The Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog contains over 1300 lithographs, related ephemera, and prints documenting Philadelphia commercial lithography between 1828 and 1878 derived from the surveys conducted at eight collaborating institutions between May 2007 and May 2010. Lithographs listed in Nicholas Wainwright’s Philadelphia in the Romantic Age of Lithography (1958), lithographs not listed in Wainwright portraying the built environment of Philadelphia, and advertisements for and printed views of Philadelphia lithographic establishments form the core content of the records and images contained in this catalog.

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Ground plan of the Philadelphia Gas Works.
Plan of the first Philadelphia Gas Works, expanded in 1850 after the designs of Cresson, the second chief engineer of the gas works, near the Schuylkill River on the 2200-2300 blocks of Market Street. Diagrams the coal stores, retort house, lime and coke sheds, lime kilns and house, purifying houses, gasholders, and railroad tracks. Includes a "References" key to coded symbols of buildings, including valve houses and meters. Works originally completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer Samuel V. Merrick ., Date inscribed on recto., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 332, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Ground plan; U.S. Army General Hospital at West Philadelphia, Pa. 1862.
Ground plan of the H-shaped Satterlee U. S. General Hospital in West Philadelphia, showing 32 wards lettered A-Z; XX; OK; and numbered 1-6. The following spaces are also identified: dining halls, guard house and barracks, knapsack room, kitchens, extra diet kitchen, laundry rooms, reading and lecture room, library, smoking rooms, officers' quarters, boiler room, carpenter shop, medical store room, clerks and druggists mess room, stewards office and quarters, chief ward master's office, chapel, donation room, reception room, executive office, surgery, laboratory, printing office, barber shop, engineers gang, green room, post mortem room, stables, sheds, and gates. The Civil War hospital, one of the largest in the country, opened June 9th, 1862 at Forty-fourth Street and Baltimore Avenue in the farmland of West Philadelphia. The hospital was closed in August 1865 and the buildings demolished., Not in Wainwright., Includes "scale of feet.", Includes three notes in the upper left corner. Note 1 is a table of the "Ward capacity" including minimum and maximum occupancy and lengths of wards in feet. Notes 2 and 3 discuss the dimensions, including heights, of specific departments., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 333, Gift of David Doret.
The grounds and buildings of the United States Centennial International Exhibition, May 10th to November 10th 1876.
Bird’s eye view looking toward East Fairmount Park showing the entire expanse of the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows the English Commissioners Building, U.S. Government Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, Ladies’ Pavilion, Judge’s Hall, Horticultural Hall, offices, Photographic Hall, Art Gallery, and the Main Building. Also shows fountains, hotels, and the Columbia, Girard and New York-Connecting Railroad bridges spanning the Schuylkill River. Cityscape is visible in the background. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Printed with red tint stone: The Only Complete View of the Centennial Exhibition officially recognized., Signatures of the Director General, Architects, and Engineers printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 3, AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 2, untinted.
The grounds and buildings of the United States Centennial International Exhibition, May 10th to November 10th 1876.
Bird’s eye view looking toward East Fairmount Park showing the entire expanse of the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows the English Commissioners Building, U.S. Government Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, Ladies’ Pavilion, Judge’s Hall, Horticultural Hall, offices, Photographic Hall, Art Gallery, and the Main Building. Also shows fountains, hotels, and the Columbia, Girard and New York-Connecting Railroad bridges spanning the Schuylkill River. Cityscape is visible in the background. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Signatures of the Director General, Architects, and Engineers printed below the image.., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 334, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 1, AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 2, untinted.
Grounds and club-house of the Belmont Cricket Club, at Elmwood 58th St. and Darby Road Philadelphia.
Bird's eye view showing the grounds of the club founded in 1874 in West Philadelphia. In the center of the fenced-in grounds, members engage in a cricket match in front of the club house and an auxiliary building. Clusters of spectators watch the match and arrive by foot, coach, wagon, and bicycle. In the left, a bowler practices his throw in a netted area. In the background, people engage in matches on a series of tennis courts separated from the cricket field by a row of trees. Trees, a red brick building, dirt roads, and pastures surround the grounds. A horse-drawn buggy and street car travel around the club and a locomotive passes nearby. Also contains insets showing the "Field View of the Club House" and a "Lawn Tennis" doubles match. Belmont, one of the four chief Philadelphia cricket clubs, disbanded in 1914., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 101, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 03 B 451, Inscribed on verso: E. R. Jones 3-14-1913.
