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Title: Chestnut Street from the Custom House
Description: View looking east from the U.S. Custom House at 420 Chestnut Street. Shows the tobacco store of M.B. Dean (413 Chestnut) and partial views of the Philadelphia National Bank building (419 Chestnut) and the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut, built 1836) Also shows adjacent businesses; horse-drawn carts and carriages traveling and lining the street; and flags adorning several of the buildings., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Title from accompanying photographer's label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1980), entry #175., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: April 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.23d]

Title: Sixth and Chestnut St[reet]s Philada
Description: View showing the north side of Chestnut Street near the corner of Sixth Street. Businesses include: William B. Gihon, engraver on wood and Joseph Schiller's hat manufactory (537-539 Chestnut); T. & J.W. Johnson, publisher and booksellers of law books (535 Chestnut); John G. Connelly's hotel and restaurant (527 Chestnut). Also includes Rockhill and Wilson, clothiers, (603-605 Chestnut) on the adjacent block. Awnings adorn all the buildings., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title from manuscript note on mount., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.23g]

Title: Sixth and Chestnut St[reet]s Philada
Description: View showing the north side of Chestnut Street near the corner of Sixth Street. Businesses include: William B. Gihon, engraver on wood and Joseph Schiller's hat manufactory (537-539 Chestnut); T. & J.W. Johnson, publisher and booksellers of law books (535 Chestnut); John G. Connelly's hotel and restaurant (527 Chestnut). Also includes Rockhill and Wilson, clothiers, (603-605 Chestnut) on the adjacent block. Awnings adorn all the buildings., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title from manuscript note on mount., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.23g]

Title: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Eighth to Ninth, north side
Description: View showing the north side of the 800 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Sharpless Brothers, wholesale wools and dry goods (801-803 Chestnut); Edward Ferris, importer of whitegoods (807 Chestnut, 1870-1871); and the Girard House hotel (built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.) at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Awnings adorn many of the buildings. In the foreground, individuals stand on the sidewalk near lampposts and a horse-drawn wagon stands idle., Stereograph on green mount with square corners., Photographer's imprint and title printed on stereograph mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Lower right corner missing from stereograph., 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 [(6)1322.F.21e; (8)1322.F.27c]

Title: Chestnut Street from the Custom House Philadelphia
Description: View looking east from the U.S. Custom House at 420 Chestnut Street. Shows the tobacco store of M.B. Dean (413 Chestnut) and partial views of the Philadelphia National Bank building (419 Chestnut) and the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut, built 1836). Also shows adjacent businesses; horse-drawn carts and carriages traveling and lining the street; and flags adorning several of the buildings., Yellow mount with square corners., Title from accompanying photographer's label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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
Date: April 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.23b]

Title: Second & Chestnut Streets
Description: View photographed circa 1870 looking east from Second Street, north side, showing the 100 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the first building of the Corn Exchange National Bank (1858 -1951) at 127-135 Chestnut Street; Sprague, Colburn & Co., dry goods at 127 Chestnut Street; and A. Campbell & Co., woolen manufacturers, at 125 Chestnut Street. Also includes James H. Billington & Co., manufacturers' supplies, in the distance at 113 Chestnut Street (northeast corner of Letitia Street). Men and boys stand near the bank, including a boy leaning on a lamppost near a horse-drawn carriage in the street. Sprague, Colburn, & Co,. dry goods, tenated 127 Chestnut Street in 1870., Title from manuscript note on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Inscribed on negative: 206., Printed on mount: No. 7., Pink mount with rounded corners., 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.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.132]

Title: [View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware]
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37]., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Duplicate of (2)2526.F.37 and (6)1322.F.59c.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.121b]

Title: View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Title and name of photographers from manuscript note by collector on mount., Mount inscribed with directions: N. E. S. W., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume II, page 37., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Duplicate of (6)1322.F.121b and (7)1322.F.59c.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets [(2)2526.F.37]

