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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[Road to Philadelphy]
Racist caricature simultaneously mocking and condoning the pretentiousness and bigotry of early 19th century Philadelphia Quakers toward their "social inferiors." Shows a Philadelphia road in front of a small home with an open picket fence and a visitor arriving on horseback. In front of the fence, a dark skinned traveler, possibly an Irishman or African American, with buck teeth and carrying a knapsack and a walking stick, asks a rotund white Quaker man and his attractive prim and proper daughter, "I say, this isn't the road to Philadelphy, honey, is it?" The father responds indignantly to the "Friend," that he is not only asking a question, but also telling a lie, and of course it is the road., Attributed to E.W. Clay., Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Clay, born in Philadelphia, was the most prolific caricaturist of the Jacksonian era. He became well known for his popular racist series, "Life in Philadelphia," published from 1828 until around 1830, which mocked upwardly mobile African American Philadelphians as ineptly attempting to imitate the white middle class., Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American political caricaturist of the Jacksonian era. (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 76, 358. (LCP Print Room, Uz A423.O), LCP holds duplicate untrimmed print: *Wainwright 315., Accessioned 1982., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Robert Morris Hotel & Fairmount House
Advertisement showing the four-story hotel opposite the race bridge of the waterworks. Guests stand and walk on the verandahs, roof deck, and observatory tower, and are visible in the entranceways of the hotel. A horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers passes and a horse-drawn dray is parked across from barrels in front of the building. The back of a coach is also visible under an adjacent passageway. The hotel was often used as a meeting place by the boat clubs nearby on the Schuylkill River. Also shows adjacent businesses. Hotel razed circa 1868., Not in Wainwright., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 653
[Robert Shoemaker's wholesale & retail drugstore, corner of Second and Green Streets, Philadelphia]
Advertisement for the three-and-a-half story storefront, covered in signage, on the 200 block of Green Street. Signs advertise Wetherill's Whitelead, drugs, medicines, paints, oils, glass, dyestuffs, "window glass of all sizes," picture glass, "cheap glass for hot beds," "white lead warranted pure by the ton or pound," ready mixed paints, linseed oil, plasters, pot ash, and soda. A male patron enters one of the two open entryways that are lined with barrels and sacks, some open. Within the store, two clerks, one assisting a customer, stand at the counter. Rows of shelves with pharmaceuticals line the wall behind the men. Several canisters and decanters are displayed in the three showcase windows at the front and side of the building. Within the second floor windows, stacks of boxes are visible. At the street corner, crates and boxes of pharmaceuticals, including indigo and oil of vitrol, line the sidewalk and are loaded on a horse-drawn dray accompanied by the driver. Also shows the open cellar, a model of a mortar and pestle adorning the store, and a partial view of the adjacent business with sign "..olds." Shoemaker operated the drugstore under this name and at this location 1837-1856. Shoemaker apprenticed at the store in the 1830's when operated by William Scattergood. He developed an alternative to homemade plasters and was possibly the first U.S. manufacturer of glycerin. He removed to Fourth and Race Streets in 1856 when he established Robert Shoemaker & Co., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: S.W. cor. Second & Green. Green. Second Street. Dec. 1846. 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 654, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Robert Wood's railing, architectural & ornamental iron works, Ridge Road below Spring Garden St., Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing the long three-story, brick factory occupied by Robert Wood's iron works at 1126 Ridge Avenue. The central portion of the building looms a few feet over the wings, and is adorned by tall, narrow windows on the second story, with a decorative cornice topped by a statue, bell cupola, and advertising flag. Statues of a lion and two dogs adorn an overhang near the open doorway of the iron foundry inside this central portion, under which a man and woman enter the office and warerooms. Visible inside the factory are several men at a forge, along with laborers working in the left and right wings. A man driving a horse-drawn company carriage emerges from the right wing. Four laborers load a lion statue into a cart on Ridge Avenue. Several boxes, addressed to "Mobile, Aa.," "Havana," "Jackson," "San Francisco, Ca.," "Smith & Co., St. Louis," "Cincinnati, Oo.," "Jones & Co., New Orleans," are scattered in the street nearby. Two laborers load (or unload) an iron railing from a covered cart in the foreground. Men working outdoors with unidentified piles, and additional brick factory buildings are visible in the background. A trompe-l'œil frame border surrounds the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 655, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Robert Wood's steam iron railing works, Ridge Road above Buttonwood St, Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing Robert Wood's long and narrow, four-story steam iron railing works on the 1100 block of Ridge Road. Signboards on the facade advertise "Wood's steam iron railing manufactory all kinds of ornamental & architectural iron work made to order," and "manufacturer of iron railings for cemeteries." Laborers are visible through the open windows and doors on all levels of the factory. Two men carry an iron piece into the ground level of the building, near a display of ornamental iron sculptures, that includes a large lyre. A laborer loads iron railings onto a horse-drawn cart near the entrance. Another man pulls iron bars from a dray and piles them into the open cellar door. Also shows a gentleman starting to exit from the rear of a crowded Girard College & Exchange line omnibus traveling north on Ridge Road, and children playing near a dog on a makeshift seesaw in the empty adjoining lot. Image is surrounded by a border of iron work models, and contains pictorial details of stairs with ornate iron railings., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 656, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Rockhill & Wilson, tailors & clothiers of men & boys wear, Nos. 205 & 207 Chestnut St. & 28 South 6th Street.
