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Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia – Historic Photo Reproduction

Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving from the Philadelphia collection.

(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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A window into the past: Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia

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This view shows the Chestnut Street theater in Philadelphia, which opened in 1794 and ranked among the first substantial playhouses in the United States. The steel engraving was made by the London firm Fenner, Sears & Co. from a drawing by R. Goodacre, a common method in the period for circulating views of American cities to European and domestic buyers. The card records no date, so the print's exact year is unknown, but the engraving style fits the early nineteenth century. Its street-level composition shows how the theater related to the surrounding city.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : steel engraving.
SubjectsEngraving by Fenner, Sears & Co. after drawing by R. Goodacre This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Theaters--Pa.; Artists, Publ. I (2); Pa--Phila.--Streets; Pa.--Phila--Theaters; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,396 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139157

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