View showing the businesses at 303 South Second Street at the intersection of Second and Little Dock (i.e., Mattis) streets. Shows the ramshackle building tenanted by J.T. Wells, clothier; Jacob Reed, clothing rooms; and J. & R. Hattuck, locksmiths and bell hangers. Includes two gentlemen in top hats conversing on the Little Dock Street side of the building; a freight car and sign post for a hotel in the right background; and surrounding businesses., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative of (7)1322.F.39., Inscribed in negative of (7)1322.F.39: 23., Manuscript note on recto of (7)1322.F.55e: S.e. cor 2nd & Spruce., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Image (7)1322.F.39 reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #64.
Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date
March 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - L [(7)1322.F.39d & 55e]
