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Title: U.S. Mint
Description: View looking northwest at the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. Also shows two horses on Chestnut Street in the left foreground., One of 107 titles printed in series list on verso (No. 139-245)., Publisher's imprint on verso., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Government buildings [P.2010.6.16]

Title: U.S. Mint, Chestnut below Broad St., Phila. Pa
Description: View looking northeast from Juniper Street showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. Men sit on the columns supporting the lamp posts in front of the mint building, while others stand near the partially ripped-up cobblestone street. A pile of stones rest on the sidewalk and trees in iron cages line the street in the foreground. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Professor Otto Albrecht., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Government Buildings [P.8913.7]

Title: [U.S. Mint, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Exterior view showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and 13th streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1901 when the mint relocated. The building was razed in 1902. Includes partial view of the side of an adjacent building, Gumpert Brothers cigar manufactory, advertising "Seeley's Hard Rubber Trusses." Trees protected by tree boxes line the street in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note by photographer on verso: Coffee dry plates; Rouger Lens 60, Sec 0., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Described in Terence Pitt's William Bell: Philadelphia Photographer (MA thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987), p. 55-56., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bell, a Philadelphia photographer, was an early experimenter with dry plates.
Creator: Bell, William, 1830-1910, photographer
Date: May 22, 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bell - Government Buildings [P.9047.4]

Title: U.S. Mint [Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Exterior view showing the front of the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and 13th streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the agency relocated and the building was razed. Trees protected by tree boxes line the street in the foreground., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Date from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Hurn, J. W., photographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hurn - Government Buildings [P.9462.3]

Title: United States Mint
Description: Exterior view of the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and 13th streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the agency relocated and the building was razed. Pedestrians stand on the steps of, in front of, and near the building. Trees protected by iron cages line the street in the foreground., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Moran and Story was a short-lived partnership between Philadelphia photographers John Moran and John Story in the early 1860s.
Creator: Moran & Storey
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran & Story - Government Buildings [P.8464.19]

Title: U.S. Mint
Description: Exterior view of the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and 13th streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed. Trees protected by tree boxes line the street in the foreground., Title from manuscript note on mount., Attributed to John Moran., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: ca. 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran -Government Buildings [(8)1322.F.29c]

Title: U.S. Mint
Description: View showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland, and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed. Trees line the sidewalk in front of the building. Also shows a partial view of a horse-drawn carriage., Title from manuscript note on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Inscribed on negative: 147., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government Buildings [P.9299.19]

Title: U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
Description: View looking west from Juniper Street showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed. Includes partial view of the side of an adajcent building, Gumbert Bros. Cigar manufactory, advertising "[Seeley's] Hard Rubber Trusses." Trees in iron cages line the street in the foreground., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Cremer - Government Buildings [P.9260.33]

Title: U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
Description: View looking east from Thirteenth Street showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed. Includes partial view of the adjacent cigar manufactory adorned with an awning inscribed with the name of the business, Gumpert Bros., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Cremer - Government Buildings [P.9260.34]

Title: U.S. Mint, Chestnut, below Broad St
Description: View looking northeast from Juniper Street showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. Men sit on the columns supporting the lamp posts in front of the mint building. A pile of stones rest on the sidewalk and trees in iron cages line the street in the foreground. The awning for the adjacent Gumpert Bros. cigar shop (1341 Chestnut Street) is partially visible. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Similar image taken on the same day printed on yellow mount with square corners and included as No. 1038 in the series entitled "American Scenery" (P.8913.7)., 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: [photographed ca. 1866, printed ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Government Buildings [P.9107.6]

Title: Bird's eye view Philadelphia, from LaPierre House
Description: Rooftop view looking northeast from LaPierre House on Broad Street, showing the front elevation of St. John the Evangelist Church (23-25 South Thirteenth, built 1830, William Rodrigue, architect), the top of the Pennsylvania Railroad freight depot (Thirteenth and Market), a mostly obscured view of the United States Mint (1331-1337 Chestnut, built 1883, William Strickland, architect), and rooftops of adjacent buildings., Title and photographer from series list printed on blue paper and pasted on verso with thirty-one other titles (No. 1-31)., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Hurn, J. W. (John White), d. 1887, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hurn - Views [P.9107.11]

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