The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. 316-318 and 320 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Advertisement showing an exterior view of the building built 1873-5 after the designs of Furness & Hewitt. Several pedestrians stroll on the sidewalk, including a man with a cane, and patrons enter the safe deposit company. In the right of the image, shows the gates open to the alley leading to Carpenter's Hall, visible in the background. Also contains the names of six officers of the bank, including President Thomas Cochran, printed below the title. The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, established in 1872, provided safe storage for securities, currency, jewelry, silver plate, and other valuables., Manuscript note on recto: Complt. of John C. Browne. Nov. 19, 1886., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 102, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 3 G 914, Burk & McFetridge operated from 304 and later 306-308 Chestnut Street.
Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Depicts the pointed arched east window, with Gothic tracery, in the funerary chapel at Laurel Hill Cemetery. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Added title page in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 335, Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PR327.
Gustavus Bergner's Lager Beer Brewery and vaults situate on the north side of Thompson Street bel. 32nd on the Reading R. R., about 1/2 Mile above Fairmount. Depot: No 239 Dock Str. below 3d. Philadelphia.
Gustavus Bergner's Lager Beer Brewery and vaults situate on the north side of Thompson Street bel. 32nd on the Reading R. R., about 1/2 Mile above Fairmount. Depot: No 239 Dock Str. below 3d. Philadelphia.
Philadelphia on Stone, POS 336, Cited by Wainwright as in the collection of Marian S. Carson; given to Library of Congress in 1996; copy unlocated at the Library of Congress., Library of Congress: copy unlocated, HSP holds original watercolor.
G[ustavus] Bergner's Lager Beer Saloon & Depot, 239 Dock Street, below Third St., Philadelphia.
Advertisement containing an exterior view of the multi-storied saloon opened in 1858. Patrons walk up from the basement entrance, past a keg on display, and are visible on a side stoop of steps of the "Bergners Lager Beer Saloon" building. In the street, ominbuses travel, a driver leads a four-horse team truck loaded with goods, and pedestrians walk. Also shows surrounding buildings. Bergner, also a brewer, remained at the location until 1869., Date from manuscript note on verso: Dec. 1859., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 290, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
H. B. McCalla, successor to the late Andrew McCalla, No. 252 Market St. First hat & cap store below 8th St. south side, Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story storefront, covered in advertising text, on the 700 block of Market Street. Advertising reads "The Cheapest Wholesale & Retail Hat and Cap Manufactory in the World. Fashionable Styles. Caps. Hats." A male patron enters one of two open doorways to the establishment, in which a clerk surveys stacks of hats across from a flight of stairs. At the other end of the store, another clerk assists a patron, standing in front of a mirror, as he tries on hats next to shelves of merchandise. Between the entries, men's and boys' hats and caps adorn a display window flanked by cases of "hats" and "caps" displayed outside. Boxes, hats, and milliners at work, are visible at the upper windows. A large model hat and cap adorn the roof of the building. In the street, a horse-drawn dray is positioned to receive a delivery opposite a laborer retrieving a crate labeled "M. Dormitzen Middleton Sch. County" from the store cellar. Labeled crates line the sidewalk with addressees that include "Heitner & Shay Augusta Northumberland Co. Pa."; "T.L. Mitchell Jefferson Co. Pa."; "Young & Lee Allentown Pa."; "Geo. L. Reppler St. Clair Schuykill Co."; and "Geo. Far... Centre Co. Pa." Also shows the attic window of the building displaying signage that reads "Hat and Cap Store," and partial views of adjacent businesses. One business displays blankets and a trunk near its entry and another contains signs reading "Deposi...Roots...Every" and "Branch Americ..." H.B. McCalla assumed operation of the store in 1852, where he remained until 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 337, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
H. P. & W. C. Taylor perfumers
Advertisement for the perfumery containing a central scene set within a border designed as a monument that is adorned with a vignette and pictorial details. Central image depicts a shipping scene at a pier above the Navy Yard on the Delaware River. Shows laborers loading a tall ship with goods from a pier on which a horse-drawn wagon and cart are surrounded by crates across from warehouses. Several members from the crew of the ship line the deck of the vessel. A barge is also moored near the pier. In the foreground, on the dock, a horse-drawn coach passes near a man loading a dray with crates marked "H.P. & W.C. Taylors Fancy Soaps Phila." under the watch of a gentleman as a freight rail car approaches. Sailing vessels are docked at another pier visible in the left of the image. Barrels, crates, and planks of wood line the wharf on which draymen load and transport goods. Vignette shows the exterior of the "H.P. & W.C Taylor, Transparent & Soaps" factory at 379-381, i.e., 641-643 North Ninth Street. A locomotive and freight car of the Norristown and Germantown Railroad passes in the street and pedestrians walk in front of and enter the factory. Banners reading "1819 Business Established 1819 Philadelphia," filigree, and sprigs of flowers flank the vignette., Pictorial details include depictions of the Franklin medals grouped in a series of five and of three interspersed among strands of flowers, and two larger depictions of the recto and obverse of one of the medals won by the firm. One side shows an allegorical scene with the female figure "Britannia" laying a wreath on the head of "Industry" and reads "Dissociata Locis Concordi Pace II Gavit. H.P. & W.C. Taylor Class XXIX." Other side shows the head of a mustached man and that of a classical female figure and reads Victoria D.G. Brit Reg. F.D. Albertus Princeps Conjux MDCCCII.