Market sheds, 2nd Street
Historical Images of Philadelphia Looney Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs
Item Info
Item No: pdcl00043
Title: Market sheds, 2nd Street
Additional Title: 2nd Street Market, north from Lombard
Historic Street Address:
2nd & Lombard Streets
Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes: "The view here is toward the north from Lombard Street. Any traces of the original sheds that may have existed by this time are quite invisible in the photograph."--OPEP, p. 46.
Notes: Vendor stalls and sheds. People standing about; numerous horses and wagons in street. Sign for a bar above some of the stalls: "C. Schmidt & Sons [Pils]ner & Puritan Beer."
Bibliography: Reprinted in: Old Philadelphia in early photographs, 1839-1914/edited by Robert F. Looney. New York: Dover Publications, c1976.
Creation Year: ca. 1889
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.1456
Geocode Latitude:39.9422