Title: Chestnut St. west from 4th
Description: View showing the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut Street, built 1836); the U.S. Customhouse, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, completed in 1824 after the designs of William Strickland (420 Chestnut Street); and the U.S Post Office and U.S. Courts Building (426-428 Chestnut, 1863-1884). Signage adorns the bank building, including advertisements for the resident businesses of William M. Clark, engraver on wood, and Boswell & Co. insurance agents. Also includes vendor stands in front of the U.S. Custom House and pedestrians walking on the sidewalk., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to James Cremer based on other stereographs with same series title and mount, with the photographer's label pasted on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate of (8)1322.F.19h., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 92., Arcadia caption text: Designed by William Strickland, the Philadelphia Bank building accommodated commercial tenants at street level while the bank occupied the upper floors. Businesses sharing bank premises were chosen with care. Although bank robberies were extremely rare in the 19th century, burglars tunneling into banks through the ground, or breaking through the adjoining walls of neighboring structures posed a very real threat to bank security., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [May 21, 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government buildings - C [P.9260.49a]

Title: Bingham House Philada
Description: 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]

Title: Runn ing to a fire. A colision [sic]
Description: One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows the rushing volunteer jostling the stand of a female fruit peddler at a street corner. She looks in annoyance over her tipped fruit baskets and spilt bottle of refreshment as the firefighter rushes past, blowing the rallying trumpet call. Storefronts, including a drugstore, and a street lamp are visible in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 253a, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Fire Fighting [P.8970.10]

Title: At a fire. What boys may expect when they get in firemen's way
Description: One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows a volunteer, in full uniform, spraying a boy bystander in the face, instead of a crumbling, burning building, with a fire hose. The fire hose is attached to a hand-pumper visible in the background. Also shows fire debris, a hose attached to a hydrant, other fire fighters attending the fire engine, and the storefront of "F. Adams.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 253d, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Variant of P.8970.14., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.11]

Title: Market Street, [above Fourth Street], Philadelphia
Description: View of the commercial street above Fourth Street, north side, showing 431-425 Market Street. Depicts William Brooks, ribbons, millinery goods, and straw goods, at 431 Market Street; Armar Young, Bro. & Co. (Young, Moore, & Co.), embroideries, hosiery, and notions, at 429 Market Street; Buehler Howard & Co, hardware, and Cunningham & Ethier, boots and shoes, at 427 Market Street; and White & Pechin, wood & willowware (dinnerware designed with a willow motif), Samuel Vendig, shirts, and the W. Williamson, dry goods office, as tenants of 425 Market Street. Buildings are heavily adorned with signage, which include the street numbers. A horse-drawn cart stands idle before 425 Market Street. Crates line the sidewalk. Also includes partial view of 433 Market Street., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., 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. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Cremer - Streets [P.9260.37]

Title: High Street, from the country market-place Philadelphia with the procession in commemoration of the death of General George Washington, December 26th, 1799
Description: View of Market Street above Fourth Street showing the funeral procession instituted by a congressional decree in honor of the first president. Depicts a riderless horse, pallbearers carrying a draped empty bier adorned with swords and tricorn hat, and other parade participants, including members of Congress and militia volunteers, slowly moving passed several mourning spectators. Mourners line the street, watch from the windows of several buildings, and stand within a market shed, including a woman and child., Third of three variants., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 11.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1804]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views - Sn 11c varient [P.2276.21]

Title: Fifth Street above Arch Street, west side
Description: View showing the westside of the 100 block of North Fifth Street. Businesses include Garrigues & Magee, manufacturers of photographic and daguerreian chemicals (108 N. 5th) and Tripple's Shoe Store (110 N. 5th). Also shows the shadow figure of a peddler standing on the sidewalk near his basket in front of the shoe store. Magee, a photographer, operated his chemical business circa 1857 to the early 1890s., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Title from manuscript note on recto, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 99.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: August 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - F [(7)1322.F.53d]

Title: High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church Taken down in 1820. Philadelphia
Description: Street scene with a view of the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street below Third Street. Depicts pedestrians, predominately women, traversing the sidewalk before the church and adjacent buildings; a horse-drawn dray and cart traveling the street; and a woman peddler with her basket of goods near the High Street market shed. First Presbyterian, rebuilt from 1793 to 1794 after the designs of John Trumbull, was the first building in the city with a classic temple facade. The building was razed following the relocation of the congregation., Contains watermark: Amies Phila and dove with branch., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 9.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1828]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 9c/P.2276.17]

