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Title: Continental Hotel, Philadelphia
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the luxury hotel at the southeast 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., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Manuscript note on verso: 335. Looking down Chestnut St. from 9th St., 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. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Hotels [P.9047.48]

Title: Continental Hotel, Philadelphia Pa
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 verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Name of photographer from duplicate stereograph [(8)1322.F.29e]., 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: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Newell - Hotels [7992.F.22]

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: 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]

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