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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Philadelphia Schutzen-Verein. 1869.
Shows hundreds of members, their faces copied from photographs, of the German-American shooting club posed on the grounds of the club park, Schützen Park, east of Indian Queen Lane in East Falls. The massive crowd of prominent men, many holding rifles, sits, stands, reclines on rocks, lift their hat in celebration, greet one another, and attend to their hunting dogs. At the center of the group, a man wears a sash and holds the banner of the club. Five different types of hunting dogs are depicted in the foreground. Also shows the banquet hall and members taking target practice in the background. The Philadelphia Schützenverein was founded in 1864., Inscribed on recto: 1869., Not in Wainwright., "J" in artist's name reversed on print., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 595, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 03 PH 533
Philadelphia. S.E. view
Panoramic view looking northwest from the Delaware River showing the southeast part of the city. Several vessels, including sailboats, rowboats, and a steamboat travel in the Delaware past cityscape and Windmill and Smith Islands. Cityscape includes the Navy Yard, Spark's shot tower, and the steeple of Christ Church., Plate 7 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Copyrighted by Aug. Köllner., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 593/594, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Philadelphia. S.E. view
Panoramic view looking northwest from the Delaware River showing the southeast part of the city. Several vessels, including sailboats, rowboats, and a steamboat travel in the Delaware past cityscape and Windmill and Smith Islands. Cityscape includes the Navy Yard, Spark's shot tower, and the steeple of Christ Church., Plate 7 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Copyrighted by Aug. Köllner., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 593/594, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Upper corners clipped.
Philadelphia Sketch Club
Souvenir print, or possibly design for a membership certificate, for the professional artists' club founded in 1860. Contains an oval-framed depiction of a near nude, slightly draped cherubic boy, holding a scroll under one arm, and an artist's tongs in his other hand, as he leans on a bust of Minerva. Includes a silhouette of the boy and bust. Clasp-shaped adornments containing filigree details flank the oval. Clasps adorned with a sketchbook and paint palette that enclose a pencil and paintbrush, respectively., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 187, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons
Membership certificate for the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons containing a bust-length portrait vignette of "Bishop White Presdt. 50 Years" and a "bird's-eye view of the Building's-Grounds and Environs" of Eastern State Penitentiary. Filigree surrounds the oval-framed portrait. View shows the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. Individuals walk and a horse-drawn wagon travel within the prison grounds that are surrounded by a brick wall with Gothic-style entrance gate. The grounds include garden plots. Pedestrians, including a man pushing a hand-cart, a carriage, and men on horseback travel in the streets outside of the penitentiary. Undeveloped land and cityscape, including Girard College, border the prison building. Also includes a descriptive paragraph about "This institution known as Cherry Hill State Prison 'At Philadelphia as the Model Prison of' The Pennsylvania System of Prison Discipline' or "Separate System' ..." Text describes the Separate System of incarceration where "each convict occupies a single cell or workshop" in addition to the construction, dimensions, and utilities of the building, including "seven corridors of cells," gas, "heat by hot water," and "water in each cell.", Issued to John McAlister [sic] Jr. on November 11, 1856. Signed by John B. Lytle, Secy. and James J. Barclay, Presdt., Attributed to James Queen., Contains blindstamp of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 597, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Societies, Certificates, Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Philadelphia taste displayed. Or, bon-ton below stairs.
Satiric scene showing high society, i.e., "bon-ton" in a Philadelphia oyster cellar. A "gentleman" descends the stairwell to the swankly decorated cellar where a motley gathering of men drink, smoke, gossip, and suck oysters. An African American bartender serves drinks from decanters in the left of the image. The bar is adorned with a notice reading "City Privilege still without license." Another African American attends the oyster bar. Plates, crackers, salt, and vinegars line the edge. In the right of the image, a sick-faced patron wobbles and spills his drink next to a tall clock with a decorated face and the inscription "Music has charms." Possibly, the cellar at 806 Market Street operated by African American proprietor James Prosser from about 1830., Inscribed on verso: Said Wm Van [?] of the Walnut/ Chestnut? St. Theatre., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 598, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 O 97, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #40., Jackson, Joseph, Encyclopedia of Philadelphia, p. 386-387
Philadelphia, von dem grossen Baume zu Kensington aus geschen, unter welchem William Penn den tractat mit den Indianern abschloss.
