View looking east from Eleventh Street showing the hotel at 1026-1044 Market Street. The hotel, established in 1867 on the former site of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Depot, was named after freight and express agent John Bingham. Building remodeled and expanded in 1890 and demolished in 1926. Also shows a horse-drawn carriage and partial views of adjacent storefronts and a freight car in the street, Photographer's imprint embossed on mount., Title from manuscript note on mount., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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.
Creator
Bartlett & Smith, photographer
Date
ca. 1869
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Hotels [(8)1322.F.31b]
