View photographed following a snowstorm showing the 900-800 blocks of Chestnut Street. Includes the Girard House hotel, built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-838 Chestnut Street. Also shows signage adorning Besson & Son, mourning store (918 Chestnut) and Geo. Fryer, dry goods store (916 Chestnut) in the foreground. Snow covers buildings' awnings and the street. A few pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, a man sits on an awning, and an individual leans from an upper window to sweep snow from a ledge., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date
1859-1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - C [(6)1322.F.163b; (7)1322.F.63a]
View showing North Eighth Street between Market and Arch streets. Businesses include a photographic studio, job printing office, drapery store, furniture company, and Espen & Brother's lace emporium (31 N. 8th). Storefronts are heavily adorned with signage as well as ornamental animal decorations, including, an ostrich, an elephant, and eagles. Horse-drawn carriages line the street and several pedestrians walk on the sidewalk under the buildings' awnings. Espen & Brother vacated 31 North Eighth Street circa 1864., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on accompanying photographer's label: Eight St. looking South from Arch., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., See Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #81., 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. 1864]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.17d]
