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Title: F. & L. Ladner's Northern Military Hall, nos. 528, 530 & 532 North Third Street, Philadelphia Concert saloon
Description: Advertisement showing the busy interior of the saloon and concert hall built 1857 on the 500 block of North Third Street. Men, women, and children patrons sit, drink, read, approach, and are served at several tables in front of a stage. In the foreground, men gather near two bars on each side of the saloon. The bar in the right of the image contains a soda fountain. Each is manned by bartenders and is stocked with bottles of liquor. A framed painting, a wall clock, and a large mirror decorate the areas. Several hanging and plotted plants adorn the balconies that are lined with windows. In the background, an actor and two actresses perform on the stage that is flanked by statuary and has a painted backdrop. Also contains a vignette, bordered by filigree, showing the exterior of the hall. View includes crowds of patrons entering the two entrances of the establishment. The Ladners operated the hall 1857-1881., Artist possibly Max or Morris Rosenthal., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 222, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.9008]

Title: [Detail from circular of views of the interior of a concert hall and saloon, probably F. & L. Ladner's Military Hall, 528-532 North Third St. Philadelphia]
Description: Clipped out detail of two views showing several male patrons gathered at tables in the central hall with a baby grand piano in the rear, and a side room decorated with a fountain adorned with a sculpture and fence. Most of the men look toward the viewer as they sit with their drinks, read newspapers, or are attended by waiters with trays of refreshments. One man has his hat and coat lying on his table. Other decorations include hanging plants, caged trees, lamps, and molding. The saloon and concert hall built 1857, was operated by the Ladners 1857-1881., Not in Wainwright., Artist's initials in lower right corner of one of the views., Attributed to Stein & Jones., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 180, See related advertisement print **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.9008]
Creator: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153j]

Title: Academy of Music - or operahouse - S.W. cor. Broad & Locust St
Description: View of front and partial side facades of brick and sandstone Italianate style building. Architects Napoleon LeBrun and Gustav Runge formed a short-lived partnership to win design competition. Building constructed 1855-1857. Served as home of Philadelphia Orchestra from 1900-2000., Photographer's blind stamp on duplicate., Title from scrapbook inscription., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of Poulson scrapbook of material relating to Philadelphia.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees [8339.F.32]

Title: Academy of Music, Philadelphia
Description: View of front facade of brick and sandstone Italianate style building. Architects Napoleon LeBrun and Gustav Runge formed a short-lived partnership to win design competition. Building constructed 1855-1857., Title from printed paper label., Yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of images relating to Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Theaters & halls [(8)1322.F.35g]

Title: Academy of Music, side view
Description: View of front and partial side facade of brick and sandstone Italiantate style building. Architects Napoleon LeBrun and Gustav Runge formed a short lived partnership to win the design competition. Building constructed 1855-1857., Printed label on verso contains title, series title, photographer's imprint and a list of Philadelphia views offered by the firm., Pale green mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Theaters & halls [P.9299.22]

Title: Henry Miller's concert garden. Nos. 720 & 722 Vine Str. Philadelphia
Description: Sheet music cover containing an interior view of the crowded concert hall and theater operated by Henry Miller beginning circa 1854. Several men and women sit at, and converse and walk among the many tables of the seating area as a number of waiters serve the patrons. A music ensemble plays on a raised platform with guard rails in the left of the image and several people line a small stage in the center rear of the hall where a small performance appears to be happening. To the right of the performance, the stairwell to the upper balcony, lined with people, is visible. Greenery and vinery decorate the hall that includes a glass ceiling and windows, some open, across and adjacent to the balcony. After several proprietors, the theater was renamed the Lyceum in 1888., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00021, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 2:19
Creator: Knirsch, Otto, artist
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 2:19

Title: F. & L. Ladner's Military Hall. No. 532 North Third St. Philadelphia Free concerts nightly
Description: Tradecard containing an exterior view of the saloon and concert hall built 1857 on the 500 block of North Third Street. Male patrons convene at and near the entry as pedestrians, including women, walk past the three-and one-half-story twin building with showcase windows. In the street, a horse-drawn carriage is parked and a "Richmond & Navy Yard/Second & Third St." street car travels. Also shows partial views of adjacent businesses, including a tobacconist. The Ladners operated the hall 1857-1881., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 221, See related advertisement print **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.9008], Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153o]