Title: Continental Hotel, Philada
Description: View looking southeast from above Ninth Street showing the luxury hotel at the corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets. Completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., the hotel contained several businesses in its lower level, including "Charles Oakford & Son" hat shop and "Vansant's Manufactory of French Confections." The building was demolished in 1924. Also visible on the commercial street are a shirt manufactory and a looking glass store. A street lamp advertising the Walnut Street Theater stands on the corner of the sidewalk jammed with pedestrians. Horse-drawn carriages line the street., Title from manuscript note on accompanying label., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Newell - Hotels [(8)1322.F.29e]

Title: South east corner of Third, and Market Street. Philadelphia
Description: Street scene depicting the bustling southeast corner of Third and Market Streets. Several vendors, mostly women, sell meat and produce from their basic stands and baskets to the numerous patrons, including two Black women in kerchiefs and shawls, milling on Market Street. View includes the commercial business block erected in 1792 by prosperous jeweler and developer Joseph Cooke, known as "Cooke's Folly." The lavish building, containing residences and stores to be won as lottery prizes, was demolished in 1838 after several years of decay from lack of investment., Title from item., Manuscript note on recto: Presented by Thos. Marsh., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 8., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 8/P.2276.14]

Title: South east corner of Third, and Market Street. Philadelphia
Description: Street scene depicting the bustling southeast corner of Third and Market Streets. Several vendors, mostly women, sell meat and produce from their basic stands and baskets to the numerous patrons, including two Black women in kerchiefs and shawls, milling on Market Street. View includes the commercial business block erected in 1792 by prosperous jeweler and developer Joseph Cooke, known as "Cooke's Folly." The lavish building, containing residences and stores to have been won as lottery prizes, was demolished in 1838 after several years of decay from lack of investment., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982), pl. 8., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 8/P.2276.15]

Title: [Artist's study of detail from Second Street north from Market St. wth. Christ Church. Philadelphia.]
Description: Artist's study of a street scene showing Second Street north from Market Street with a view of Christ Church. Depicts a man on horseback, his back to the viewer, traveling down the street toward the church. A dog runs past him. To his right, pedestrians, including an African American boy with a basket, stroll near a horse-drawn cart. In the left, men and a boy gather around a man on horseback. Christ Church, a Protestant Episcopal Church, was built between 1727 and 1744 and was founded as part of a provision of the original charter given to Pennsylvania founder William Penn., Title from plate 15 in the first edition of Birch's "Views of Philadelphia.", Bequest of Charles Poulson, 1866., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Quarter of a millennium...(Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia in cooperation with Camino Books, 1981), p. 144., See Snyder 's "William Birch: His Philadelphia views," The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 73 (July 1949), p. 271-315., Reproduced in Julius Sachse's Pictures of old Philadelphia from the originals in the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1901), vol. 1, plate 42. (LCP Print Room Albums), Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook., Accessioned 1999., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, artist
Date: [ca. 1798]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department drawings & watercolors-Birch [P.9667]

Title: South-east corner of Twelfth and Locust streets
Description: View of the business and residential Philadelphia street corner with a two-story, wooden building advertising the sale of cigars, tobacco, coal, and oil. Barrels and carts line the sidewalk. Rowhouses are interspersed amongst the businesses including a liquor store, a lager beer hall, and Palace Segar store. Men, women, and children pedestrians, including African Americans, walk on the sidewalk. In the nineteenth century, the neighborhood, known as Washington Square West, contained one of the city's largest populations of African Americans., Title from item., Possibly commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Select link below for a digital image., Purchase 1975., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.120], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc120.html

Title: Northwest corner of Eleventh and Pine Streets. Demolished 1889. Present site of the Gladstone
Description: View depicting the commercial Philadelphia street corner with the grey wood shack of Michael Traynor, licensed tavern and oyster house, for sale. Storefronts include a stove and heater manufactory; a store selling birds; Schriber, tin and sheet iron worker; a "segar" store; and a lager beer hall. Street trolleys are partially visible to the far right and left. Several pedestrians, predominately African Americans, walk the sidewalks. Individuals board and depart the trolleys. The Gladstone, erected between 1889 to 1890, was the city's first apartment hotel. In the nineteenth century, the neighborhood, known as Washington Square West, contained one of the city's largest populations of African Americans., Title from item., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Purchase 1975., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1883, circa 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.121], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc121.html

