View looking north from below Spruce Street showing several businesses occupying rundown rowhouses on the 200 block of Water Street. Depicts a wine & liquor store, boarding houses with taverns, and an oyster house, including Hughes Hotel and the Saffin House. Also shows a peddler with his basket posed at the street corner and a cart and horse in the background., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in early photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), plate #26.
Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date
September 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - W [(7)1322.F.37b]
