Item Info
Item No: pdcl00098
Title: 5th Street at Arch
Additional Title: West side of Fifth Street above Arch
Historic Street Address:
Fifth and Arch Streets
Media Type: Albumen Prints
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes: "A nineteenth-century wooden Indian guards a tobacco shop and a confectionery housed in buildings of Colonial vintage. This scene is in the section of Philadelphia often referred to as the 'Old City,' which is roughly the area north from Society Hill to Vine Street, and west from Front to about 7th."--OPEP, p. 101.
Notes: Two stores between row-houses. Store on left: "Fruit & confectionary." In front of store on right is a cigar store Indian on a pedestal: "Imported segars." Sign on wall next to statue: "...Irish American ... the priest hunter ..." Streetcar tracks on 5th. Handwritten on photograph: "August 1860."
Bibliography: Reprinted in: Old Philadelphia in early photographs, 1839-1914/edited by Robert F. Looney. New York: Dover Publications, c1976.
Creation Year: 1860
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.1487
Geocode Latitude:39.9528
Creator Name: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860 - Photographer