Title: Northwest corner of Eleventh and Pine Streets. Demolished 1889. Present site of the Gladstone
Description: View depicting the commercial Philadelphia street corner with the grey wood shack of Michael Traynor, licensed tavern and oyster house, for sale. Storefronts include a stove and heater manufactory; a store selling birds; Schriber, tin and sheet iron worker; a "segar" store; and a lager beer hall. Street trolleys are partially visible to the far right and left. Several pedestrians, predominately African Americans, walk the sidewalks. Individuals board and depart the trolleys. The Gladstone, erected between 1889 to 1890, was the city's first apartment hotel. In the nineteenth century, the neighborhood, known as Washington Square West, contained one of the city's largest populations of African Americans., Title from item., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Purchase 1975., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1883, circa 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.121], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc121.html

Title: [Myers, Claghorn & Co. auction store, 232 Market Street]
Description: View showing loaded horse-drawn carts in front of the auction store. Also shows adjacent businesses, including a drugstore and Joseph C. Grubb & Co., guns, rifles, pistols, cutlery, and plated wares. Grubb & Co. storefront adorned with a large model of a rifle. Also shows a man leaning on a crate standing next to barrels at the street corner. Auction store razed December 1860., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: corner of Bank and Market St., Inscribed in negative: 17., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 56., Arcadia caption text: In 1836 John B. Myers and John W. Claghorn established an auction and commission merchant business and were soon joined by Claghorn’s son and future partner James. This view, taken c. 1860, shows the Myers, Claghorn & Co. building located on the south side of Market between Second and Third streets. A ramp at the front entrance facilitated easier movement of goods in and out of the building. After retiring from the business in 1861, James Claghorn worked tirelessly for the Union League and became a well-known art collector and patron of the arts.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - M [(7)1322.F.37a]

Title: [Artist's study of detail from New Lutheran Church, in Fourth Street Philadelphia]
Description: Street scene on Fourth Street below Cherry Street depicting Speaker of the House of Representatives, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, leading a tour of a delegation of Native American men. Native American delegations visited the city to pay respects and to negotiate land treaties when Philadelphia served as the nation's capitol. Muhlenberg led a tour of several tribal groups in 1793. Also shows buildings in the right, including the New Lutheran Church built 1795-1796., Title from plate 6 in the first edition of Birch's "Views of Philadelphia.", Bequest of Charles Poulson, 1866., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook., See Martin Snyder's "William Birch: His Philadelphia views," The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 73 (July 1949), p. 271-315., Reproduced in Julius Sachse's Pictures of old Philadelphia from the originals in the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1901), vol. 1, plate 43. (LCP Print Room Albums)., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia : Portrait of an American city (Philadelphia: Camino Books in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), p. 105.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, artist
Date: [ca. 1799]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department drawings & watercolors - Birch - Colonel Muhlenberg [P.9666]

Title: 7th + Filbert Sts., [Philadelphia, PA]
Description: Glass negative showing the corner of Seventh and Filbert Streets in Philadelphia. A three-story building stands on the corner in the center with a sign reading "D.M. Shirk Dry Goods" (701 Filbert Street). To the left stands a six-story building with a sign painted on the side that reads "Philada. Photo Electrotype Co. Designers & Engravers" (707-709 Filbert Street). A sign on the front of the building reads "709 Ladies' Undergarments Quindlen & Co. [...] Dresses, 707." The buildings to the left have signs reading, "Gold Leaf," "Phila. Tag Co. Label & Paper Cutting" (44 N. 7th Street), "Central Trunk Factory," and "Oliver T. Terry [...] Woolens" (46 N. 7th Street). People walk on the sidewalk while a carriage drive down the street., Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.552]