View looking toward the city from the Penn Treaty Tree and Monument in Kensington. In the foreground, two men stand between the monument marked "William Penn's Landing Place" and the elm tree across from men working at the piers and arriving by skiff at the riverbank. Laborers pile sacks on the dock, transport goods by boat, and load a wagon. In the background, tall ships are docked, vessels travel the Delaware River, and cityscape is visible. The monument was erected in 1827 by the Penn Society to commemorate the site of William Penn's Treaty with the Delaware Indians at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 599, Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Traubel assumed proprietorship of the Kuhl lithography studio at 46 1/2 Walnut Street circa 1854 under the firm name Traubel & Co.
Philadelphia Wigwam for the Johnson Union Convention held August 14th 1866.
Exterior view of the temporary convention hall built opposite Girard College between 21st and 22nd streets on Girard Avenue for the first national political convention after the Civil War. The convention was organized to foment the National Union Party in support of President Johnson and in opposition to the reconstruction policies passed by "radical" Republicans in Congress. Crowds of men and women enter the several front and side entrances as a horse-drawn street car passes by. The hall containing galleries, a stage, and amphitheatre was built to hold about 10,000 persons. The National Union Party existed 1864-1868., Copyrighted by G.S. Bethell., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 600, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Philadelphia Zouave Corps.
Shows the troops of the 114th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, led by four drummers and four buglers marching past the old City Hall, Independence Hall, and Congress Hall on the 500 block of Chestnut Street. The commanders, wearing caps, long jackets, and pants, march in front and beside the men attired in their turbans, cropped jackets, and baggy pantaloons. Several spectators, including a girl hold a pail next to a man in an apron, line the street. An American and French flag frame and are integrated into the side borders of the view., Manuscript note on recto: A M. T. Batiste Saulane membre honoraire de la compagnie des Philadelphia Zouaves End. [Gaudin?] captaine, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 601, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 525 Q 3
Philadelphie.
Bird's eye view after the John Bachmann print published by J. Weik in 1857. Predominately shows the built city from the Schuylkill to the Delaware rivers and Port Richmond to South Philadelphia. Market Street runs down the center of the view. Shows the residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying areas of Center City. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia, Windmill Island, and Camden, NJ. and public utilities, bridges, railroad depots, and reservoirs. Includes from west to east, grounds for the Agricultural Society Fair of 1856, the Woodlands, Blockley Almshouse, the Upper Ferry Bridge, Market Street Bridge, the two Gas Works, Fairmount Water Works, Girard College, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Naval Asylum, Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mark's Church, Christ Church, Independence Hall, Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Peter's Church, and Spark's Shot Tower. Also shows the five major squares (as well as Independence Square) and adjacent landmarks, including the P.R.R. Freight Depot, U.S. Mint, First Independent Church, Pennsylvania Asylum for the Blind, and Will's Eye Hospital. Masts of docked ships line the piers along the Delaware and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Pedestrian and street traffic is also visible on the city road ways. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border the built city to the North and South., Printed upper right corner: 90., Philadelphia on Stone, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 865 A 844
[Philadephia Bank building]
Advertisement showing the storefronts tenanting the Philadelphia Bank building completed in 1836 after the designs of William Strickland at Bank Place, i.e., 400-408 Chestnut Street. Businesses include Hancock, Bennett & Wolfe, importers of fancy goods and manufacturers of silver and plated ware (No. 1 Bank Place); Levi Eldridge, carpet & floor cloth warehouse (No. 2); W. F. Slaughter, paper hangings (No. 3); C. Bulkley, hat, cap, & fur store (No. 4); and Robb & Swift, successors to Browne & Robb, tailors (132 Chestnut). A family strolls on the sidewalk and patrons exit and enter the businesses that display merchandise, including rolled carpets, in the shop windows and in front of the stores. Partial views of adjacent buildings, including the Second Bank of the U.S., in addition to a horse pulling a vehicle, are visible. Also contains advertising text for each of the businesses that lists specific merchandises and promotes customer services, printed below the image. Merchandise includes chandeliers and Japannery Brittania & block tin wares; hearth rugs, floor baizes, stair-rods, and carpet bindings; fire-board figures; and muffs, pellerines & boas., Title and date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 573, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 87 C 525, Described in Public Ledger, April 2, 1838.
