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Title: Bingham Hotel postcards
Description: Contains images of the Bingham House Hotel, originally built as the Mansion House Hotel for Thomas Leiper in 1812. Includes exterior views of the front facade looking northwest. Also depicts interior views of the Green and Blue Restaurant, the roof garden, and the lobby. Renovations for the Bingham Hotel were undertaken in 1890 after designs by Willis Gaylord Hale., Sheet numbers: 112A01 and 112A02., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bingham through Green's - 112]

Title: [Bingham House, 11th & Market streets, Philadelphia]
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 adjacent businesses on the south side of the 1000-1100 blocks of Market, including: a piano manufactory, drug store, and heater and range manufactory. Barrels, crates, and handcarts line the sidewalks in front of the storefronts., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Manuscript note on verso: Bingham House 11 & Market., 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 - Hotels [P.9234.1]

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: 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: Market St[reet] west from 10th [Street]
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 Street; 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., Publication information from duplicate stereograph. [P.9047.94], Orange mount with rounded corners., 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. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.9260.53]

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