Broad and Chestnut Streets, southwest corner
Historical Images of Philadelphia Looney Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs
Item Info
Item No: pdcl00166
Title: Broad and Chestnut Streets, southwest corner
Additional Title: La Pierre House
Historic Street Address:
Broad and Chestnut Streets
Media Type: Albumen Prints
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes: "When this photograph was made the La Pierre House had just been taken over by the LaFayette Hotel, extreme left, and was soon to be remodeled to match that hotel. The building on the corner housed the Adams Express Company on the upper floors and a grocer at the street level."--OPEP, p. 173.
Notes: The hotel, with horse drawn carriages and people on the street. On the left, Lafayette Hotel, on the right commercial building housing both the Adams Express Company and E. Bradford Clarke family groceries. Street lights along sidewalk, policeman on corner.
Bibliography: Reprinted in: Old Philadelphia in early photographs, 1839-1914/edited by Robert F. Looney. New York: Dover Publications, c1976.
Creation Year: ca. 1876
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.164
Geocode Latitude:39.9509