Exterior view of front of apartments constructed in 1909 after designs by James C. Fernald., Also identified as the Monte Vista Apartments., Sheet number: 117B01B1., 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. 1930
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Lauber's through Stenton - 117]
Contains images of the Hotel Pennsylvania, built in 1922 after designs by Clarence Edmond Wunder. Depicts exterior views of the hotel looking southwest at the 39th Street front. Also includes interior views of the lobby, lounge, men's club and the gentlemen's smoking room., Contains 3 postcards printed in color and 5 printed in black and white. Also includes 2 linen postcards., Also identified as the Chestnut Hall Apartments, the Penn Sherwood and Hotel Philadelphian., Sheet numbers: 117A04, 117B01C and 117B01D., 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
1922-1950
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Lauber's through Stenton - 117]
Exterior view of apartment house built 1925-26 after designs by Sugarman & Berger., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1926
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Residences - A - M - [P.9048.254]
Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting a three story apartment building converted from an old row home at the southeast corner of Eleventh and Brown Streets. The window store front and corner entrance suggests that the first floor was once a shop. A woman stands on the entrance stairs of the building. Includes other dwellings on Eleventh and Brown Streets and two parked cars near the corner., Title from manuscript note on verso., The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998.
Date
ca. 1940
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.4]
Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting a brick row house converted to apartments. African American men stand in the doorway and look out an open window from the building managed by Samuel T. Fox. The Jackson Cross-Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998., Label on recto: Jackson-Cross Company, Lincoln-Liberty Building, Philadelphia., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date inferred from content., Number 27., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date
[ca. 1940]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.11]