Title: 7th + Filbert Sts., [Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing the corner of Seventh and Filbert Streets in Philadelphia. A three-story building stands on the corner in the center with a sign reading "D.M. Shirk Dry Goods" (701 Filbert Street). To the left stands a six-story building with a sign painted on the side that reads "Philada. Photo Electrotype Co. Designers & Engravers" (707-709 Filbert Street). A sign on the front of the building reads "709 Ladies' Undergarments Quindlen & Co. [...] Dresses, 707." The buildings to the left have signs reading, "Gold Leaf," "Phila. Tag Co. Label & Paper Cutting" (44 N. 7th Street), and "Oliver T. Terry [...] Woolens" (46 N. 7th Street). Various people walk on the sidewalk while a carriage drives down the street., Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.550]

Title: [M. L. Hallowell & Co. Importer and jobbers in silk goods, 147 Market Street, Philadelphia] Philadelphia Market Street
Description: Advertisement showing the 4-story ornamented sandstone storefronts completed in 1853 after the designs of Gustav Runge at 145, 147, 149 (i.e., 300 block) Market Street. Businesses include Maddock Raymond & Co., watches & jewelry, Spring Oaks & Co., dry goods (145); M. L. Hallowell & Co., importers & jobbers in silk goods, Guillou Walton & Co., hosiery & linen goods (147, later 333); and De Courcey Lafourcade & Co., importers of mens wear and cloth warehouse. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic. An older gentleman walks near two women peering into the windows of Lafourcade as a man stands at the entrance of Hallowell. In the street, a horse-drawn dray races past two laborers loading crates onto three drays parked in front of Hallowell & Co. Nearby, a man carrying a wood pole over his shoulder rushes behind two dogs chasing one another past a man carrying a satchel on his back. Also contains two female allegorical figures bordering the image in the upper corners. One figure holds the coat of arms of Pennsylvania and the other holds a horn of plenty., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 445, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 H 193, Newspaper clipping dated June 23, 1853 describing the completion of the building in LCP Poulson Scrapook, vol. 7, p. 79.
Creator: Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908, artist
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 H 193

Title: [Philadephia Bank building] Country merchants will be supplied with goods at any of the above stores, on the most favorable terms. S. W. corner 4th & Chestnut sts. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the storefronts tenanting the Philadelphia Bank building completed in 1836 after the designs of William Strickland at Bank Place, i.e., 400-408 Chestnut Street. Businesses include Hancock, Bennett & Wolfe, importers of fancy goods and manufacturers of silver and plated ware (No. 1 Bank Place); Levi Eldridge, carpet & floor cloth warehouse (No. 2); W. F. Slaughter, paper hangings (No. 3); C. Bulkley, hat, cap, & fur store (No. 4); and Robb & Swift, successors to Browne & Robb, tailors (132 Chestnut). A family strolls on the sidewalk and patrons exit and enter the businesses that display merchandise, including rolled carpets, in the shop windows and in front of the stores. Partial views of adjacent buildings, including the Second Bank of the U.S., in addition to a horse pulling a vehicle, are visible. Also contains advertising text for each of the businesses that lists specific merchandises and promotes customer services, printed below the image. Merchandise includes chandeliers and Japannery Brittania & block tin wares; hearth rugs, floor baizes, stair-rods, and carpet bindings; fire-board figures; and muffs, pellerines & boas., Title and date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 573, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 87 C 525, Described in Public Ledger, April 2, 1838.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 87 C 525

Title: Chestnut Strasse, Sudwetseite der 4th.= Chestnut Street, west of Fourth
Description: Street scene showing the south side of Chestnut Street between 4th and 5th Streets depicting two bank buildings designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland: the Philadelphia Bank building (built 1836) and the custom house (formerly the Second Bank of the U.S., built 1818-24). Philadelphia Bank building (400-408 Chestnut, after renumbering) houses and includes signage for the Western Bank and Girard Life & Trust Company, as well as H.S. & C. Ogden, tailors; Kelly & Bright, stationers; Edward Borheck, optician; Martin Leans, engraver; Wilcox & Delleker, custom house brokers; and Wm. H. Patton, dealer in decorative wall papers. Street scene includes a vendor, two coaches, a man on horseback, and pedestrians., Title and imprint variant of one in the series "Panorama of Philadelphia" published 1856 by Schnabel, Finkelday & Demme., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00019, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 4th-5th, Schnable & Finkelday operated as a partnership 1858-1860 following the departure of partner Willliam Demme in 1857.
Creator: Collins & Autenrieth, artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 4th-5th

