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[Rooftop view from New York University on Washington Square looking northeast toward Grace Church, New York] [graphic] / Langenheim.
Includes two men seated on rooftop in foreground and church tower in background., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Pale yellow paper mount with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.

View of Philadelphia harbor, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Harbor scene showing a steamboat departing from a pier on the Delaware River. Includes a partial view of a docked steamboat., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.

View on the Delaware, Philadelphia harbor. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Shows ships docked at piers with warehouse sheds near loading docks cluttered with crates and barrels., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.

View on the Delaware, Philadelphia harbor. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Shows ships docked at piers with warehouse sheds holding lumber. Also shows men in rowboats in the distance., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title printed on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.

Warner Miskey & Merrill's show room, 718 Chestnut St. Phil. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Interior view of the gas fixture store. Gas light fixtures and chandeliers line the walls and ceilings above shelves lined with merchandise wrapped in paper. A store catalog is displayed in front of banister surrounding an opening in the floor. Also includes a stairwell in the background., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., White paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Accompanied by advertising label titled "Philadelphia Gas Fixture works. " Promotes the Philadelphia and New York branch (Warner, Peck & Co.) of the fixture manufactory and the company's line of products of "gas fixtures, lamps, girandoles, Bronzes, &c." designed by French artists. Also contains a one-line promotion for the photographic firm Langenheim, Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Kenneth Finkel’s Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #109., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.

Washington Monument, Baltimore, Md. [graphic] / Langenheim.
View looking east from West Monument Street showing the Washington Monument constructed 1815-1829 after designs by Robert Mills in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. The 178-foot doric column is visible from the street flanked by large brownstone mansions., Title printed on mount., Photographer's blind stamp on mount., Publisher's label pasted on verso., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James W. Queen & Co., opticians, No. 921 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, White mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim Brothers copyrighted a series of stereographs with labels inscribed: "American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia" in 1858. They continued to produce stereographs until 1865, when they withdrew from the American Stereoscopic Co.

[Woodlands Cemetery, 3900 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Shows the mansion built for botanist William Hamilton in the 1780s on the West Philadelphia estate converted to a cemetery in 1840. Mansion was used as the residence of the cemetery superintendent., Attributed to William and Frederick Langenheim., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount of stereograph: Woodland Cemetery., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Contains one stereographic print on pale yellow paper mount with square corners, one unmounted stereographic print; and one unmounted half-stereographic print., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.

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