Details
Contributor Bewely, J. E., photographer.
Fetters, H., photographer.
Howland, Henry C., 1865-1927, photographer.
Langrock, William F., photographer.
Miller, C.H., photographer.
Pancoast, Charles R. 1858-, photographer.
Pearce, Joseph 1874-1924, photographer.
Phillipi, Wiliam, 1856-, photographer.
Trautwine, John C. (John Cresson), 1850-1924, photographer.
Lipp Studio, photographer.
Richter & Co., photographer.
R. Newell & Son, photographer.
Swayne, Robert E., 1927-2011, former owner.
Title [Robert Swayne collection of Philadelphia photographs] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1860-1952
Date [ca. 1860-ca. 1952]
Physical Description 244 photographs and 2 negatives : chiefly albumen and gelatin silver, some mounted on paper or board ; mount 39 x 45 cm (15.25 x 17.5 in) or smaller.
1 album : photographs; newspaper clippings; ephemera ; album 24 x 17 cm (9.5 x 6.5 in.)
Description Collection of photographs documenting Philadelphia cityscapes, neighborhoods, landmarks, churches and benevolent institutions, businesses and factories, street views, and local events. Images depict interiors, exteriors, and alleyways. Many views include storefront signage; utility poles and street clocks; railroads and stations; and street and pedestrian traffic, as well as show the Western, Southern, and Northern sections of the city. Subjects depicted include All Saints Church (Torresdale); Cliveden; views along the Delaware River; Fairmount Park and Waterworks; Wissahickon Creek, Schuylkill River and Boathouse Row; Frankford Arsenal (1948); Philadelphia Gazette Building (924 Arch Street); the WCAU building (Bala Cynwyd) ; Rittenhouse and Logan squares; the “Clothesline Show” at Rittenhouse Square: a ca. 1930 view of a baseball game at the Baker Bowl, i.e. National League Park (2622 North Broad St.); the power house of the Westinghouse Gas Engine Machinery (Manayunk); the attic and basement of the original United State Mint (37-39 N. 7th Street, built 1792) photographed ca. 1890 by Newell & Son; interior of the second Mint Building (Broad and Chestnut);
the construction of the Delaware River, later Benjamin Franklin, Bridge (ca. 1924), Hahnemann Hospital (1928), Philadelphia Municipal, later JFK, Stadium (ca. 1926); the interior of an unidentified bakery (53rd and Vine) photographed ca. 1905 by C.H. Miller; interior and exterior of Geo. W. Einselen, Fine Cake Bakery and Ice Cream Saloon (1372 Somerset St.) photographed 1904 by Joseph Pearce; progress photographs photographed 1926 of the property of “Philadelphia Brick Co. Required for P.R.R. Temporary Track” and photographed 1921 by J.E. Bewley of and near the 3400 block of North 5th Street ; “Stephen Girard's ‘Alleged Slave Dungeons,’ Front & Market Streets uncovered by demolition” photographed 1906-1907 by John Trautwine, likely the civil engineer (P.2017.88.37.1-7); ca. 1880s studio portraits of adult and child mummers photographed by Richter & Co.; workers on scaffolding attached to the Nixon Building (20 S. 52nd St.); an exterior view photographed ca. 1873 by Newell & Son of the carpenter shop of Clarkson Fogg in front of which numerous household implements and furniture are lined, as well as men, women, and children, including a policeman are posed (449 N. 10th St.); ca. 1868 view of the 100 block of North Third Street, including the storefront for Dr. Stoever's Bitters manufactured by Kryder & Co (121 N. Third); Maryland Metal Bldg. Co. Incorporated classroom modules for the Philadelphia School District (ca. 1924); ca. 1920 advertising photos for an unidentified lighting company of examples of their work in Philadelphia manufactories with sewing machines (Greenwald Bros., Inc., 313 Arch St. and Trio Waist Co., 821 Arch St.) and of the moulding room of S.J. Cresswell Iron Works (2250 Cherry St.); the ca. 1905 interior of the cigar store of Ramon Azogue (102 S. 8th St.);
ca. 1930 view of the hairdressing salon at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel; ca. 1895 view of the interior of the Bourse (i.e., Philadelphia Stock Exchange); and a ca. 1930s exterior view of the Roxborough Home for Indigent Women (601 Leverington Avenue). Other images show a WWI benefit parade "to Keep the War Chest Filled" (1419 N. 2nd St.); a ca. 1900 lavish display of elaborately-decorated cakes photographed by William Phillipi; a posed WWI publicity still with release statements on the verso for Eastman Kodak showing Anna B. Graham with a camera and a young girl in a nurse’s uniform photographed by William F. Langrock; the storefront of a women’s owned business (Mrs. R.T. Anderson); a ca. 1920s contact sheet of variant bust-length portraits of a young woman photographed by the Lipp Studio; and the Walter Lippincott family posed on the porch of a residence.
