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Title: Third Street, below Chestnut
Description: View of Third Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, west side, looking south. Shows the offices of several newspaper publishers (Public Ledger, Evening Telegraph, and Sunday Transcript) and printers (Haddock & Son, printers and lithographers, and Torr card & job printers); and First Bank of the United States (i.e. Girard Bank)., Title, photographer's imprint and series number from accompanying printed label., Yellow mount with square corners., Orginally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization 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 ca. 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [(8)1322.F.19c]

Title: Chestnut Street, above Third
Description: View of Chestnut Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets, south side, looking east. Shows offices of newspaper publishers (the Public Ledger and the Inquirer) and printers (James B. Chandler's steam power printing and Thomas Magee's job printing and stationery); and signage for Watts & Butler silversmiths and Perry & Co. merchant tailors., Title, photographer's imprint and series number from accompanying printed label., 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., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French ca. 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [(8)1322.F.19e]

Title: [Chestnut Street, above Third]
Description: View of Chestnut Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets, south side, looking east. Shows offices of newspaper publishers (the Public Ledger and the Inquirer) and printers (James B. Chandler's steam power printing and Thomas Magee's job printing and stationery); and signage for Watts & Butler silversmiths and Perry & Co. merchant tailors., Title from duplicate image (8)1322.F.19e., Unmounted half of stereoview., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization 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 ca. 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [(7)1322.F.69k]

Title: [Chestnut Street, west from Seventh Street, north side, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Joseph Monier, bookbinder and printer (Chestnut and Seventh); Washington Hotel (711 Chestnut); and the Masonic Hall (713-721 Chestnut), built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart and razed by fire in 1886. Also includes partial view of Girard Fire Insurance Company (639 Chestnut) and signage for the The One Dollar Store, variety store, on the south side of the block., Attributed to Robert Newell., Unmounted half of stereoview., Title supplied by cataloguer., 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: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(7)1322.F.59a]

Title: [Chestnut Street, above Fourth, south side]
Description: View of Chestnut Street, between 4th and 5th Streets, south side, looking west. Primarily depicts the Philadelphia Bank building (400-408 Chestnut, designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland, built 1836) which served as an office building and displays signage for Aetna Life Insurance Company; Commonwealth Bank; Edward Borheck, optician; and Alfred J. Reach's cigar store. Includes a partial view of the U.S. custom house (formerly the Second Bank of the U.S., also designed by Strickland, built 1818-24) and the U.S. Post Office building (1863-1884). Right hand corner of the image contains a large sign advertising card and job printing probably for the firm of Glessner & Co.; and a sign advertising a patent medicine, Wright's tar syrup. Also contains two horse-drawn carriages and a street vendor's stall., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with sqaure 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., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French ca. 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French, photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [(8)1322.F.21f]

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