Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Taken from corridor balcony outlook, inside main entrance. Note: The lamps appearing in upper centre of picture are but reflections of a lamp in the corridor, shining on the window pane through which this picture was taken. Roadway illumination on No. side caused by W. bound traffic. No illumination on So. side because headlights are turned away from camera (E bound traffic)., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry,edited.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 199 [P.8513.199], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson199.htm
Title from manuscript note pasted to lower edge of case., Pad: Dark green velvet., Mat: Lacking mat., Case: Leather. No design., Gift of John Archibald McAllister., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Resealed by CRH [Christine Hindle] 1/79.
Creator
Mason, William G.
Date
ca. 1843
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Mason [59542.D]
Contains views of North Broad Street from City Hall and views looking south toward City Hall from North Broad Street. Includes the Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad Street); the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (55-65 North Broad Street); the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Building (112-116 North Broad Street); the Mercantile Club (1422-26 North Broad Street), the Parkway Building and the Sweeten Auto Company Building (117-121 North Broad Street). Also includes an aerial view of North Broad Street from City Hall., Contains 14 postcards printed in color and 3 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Broad Street - North - 16]
View of Third Street, between Market and Chestnut Streets, west side, looking north. Includes signage for W.F. Scheible awning, tent and flag manufacturers and stencil cutters (49 S. Third)., Title, photographer's imprint and series number from accompanying printed label., Yellow mount with square corners., Published in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-Century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1980), plate 227., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French ca. 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - streets [(8)1322.19d]
Depicts row homes along the south side of Cumberland Street, east of 26th Street., Numbered 2631 on recto., Sheet number: 156B02., Real photo. Divided back. Post marked 1909., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts row homes along the east side of Edmund Street looking south from Friendship Street., Sheet number: 156B03., Real photo. Divided back. AZO stamp box with upward pointing triangles in the corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts row homes along the west side of 18th Street north of Columbia Avenue., Numbered 6223 on recto., Sheet number: 156B03., Real photo. Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts row homes along the west side of 5th Street north of Allegheny Avenue. Includes a grocery store on the corner and a sign for the adjacent cigar store. Also depicts pedestrian and street traffic., Numbered 1062 on recto., Sheet number: 156B05., Real photo. Undivided back. Post marked 1907., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts row homes along the south side of Hazel Street near 52nd Street., Numbered 38 on recto., Sheet number: 156B06., Real photo. Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts row homes along the west side of 56th Street north of Girard Avenue., Numbered 5676 on recto., Sheet number: 156B06., Real photo. Divided back. Post marked 1908., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts row homes along the south side of Green Street west of 19th Street., Numbered 4906 on recto., Sheet number: 156B07., Real photo. Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts row homes on K Street west of Kensington Avenue. Includes a sign for H. Trochler, florist, and several school children posing for the picture., Numbered 3892 on recto., Sheet number: 156B08., Real photo. Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1906
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts residences on the west side of Chew Avenue near Mount Airy Avenue., Sheet number: 156B09., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts residences along the east side of Pulaski Avenue south of West Logan Street., Numbered 8381 on recto., Sheet number: 156B09., Real photo. Divided back. Post marked 1910., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts residences along North 7th Street south of West York Street. Includes a partial view of a corner store., Numbered 849 on recto., Sheet number: 156B09., Real photo. Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts row homes on Cambridge Street., Numbered 5669 on recto., Title illegible., Sheet number: 156B10., Real photo. Divided back. Post marked 1909., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts a row of dwellings and trees lining the residential area of West Spruce Street., Numbered 785 on verso., Sheet number: 156A06., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1906
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts row homes along the 1600 block of Bouvier Street., Numbered 6394 on recto., Sheet number: 156B01., Real photo. Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts snow covering Columbia Avenue, along with businesses decorated for the Businessmen's Carnival., Sheet number: 156B02., Real photo. Divided back. VELOX stamp box in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts businesses along the north side of Columbia Avenue, east of 18th Street., Numbered 6300 on recto., Sheet number: 156B02., Real photo. Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts Pelham Road north of West Hortter Street, a residential area developed on the estate of George W. Carpenter by Philadelphia's mercanitile class in the 1890s., Numbered 503 on verso., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [P.9048.274]
Depicts a row of dwellings and trees lining the residential area of West Spruce Street., Numbered 785 on verso., Undivided back. Post marked 1906., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1906
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [P.9048.43]
Depicts dwellings along Leiper Street, south of Gillingham Street in Frankford., Divided back. AZO stamp box with upward pointing triangles in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [P.9933.2]
