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Northwest corner of Eleventh and Pine Streets. Demolished 1889. Present site of the Gladstone

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View depicting the commercial Philadelphia street corner with the grey wood shack of Michael Traynor, licensed tavern and oyster house, for sale. Storefronts include a stove and heater manufactory; a store selling birds; Schriber, tin and sheet iron worker; a "segar" store; and a lager beer hall. Street trolleys are partially visible to the far right and left. Several pedestrians, predominately African Americans, walk the sidewalks. Individuals board and depart the trolleys. The Gladstone, erected between 1889 to 1890, was the city's first apartment hotel. In the nineteenth century, the neighborhood, known as Washington Square West, contained one of the city's largest populations of African Americans.; B.R. Evans.; Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer.; Forms part of: Benjamin Evans Watercolor Collection

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  1. African Americans
  2. Commercial Streets
  3. Pennsylvania
  4. Philadelphia
  5. Shops & Stores
  6. Street Railroads
  7. Taverns (Inns)
  8. Watercolors

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