Depicts Finance Committee Room (i.e. City Council Administration, Room # 496) filled with desks and chairs; ornate wood paneling lines walls. Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Finance Room, City Hall. Masterly example of cabinetmakers [sic] art. Doorway leads into old common council chambre. To the right of this doorway is the panel of which a "close up" view may be seen in this collection., 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 40 [P.8513.40], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson40.htm
Depicts Finance Committee Room (i.e. City Council Administration, Room # 496) filled with rows of desks and chairs, with ornate wood paneling on walls. Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Manuscript note on verso: Finance Room, 4 floor City Hall Circasian Walnut, hand carved, fine proportions with respect to length, breadth and heighth of room. Undoubtly [sic] the most artistic room in the City Hall. (get more data as to coloring of ceiling, walls and draperies.), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 41 [P.8513.41], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson41.htm
Depicts detail of panels in Select City Council Chamber (i.e. Office of Chief Clerk, Room # 402). Designed by architect John McArthur, Jr., City Hall was built 1871-1901., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: 2 panels in Councilroom. 4" floor City Hall. Note: masterly inlay work and a triumph of woodcarving., 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 46 [P.8513.46], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson46.htm
