Item No:
pdcl00160

Creators:

• Unknown

Creation Date:
1903

Media Type:
Photographic Prints

Catalog Title:
Penn Square, west side

Caption:
West side of Broad Street, north from Chestnut

Street Address:

Subjects:

• Animals
• Banks
• Billposting Sign Co.
• Broad Street Station
• Carriages & coaches
• Center City
• Charles L. Jones Detective Agency
• City Hall
• Commercial facilities
• Horses
• Men
• Penn Square
• People
• Philadelphia Bee.
• Railroad stations
• Rustic Lunch Room Oyster & Chop House
• Sharpless & Braddock
• Third National Bank
• Typewriter Inspection Co.

Bibliography:

Reprinted in: Old Philadelphia in early photographs, 1839-1914/edited by Robert F. Looney. New York: Dover Publications, c1976.

Notes:

"By the turn of the century business had moved uptown and was clustering around City Hall, which is on the extreme right in this photo. Next to it in the background is Broad Street Station. In the center foreground is the Third National Bank and an office building."--OPEP, p. 165.

The street, with commercial buildings; men walking on sidewalks; horse and carriages on street. Railroad station in background and partial view of City Hall on right. Businesses include: "The Billposting Sign Co. Phila.," "Walnut above 8th, The [Gay?] Casino Theater, the best girl of them all, A country girl...100 people," "Rustic Lunch Room, oyster & chop house, The Philadelphia Bee," "Charles L. Jones Detective Agency," "Typewriter Inspection Co.," "Sharpless & Braddock," and "Third National Bank, boxes in safe-deposit vaults -- to rent."

Source:
Print and Picture Collection

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