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 338, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #71., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
H. R. Campbell's patent locomotive engine
Shows the 4-4-0 design locomotive patented by Campbell, the chief engineer of the Philadelphia, Germantown, and Norristown Railway in 1836. The locomotive is depicted on a section of track. The 4-4-0 design, known as the American type, has a two-axle bogie to help guide it into curves, and two driving axles coupled by a connecting rod., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 103, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 6741 C 188
H. S. Tarr's Marble Yard No. 274 Green St. above Seventh Philadelphia, Pa.
H. S. Tarr's Marble Yard No. 274 Green St. above Seventh Philadelphia, Pa.
Philadelphia on Stone, POS 340.2, Cited by Wainwright as in the collection of Marian S. Carson; given to Library of Congress in 1996; copy unlocated at the Library of Congress., Library of Congress: copy unlocated
H. S. Tarr's marble yard, no. 274 Green St. above Seventh Philadelphia Pa.
Advertisement showing a view of the marble yard fronted by a triple arch adorned with plaques, the adjoining three-story office building, and rear factory of the establishment at Green Street above 7th Street. From the sidewalk, decorated as black and white tile, a lady, holding a parasol, and a gentleman admire several ornate obelisks and monuments within the fenced, arched yard. Several of the pieces are adorned with patriotic details, urns, and statuary. Plaques on the arches include the name of the business in addition to text reading "Every Description of Monumental Works Executed" and "Plain & Carved Mantels of Every Description." Under the third arch and entrance to the yard, a clerk and patron talk near slabs of marble propped against the wall of the office building. Behind the men, a laborer hauls a large monument by a dolly into the factory yard. More monuments, including animal sculpture and statuary, are displayed in the fenced court, upper balcony, and Gothic-style windows of the adjacent office building. A female patron walks between the marble pieces down a pathway toward a clerk standing at the entrance. An American eagle sculpture adorns the arches and an American flag adorns the office. Tarr was one of the four major marble manufactories in the city during the mid nineteenth century., Names of "References" printed below the image including Thos. U. Walter, John E. Carver, Charles Le Brun, architects; Frederick Brown; Caleb, Cope & Co.; Levi & James Dickson; H.N. Burroughs; Cooper & Co. New Orleans, Louisiana; H.W. Peronneau Charleston, S.C.; and Rev. Henry A. Boardman, D.D., Phila., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 340.1, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #83., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Hagar
Lively advertising print for the dime museum operated by W. D. Hagar and W. T. Campbell 1883-1885. Shows throngs of people entering the mansard-roofed building, heavily adorned in signage and over 40 pictures of the museum's performers, at the northwest corner of Ninth and Arch Streets. Signs read "Specially Adapted for Ladies & Children: Open Daily from 1 to 10 P.M."; "Curiosities Constantly Arriving From All Parts of the World"; and "Philadelphia's Pleasure Palace Containing Countless Curiosities / Peerless Parlor Peformances." Other signs announce the hours of operation, the museum's purpose for the "instruction and amusement" of ladies and children, and the admission price - 10 cents. Performer's pictures primarily depict human curiosities and include tattooed men and women, a bearded lady, clowns, a two-headed woman, little people, an armless man, a man eating a slate, exotic and native costumed figures, as well as a magician and a ventriloquist. Graphics also show exotic animals and birds. Building also adorned with flags promoting the museum and its attractions, including "birds, beasts, and mechanical marvels." In the street, three street cars (nos. 44, 33, and 26) and one wagon, advertising Hagar & Campbell's, travel and stop in front of the museum. Wagon is composed of billboards illustrated with an image of seven women with floor-length hair and captioned "Seven Wonders of the World.", Also shows adjacent buildings, a crowd of people at the side of the museum, and pedestrians and passersby in the street, on the sidewalk, and near and looking at the street vehicles. Print also contains portraits of owners W. D. Hagar and W. T. Campbell in the upper corners. By 1884, Campbell and Hagar were officers in the Barnum and London show managing "Privileges." Campbell stayed with Barnum until at least the early 1890s., Date inferred from title., Gift of Barbara Fahs Charles and Robert Staples., POSP 286
Hall & Carpenter. Tin plate & metals. 709 Market St. Philadelphia.