Phoenix Oil Co. Phila.
Advertisement containing a whimsical view of the shoe oil produced by the Phoenix Oil Company at Front and Market Streets. Shows shoeshine boys admiring a life-size corked bottle of the oil. A shoe-shine box, brush, buffer, and a bottle of the oil rest at their feet. Behind the boys, the heads of clamoring men, and individuals, including a couple with an umbrella, walking in the rain are visible. The scene is framed with a large red circle containing advertising text. Other pictorial elements include a branch of blossoms and a medallion with advertising text., Not in Wainwright., Printed lower left corner: 25 cents., pdcp00041, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 189, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
[Pine Street Church. Built A.D. 1764. Remodeled 1857]
Proof of an exterior view showing the remodeled Third Presbyterian Church also known as Old Pine Street Church, originally built 1766-1768 after the designs of Robert Smith, at 400-416 South 4th Street. Columns on pediments adorn the front of the building and an iron-wrought fence protects the church property. Church remodeled from a meeting house to a Greek-style temple in 1857 after the designs of John Fraser., Title and name of printer from published copy of print in the collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 602, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 136 T 445c, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:24 [published copy]
Pine Street Church. Built A.D. 1764. Remodeled 1857.
Exterior view showing the remodeled Third Presbyterian Church also known as Old Pine Street Church, originally built 1766-1768 after the designs of Robert Smith, at 400-416 South 4th Street. Columns on pediments adorn the front of the building and an iron-wrought fence protects the church property. Church remodeled from a meeting house to a Greek-style temple in 1857 after the designs of John Fraser., pdcc00002, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:24, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 136 T 445c [proof copy]
[Piper & Andrews, warm air furnace manufactory. Cooking ranges. 82 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia]
Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage on the 100 block of North Sixth Street. Signage reads "Radiator Stoves Perpetual Ovens Backs & Jambs Vault & Hearth Grates. Metalic Roofing in Tin & Copper." A patron enters one of the two open entryways into the storefront that is lined with a wall of shelves holding merchandise. Clerks and employees are visible at the cellar entrance, second entry way across from the stairs to the second floor, and in the rear of the business. Pipes and stoves are displayed at the entryways. Two other workers toil at the second floor windows. To the right of the manufactory, a woman street vendor sits in front of a rickety, wooden building front, at a falling shutter used as a table lined with foodstuffs, under an awning with a frame weighted by rocks. The upper floors of a wooden building rise from behind the site of the vendor. Also shows a partial view of an adjacent factory. Partially visible and semi-legible signs, including one reading "ady's Factory" adorn the building. Henry A. Piper and R.S. R. Andrews partnered circa 1845-1847., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Sixth Street - 1845 -., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 603, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Plan. Church of the Epiphany.
Floor plan of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1833-1834 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter at 1501-1515 Chestnut Street. Shows the chancel and 170 pews. Pews printed with a row number, "value," "seats," and "sittings." Values range from $150 to $500. Several pews are also printed with the names of pew owners. Pew owners include McAllister, Norris, Ashhurst, Van Pelt, Stokes, Biddle, and Wetherill., Printed below title: Note. The above are prices per sitting to Pew Owners. To renters will be added the interest on the value of the Pew at 6% per annum. Pews without names are held by the church unsold., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 604, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Plan for the permanent improvement of Independence Square.
