| Frederick DeBourg Richards [Attributed to] Chestnut Street, south side, east of Fifth Street [Philadelphia] 1859, January Salted paper print Library Company of Philadelphia Richards - Streets - Chestnut [(6)1322.F.29c] LL/51056 F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) Richards
View showing the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes abandoned buildings still displaying signage for former tenants L.J. Levy & Co., dry goods store (426 Chestnut) and Broadbent & Co. daguerreotype rooms and Bailey & Co., jewelers (428 Chestnut). Businesses relocated circa 1858. Also shows William F. Warburton, hatter (430 Chestnut); a peddler; small notices and broadsides adorning the shuttered, abandoned buildings; and a lamppost in the foreground.
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