Portrait photographs, including of engraver John Sartain (P.2017.88.77.1 & 2), African American Rev. C. M. Tanner (1869-1933)(P.2018.66.4), John McAllister, Jr. and family members, and “physio-psychism” researcher Emil Sutra (P.2018.66.2) by Philadelphia photographers and occupational, school, and organizational group portrait photographs also comprise the collection. Group portraits document the Bellview Wheelmen; a class trip to the Franklin Institute; and performers attired in leotards, including jugglers, titled “Mr. Jonathan Evans, Haines & Cheer St.” Collection also includes William Stuart McFeeters family photograph album; a small number of images depicting African American men (P.2017.88.11, P.2017.88.61, P.2017.88.76.9 & 38); an organizational group portrait with a man with dwarfism (P.2018.66.15); candid snapshots, including ca. 1900 views of women using cameras along the Schuylkill River; and two film negatives depicting the WCAU building.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Various photographers, including Frank B. Cassel; William Bell; Berry & Homer; J. E. Bewley; Coward & Shannon; Harry A. Derr; Eagle Photo View Co.; Empire Photo Co.; H. Fetters; S.M. Fisher; Frederick Guteknust; Hansbury Studio; Henry C. Howland; Keystone Instantaneous View Company; William J. Kuebler; William F. Langrock; Lipp Studio; Charles Luedecke; F. Mattes; Monarch Photograph & Publishing Co.; Marriott C. Morris; Robert Newell; Newell & Son; Newell Studio; C. H. Miller, C. R. Pancoast; Joseph N. Pearce; William Phillipi; William Rau; Frederick DeBourg Richards; Schreiber; George Sheridan; Alfred Taylor; John Trautwine; Universal Photo Service; and W. D. Weland
Cartes-de-visite portraits of John Sartain (P.2017.88.77.1 & 2) housed separately and with cdv portraits – sitters - S.
View by Schreiber of horse cart racing (1903) housed separately and with *photo – Schreiber.
Cartes-de-visite portrait photographs of John McAllister, Jr. and family members (P.2017.88.79-102) housed with the McAllister Family Portrait Collection - cartes-de-visite.
Electronic inventories of collection available at repository.
See Lib. Company. Annual report, 2016, p. 64-65.
RVCDC
Access points revised 2022.
Biographical / historical note Robert Swayne (1927-2011) was a West Chester antique dealer, collector of vernacular photographs, and local writer about the Civil War.
Subject McAllister, John, 1786-1877 -- Portraits.
Sartain, John, 1808-1897 -- Portraits.
Sutra, Emil -- Portraits.
Tanner, C. M. (Carlton Miller) -- Portraits.
Mcfeeters Family.
Cliveden of the National Trust (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Fairmount Water Works (Philadelphia, Pa.)
National League Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
School District of Philadelphia, Pa. -- Buildings.
Roxborough Home for Indigent Women (Philadelphia, Pa.)
United States Mint -- Buildings.
African American men -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Art exhibitions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bakeries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Bridges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carpenter shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Cigar industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Factories -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Interiors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Lighting industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Office buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
People with disabilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Slave quarters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Storefronts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Women-owned business enterprises -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
World War, 1914-1918.
Enslaved people -- Structures.
Geographic subject Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 313.
Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 821.
Arch Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 924.
Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 2622.
Cherry Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 2250.
Eighth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 108.
Fifth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 3400 block.
Leverington Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 601.
Second Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 1419.
Seventh Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 37-39.
Sommerset Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1372.
Third Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 100 block.
Vine Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Fifty-Third Street.
Bala Cynwyd (Pa.)
Boathouse Row (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Center City District (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Logan Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
North Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Manayunk (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Rittenhouse Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Roxborough (Philadelphia, Pa.)
South Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
South Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Social life and customs.
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Pictorial works.
Schuylkill River (Pa.)
Wissahickon Creek (Pa.)
Genre Albumen prints -- 1860-1890.
Advertisements -- 1900-1930.
Contact sheets -- 1920-1930.
Gelatin silver prints -- 1880-1960.
Group portrait prints -- 1880-1930.
Portrait prints -- 1860-1900.
Progress photographs -- 1920-1930.
Snaphshots -- 1880-1960.
Provenance Swayne, Robert E., 1927-2011, former owner.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Swayne Collection [P.2017.88 & P.2018.66]
Accession number P.2017.88
P.2018.66