Circular illustration showing an oblique elevation looking southwest at Independence Square, situated between Fifth and Sixth Streets, and Chestnut and Walnut Streets, modified with George F. Gordon's proposed changes. Includes old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut); Independence Hall, built 1732-1748 after designs by Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley (520 Chestnut Street); and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). Eight equidistant walkways, "to be thirty feet wide, to be laid with variegated tile," radiate from the center to the corners of the square and are connected by a circular walk. Also shows the unexecuted Independence Monument (center), slated to be erected by the Thirteen Original States. Two fountains near Walnut Street demonstrate the creator's desire to beautify the square with "fountains, vases, statuary, and flower beds of all varieties"; and bronze statues on pedestals of the fifty-six signers of "The Declaration of Independence" lining the periphery of the square, which on three sides is completely open and accessible to pedestrians via granite steps. Statues of George Washington, William Penn, a group of Native Americans, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay would face Chestnut Street near Independence Hall., Contains passages of explicative text printed on verso. Text describes how to achieve this plan for the square. The old brick wall surrounding the square would be removed, along with the court house on Sixth Street, and the building occuppied by the Philosophical Society on Fifth Street. Gordon submitted his plan and description in January of 1875 "in the hope, that now, at last, in the Centennial hour of our nation, something may be done, worthy of the sacred place in our midst.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 605
A plan for the regulation of cars stopping at crossings.
Plan showing horse-drawn street cars stopped at adjacent blocks at the intersection of Fifth and Chestnut streets. Stone formations are visible at the rear and front of the street cars. Figures representing passengers board and disembark from the rear of the cars. The Citizen's Association for the Improvement of the Streets and Roads of Philadelphia was formed in 1870., Manuscript note on recto: The blocks opposite the rear platform to join the crossing stones as stepping stones to the car, those opposite the front platform to indicate to the driver the stopping point., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 606
Plan of fair for the Soldiers & Sailors Home. Academy of Music, Philadelphia. October 23 to November 4, 1865.
Floor plan showing the layout of departments at the exhibition organized to raise funds for the home for destitute and wounded Civil War veterans. Display sponsors include the Fire Department, First Presbyterian Church, "Women's Mission" and the Penn Relief Association as well as local neighborhoods, towns, and counties including West Philadelphia, Germantown, Montgomery County, Chester County, Bethlehem, and Jenkintown. Displays include fancy goods, china, photographs & albums, books, canned fruit and confectionery, hardware, sewing machines, dolls, silhouettes, and silver. Exhibition also provided a table for the fair periodical "The Knapsack," a fruit stand, donation table, refreshment saloon, smoking saloon, and ladies dressing room., Published in The Knapsack, October 24, 1865. [*Per K 9.7 5776.F.25], Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 607, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Plan of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia. 10th Street above Chestnut.
Plan for the library building originally built circa 1859 after the designs of John McArthur as a market house. Shows the ground and second floor plans including dimensions, "Front Elevation on 10th Street," and "Interior elevation of Rear Wall." Floor plans include reading rooms for ladies and gentlemen, library room containing "desks for changing books" and book cases, toilet, ladies parlor, desk for umbrellas, writing and business room, lecture room, gentleman's conversation room, work room, committee room, board room, librarian's and janitor's residences, chess room, and newspaper room. Interior elevation contains a sky light and stained glass window. The library, organized in 1821 for the benefit of merchants and merchant clerks, purchased the building in 1867 and relocated in 1869., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 608, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Plan of the United States dry dock, at Philadelphia, on the new system of the sectional floating dock, basin, & railways, now constructing by contract with Mess. Dakin & Moody.
Plan showing the future dry dock at the first U.S. Navy Yard established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801 on the Delaware River in Southwark. A three-masted frigate rests in dry dock on land and a three-masted sidewheeler rests in dry dock on the floating dock in the river. Two workers stand on the deck of the sidewheeler. Between the frigates, completed hulls are visible in four storage bays. Across from the bays, a hull under construction rests in scaffolding. Tools and machinery lay near the hull. In the background, a worker hauls wood by horse-drawn cart in front of the naval yard factory. Also includes cityscape and Spark's shot tower. The facility, which built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships, operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Not in Wainwright., Published in Sketch of the plans, present condition, and proposed results of the United States dry docks at the Navy Yards of Philadelphia, Kittery, and Pensacola: ... (New York: P. Miller & Son, 1849)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 609, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 57 P 544
Point Breeze Park, schottisch
Cover illustration is a lithograph, tinted with two stones, showing several spectators at a trotting race at the park on the Penrose Ferry Bridge Road near Point Breeze. In the right, several men, in top hats, stand in the judge's stand while male and female club members mob the piazzas of the two-story main clubhouse as the two trotters pulling sulkies race past on the course. A few spectators stand on the grounds and landscaped paths. Also shows a second smaller clubhouse building. The park, established in 1855 by the Point Breeze Park Association of sportsmen, promoted trotting races as agricultural exhibitions to circumvent an 1817 city ban of horse racing. The park was sold to a private owner in 1901 and later sold for an amusement park in 1912., Artist: Lith. from nature by J. Queen; Printer: T. Sinclair's lith., Phila., Price printed on recto: 38 Cts. Nett., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 610, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 2:85 and 15:3., Gift of David Doret.