Advertisement calendar for 1873 promoting the tin plate firm founded in 1867 by Augustus R. Hall and George W. Carpenter. Products advertised include spelter, antimony, pig copper, pig lead, pig tin, sheet iron, sheet zinc, sheet copper, bolt copper, rivets and brass, copper, iron, and steel wire. Contains filigree accents. Firm continued after the death of Carpenter in 1883., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 104, Gift of Helen Beitler.
The happy family.
Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a man, his wife and their four children (two girls, a boy, and an infant in a sling at the mother's breast) dressed handsomely in their best Sunday clothes. The boy holds a book, presumably the Bible, under his right arm, and leads the group away from their home toward church, the spire of which is seen in the distance (left)., Not in Wainwright., Date supplied by cataloger., Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "The light of the week" moralizing that the Sabbath is "like the light which his eye catches with joy" to the "weary traveller" moving through the week "with all its worldly cares and troubles"., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 105, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Harrison & Newhall, corner of Race and Crown streets, Philadelphia. Commission merchants and importers Rio coffee, sugars, hides &c. Philadelphia.
Advertisement with heavy street activity showing the Harrison & Newhall Refinery, formerly the Penington Sugar Refinery. Refinery reestablished and expanded as the Harrison & Newhall Refinery circa 1855 at 409 Race Street. In front of the refinery, laborers load horse-drawn drays with barrels as another man in an apron leads another dray past the fenced northwest corner of Race and Crown streets (former residence of Edward Penington). At that corner, a man leans on a street lamp across from a man on horseback in the street and two street urchins on the sidewalk eyeing a well-dressed couple. At the other end of the street, a traffic jam occurs as the barrels on the dray of a rambunctious horse roll off the vehicle in front of a horse-drawn cart and omnibus. A horse-handler and displaced carriage driver discuss the accident in the street as a peddler, the possible cause of the commotion, nonchalantly carries a tray of wares on his head past the scene. Also shows barrels being hoisted outside of the refinery building. The refinery extends around the rear of a row of buildings in front of which the traffic incident occurs., Published in Colton’s atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 80. (HSP O 458)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 342, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 H 324, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 3, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M), Accompanied by scrap inscribed: River Bank. Great Flood in Susquehanna, June 5th 1889.