Advertisement showing the wide, spacious interior of the clothing store tenanted by Daniel H. Rockhill and Franklin S. Wilson at 205-207 (ie. 603-605) Chestnut Street. Male clerks and patrons organize and sort through goods displayed in piles on tables throughout the ornately decorated store, which is adorned by pilasters, rounded pediments, rosettes, and flowery chandeliers and light fixtures. Two male clerks assist patrons in the foreground; one speaks with a woman and a young boy, and the other helps two gentlemen. Rockhill & Wilson moved their business from 111 (ie. 321) Chestnut Street to this location in 1857, and operated here until 1882., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 658, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
The rogue caught
Depicts a grocery clerk, in his apron, angrily grabbing a boy outside of his “Temperance Grocery” store that contains a broken window. One of the boy's mischievious friends holds his knee in pain as the other flees from him and the clerk. Two girls depart from the store entrance behind the hurt boy. Rows of merchandise line the window of the store., Date inferred from complementary print with dated manuscript note., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00025, Issued 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)., Accompanied by text titled "A Common Snare" moralizing about the tempation to do wrong is one of the "snares of the Wicked One" that will lead one to ruin. "Fear God and you need fear nothing else.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 196, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - American Sunday School Union
Roper's Gymnasium. 274 Market Street, Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing the interior of the well-attended gymnasium, operated by James Roper on the 800 block of Market Street, in which several men exercise in front of a crowd of spectators. In the right, three men perform balance moves on a balance beam next to a wall adorned with a rack from which boxing gloves and squash rackets hang. Beside the beam, two men wearing boxing gloves converse near the pommel horse that two men utilize. In the front center and left of the room, two pairs of men, one pair wearing face guards, fence; two men pull weights attached to the ceiling; and another tests his strength on the parallel bars near men climbing poles. To the rear, other exercisers climb vertical and inclined ropes, hang and climb from exercise ladders, straddle and perform pull-ups on horizontal poles, and dangle upside down from a trapeze. Around the room, spectators including several men and a few women in winter clothing, stand and sit to watch the gym attendees. Roper established the gymnasium circa 1831 which relocated to the 800 block of Walnut Street circa 1833., Several of the figures annotated with a number that probably corresponds to an unlocated key., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 659, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Lower left corner missing and repaired.