Depicts dwellings along Van Pelt Street, south of West York Street., Divided back. AZO stamp box with upward pointing triangles in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [P.9933.3]
Depicts Beyerle's drug store on the corner of Venango and L Streets, looking west. Includes dwellings in the background., Divided back. AZO stamp box with upward pointing triangles in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [P.9933.4]
Depicts row homes along the 900 block of south 60th Street, near Carpenter Street in West Philadelphia., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [P.9231]
Depicts private residences on both sides of Penn Street looking north., Numbered 930 on verso., Sheet numbers: 104A01 and 104A02., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Miscellaneous - 104]
Depicts a man walking along the west side of the 5100 block of Wayne Avenue (below Hansberry Street), showing large private residences and trees lining the street. House most clearly visible is 5130 Wayne Avenue, a large Queen Anne style residence constructed ca. 1886. Also includes partial view of the Sally Watson Center at 5128 Wayne Avenue in the left foreground., Numbered 11632 on recto., Sheet number: 104A04., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
c1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Miscellaneous - 104]
Depicts row homes on Rockland Street near York Road in the Logan section of Philadelphia., Sheet number: 156B10., Real photo. Divided back. Post marked 1909., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts a large crowd of pedestrians and streetcars on an unidentified street., Sheet number: 156B11., Real photo. Divided back. AZO stamp box with upward pointing triangles in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Contains views of Chestnut Street looking west from Sixth Street, Eighth Street, Ninth Street and Eleventh Street. Also includes views looking east from Sixth Street, Eleventh Street and Sixteenth Street. Depicts one view looking north from Chestnut and Fifth Streets. The Philadelphia Record building, Post Office, United States Custom House and the Pennsylvania Building are the most prominent buildings in these street views., Contains 21 postcards printed in color and 8 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Chestnut Street - 46]
Sheet music cover containing a view looking down an alley of wooden buildings, probably in Philadelphia. Shows a male figure leaning on a lamppost in front of a girl seated on the sidewalk and leaning on a shed on a street lined with debilitated colonial-style small wooden dwellings., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: P&P Sheet Music Little Homeless One
Date
c1867
Location
Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC P&P Sheet Music Little Homeless One
View looking downhill along a street in Manayunk bordered by snow-covered houses, telephone poles, and wires., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Where from this point, the term "down the street" is literally true. Manyunk [sic] - Phila., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.21: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 69.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 217 [P.8513.217], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson217.htm
View looking downhill along a street in Manayunk bordered by snow-covered houses, telephone poles, and wires., Photographer's manuscript note on verso of duplicate: Where from this point, the term "down the street" is literally true. Manyunk [sic] - Phila., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.217: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 69.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 21 [P.8513.21], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson217.htm
Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The most interesting street from an artistic and colonial viewpoint in Phila., no. side Cherry St bet. 2" and 3 Sts. Mostly Americans live in this square. Note second house from left. An excellent type of colonial home, in good state of preservation. Flemish bond and ribbon front. Formerly a private school for young ladies. Large rooms. High ceilings., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 138 [P.8513.138], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson138.htm
View of the interior of the "Jersey Market" shed on Market Street between Front and Second Streets. Depicts individuals, including a woman and boy, strolling through and in front of the closed market. Partial views of town hall and other market sheds are visible in the distance. The High Street Market established in the late 17th century, began operating from a permanent shed around 1709, providing shoppers twice a week with produce, meats, and wares from New Jersey and Pennsylvania farms., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 10.
Creator
W. Birch & Son
Date
1799
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 10/P.2276.18]
Depicts an identified bridge spanning the drive near Sweet Briar Mansion in Fairmount Park., Numbered 2290 on recto., Sheet number: 86A10., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1910-1915
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Depicts the s-curve of Lincoln Drive near an unidentified pedestrian bridge spanning Paper Mill (Monoshone) Run. View looking north toward Harvey Street., Contains 11 postcards printed in color and 4 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1905-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Lincoln Drive - 76]
Depicts Bustleton Avenue north of Welsh Road, showing the side of the Union Hotel and other residences nearby., Divided back. AZO stamp box with upward pointing triangles in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [P.9933.5]
Depicts a row of old dwellings and businesses along the north side of Locust Street, near Second Street, including a grocer (left) and L. Bernhardt, tailor, at 241. Includes the back of a delivery wagon, a partial view of a carriage (right) and a single pedestrian passing a row of barrels on the sidewalk., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 21., Arcadia caption text: Philadelphia’s numerous blocks of brick rowhouses are the most striking characteristic of the city’s residential architecture. The great local abundance of high quality clay and lime used to make mortar contributed to the prevalence of this style. Photographed at the close of the 19th century, this image captures a row of 18th-century residences on the north side of the 200 block of Locust Street.
