View photographed during the 1860s showing the William Penn Hotel at 10 Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. View also includes the adjacent building incorrectly identified by 19th-century historians as the Letitia Penn House. Signs for V. Rundnagel's German saloon and Jacob Sinn, importer of liquor, (operating at the address in 1868) adorn the Penn house. The residence was incorrectly recorded as built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701., Publisher's imprint including illustration printed on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount., The prolific Anthony firm, established in 1859, operated from 591 Broadway between 1871 and 1881., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Anthony - Hotels [P.9462.12]
View showing the building known incorrectly as the Letitia Penn House on Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. The misidentified residence, purportedly built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701, was relocated to Fairmount Park in 1883. A torn Civil War broadside adorns the side of the house. View also includes the adjacent William Penn Hotel., Trimmed yellow mount with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Reproduced in Joseph Jackson's America's most historic highway (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1926), p. 32., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1863
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Residences [(6)1322.F.60c]
View photographed during the 1860s showing the building incorrectly identified by 19th-century historians as the Letitia Penn House at 8 Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Signs for V. Rundangel's German saloon and Jacob Sinn, importer of liquor, (operating at the address in 1868) adorn the Penn House. View also includes the adjacent William Penn Hotel. The residence was wrongly recorded as built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701. The house was relocated to Fairmount Park in 1883., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., 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. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Hotels [P.9047.89]
Views showing the former Penn residence tenanted by John C. Rogers, sign painter, and a wine and cigar dealer, at the southeast corner of Second Street and Norris Alley (Sansom Street). The H-shaped building, adorned with signage and broadsides, was the residence of Penn from 1699-1701. Also includes merchandise displays in front of the building and partial views of adjacent businesses., Yellow mounts with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Possibly by Philadelphia photographer John Moran., One of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1864
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Residences [(6)1322.F.60a & P.9758.1]
View showing the William Penn Hotel on Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. A group of working-class men stands near a fire hydrant in front of the hotel. View also includes the adjacent building incorrectly identified by 19th-century historians as the Letitia Penn House, which was wrongly recorded as built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701. Signage decorated with a beer keg adorns the misidentified Penn house., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9047.26]
