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Collection: James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection

Institution: Library Company of Philadelphia (Department of Prints and Photographs)

Description: Shows the crane in the stone yard of the firm founded in 1816, which provided the marble for nearly all the prominent public buildings of the city. Marble blocks cover the yard. Also shows a dray in the foreground and surrounding buildings in the background.
Note: Title and date from manuscript note on verso: Chestnut & 22nd St.; Aug. 1858.
Note: Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Note: Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Note: Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #135.
Biographical/Historical Note: McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Provenance:: Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Subject: John Struthers & Son.
Subject: Marble industry and trade -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Address: Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2100 block.
Link: View full record in the Library Company's digital image catalog

Quantity: 1 photographic print: albumen; 36 x 25 cm.(14.25 x 10 in.)

Local Call: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *photo - McClees [8339.F.20]

Item dates: 1858

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[J. Struthers & Son marble yard, including a crane, 22nd and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia.] (M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) photographer., 8/1858) James McClees Philadelphia Photograph Collection, Library Company of Philadelphia. Local ID #: 8339.F.20

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