Title: [Chestnut Street, east from Thirteenth Street, south side, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the south side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Lacey & Phillips, saddlery and harnessmaker (1220 Chestnut); Reeve L. Knight & Son, carpets (1222 Chestnut); T.L. Jacobs & Co., shirt manufacturers (1226 Chestnut); Peck & Co., druggists (1228 Chestnut); Edward Borhek & Son, opticians (1230 Chestnut); and Carrington, DeZouche & Co., window shades and paper hangings (Chestnut and Thirteenth). Lacey & Phillip's building is adorned with signage advertising the business's awards for excellence. A woman stands in front of Carrington, DeZouche & Co. Also shows a boy leaning on a lamppost and letterbox at the street corner., 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. 1869]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.49i]

Title: 1600 block of Chestnut St., south side looking east
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting commercial store fronts along the south side of the 1600 block Chesnut Street, looking east. The WCAU Building (1618-1622) towers over adjacent three and four story stores and shops. Built circa 1931, purportedly after designs by Harry Sternfeld and Gabriel Blum Roth. Includes Sun Ray drug store (1624); Whitman & Son Retail Store (1626), built in 1929 after designs by Edmund Beaman Gilchrist; Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort Shop (1628), built in 1927 after designs by Rankin & Kellogg; and Mann & Dilks' clothing store (1630). Automobile traffic and parked vehicles are visible in the foreground., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Date: ca. 1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.31]

Title: [Chestnut Street, rooftop view east from Odiorne's studio at 920 Chestnut Street]
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include the hotels built after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 and the Girard House hotel (823-825 Chestnut) built 1851. Also shows the Masonic Temple(713-721 Chestnut); the roof of the Burd mansion (900-906 Chestnut); building signage advertising a boy's clothing bazaar at the northwest corner of Ninth and Chestnut; and street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn omnibus., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Manuscript note on recto of (6)1322.F.69a: Chestnut E. from 9th., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - C [(6)1322.F.27e & 69a]

Title: [Chestnut Street, rooftop view east from Odiorne's studio at 920 Chestnut Street]
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include the hotels built after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 and the Girard House hotel (823-825 Chestnut) built 1851. Also shows the Masonic Temple(713-721 Chestnut); the roof of the Burd mansion (900-906 Chestnut); building signage advertising a boy's clothing bazaar at the northwest corner of Ninth and Chestnut; and street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Manuscript note on verso: Snow storm April 10, 1862., Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - C [P.2282.13]

Title: View from State House
Description: Panoramic view showing the north side of the the 600 block of Chestnut Street, including the office buildings constructed for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne. Includes Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605 Chestnut); the Bulletin Building (607 Chestnut, built 1866); the Jayne Office Building known as the Commonwealth Building (611-613 Chestnut); Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860); and Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut, built 1856). Visible on the 700 block is a sign for "Greene's" and the front facade of the old Masonic Hall (713-721 Chestnut, built 1852-1853)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount below image., Cataloging 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 - Views [P.9644.27]

Title: Philadelphia's pride, her public building, Pa., U.S.A
Description: View looking north toward City Hall (built 1871-1901, John McArthur, Jr., architect) from South Broad Street, where construction on the tower, begun in 1884, is still in progress. In the left foreground stands the Lafayette Hotel, formerly La Pierre House built 1853 after designs by Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr., at the northwest corner of Broad and Sansom Streets. The hotel was expanded and renamed in 1876. In the right background stands the Girard Trust Company building at the northeast corner of Broad and Chestnut Streets built 1888-89 after designs by Addison Hutton. Also shows pedestrians on the sidewalks and horse-drawn vehicles, including a double-decker omnibus traveling north on Broad Street and private coaches moving in both directions., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Buff 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 Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date: c1891
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Government buildings [P.9047.116]

Title: Chestnut St. above 4th St
Description: View showing the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut, built 1836); the U.S. Customhouse, (420 Chestnut, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, completed in 1824 after the designs of William Strickland); and the U.S Post Office and U.S. Courts Building (426-428 Chestnut, 1863-1884). Signage adorns the Philadelphia Bank Building, including advertisements for the resident businesses of William M. Clark, engraver on wood, and Boswell & Co., insurance agents. Also includes vendor stands in front of the U.S. Customhouse and pedestrians walking on the sidewalk., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to James Cremer based on other stereographs with same series title and mount, with the photographer's label pasted on verso., Publication information from duplicate and variant stereoviews. (P.9260.49a and P.8931.2)., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [May 21, 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government buildings - C [P.8931.2]

