View showing guests sitting on the porch or piazza of the seaside hotel opened in 1869 on the entire block between Howard and Gurney streets and Columbia Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean. Depicts a row of tall columns and shuttered windows flanking the porch. The hotel, designed by S.D. Button, was damaged in the great fire of 1878, but endured. Demolished in 1910., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Trask & Bacon, a partnership between Albion K. P. Trask (1830-1900) and W. Frank Bacon (1843-1900), was active briefly in Philadelphia ca. 1875.
Creator
Trask & Bacon
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Trask & Bacon [P.9260.80]