Title: [Horticultural Hall and Academy of Music, South Broad Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View looking northwest showing the front facades of Horticultural Hall and the Academy of Music on the 200 block of South Broad Street. Also shows row houses north of Locust Street on the west side of the block in the right background. Horticultural Hall, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's headquarters on South Broad Street, was constructed after designs by Samuel Sloan in 1867. A fire destroyed this hall in early 1881, and it was rebuilt in 1882 after designs by Addison Hutton. Architects Napoleon LeBrun and Gustav Runge formed a short-lived partnership to win the design competition to build the sandstone Italaniate Academy of Music, constructed from 1855-1857., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on verso: South Broad St., Orange 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.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9047.90]

Title: Chest. St. Theatre, Phila. Pa
Description: View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall north of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "E.L. Davenport's Theatre...A Dream of Life" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks, pedestrians on the sidewalks, and a few horse-drawn carts and coaches travelling in the street., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Manuscript notes in red pen appear on mount., Manuscript note in red pen on verso: Mrs. Mihesell Vane 11/3/63 270/10.00 (3), Yellow mount with rounded corners., Davenport managed the theater from 1869-1873. "A Dream of Life" played there un 1872., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bell began his photographic career in 1848 working for his brother-in-law's daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia and thereafter was associated with many commercial studios as partner or sole proprietor. He served as the chief photographer for the U.S. Army Medical Museum in 1865 and replaced Timothy O'Sullivan on George M. Wheeler's survey of the territories west of the 100th meridian in 1872. He returned to Philadelphia, went into business with his future son-in-law William Rau in 1875, and was active in the photography community until his death in 1910.
Creator: Bell, William, 1830-1910
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bell - Theaters and halls [P.9189.2]

Title: Horticultural Hall
Description: View looking northwest on Broad Street from Spruce Street showing the east fronts of Beth Eden Baptist Church, built ca. 1869 after designs by Edward Tuckerman Potter; Horticultural Hall, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's headquarters on South Broad Street, built after designs by Samuel Sloan in 1867; and the Academy of Music built 1855-1857 after designs by Napoleon LeBrun and Gustave Runge., Title printed on mount below image., Yellow 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 - Theaters and halls [P.9567.15]

Title: New Chestnut Street Theatre
Description: View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Joseph M. Durr's restaurant (1211 Chestnut) at street level, Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall west of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "The Black Crook" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks and three horse-drawn coaches travelling in the street., Titles from printed label pasted on mount., Yellow paper mount with square corners., The Black Crook played at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1868., See duplicates: Bartlett & French (8)1322.F.29b and (8)1322.F.35i, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Cataloging 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 circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - theaters [(8)1322.F.29b]

Title: [New Chestnut Street Theatre.]
Description: View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Joseph M. Durr's restaurant (1211 Chestnut) at street level, Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall west of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "The Black Crook" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks and three horse-drawn coaches travelling in the street., Titles from printed label on duplicate: (8)1322.F.29b., Yellow paper mount with square corners., The Black Crook played at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1868., See duplicates: Bartlett & French (7)1322.F.1c and (8)1322.F.35i, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Cataloging 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 circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Theaters [(8)1322.F.35i]

Title: [New Chestnut Street Theatre]
Description: View looking northwest at the north side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street showing the Chestnut Street Theater built in 1863 after designs by John Crump. Includes signs for Joseph M. Durr's restaurant (1211 Chestnut) at street level, Allen's furniture store (i.e., Joseph Allen, cabinet maker, 1209 Chestnut) and a concert hall west of the theater building. All of the properties have awnings shading the street level, except for the theater, which has street lamps lining the sidewalk and a broadside advertising "The Black Crook" near the entrance. Also includes trolley tracks and three horse-drawn coaches travelling in the street., Title and series name and number from duplicate: (8)1322.F.29b., Date supplied by cataloger., The Black Crook played at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 1868., See duplicates: Bartlett & French (8)1322.F.29b and (8)1322.F.35i, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Cataloging 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 circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Theaters [(7)1322.F.1c]

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