Philadelphia, from the State House, looking N.E.
Title
Philadelphia, from the State House, looking N.E
Description
Cityscape view looking northeast from State House (520 Chestnut) showing the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes Blackwood & Co. carpet store (431 Chestnut) and Farmers & Mechanics Bank built 1854-1855 after the designs of John M. Gries. Also shows surrounding buildings including the steeple of Christ Church (22-34 N. 2nd)., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Date from duplicate. [(5)2526.F.1c]., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
[photographed October 12, 1855, printed ca. 1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [1322.F.4f]
Philadelphia, from the State House, looking N.E. [graphic].
Title
Philadelphia, from the State House, looking N.E
Description
Cityscape view looking northeast from State House (520 Chestnut) showing the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes Blackwood & Co. carpet store (431 Chestnut) and Farmers & Mechanics Bank built 1854-1855 after the designs of John M. Gries. Also shows surrounding buildings including the steeple of Christ Church (22-34 N. 2nd)., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Date from duplicate. [(5)2526.F.1c]., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
[photographed October 12, 1855, printed ca. 1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [1322.F.4f]
Philadelphia, from the State House, looking N.E.
Title
Philadelphia, from the State House, looking N.E
Description
Cityscape view looking northeast from State House (520 Chestnut) showing the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes Blackwood & Co. carpet store (431 Chestnut) and Farmers & Mechanics Bank built 1854-1855 after the designs of John M. Gries. Also shows surrounding buildings including the steeple of Christ Church (22-34 N. 2nd)., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Date from duplicate. [(5)2526.F.1c]., 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., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
[photographed October 12, 1855, printed ca. 1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [1322.F.4f]
[Intersection of Eleventh and Market streets, north side, Philadelphia]
Title
[Intersection of Eleventh and Market streets, north side, Philadelphia]
Description
View showing the 1000-1100 blocks of Market street near North Eleventh Street. Businesses include Bull's Head Hotel (1025 Market); V.E. Archambault, dry goods and carpets (N.E. cor. Eleventh and Market); a tin manufactory and John H. Parker, grocer (1101 Market); and J. Barr's bookstore (1105 Market). Awnings adorn all of the storefronts. Street traffic includes horse-drawn omnibuses, carts, and a conestoga wagon., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount with square corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo -unidentified - Streets [P.8464.34]
Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street below Eighth. [graphic].
Title
Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street below Eighth
Description
Views looking east from below Eighth Street showing the Masonic Hall at 713-721 Chestnut. The hall, built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart, was razed by fire in 1886. Shows adjacent and tenant businesses, including Marxsen & Witte, china and glass (713 Chestnut); Marvin & Co., safes (721 Chestnut); E.H. Godshalk, carpets (723 Chestnut); and Wood & Cary, straw goods (725 Chestnut). Also includes views of signs on the south side of the block including the sign for Willis P. Hazard, bookseller and publisher (724 Chestnut)., Attributed to Bartlett & French., Title from labels pasted on mount and verso., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., One image 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., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1868.
Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer
Date
ca. 1868
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Associations [(8)1322.F.27a; P.9260.8]
Jaynes' Hall, Chestnut Street below Seventh
Title
Jaynes' Hall, Chestnut Street below Seventh
Description
View showing Jayne's Hall, an office building built in 1856 for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne, at 625-631 Chestnut Street. Also shows Jayne's other office building, Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860) and adjacent businesses, including Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605 Chestnut) and the Bulletin Building (607 Chestnut, built 1866). Jayne buildings tenanted by: Atwood, Ralston & Co., carpet manufacturers and merchants; Farrel, Herring & Co., safes; Furness, Brinley & Co., auctioneers and merchants; Keystone Collar Company; Lafourcades Bros. & Irwin, importers of cloths, cassimeres, and vestings; Lynch & Fisher, dry goods; Merchant's Express Company; M.L. Hallowell & Co., merchants; Van Deusen, Boehmer & Co., men's furnishing goods; Yard, Gilmore & Co., silk goods. Street railroad tracks run down the street., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from label on negative., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Union View Co.
Date
[ca. 1868, printed ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo -Union View Company - Streets [P.9189.5]