Police. = Polizeibeamter. ; Bill-Carrier. = Placat Träger.
Depicts two men standing on the corner on the city street, a policeman in uniform dressed in a blue jacket and top hat (left), the other a bill carrier (right) who wears a sandwich-board for "Dr. Jayne's Sarsaparilla, Philadelphia". Out of sight of the policeman, a man climbs into the window of a property while a gentleman watches in the background. View also includes a horse-drawn carriage., Published in Pittoresque scenes of American life (Philadelphia: John Weik, publisher and importer, ca. 1850)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 612
Pont de Lower Ferry pres de Philadelphie.
View showing the Upper, not Lower, Ferry bridge also known as the Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge. Shows the full length of the single span bridge erected 1809-1812, with Robert Mills serving as architect and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. A pavilion-like structure is visible at one end of the bridge (left) and a small building at the other (right). Also includes a second covered bridge the Market Street Permanent Bridge in the distance. Market Street Permanent Bridge was built from 1798-1806 after the designs of Timothy Palmer. The Upper Ferry bridge burned 1838., Not in Wainwright., Printed upper right corner: Pl. 6., pdcc00019, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:37
Poplar Grove. Residence of E.S. Richards, near Germantown, Penna.
View showing the villa-like estate of merchant Edwin S. Richards. Shrubery and trees landscape the grounds in front of the residence. In the background, behind a picket fence, a stone building and gazebo stand next to other buildings., Not in Wainwright., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 614
Porter ale and lager beer brewery at Fountain Green of Engel & Wolf
Tradecard containing a view of the facility at Fountain Green (Fairmount Park) for the brewery established in 1844 by Charles Engel & Charles Wolf. Includes the wash house and entrance to the vault on the lowest level of the hill, the office (middle level), fermenting and brewing building, and three-story storage house with fermenting cellar (upper level). A Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad locomotive pulling one train car passes in the foreground. Engel & Wolf purchased Fountain Green in 1849 to dig lager beer vaults to ferment and age the beer brewed at Dillwyn Street. A third-story was added to the storage house after 1855 and the plant was remodeled in 1859. The brewery ceased operations in 1870 when Fountain Green, the former estate of Samuel Meeker, was seized by the city for the park., pdcp00024, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 615, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Breweries
Porteus' works. Pine oil camphine distilled by steam. No. 581 North Front Street. Philadelphia.
Advertisement containing a view of the "J.A. Porteus Chemical Works," and a cross-section view of an enormous distilling machine used to process the oils. Chemical works view shows laborers loading a horse-drawn wagon and a dray with barrels lined along the building. A couple walks past the factory comprised of gable-roofed brick buildings of various heights. Porteus operated from the site 1846-1854. Machinery view includes a worker attending a barrel in which distilled liquid drains, and two gentlemen conversing near the steam pump of the apparatus., Registration marks at corners of upper view., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 616, Stamped on verso: From the file of James F. Queen, artist, 1824-1889., Formed part of the Marian S. Carson collection.
Portico Square.
View of the brick rowhouses also known as Portico Row built 1833-1835 after the designs of Thomas U. Walter at 900-930 Spruce Street. Tenants of the row included the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (1836-1841), commodore Isaac Hull (1842-1843), and author Sarah Josepha Hale (1859-1861). Also shows surrounding dwellings north and south of Spruce Street. Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies was a private school established circa 1830 that provided its students with an education based on religious principles, including courses in art, languages, and sciences., Published as frontispiece to Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (Philadelphia, 1837)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 617, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reassigned McAllister accession number., Poor condition., Rosienkiewicz was the professor of drawing and painting at the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies.
Portico Square.
Portico Square.