Title: North Broad St., Phil., PA
Description: View looking south from below Race Street to City Hall on Penn Square. East side of street shows a partial view of the Masonic Temple (completed 1873 after the designs of James Hamilton Windrim), Odd Fellows Hall (built 1893), and the store of Thomas B. Wanamaker's (son of John Wanamaker). West side of the street shows the First Baptist Church (built 1856 after the designs of Stephen Button), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (completed 1876 after the designs of Furness & Hewitt), and the manufactory "Heywood Bros & Co. Wholesale Chair & Ratan Furniture Warerooms." Shows City Hall (completed 1901) with an incomplete tower (constructed 1884-1896) in the background. Horse-drawn carriages travel and park on the sides of the street. Pedestrians walk the sidewalks., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Copyrighted by Alfred S. Campbell, Elizabeth, N.J., U.S.A., Buff mount with rounded corners., Title inscribed in negative., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Campbell, Alfred S.
Date: [ca. 1893]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Campbell - Streets - Broad [P.9047.130]

Title: Chestnut Street, [west of Tenth Street], Philadelphia
Description: View of the commercial street, above Tenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Stephen F. Whitman & Son branch candy store at 1004 Chestnut Street; Gustavus A. Schwartz toy store and Blasius Brothers piano manufacturer at 1006-1008 Chestnut Street; J.T. Gallagher jeweler at 1016 Chestnut Street; and the St. Lawrence Hotel at 1018-1020 Chestnut Street. 1006 Chestnut Street is heavily adorned with signage including advertisments for: Decker Bros. and G.A. Miller pianos; Steinway pianos; and Wm. Pew Smith Classical & English School. View also includes a billboard, across the street from the Whitman candy store, referring to the "Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York" (built 1873-1875)., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Manuscript note on verso: West of 10th., Yellow mount with rounded corners., 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 stereo - Cremer -Streets [P.9168.16]

Title: Market St., west of 10th St
Description: View of the commercial street, above Tenth Street, south side. Businesses include: Clark's Heating & Ventilating Warehouse at 1008 Market Street; Dale & Thomas, carpets, at 1010 Market Street; James Spear & Co., stoves, heaters, and ranges at 1014 Market Street; William Ray, clothier, at 1018 Market Street; William F. Simes, saddlery and harnessmaker, at 1026 Market; and the Bingham House hotel (named after express and freight agent John Bingham), established in 1867, at the corner of 11th and Market streets. Several of the businesses display their merchandise in front of their stores, including the stove warehouses and the clothier. A telegraph pole stands in the foreground. A horse-drawn wagon rests in front of the carpet store., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's label pasted on verso advertising: Stereoscopes and Views, Wholesale and Retail., 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.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9047.94]

Title: [Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, south side, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the south side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street, including a gentlemen's clothing store, an oyster house, several wool and cotton dealers, and Robert Patterson & Co.,commercial merchants. Men stand in front of the storefronts and horse-drawn drays, crates, and barrels line the street and sidewalks., 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 [(6)1322.F.69e]

Title: [Chestnut Street, west from Ninth Street, north side, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the north side of the 900 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the Pennsylvania Central Railroad ticket office (901 Chestnut); Richelderfers, gentlemen's furnishings (903 Chestnut); and J.E. Gould, piano and organ dealer (923 Chestnut). Railroad ticket office heavily adorned with signage. Also includes partial view of an awning inscribed "[sil]ver plated war[es]" adorning the business on the adjacent corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets., 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 [(6)1322.F.94e]

Title: Third St., north of Walnut, east side
Description: View showing the back of the Merchants' Exchange building, designed by William Strickland, at the southeast corner of Third and Walnut streets. Includes signage for the Union Mutual Insurance Company (incorporated 1804) that tenanted the building at street level. In front of the building, a man leans on a tree, a female peddler sits beside her produce stand, and a horse-drawn carriage stands idle. View also includes a lamppost with letter box., Paper label on verso listing over one hundred exterior views published by the firm., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 97., Arcadia caption text: ... The image below, looking north along Third Street from Walnut Street, shows the plainer western façade of the Exchange., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1869]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9041]

