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Photo, Print, Drawing Market Street, from Front Street. Market Street, from Front St

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Title

  • Market Street, from Front Street.

Other Title

  • Market Street, from Front St

Summary

  • This lithograph shows the active, business-lined street containing the New Jersey Market terminus in Philadelphia, named after its central location to the ferries from New Jersey, the city's main provider of farm produce. Market shoppers, purveyors of goods, and pedestrians, including African Americans, stroll the streets and sidewalks and pack the market shed topped with a cupola and clock. Peddlers sell their goods from carts on Front Street. Built in 1822, the market operated twice weekly until the abolition of street markets in 1859. A bell on Front Street would ring to indicate the arrival of a boat of fresh produce. The illustration is by John Caspar Wild (circa 1804--46), a Swiss-born artist and lithographer, who arrived in Philadelphia from Paris in 1832. He produced paintings and prints of Philadelphia and other American cities, including Cincinnati, Saint Louis, and Davenport, Iowa. His works are important historical records of these cities before the era of large-scale industrialization and rapid urban growth.

Names

  • Bowen, John T., circa 1801-1856? Printer.
  • Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), circa 1804-1846 Artist.

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : J.T. Bowen, 1840.

Headings

  • -  United States of America--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
  • -  1822 to 1859
  • -  Carriages and carts
  • -  Crowds
  • -  Lithographs
  • -  Markets
  • -  Stores and shops
  • -  Street scenes
  • -  Street vendors

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "Issued as plate 14 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen, who later reissued them with hand coloring. He copyrighted this view in 1840.|Digital catalog number: POS 457.3"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 16 x 19 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: The Library Company of Philadelphia.
  • -  Content in English.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Philadelphia on Stone

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670358

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bowen, John T., Circa ? Printer, and J. C Wild. Market Street, from Front Street. Pennsylvania Philadelphia United States of America, 1840. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021670358/.

APA citation style:

Bowen, J. T. & Wild, J. C. (1840) Market Street, from Front Street. Pennsylvania Philadelphia United States of America, 1840. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021670358/.

MLA citation style:

Bowen, John T., Circa ? Printer, and J. C Wild. Market Street, from Front Street. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021670358/>.