Post Office and Market Hall

Photograph

Historic Charleston Foundation

Post Office & Market Hall

Name/Title

Post Office and Market Hall

Entry/Object ID

2007.005.1c

Description

Two images share this page. One (left) is looking east on Broad Street at the Old Exchange (a/k/a Old Post Office, at 122 East Bay Street). Carriages, carts, and a horse-drawn trolley car are on the street; pedestrians on the street. The other image (right) is of Market Hall, on Meeting Street, with pedestrians and horse-drawn cart.

Collection

HCF Image Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2007.005.

Source or Donor

Photo Views, Souvenir Photo Album

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Credit Line

Souvenir Photo Album, 1883

Made/Created

Date made

1883

Place

City

Charleston

State/Province

South Carolina

Country

United States of America

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Location

back

Transcription

Souvenir Albums containing Photo-views by Louis Glaser's Process Published by Witteman Brothers, 45 Murray St., N.Y. C.C. Righten, S.C. Agent 159 Meeting Street, Charleston, S.C. Printed - 1880

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Pedestrians, Markets

Search Terms

Broad Street, Meeting Street, Market Street, Old Exchange Building and Provost Dungeon (Charleston, S.C.), Market Hall (Charleston, S.C.), Streets--South Carolina--Charleston, Carriages and coaches, Trolley cars, Carts and wagons

Dimensions

Height

2-1/2 in

Width

4 in

Dimension Notes

Each "page" measures 3"x4.5"

Location

Container

PhotoBox 14

Shelf

AV Materials

Room

Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Date

February 7, 2023

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2004.020.088, 2005.004.017, 2006.001.001, 2006.005.017, 2006.010.132-136, 2011.015.27, 2011.019.1, 2011.022.94, 2011.022.95a-d, 2013.002.098, 2021.013.6, BROAD.GEN.003, BROAD.GEN.005, BROAD.GEN.006a-b, EBAY.122.1, EBAY.122.10, EBAY.122.2, EBAY.122.3, EBAY.122.4, EBAY.122.5, EBAY.122.6, EBAY.122.7a-b, EBAY.122.8a-b, EBAY.122.9a-b

Related Publications

Notes

2016.032.1

Copyright

Copyright Details

Public domain.

General Notes

Note Type

Cataloging Note

Note

One of 17 images in souvenir album, printed on long strip of paper that is "accordion-folded," creating individual pages for the images. Published and copyrighted 1883 (last page, SC Scenes). Image: Photolithograph

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

January 22, 2007

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

July 20, 2023