[Printed stationery for the Hotel Lafayette featuring a busy street scene in front of the hotel: numerous pedestrians walking on the sidewalk and street, horses pulling men in carriages, and a street car travelling up the side street]

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Title: [Printed stationery for the Hotel Lafayette featuring a busy street scene in front of the hotel: numerous pedestrians walking on the sidewalk and street, horses pulling men in carriages, and a street car travelling up the side street]
Date: 1890 May 17
Notes: G[eorge] W. P. A[tkinson] ALS to Pearce [Atkinson], May 17, 1890. Philadelphia, Pa., page 1. From a collection of papers containing correspondence between Atkinson and his parents, written primarily in the 1890s. The majority of the letters date from his time at Lehigh University and early engineering career with the Union Pacific Railway. These letters include descriptions of his college life and later railroad work in the mountains of Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.
Names and Subjects: Advertising--1890-1900.; Advertising in art.; Cable cars (Streetcars) in art.; Carriages and carts--Pictorial works.; Carriages and carts in art.; Clouds--1890-1900.; Clouds--Pictorial works.; Clouds in art.; Flags--Pictorial works.; Flags in art.; Horse-drawn vehicles in art.; Horses--1890-1900.; Horses--Pictorial works.; Horses in art.; Hotels--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--1890-1900.; Lampposts--1890-1900.; Letterheads--1890-1900.; Letterheads--Pictorial works.; Men--1880-1890.; Men--Pictorial works.; Men in art.; Pedestrians--1890-1900.; Women--1890-1900.; Women--Pictorial works.; Women in art.; Manuscripts shelf.
Genre: Letterheads.; Letters (correspondence); Printed ephemera.
Collection Title: Pearce Atkinson papers
Collection Creator: Atkinson, George W.P. and Atkinson, Pearce, 1868-1896.
Project Name: Illustrated Manuscripts Project
ID: 6965
Repository: William L. Clements Library
Date Added/Updated: 2018-11-30 11:32:19

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Record: 6965
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