View of the brick rowhouses also known as Portico Row built 1833-1835 after the designs of Thomas U. Walter at 900-930 Spruce Street. Tenants of the row included the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (1836-1841), commodore Isaac Hull (1842-1843), and author Sarah Josepha Hale (1859-1861). Also shows surrounding dwellings north and south of Spruce Street., Variant published as frontispiece to Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (Philadelphia, 1837)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 617, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook., Trimmed., Rosienkiewicz was the professor of drawing and painting at the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies.
Potter & Carmichael, oil cloth manufacturers warehouse, No. 135, North Third Street, Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing the busy factory complex on Second Street road above the Reading Railroad, i.e., 135 North Third Street above Race Street. Signage reading "Franklin-ville, Oil Cloth Works" adorns the roof of the main factory building around which several workers labor. Laborers stretch cloth on long flat racks and on the side of the main building in which other men move a roll of carpet into a hatch. In the courtyard, laborers load materials into a wagon, and transport materials by hand-cart and horse-drawn dray. Other factory workers pull a long sheet of cloth along the side of a smaller factory building. At the rear of that workshop, men work in and approach a shed. Crates and large packages rest near the pulling racks and are piled in front of the main building. Countryside frames the scene. The firm of Potter & Carmichael moved their warehouse to 135 North Third Street from 568 North Third Street (above Poplar Street) circa 1848. The partnership was dissolved in 1853., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1849. The above factory is situated on the Second St. road above the Reading Railroad., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 618, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Potts, Linn & Harris
Partial advertisement for the wholesale druggists showing the upper half of the storefront at 213 1/2 Market Street covered in signage. Signage reads "Potts, Linn, & Harris Whoslesale Druggists," "Drugs," and Potts & Linn. Medicines, Chemicals, Chemical Tests, Medicine Chests, Surgical Instruments." Includes, boxes, bottles, and barrels visible in the upper-floor windows. Potts, Linn & Harris, comprised of partners Robert B. Potts, Claudius B. Linn, and John Harris, M.D. operated from 213 1/2 Market Street 1843-circa 1847., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 619, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 P 857, Lower half missing., See advertisement in O'Briens Business Directory for 1844, p. 28-29.
[Powers & Weightman, chemical manufactory, Philadelphia]
Advertisement showing the factory complex built 1825-1876 between Ninth, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. Buildings house a showroom, storerooms, laboratories, boiler rooms, acid houses, drying rooms, and warehouses. Horse-drawn carts and wagons pick up and make deliveries and travel past the manufactory. In the right of the image, a crossing guard with a signal flag stands at the corner of Ninth and Paris streets. Train cars travel the tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad past a separately-standing warehouse of the factory in the foreground. Opposite the factory and across from the railroad tracks, laborers load a horse-drawn cart with crates and barrels that are lined up in several rows. Also shows pedestrians on the sidewalks, a partial view of a neighboring building, and distant cityscape. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 620, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 P 872, Gift of David Doret.
Powers & Weightman manufacturing chemists Philadelphia
View showing the laboratory complex established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). In the foreground, the “No. 40” coal-tender locomotive approaches from one of the series of tracks surrounding and within the factory grounds. Nearby, a line of freight cars, some covered in tarp rest on a set of tracks. Within the factory grounds comprised of processing plants and storage sheds, a horse-drawn cart travels and stacks of wood slabs are piled on an elevated, centrally-located piece of land. Smokestacks adorn several of the buildings. Another stack of wood and hillside are visible in the right background. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. A second factory complex operated between 9th, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. The East Falls operation included housing for employees., pdcp00035, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (N-Z)
Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Co. Works, East Schuylkill Falls. Powers & Weightman, Manufacturing Chemists, Philadelphia. Established 1818
Advertisement showing the large industrial complex, including warehouses, storage sheds, and a reservoir originally established in 1848 by Powers & Weightman. Several of the buildings contain working smokestacks. A horse-drawn wagon departs from the main entranceway and a number of others are visible within the complex. Train tracks run within and along the periphery of the plant. A locomotive with train cars, horse–drawn freight cars, and free standing freight cars are visible on the tracks. Fenced pasture land is visible in the background. Also contains two titled insets in the lower corners. "Tartaric and Citric Acid Department, Falls of Schuylkill" includes horse-drawn wagons arriving and crossing a small bridge in the foreground. "Laboratory for Fine Chemicals, Ninth and Parrish Streets" includes trains traveling in the foreground. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. Powers & Weightman merged with Rosengarten & Sons to form Powers, Weightman, Rosengarten Co. in 1905., pdcp00047, Not in Wainwright., Probably a later reprint with variant title of circa 1876 lithograph., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Pratts house now Fairmount Park
View looking from the bank of the Schuylkill River showing the mansion built circa 1799 for Henry Pratt known as Lemon Hill in the distance. Also shows men fishing from the riverbank and a rowboat sailing across the Schuylkill., Title from manuscript note on recto., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 624, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone
President and faculty of the Female Medical College of Penna.
