Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37]., Reproduction of daguerreotype by William G. Mason photographed June 5, 1843., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate of [(2)2526.F.37]; (7)1322.F.59c; and (6)1322.F.121b., Variant published in 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 #114., Image faded.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
[June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.69c]