[Rose of the Centennial Exhibition]
Souvenir shaped as a rose when opened and containing 30 vignette views of prominent buildings, landmarks, and iconography associated with the Centennial Exhibition printed on the recto and verso. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Vignettes captioned in English and German. Includes the "Facsimile" of the seal of the Centennial and the "Centennial Medal" containing allegorical female figures; Old Time Cabin; United States Government Building; Women's Pavilion; Judge's Hall; House of Public Comfort; the German, English, and French Commission buildings; Spanish Building; The Old Time Windmill; Independence Hall; Machinery Hall; Art Gallery; Agricultural Building; Horticultural Building; Japanese Dwelling; Brazilian Commissioners Building; Centennial Newspaper Building; Main Building; The Corliss Engine; Centennial Waterworks; The Lake Fountaine [sic]; Main Building Western Entrance; Photographic Association; Cook's World's Ticket Office; Swedish School House; Fountain in the Horticultural Hall; and United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Several of the views include park visitors. Also contains rose details. Many of the buildings designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 660, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 8 C 395
[Rose of the Centennial Exhibition]
Souvenir shaped as a rose when opened and containing 30 vignette views of prominent buildings, landmarks, and iconography associated with the Centennial Exhibition printed on the recto and verso. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Vignettes captioned in English and German. Includes the "Facsimile" of the seal of the Centennial and the "Centennial Medal" containing allegorical female figures; Old Time Cabin; United States Government Building; Women's Pavilion; Judge's Hall; House of Public Comfort; the German, English, and French Commission buildings; Spanish Building; The Old Time Windmill; Independence Hall; Machinery Hall; Art Gallery; Agricultural Building; Horticultural Building; Japanese Dwelling; Brazilian Commissioners Building; Centennial Newspaper Building; Main Building; The Corliss Engine; Centennial Waterworks; The Lake Fountaine [sic]; Main Building Western Entrance; Photographic Association; Cook's World's Ticket Office; Swedish School House; Fountain in the Horticultural Hall; and United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Several of the views include park visitors. Also contains rose details. Many of the buildings designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 660, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 8 C 395
Rosengarten & Sons, Manufacturing Chemists, Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing a bird’s eye view of the factory complex of several buildings and courtyards originally built 1855 between 18th, Fitzwater, 17th, and Catherine streets. Complex includes the L-shaped building at the corner of Fitzwater and Seventeeth streets that displays the sign “Rosengarten & Sons. Established 1822” near the entrance. The building contained the office, packing rooms, and manufacturing rooms for the firm. Several individuals walk on the sidewalk and horse-drawn carts and wagons travel near the street corner. On the Fitzwater block in front of the complex, which also includes a storage shed, stable, and warehouse for the factory, other wagons and carts are parked. Next to the warehouse, a horse-drawn cart enters a passageway to the complex in which laborers and horse-drawn carts are visible at work. Several of the factory buildings contain smokestacks. Also shows a horse-drawn omnibus traveling near the intersection, surrounding blocks of buildings, and tree tops. Rosengarten & Sons, one of the oldest U.S. chemical manufacturers and a leader in plant alkaloid and bromine production, merged with Powers & Weightman to form Powers, Weightman, Rosengarten Co. in 1905., pdcp00039, Not in Wainwright., Probably printed by Longacre & Co., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Roussel's premium perfumery
Advertisement containing advertising text surrounded by an ornate flowery border. Border includes garlands of flowers in which classical female figures, an eagle, and wingless cherubs are intertwined. The female figures are partially clad in Roman garb and one represents a messenger through the embellishments of wings and a trumpet. The cherubs hold tubes of cream and ribbons adorned with the medallions of the "seven silver and two gold medals awarded by the institutes of Philadelphia New York and Boston." The eagle holds a medallion in his beak. Also contains four images of medals in the corners. Bazin served as the lab director for perfumer Eugene Roussel from circa 1840 to circa 1849 when he assumed proprietorship of the business. Bazin continued to use Roussel's name until circa 1853. The Bazin family owned the business until 1884., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 197, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 D 956, Trimmed.
Routes of the two parades by the soldiers and sailors, Friday, October 2d, 1868.
Trade card by Blood & Chew with text describing the divisions and the route for a soldiers' and sailors' parade on Friday, October 2d, 1868. Includes two woodcuts, one depicting a Civil War soldier with a bayonet, and the other a sailor, both attired in uniforms., Not in Wainwright., Advertising text running the length of the card on the right side reads "neat lithographing and wood engraving," and on the left, "all varieties of plain & ornamental printing.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 81
Rowley, Ashburner & Co.'s oil, alcohol, fluid & pine oil works.
Advertisement showing the Kensington Screw Dock on North Penn Street above Maiden (ie. Laurel) Street from the tumultuous Delaware River. Three small sailboats navigate the water in the foreground, while shipwrights work on the hull of a square-rigged ship raised in the dry dock in front of the firm's building. At the wharf, horse-drawn drays travel past the neighboring oil manufactory and distillery and a captain, with a dog, leans on a hitching post to which a tugboat is tied. In the rough water of the river, skiffs, sailboats, and a rowboat navigate the choppy waves. Also shows surrounding boathouses, wharves, and buildings lining the riverfront. Edward Rowley, Algernon Ashburner, and George B. Keen purchased the screw dock in 1850., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 662, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
The Roxborough Baptist Church.