Harrison Brothers' white lead works & chemical laboratory, Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing a bird's eye view of the chemical works of Harrison Brothers near Fitler and Harrison Streets in Frankford, showing from left to right, the buildings containing "Pyro Acid Works," "Sulphuric Acid Works," "Sugar Lead Works," "White Lead Works," "Alum Works," "Copperas Works," and the company office. The bustling scene includes laborers pushing wheel barrows, putting coal in a furnace, and hoisting barrels using a block and tackle pulley system. Piles of lumber, barrels, and vats cover the ground, and smoke rises from the chimneys of the buildings within the enclosed compound. A man walks along the periphery of the fence in the foreground, between two gates. A loaded wagon enters the left gate, as a dray exits through the right. A dog stands on the left hand side of the fence, facing the pedestrian. Deer and horses graze the fields in the tree-lined, country-like setting behind the chemical works. Established circa 1793, Harrison Brothers operated plants in New York, Maryland and Philadelphia by the Civil War, operating this plant in Frankford until about 1870., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 341, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Harrison's columbian Hair Dye
Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer containing an ornate frame comprised of vignettes, pictorial details, and ornaments surrounding ornamented text. Vignettes depict patriotic symbols of the American eagle and U.S. shield and two scenes. Scene in the left shows a gentleman being attended to by his valet. The gentleman has wavy, ear-length, dark hair and wears a blue and red patterned dressing gown. The valet, in a grey suit, looks at a bottle in his gentleman's left hand. The gentleman scratches his head with his right hand. Scene in the right shows a woman, looking down, pulling her fingers through her long dark hair that rests over her shoulders past her waist. She wears a peasant-like dress with a red bodice and green-striped skirt with a paisley pattern. The border also contains scroll-like pictorial details, geometric shaped ornaments, and pattern backgrounds. A thick, blue block of color frames the border like an outline. Harrison, originally a book, map, and ink dealer, began operating his perfumery, including hair dyes, circa 1853. By the late 1850s, Harrison employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Artist's imprint in lower right and left of stone., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 291
Harrison's Columbian hair dye [graphic] : Manufactured by Apollos W. Harrison, 8 1/2 South 7th St.
Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer containing an ornate frame comprised of vignettes, pictorial details, and ornaments surrounding ornamented text. Vignettes depict patriotic symbols of the American eagle and U.S. shield and two scenes. Scene in the left shows a gentleman being attended to by his valet. The gentleman has wavy, ear-length, dark hair and wears a blue and red patterned dressing gown. The valet, in a grey suit, looks at a bottle in his gentleman's left hand. The gentleman scratches his head with his right hand. Scene in the right shows a woman, looking down, pulling her fingers through her long dark hair that rests over her shoulders past her waist. She wears a peasant-like dress with a red bodice and green-striped skirt with a paisley pattern. The border also contains scroll-like pictorial details, geometric shaped ornaments, and pattern backgrounds. The background is printed in red and is framed by a blue border. Harrison, originally a book, map, and ink dealer, began operating his perfumery, including hair dyes, circa 1853. By the late 1850s, Harrison employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Title from item., Date and publication information supplied Library Company duplicate with variant colors., Not in Wainwright., See related: *BW - Advertisements - H [P.2015.71.2]., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 291a
Harrison's Columbian perfumery
Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer containing a wreath of multiple types of flowers encased by a border of geometric shapes listing dozens of Harrison's products. Products include flavoring extracts, scented soaps, toiletries, skin creams, oils, and perfumes. Also contains miniature jewel-like ornamental details and an outer frame-like border. Harrison began operating his perfumery circa 1853 and by the late 1850s employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Copyrighted by A. W. Harrison., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 106, Library of Congress: PGA - Bigot, Alphonse--Harrison's Columbian perfumery (D size) [P&P]
Harrison's Columbian Perfumery. Harrison's Columbia Ink.
Harrison's Columbian Perfumery. Harrison's Columbia Ink.
Philadelphia on Stone, POS 343, Cited by Wainwright as in the collection of Marian S. Carson; given to Library of Congress in 1996; copy unlocated at the Library of Congress., Library of Congress: copy unlocated
Harrison's Handkerchief Extracts
Beautiful, elaborate advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer showing a ballroom scene set within a monument designed as a stage surrounded by floral ornaments. Shows couples attired in evening wear introducing themselves, conversing, and dancing in the ballroom. Two women hold fans. Chandelier lampposts and red drapery frame the scene. Two archways showing vistas to outdoor sceneries of trees and urns of greenery flank the monument. Loose, bundled, and cornucopias of flowers, encase the monument. Also contains two poles entwined with banners on the outer sides. Banners are inscribed with the names of scented flowers, including camellia, lilac, magnolia, tea rose, sweet clover, patchouli, and musk. Harrison began operating his perfumery circa 1853 and by the late 1850s employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Copyrighted by A. W. Harrison., Not in Wainwright., Printed above title: Upper Ten., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 107, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 641 H 245
Harrison's Musk Cologne. Musk extract. Musk soap. Apollos W. Harrison, Philadelphia, No. 10 South 7th Street.