Creator
Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date
Negative 1898
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.153]
Depicts a partial view of the Glenwood School at the northwest corner of 30th and Gordon Streets. Includes views of row homes west of the school on Gordon Street and a partial view of a corner store at the southwest corner., Sheet number: 156B10., Real photo. Undivided back. Post marked 1912., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1912
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
View of two identical brick Italianate twin houses with central towers capped by a flat roof with overhanging eaves. Towers extend above the main rooflines. View includes balustrades on the second level and trees in adjacent yards and on sidewalk., Title from manuscript note on mount., Numbers and mathematical equations written on verso of mount in ink., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1875]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.8931.5]
View looking southeast at the fronts of residences on the 1500 block of North Broad Street below Oxford Street. Trees planted at evenly-spaced intervals partially obscure the houses., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's label pasted on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Cataloging 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 stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9191.3]
Glass negative showing a view of a row of buildings on Germantown Avenue. The road is lined with bricks and has trolley tracks running down the center. A man stands next to the lamppost at the corner in front of a large stone building with "Germantown Saving Fund" carved into the facade., Photographer remarks: Not well focussed. All these Gtn. 5 x 8's taken with (cousin) Rebecca Cooper's camera., Time: 7:30, Light: Good sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator
Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date
April 10, 1889
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1501]
View of the small cobblestone alley looking south toward Elfreth's Alley, showing the front and back elevations of dwellings., Title, photographer and date from manuscript note on verso., Gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator
Lightfoot, Frederick S., photographer
Date
November 4, 1947
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Lightfoot - Streets [P.9047.35]
View looking south on Fourth Street, including Daniel Donnelly's tavern (310 S. 4th). Three men stand near the entranceway of the tavern. Also shows the adjacent business, "Browning's new cheap store," possibly the cigar store of Ellen Browning. Browning tenanted 315 S. 4th Street in 1858., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Title from manuscript note on mount: 4th above Pine., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in early photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 53.
Creator
Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date
August 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - F [(7)1322.F.71a
Street scene showing commercial establishments on the block including the Public Ledger building. Depicts the western corner of the State House covered with theater broadsides., Photographer's imprint printed on mounts., Green mounts with square corners., Manuscript note on verso of P.9260.65: Philadelphia Jany 28/71. Chestnut St. from 6th to 7th - south side., One of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate view entitled Ledger Building published by R. Newell & Son, number 212 in their series on public buildings and street views (P.9047.33)., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date
Jan. 28, 1871
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - streets [(8)1322.F.25e; P.9260.65]
Street scene showing commercial establishments on the block including the Public Ledger Building. Depicts the western corner of the State House covered with theater broadsides., Title from duplicate view published as a stereograph by R. Newell, 724 Arch St. (P.9260.65)., Originally from a McAllister scrapbook., Also published as a stereoview entitled Ledger Building by R. Newell & Son, number 212 in their series on public buildings and street views (P.9047.33)., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date
[1871]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - streets [(6)1332.F.117d]
Exterior view showing storefront at 1601 Market Street. Also depicts adjoining businesses including John S. Hansell, produce dealer at 1605 Market. Image includes two delivery wagons, barrels lining the sidewalk, and street railway tracks. Graham and Hansell are first listed in city directories simultaneously at this location in 1862., Nonpareil brass mat., Leather case with geometric design. Front cover separated. Losses in leather., Deep blue velvet pad, stamped., Image damaged at upper right along roofline., Similar view reproduced in Robert Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976) page 98.
Date
ca. 1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - unidentified [P.9669.17]
View of the U.S. Post Office and U.S. Courts building at the southwest corner of Chestnut and 5th Streets. Opened February 23, 1863, the building was used as a post office until 1884. View also shows commercial buildings on the south side of Chestnut and includes pedestrians, a produce wagon and people distributing printed materials on the steps of the custom house., Title, photographer's imprint and series number from accompanying printed label with stereograph., Stereograph on yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French ca. 1867-1869.
Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Government Buildings [(8)1322.F.1e-1 & 21c]
