View focuses on the entrance way showing four columns. Includes man standing at the base of a column., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Deep purple velvet with an oval design in the center, surrounded by leafy scroll work., Mat: Double elliptical., Case: Leather. Geometric design with broken scrolls in the center surrounded by swirls. A leafy design is at each corner., See Board Report dated September 17, 1991 which describes the building in more detail. The architect was Thomas U. Walter
Date
ca. 1848
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9336]
Pre-consolidation view of several properties and pedestrian activity on Walnut Street near Third Street. Includes J.H. Earle's tailor shop and Charles Toppan's bank note engraving business (60 Walnut Street, east of Third Street); Watson's Lithography at the southeast corner (62 Walnut Street), with Samuel W. Thackara, conveyancer, facing Third Street; J. Hancock & Co., upholsterers, at the southwest corner of Third and Walnut; and the first building of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society. Pedestrian traffic including men, women and children strolling down the street in groups, a horse-drawn carriage traveling north on Third Street, and a man pushing a handcart west on Walnut Street., J.F. Watson operated his lithography business from 62 Walnut Street between 1835 and 1843., Title supplied by cataloger., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 83
Date
ca. 1837
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Drawings & Watercolors - unidentified - W [357M]