Advertisement depicting Harrison's two musk deer "obtained by a person of the Japan Expedition, under Com. Perry." Shows the deer in a tropical setting., Copyrighted by A.W. Harrison., Manuscript note on verso: No. 331 - filed Oct. 30, 1857. Appollos W. Harrison, Propr., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 108
Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl[kill] Front & Wood Streets
Exterior view of the manufactory operated from 1849 until 1860 by William Hart and A.J. Montgomery at Schuylkill Front (i.e., Twenty-second) and Wood Streets depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame. A horse-drawn cart stands idle by a side entrance of the multi-storied factory and four goats roam a nearby yard. Smaller factory buildings are visible to the right. Horse-drawn delivery carts, one steered by an African American man, travel pass each other on the adjacent street. Pedestrians and laborers walk the sidewalks and converse near a street lamp. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the background. During the mid-nineteenth century, Philadelphia was the premier American city of fine wallpaper production., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Accessioned 1982., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 344, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
[Hartley & Knight's bedding warehouse, 148 South Second Street, Philadelphia]
Advertisement showing the cluttered-looking three-story storefront of the bedding warehouse on the 200 block of South Second Street. A clerk, possibly one of the proprietors, stands at the main entrance to his store and points to a disheveled display of mattresses, one of many. Behind him, a couple enters the wareroom in which two women work in a backroom. The couple walks under a framed figure of a goose hanging above the doorway. Shelves of mattresses line the walls and rolled mattresses fill the large open display windows. In the upper floor windows, mattresses and bedding are propped out of windows and piles of feathers are visible. In front of the store, a mattress on a bed frame, a bed frame, and bedding on a cot is on display; a clerk loads bedding onto a horse-drawn cart; and a gentleman walks past a fire hydrant on the sidewalk. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Partners Joseph Hartley and Reeve L. Knight relocated to this address circa 1842 and remained in a partnership until 1854., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: South Second street. Augt. 1846, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 345, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed and lacking imprint.
Head quarters of La Fayette at the Battle of Brandywine.
Exterior view of the Delaware County residence used as a headquarters by the French general Marquis De La Fayette before the American Revolutionary battle in September 1777. Several trees line the property. The residence owned by Quaker farmer Gideon Gilpin was plundered by the British following the American's loss of the battle., Manuscript note on recto: Dwelling of Gideon Gilpin., Published in George Smith's History of Delaware County (Philadelphia : Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1862) opp. p. 381., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 109, Gift of David Doret.
Headquarter Infantry Corps National Guards [membership certificate]
Membership certificate containing views and vignettes related to the Pennsylvania Militia. Central view shows troops on display in front of their tents at a militia campground. Men and women spectators watch the troops from near the tent of the commander in the foreground. The commander's tent, flanked by guards on foot and horseback, and four other tents, faces away from the troops who stand in formation. Also includes vignettes above, to the sides, and below the certificate text. Top vignette shows an exterior of the National Guards Hall built 1856-1857 at 518-520 Race Street. Troops form lines in front of the building. Vignette is in an oval frame that is partially covered in laurel, and bordered by cannons, swords, a drum, a spy glass, bayonets draped in cloth and adorned with wreaths, and medals. Side vignettes depict National Guard soldiers on stone pedestals. The militia man on the left wears a winter uniform and backpack, holds a rifle, and stands in front of the American flag. The soldier on the right wears a standard uniform, holds a rifle, and stands in front of the flag of the National Guard. Bottom vignette shows an American eagle on a "N.G." shield between female and male classical figures of war, heads down, leaning on shields and flags bordered by cannons and cannon balls. The Pennsylvania Militia, originally organized in 1747, was legally renamed the National Guard of Pennsylvania in 1870., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 346, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 529 R 235
Henry Adolph, manufacturer of furniture wholesale and retail, warerooms no. 36 North Second St., one door above the Christ Church Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing the exterior of the furniture warerooms near Christ Church (22-34 N. 2nd St.). Clusters of people admire the furniture displayed in the windows of the storefront as patrons enter the building. The store is heavily adorned with signage and an American flag. Men, women, and children, including a man pushing a handcart, walk on the bustling sidewalk. A woman with a girl, and a delivery boy, cross the street near the "No. 21 Exchange & Richmond" streetcar, a "H. Adolph" delivery wagon, and another laborer pushing a handcart. Many of the women carry parasols. Also shows the gated, tree-lined promenade between the church and warerooms., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 347, Atwater Kent Museum: 47.33.7/3. With manuscripts notes giving date as June 1861 and indicating that the print formerly belonged to John A. McAllister., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until 1872.