Title: New Chestnut Street Theatre
Description: View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Joseph M. Durr's restaurant (1211 Chestnut) at street level, Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall west of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "The Black Crook" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks and three horse-drawn coaches travelling in the street., Titles from printed label pasted on mount., Yellow paper mount with square corners., The Black Crook played at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1868., See duplicates: Bartlett & French (8)1322.F.29b and (8)1322.F.35i, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - theaters [(8)1322.F.29b]

Title: [New Chestnut Street Theatre.]
Description: View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Joseph M. Durr's restaurant (1211 Chestnut) at street level, Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall west of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "The Black Crook" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks and three horse-drawn coaches travelling in the street., Titles from printed label on duplicate: (8)1322.F.29b., Yellow paper mount with square corners., The Black Crook played at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1868., See duplicates: Bartlett & French (7)1322.F.1c and (8)1322.F.35i, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., 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: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Theaters [(8)1322.F.35i]

Title: [Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia]
Description: Street scene looking northeast from below the intersection of Walnut and Dock streets showing the semi-circular portico of the exchange. The building was built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland. A horse-drawn trolley travels on Dock Street near parked horse-drawn carriages. Also shows surrounding businesses including a partial view of the Girard National Bank (formerly Bank of the United States) at 120 South Third Street and John C. Clark & Sons, stationers and printers, at 230 Dock Street., Trimmed light yellow mount., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Image faded and emulsion damaged., 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 - Banks [(6)1322.F.117f]

Title: [Third Street, east side, north of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the east side of Third Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Depicts the speculative office building built by Borie Brothers after the designs of Fraser, Furness & Hewitt at the northeast corner of Third and Chestnut. The building adorned wtih signage for the tenanting businesses of Franklin Telegraph Office, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and a banker's office, also housed the office of Frank Furness on the top story from 1871 to 1875. Also shows a flags, awnings, and stencil cuttings store adorned with an awning illustrated with a female figure and a partial view of the building at the northwest corner of Third and Chestnut tenanted by bankers, B.K. Jamison & Co., and L. Pelouze & Son's Philadelphia Type Foundry., Title supplied by cataloguer., Orange mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: 3 St. north of Chestnut., 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. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9047.19]

Title: [Arch Street Theatre, 609-615 Arch Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the north side of the 600 block of Arch Street, including the remodeled Arch Street Theatre. The theater, built 1826-1828 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland, was altered in 1863, and razed in 1936. Also shows adjacent buildings, including: J.S. Collings & Sons, carriage and wagonmakers (625 Arch); Metropolitan Hotel (623 Arch); and S.W. Jacobs Carriage Warehouse (617 Arch). Street lamps line the sidewalk., Yellow mount with square corners., 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.
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Theaters [(8)1322.F.5b-2]

Title: East from Independence Hall
Description: Panoramic view showing Banker's Row on the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Company, completed in 1874 after the designs of James Hamilton Windrim (413-417 Chestnut); the Philadelphia National Bank built 1857-1859 after the designs of John M. Gries (419-423 Chestnut); the Farmers and Mechanics Bank built 1854-1855 after the designs of Gries (425-429 Chestnut); the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives & Granting Annuities built 1871-1873 after the designs of Addison Hutton (431 Chestnut); and the Girard Building built circa 1871 after the designs of Windrim (435 Chestnut)., Curved 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.
Date: ca. 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Views [P.9567.14]

Title: Panoramic view of Philadelphia west from State House
Description: Panoramic view showing the north side of the the 600 block of Chestnut Street, including the office buildings constructed for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne. Includes a hat manufactory (Sixth and Chestnut); Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605 Chestnut); the Bulletin Building covered with scaffolding (607 Chestnut, built 1866); Perry & Co., clothiers (609 Chestnut); the Jayne Office Building known as the Commonwealth Building (611-613 Chestnut); Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut, built 1860); and Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut, built 1856)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., 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. 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Views [P.9462.23]

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