[View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia] – Antique Photo Print
![[View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia], [1840] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6a/6a5d2eec4251-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with [View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia], a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia]
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Street views from the earliest years of photography are rare, and this sixth-plate daguerreotype of the corner of Eighth and Market streets in Philadelphia is one of them. Exposures in 1840 ran for minutes, so moving carts and passing pedestrians would have left little or no trace, and the busy commercial crossing appears nearly empty. The plate's paper seal and yellow label name R. Cornelius, a Philadelphia daguerreotypist then working on Eighth Street above Chestnut, and a handwritten seal bears the name of the firm McAllister & Co., of 48 Chestnut Street.
| Created / published | [1840] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype. |
| Genre | Daguerreotypes 1840. |
| Notes | Printed on yellow paper label pasted to the paper seal: Daguerreotype miniatures, by R. Cornelius, Eighth Street, above Chesnut [sic], Philadelphia. Written on paper seal: McAllister & Co., 48 Chestnut. In japanned brass frame. Robert Cornelius: Portraits from the dawn of photography / Stapp. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, p. 68. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1996; (DLC/PP-1996:088.8). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress) Published in: Gathering history: the Marian S. Carson collection of Americana. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1999, p. 103. |
| Subjects | Commercial streets--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1840. Stores & shops--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,370 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 116_View_of_intersection_of_1840 |
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