Below is an image from my collection for your enjoyment: Outdoor Philadelphia half plate daguerreotype.

An Applied paper label along the lower margin identifying the scene as Anthony House orner of Gray's alley and 2nd Street 1856. In the front window of the building several fancy apothecary "show" globes appear, suggesting a druggist may have occupied the retail space on the first floor. The building is further adorned with several large theater broadsides advertising plays at the Walnut Street Theater and Wheatley's Arch Street Theater.

Anthony House refers to Captain Joseph Anthony, A prominent Philadelphia merchant. At the time this image was taken the house was a well-known landmark, having served as the assembly place for the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1728-29 (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography: 1880, Vol. 4:55-56)

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