs by member Robert Smith. Served as the meeting place for the First Continental Congress in 1774., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1896
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.145]
Exterior view of Carpenters' Hall built between 1770 and 1774 by the Carpenter's Company of the City and County of Philadelphia after designs by member Robert Smith. Also served as the meeting place for the First Continental Congress in 1774., Inscribed in negative: 2187., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator
Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date
ca. 1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.8]
