Details
Creator Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler.
Contributor Baxter, DeWitt Clinton, ca. 1828-1881, engraver.
Devereux, George T., b. ca. 1810, engraver.
Scattergood, David, engraver.
Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist.
Wagner & M'Guigan, printer.
Wilson, Joseph M., publisher.
Title Illustrations of Philadelphia [graphic] / Vincit qui se vincit. Collected by Chas. A. Poulson.
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1856-1860
Date 1786-1860, bulk 1856-1860
Physical Description 1 scrapbook (ca. 345 newspaper clippings, prints, manuscript): letterpress, inscriptions, wood engravings, and engravings; scrapbook 34 x 21 cm.(13.25 x 8.25 in.)
Description Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, prints, and manuscript notes, predominantly dated between 1856 and 1860, pertaining to the built environment, and social, cultural, economic, and political climate of Philadelphia. Subject matter includes the Sunday Dispatch newspaper column series “Indian Names”; reports on municipal services, including the fire department; population, trade, and crime statistics; mortality rates; real estate sales; descriptions of new building construction, including the Continental Hotel, Jayne Building (1856), new Bank of Pennsylvania (1856), churches, and storefronts on Arch, Market and Chestnut streets and in various wards, including the Twenty-Fourth and Fifteen, and near Rittenhouse Square; commentaries about city businesses and industries, including Harvey & Ford, turners in ivory and bone, Lacey & Phillips, saddler, markets, flour mills, sawing machines, omnibuses, joiner, and envelope and paper bag machinery, and the publishing trade. Other articles discuss fashion trends; the Schuylkill Rangers gang; “Street Nomenclature”; the early histories of Philadelphia, Germantown, Roxborough and Manayunk; benevolent and educational institutions and societies, including the Alms House, Philadelphia Orphan Society and the City Institute; food ways and manufacturing; the growth of Philadelphia; and a “Fistic”, i.e., fighting exhibition at Franklin Hall (1860). Also contains classifieds dated 1786; vignette wood engravings showing top hats, a stove, a plane, and a city fire plug; and satirical articles and illustrations, including African American characters, about the “Fine Arts”, i.e., street trades, fashion, the 1857 mayoral election, and improper use of a heating stove titled "A Picture of the Season.” Majority of graphics are wood and intaglio engravings, predominately advertisements showing storefronts.
Graphics depict the Custom House; the Northern Home for Friendless Children; Mills B. Espy, pickels and fruits (109 S. Third.); the exteriors and interiors of Samuel Simes, store and family medicine laboratory (S.W. cor. Chestnut and Twelfth) and Wm. D. Rogers, coach manufactory (Sixth & Master); Loxley House (307 S. Second St.); Church of the Epiphany and Residence of Mr. Godey; Henry A. Bower (“N.E. cor. 6th and Green Sts.”); United States Hotel; Farmer’s and Mechanic’s Bank; Franklin Swimming Bath (68 N. Twelfth); Charles Ellis & Co., wholesale druggists (65 Chestnut.); Jones & Co., clothing store (200 Market); Baker & Williams, ranges & warm air furnaces (406 Market); "Schuylkill River, below Norristown, Pennsylvania"; Philadelphia Steam Marble Works (1700 block Chestnut); Continental Hotel; Consolidation Bank (331 N. Third St.); Union Saw & Tool Manufactory. Johnson & Conway, Office and Wareroom (Fourth & Cherry); and the Bulletin Building.
Notes Majority of contents annotated with a date by Poulson.
Title page illustrated with a ca. 1856 lithographer's advertisement issued by Wagner & McGuigan. Depicts an allegorical, patriotic scene with the figure of Columbia, attired in a toga, American flag, and laurel wreath, and with a broken shackle under her foot as she stands on a pedestal.
Verso of title page contains Poulson inscription: "The dates of the articles herein, are those of the Newspapers &c from they are cut." Inscription framed with cut out designed with ornamental pictorial details.
Artists, engravers, printers, and publishers include D. C. Baxter, George T. Devereux, David Scattergood, and Joseph M. Wilson.
"Index to set in back part of vol. XI."
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Loxley House engraving (p. 14) accompanied by extensive manuscript note by Poulson.
Subject Loxley, Benjamin, 1720-1801 -- Homes and haunts.
Rogers, William D.
Simes, Samuel.
Bank of Pennsylvania.
Charles Ellis & Co.
Continental Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Harvey & Ford.
Jayne Building (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Lacey & Phillips.
African Americans -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Banks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Benevolent institutions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Education -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Stores & shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Clothing & dress -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Municipal services -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
SP3 African American History
Geographic subject Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Schuylkill River (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Genre Scrapbooks -- 1780-1860.
Advertisements -- 1850-1860.
Clippings -- 1780-1860.
Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Inscriptions -- 1850-1860.
Satires (Visual works) -- 1850-1860.
Letterpress works -- 1780-1860.
Wood engravings -- 1850-1860.
Printer Wilson, Joseph M., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 8 [(8)2526.F]
Accession number (8)2526.F