View looking east from Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800 block of Market Street. Depicts Gimbel Brother's Department Store, opened in 1894, at the southeast corner of Ninth and Market streets. Street and pedestrian traffic includes trolleys and horse-drawn carriages., Tile from label on negative., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: Made especially for fine trade., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1895
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9260.82]
Circular containing an exterior view of the three-story storefront for the dry goods store at 1126-1128 Chestnut Street on the back cover. Horse-drawn carriages travel in the street, pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, and sections of adjacent buildings are partially visible. Also contains advertising text printed internally., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00052, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana, POSP 47
Date
[ca. 1879]
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana
Shows the Philadelphia engineer and noted coaching enthusiast and his wife Rebecca in the cab of a four-in-hand coach in a landscape setting. Several young ladies from prominent Philadelphia families sit on the deck behind the couple. Two African American groomsmen stand near the horses. Rogers was the founder of the Philadelphia Coaching Club and the first person in Philadelphia to drive a four-in-hand, which was painted by Thomas Eakins., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: Saturday May 10, 1879. Mr. & Mrs. Rodgers [sic]; Hattie Meigs; Annie Williams; Lily Sturgis; Marian Rawle; Emily Newbold; Maidie Hart; Maud Potts; May McMichael; Mrs. Dick; Harriet Etting., Purchase 2010., 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
Schreiber & Sons
Date
May 10, 1879
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 - Schreiber (by photographer) [P.2010.18.1]
