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LL/51054
Frederick DeBourg Richards
1859, January
Chestnut Street, south side, east of Fifth Street [Philadelphia]

Salted paper print
Library Company of Philadelphia
Richards - Streets - Chestnut [(6)1322.F.69b]
 
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 and horse-drawn wagon in the foreground.
 
LL/51054


 

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