Exterior view of the second church completed in 1830 for the Baptist congregation at 6305 Ridge Avenue. Includes the church cemetery protected with a post and rail fence in the foreground. Barren trees surround the church. Congregation organized in 1789 from Roxborough congregants of the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia. The church building was enlarged in 1832 and 1846., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 663, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 13 R 887
The Roxborough School House. Founded by William Levering, 1748, rebuilt 1795
Exterior view of the small two-and-one-half story school house, renamed the "Levering Primary School" in 1847. Shows the side and front of the building also used as a public hall. A gated pathway and fence are visible next to the school house. A large tree stands in the front yard. The school was rebuilt again in 1857. William Levering (1705-1774) was a proprietor with large land holdings who not only built the first school in Roxborough, but the first smith shop and inn., Not in Wainwright., Published in Horatio Gate Jones's The Levering Family; or, a genealogical account of Wigard Levering and Gerhard Levering,....(Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1858), opp. p.26., pdcc00027, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 27A:32
Robert's old mill. Built 1685. [sic]
View of the first gristmill in Philadelphia built in 1683 by Richard Townsend in Germantown at Church and Wingohocking streets. Named for its early 19th-century owner, Hugh Roberts, the mill was razed in 1873. Shows the wheelhouse, waterfall, and mill race of the mill., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto: Germantown., Manuscript note on verso: Roberts, Hugh, Mill (1683-1878). On Wingohocking Creek, a half mile from Branchtown in old Bristol township near Mill St. (now Church Lane). Historic Germantown, p. 129. Church Lane, north side, east of Stenton Ave., pdcp00012, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Mills, Hart originally issued a series of prints of Germantown between 1863 and 1888, several of which were published as John Richards' Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania. A series of sixty former landmarks of Germantown and vicinity... Collated, arranged and annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse (Philadelphia, 1913), Pl. LI. Caption in publication reads: Roberts Mill on the north side of Church Lane, east of Stenton Avenue, built 1683. Removed about 1873. The second mill in Philadelphia county built (the year when Germantown was laid out) by Richard Townsend.
[Ruins of Landsdowne, the estate of the late Wm. Bingham Esqr. Pennsylvania]
View showing the ruins of the mansion on the estate west of the Schuylkill River (West Fairmount Park) purchased by legislator William Bingham in 1797. Debris rests on the steps of the shell of the residence. Trees surround the property. The mansion, originally built around 1773 for Pennsylvania governor John Penn, later served as the residence for Bingham's son-in-law Alexander Baring, i.e. Baron Lord Ashburton, in the early 19th century. The ruins were bought and ceded to the city in 1866 for inclusion in Fairmount Park., Not in Wainwright., Title from manuscript notes on recto: Ashburton Est. Old Landsdowne House destroyed by fire July 4, 1854 burned by fireworks., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 665, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 16 L 291, Inscribed on verso: Gift of Thomas Wynne 9/13/[19]68
Ruins of St. Augustines Church North 4th Street Phila.
View showing the ruins of the Catholic church, at 260-262 North Fourth Street, destroyed by fire during the Nativist Riots of May 1844. Behind a stone and iron work fence, the damaged outer walls remain standing of the church that was built in 1801 after the designs of Douglas Fitzmaurice Fagan. On the sidewalk, pedestrians, including a pair of men and women and a couple, walk past, point, and discuss the ruins. Also shows another woman facing away from the destroyed church and a dog walking near the pair of men. The congregation formed in 1796 under Father Matthew J. Carr to serve the large German and Irish immigrant community residing in the northern sections of the city. The May riots (May 6-8, 1844) began during a confrontation between Irish-Catholics and participants of an American Nativist Party rally held in the Irish neighborhood of Kensington., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 666, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
S. D. Sollers & Co. manufacturers of children's fine shoes, Philadelphia
Advertisement showing a garishly well-attired boy and girl creating a pyramid display of large model shoes in a parlor with a mosaic rug. The shoes rest atop a gargantuan "Sollers" shoe box on a platform draped in a rug. In the right, a garishly, well-attired boy and girl admire the display from near the open door to the room adorned with framed pictures. In the left, a kneeling boy places a shoe on the foot of a seated girl, who are both less dramatically attired and whose visages resemble photographic portraits. A box of shoes with a cover marked "S.D. Sollers. J.C. Austin. J.S. Outcalt." lies in front of them., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 198, Library of Congress: PGA - Duval--S.D. Sollers & Co. (B size) [P&P]
S. Griffiths, manufacturer of wrought iron tubes and fittings for gas, steam and water. Works in Vine st: betw: Schuylkill 2d and 3d Streets. A constant supply at warerooms no. 15 Nth. Del. 7th St, Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing the "Spring Garden Tube Works" on Vine Street above Twentieth Street. Signage reading "S. Griffith's Manufacturer of Wrought Iron, Welded Tubes, For Gas, Steam, Water" adorns a doorway that is flanked by spiral tubings. Employees work in the windows of the two-story factory, exit the doorways with tubes, and load horse-drawn carts parked in front of the building. Also shows a side-alley on which a horse-drawn cart loaded with coal is guided to the furnace at the rear of the works. Griffiths was listed at a Vine Street address from 1845 to 1854 and circa 1860-circa 1868., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 669, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 35 G 855
S. Tobias, importer & general dealer in wines, liquors, cordials and syrups, No. 68, North 3d. Street, above Arch, Philadelphia.
