View showing one of the oldest seaside hotels, built in 1816 by Thomas Hughes, at Beach Drive and Congress Street. The hotel, originally called the "Big House," was renamed Congress Hall in 1828 when Hughes was elected to Congress. The grand lodging, able to accommodate 1000 guests, was destroyed by the great fire of 1878 and rebuilt in brick the following year. View includes a gazebo in the fenced courtyard., Black mount with rounded corners., Title from descriptive label pasted on verso., Contains label on verso describing the hotel, the proprietor J.F. Cake, and the West Jersey Railway Co., which provided service between Philadelphia and Cape May., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New Jersey., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Souder & Nowell, a partnership between S.T. Souder and F.A. Nowell, was active in Philadelphia in 1874.
Creator
Souder & Nowell, photographer
Date
1874
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Souder & Nowell - Cities & towns [5742.F.5a]
View showing the seaside hotel opened in 1869 on the entire block between Howard and Gurney streets and Columbia Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. The hotel, destroyed in the great fire of 1878, was rebuilt, and destroyed again by fire in 1889. Includes horse-drawn carriages and guests standing near the entrance., Black mount with rounded corners., Title from descriptive label pasted on verso., Contains label on verso describing the hotel, proprietor Charles Duffy, and the West Jersey Railway Co., which provided transportation between Philadelphia and Cape May., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New Jersey., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Souder & Nowell, a partnership between S.T. Souder and F.A. Nowell, was active in Philadelphia in 1874.
Creator
Souder & Nowell, photographer
Date
1874
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Souder & Nowell - Cities & towns [5742.F.5c]
View showing guests sitting on the porch or piazza of the seaside hotel opened in 1869 on the entire block between Howard and Gurney streets and Columbia Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. Depicts a row of tall columns and shuttered windows flanking the porch. The hotel, designed by S.D. Button, was damaged in the great fire of 1878, but endured. Demolished in 1910., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Trask & Bacon, a partnership between Albion K. P. Trask (1830-1900) and W. Frank Bacon (1843-1900), was active briefly in Philadelphia ca. 1875.
Creator
Trask & Bacon
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Trask & Bacon [P.9260.80]
View showing a group of people gathered on the beach in Cape May, New Jersey with large hotel buildings in the background. Several men and women wear bathing suits and are stretched out in the sand in the foreground. Others sit in chairs or stand with parasols. In the background, a large building with tall columns, probably Congress Hall, is partially visible., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's imprint on verso with printed list of fifty-three unnumbered views in the series., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Samuel C. Chester and Levin Corbin Handy partnered together in the 1880s.
Creator
Chester & Handy
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Chester & Handy [P.9260.11]
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