Commemorative print containing bust-length portraits, within a decorative border, of the original faculty of the first degree granting U.S. medical college for women that opened in 1850. Faculty includes William S. Mullen, President; N. R. Moseley, Prof. of Anatomy General, Special and Surgical; Jas. F. X. McCloskey, Prof. of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine; Jos. Longshore, Prof. of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children; C. W. Gleason, Prof. of Physiology and Surgery; M. W. Dickeson, Prof. of Materia Medica and Therapeutics; and A. D. Chaloner, Prof. of Chemistry. Border designed as Gothic-style columns and arches decorated with female figures, including Wisdom and Peace. Also contains a vignette below the portraits depicting a classical style building with columns, possibly the building rented by the college at 229 Arch Street or an unexecuted rendering of the future permanent medical college building. Female Medical college was renamed Womens Medical College in 1867., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 625, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 904 S 57, Simons, a prominent Philadelphia daguerrean, photographed over twenty daguerreotype portraits of members of Philadelphia medical faculties that were published as engravings by Virgil F. Harrison in 1846., Address label pasted on verso for Mrs. Aldona L. Dickeson.
Price & Harper's steam saw mill, fancy chair manufactory, and lumber yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh & Eighth, Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing the four-story brick building and the adjoining lumber yard on Girard Avenue above Seventh Street tenanted by Price & Harper. Signboards on the front facade read, "fancy-chair factory, steam sawmill, turning & scroll sawing, and iron foundry." Large piles of lumber are visible in the yard that extends west to Eighth Street from the factory building. A man directs a horse out of the lumber yard gate. Horse-drawn carts, some pulling lumber, travel on the street in front of the building. A carriage and a man and woman travel south on Eighth Street, and a bale of hay rests on the sidewalk near a lamppost and a stalled carriage in the foreground. Price & Harper operated together between 1853 and 1855., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 626, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Prince & Co's world renowned authentic organs. Melodeons and harmoniums.
Prince & Co's world renowned authentic organs. Melodeons and harmoniums.
Advertisement containing a vignette of a Prince & Co. organ. The company founded by George A. Prince in 1846, was the leading manufacturer of reed organs in the United States from the 1850s until the 1870s., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871., Bellak, a prominent member of the Philadelphia Jewish community, was a composer and music store proprietor known as a dealer of quality pianos.
Princeton Presbyterian Church, Phila.
Exterior view showing the greenstone church built 1858-1860 at 39th Street (i.e., Saunders Avenue) and Powelton Avenue in West Philadelphia. An iron fence surrounds the church and trees line the sidewalk in front of the sanctuary. A lot of land and a grove of trees flank the property. Exiting parishioners are visible in the doorway and individuals greet and converse with one another on the sidewalk as a horse-drawn buggy rushes past in the street. A new church building was completed on the site in 1876. Congregation organized October 1855., Manuscript note on recto: 39th & Powelton Ave., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 627, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 136 P 957
[Proof of membership certificate for a choral society, probably German- American society]
Contains an ornamental border of greenery and vignettes of musical iconography. Includes the female allegorical figure of music holding a harp, laurel wreath, and attended by a cherub displaying a sheet of music on a pillow; a harp and scroll; and bust portraits of Mozart and Beethoven. By the mid 1870s, German-Americans had formed 24 singing societies in Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 191, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: **NB 1 75 - 402

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