Henry Beagle, blacksmith and hame manufacturer, corner of Magnolia & Willow Sts. between Fifth & Sixth Sts. Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing the busy forge shop of "Henry Beagle's Hame Manufactory" on the 400 block of Magnolia Street. Within the shop, laborers enter the doorway, toil at windows, and hoist a bundle of hames (i.e., part of the harness that fits around the neck of a draught horse through which the reigns pass). Outside of the building, other workers, including a boy, gather bundles of hames, transport the pieces by hand-drawn cart, and load them on to the back of a horse-drawn dray as a couple passes on the sidewalk. Several working smoke stacks adorn the roof of the shop and a couple passes on the sidewalk. In the street, a horse-drawn freight car travels. A lad leads the horses as the freight driver steers from within the front of the car. A small boy sits next to the driver who stands. Also shows neighboring buildings. Contains a trompe l'oeil frame as a border. Beagle began operating from Magnolia Street in 1839., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 348, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Henry Miller's concert garden. Nos. 720 & 722 Vine Str. Philadelphia
Sheet music cover containing an interior view of the crowded concert hall and theater operated by Henry Miller beginning circa 1854. Several men and women sit at, and converse and walk among the many tables of the seating area as a number of waiters serve the patrons. A music ensemble plays on a raised platform with guard rails in the left of the image and several people line a small stage in the center rear of the hall where a small performance appears to be happening. To the right of the performance, the stairwell to the upper balcony, lined with people, is visible. Greenery and vinery decorate the hall that includes a glass ceiling and windows, some open, across and adjacent to the balcony. After several proprietors, the theater was renamed the Lyceum in 1888., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00021, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 2:19
Henry Simons Philadelphia wheelwright-works on Second Street 2 miles north of Market Street County of Philada.
Advertisement showing the busy small manufactory complex established by Simons in 1831. Several laborers work diligently in the yard, and at the windows and workshops of the wheel making establishment. In the yard, workers carry slabs of wood from a large pile, fashion wheels near an open fire, and lead a horse-drawn truck of wagon parts past an idle truck marked "Wm. Massey, New Orleans" and wagons marked "T. Craven Old Point Virginia" and "U.S. 1720." Wagon wheels and frames rest along the buildings where laborers toil away at the windows. Also show workers hoisting wagon bodies, blacksmithing at an anvil, working on a wheel and wagon body, and operating a large piece of machinery in the workshops. Crates, handcarts, and carriages are also visible through shop openings. In the right of the image, the rear of a small street car marked "Philadelphia Fox & Grass" that is occupied by two ladies travels toward the "Henry Simons Office" located behind the factory. The office is attached to an open shed storing wood slabs. Smokestacks and a steeple with bell and weather vane adorn the roofs of the buildings, including the main building marked "Philadelphia Wheelwright Works." A partial view of a shed and piles of wood are visible in the left foreground and background, Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.29.2/2
Henry Simons. Wagon & U.S. national coach works. Philadelphia
Advertisement with ornate border containing a series of vignettes displaying several types of wagons, coaches, and carts produced by the manufactory. Vignettes are captioned with details of the products uses and surround a central view of the exterior of the busy "Simons, Coleman & Co. National Wagon Works" factory and office at No. 1109 North Front Street. Vignettes depict: African American plantation workers transporting sugar cane to a barge by a "cane cart"; laborers and settlers hauling materials out West by "road wagon" and "catamaran"; an ambush of U.S. Army soldiers, baggage wagon, and ambulance by Native Americans; and a busy Philadelphia port scene with a disinterested constable overseeing the wharf congested with carts and wagons as docked Henry Simons's factory ships ready for departure. Also contains an allegorical scene with a Northern factory worker and his Southern patron extending each other their hands before the shadowy figure of a factory agent; a large American eagle clutching the American flag; promotional text; and a listing of the factory's several business locations and names of agents. The city's high quality blacksmithship and large local lumber supply made Philadelphia the primary national and international manufacturer of wagons immediately following the Civil War., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 351, Lower left corner missing., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis Schell in the 1850s, and eventually owned his own press until around 1872.
