38 stereographs (photoprints) : albumen, b&w; 87 x 176mm. or smaller.
Summary
Views of businesses and manufacturing in Philadelphia, including views of products and interiors: bolt and nut screwing machine, steam stops and safety valves, a shaping machine; "the Exchange"; interior views: G. A. Schwartz toy & fancy emporium, J. E. Caldwell & Co.'s jewelry store, Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company, Porter & Coates bookstore, Wm. F. Murphy's stationery establishment, including printing dept. and store, engines being manufactured at Baldwin Locomotive works, women in bobbin winding room of woolen mill; Japanese flag flying from building across from Continental hotel where Japanese envoy was staying (1860); Planters House; Trans-Continental Hotel; Globe Hotel; Betz Building; Dr. Jayne's building, including views of the building gutted by fire, and views of ice-covered buildings at scene of the burning of the building; First National Bank; Saving Fund Society; Press building, John Wanamakers; the Farmers Market; a view of thw "ways" used by Cramp & Sons for the U. S. Steamer Chattanooga; a view of the frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides), in sorry condition without masts and bowsprit; Reading Terminal Station; view of trains under large arched shed at a Philadelphia depot.