Hibernia Engine House
Front elevation of the proposed marble fronted fire station for the Hibernia Engine Company. Building adorned with lettering "Hibernia" above the frieze and date marker "1752" (i.e., the founding date of the volunteer company)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 352, Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Hoxie & Button was a partnership between two Philadelphia architects, Joseph C. Hoxie and his brother-in-law Stephen Decatur Button that lasted 1848-1852. They also designed the Hope Engine Company building in Moyamensing in 1851.
Hibernia Fire Engine company, No. 1, of Philadelphia.
View showing members of the volunteer fire company gathering by their hand-powered Philadelphia-style fire engine (built 1843 by John Agnew) in front of their firehouse (built 1852) on Evelina Street between Second, Third, Walnut and Chestnut streets. The members, including company president Colonel James Page, wear their full regalia of hats, capes, and belts. Many of the men also carry horns and a hatchet. A few spectators informally watch the gathering. Women and couples peer from the windows of a neighboring building and boys sit on the brick wall of the courtyard attached to the fire house. The four-story firehouse is painted with a large "1" on the side and friezes are marked with the institution and incorporation dates, 1752 and 1840, respectively of the company. Also shows the company hose truck on the sidewalk and the station dog lying beside the ornately decorated engine. The engine contains painted details including eagles, angels, harps, and the figure of Liberty. On October 5, 1857, over one hundred regional volunteer fire companies participated in the Firemen's Parade that processed through Philadelphia with John F. Gibson as chief marshal. The parade honored the volunteers through the presentation of tokens of appreciation from their constituents, such as banners and horns, and a venue to celebrate the improved apparatus of the various companies., Manuscript note on recto: To Hist Soc from H.W. Smith., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 353, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 834 H 624, Parade described in The Press (October 7, 1857), p. 1.
Hibernian Benevolent Institution. Incorporated 1833.
Certificate for the Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Penny branch of the benevolent society. Contains four vignettes showing the Pennsylvania state seal design; an eagle holding a harp adorned in vinery; a scene including a tree surrounded by symbols of the society; and a sick-bed scene captioned "Benevolence" with a woman attending an ill man as two well-attired gentlemen enter the room., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto before Queen imprint: Designed and, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 110, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Hibernian
High Street and market shambles.
View looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls during the colonial era. Shows white men in colonial attire walking on the sidewalks and street. In the right of the image, an African American man walks beside a white man. Two African American men are depicted in a stockade and attached to a whipping post near the jail. The man attached to the whipping post is attired in a white cloth that is tied around his waist. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles were replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 301., Title from item., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 354, Gift of James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., RVCDC, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - High (2 copies)
High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia, 1800.
Lithographic facsimile of plate nine from William Birch's "Views of Philadelphia" showing a street scene with a view of the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street below Third Street. Depicts pedestrians, predominately women, traversing the sidewalk before the church and adjacent buildings; a horse-drawn dray and cart traveling the street; and a woman peddler with her basket of goods near the High Street market shed. First Presbyterian, rebuilt from 1793 to 1794 after the designs of John Trumbull, was the first building in the city with a classic temple facade. The building was razed following the relocation of the congregation., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 355, Accession number amended by cataloger., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Original engraving illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 9., Sinclair operated from 79 South Third Street circa 1840-1849.
H.J. Toudy & Co. Practical lithographers and publishers, 623 Commerce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Hoe & Co. Steam Lith. Press.
Series of trade cards containing depictions of Centennial buildings to advertise the Philadelphia lithographic establishment's Centennial views and the prominent printing press company. Buildings depicted include the Main Building, Agricultural Hall, Horticultural Hall, and Machinery Hall. Also contains promotional text on verso reading "All visitors should procure one as a memento of the Great International Exhibition" at Toudy & Co. or "Care R. Hoe & Co., Machinery Hall, Centennial Grounds.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 120 a-e. POSA 120a: Main Building. POSA 102b: Machinery Hall, International Exhibition. POSA 120c: Agricultural Hall, International Exhibition. POSA 120d: Main Building, International Exhibition. POSA 120e: Horticultural Hall, International Exhibition., American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Ephemera Late Trade Print 0074; 0128; 0129; 0130; 0131

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