Advertisement showing the four-story storefront adorned with signage on the 100 block of North Third Street. A patron enters one of the two open entryways at which a straw basket and wine cask are displayed across from a large-cask shaped sign. Sign reads "S. Tobias No. 68 Importer & Dealer in Wines Liquors Cordials and Syrups." At the other entryway, a laborer rolls a cask out the door near a worker entering the cellar. Within the store, the backs of a patron and a clerk are visible in the rear of the store in which shelves of liquor bottles, straw baskets, wine casks, and barrels are displayed on shelves, the floor, and the open display window. Other boxes, bottles, casks, and barrels are visible at the upper floor windows. Barrels and boxes, one marked "S. Tobias" line the sidewalk, near a street lamp in front of the store. Also shows partial views of the adjacent businesses and the signage adorning the storefronts of Charles M. Schott, dry goods (66 N. 3rd St.) and Scattergood & Whitall, druggists' glassware (70 N. 3rd St.). A clerk is visible working at a table through the doorway of Schott, and a pulley and boxes are visible within the open doorway of Scattergood & Whitall. Tobias tenanted the site starting in 1845 and renamed his business Soloman Tobias & Son in 1847., Date from Poulson inscription on earlier mount: Imperfect dup. impression. Dec. 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 671, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
S. W. view of the old court house in Market Street, Philada at the time of its being taken down (7th April 1837)
View showing the demolition of the courthouse built 1707 by carpenter Samuel Powell on North Second Street above Market Street. Laborers tear off the roof that is down to the rafters and knock down the eaves of the gutted building adorned with broadsides. Debris covers the area in front of the building, and men and women spectators and passersby watch the work from near a line of crates and barrels in the street. Also shows a horse pulling an unseen dray and partial views of neighboring buildings and the adjacent market stalls (built 1710). The court house was utilized as the town hall, seat of the Legislature, market house and the Pennsylvania statehouse until Independence Hall was opened in 1748. Building demolished in 1837., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 672, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 25:77, Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, See companion print: N. E. view of the old court house in Market Street Philada [W243, P.2101]
Sacred Heart Convent, "Eden Hall." Torresdale, Pa.
View of the girls boarding school and convent administered by the Society of Sacred Heart Sisters that was built 1849-1850 after the designs of Frank Wills at 4800 Grant Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The stone building contains several wings and a chapel. Crosses adorn the roofs. Girls play on the grounds landscaped with trees. Also shows a woman and child walking up the path to the school entrance and a man with a horse-drawn wagon near the chapel. A border, arched at the top with simple art details, frames the image. The society purchased the Torresdale estate of F. Cowperthwait in 1847 and operated a school on the property until 1969., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 199, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Walker & Co., the Boston lithography firm established in 1879, sought the patronage of Roman Catholic clergy in the early 1880s.
Safe-Harbor Iron [Works, Reeves,] Abbot & Co. Philada.
Advertisement showing the iron works located in Safe Harbor, Lancaster County on the Conestoga Navigation Company canal (formerly Conestoga Creek) near the Susquehanna River. View includes the blast furnace, foundry, and carpenter shop (identified below the image) in addition to smaller out buildings. Carriages, horse-drawn carts, workers, and a large pile of ore are visible on the property near the canal on which canal boats, including the "Ohio," travel. Also shows drivers following a horse-drawn cart loaded with ore traveling on the canal bank in the foreground. Constructed in 1846 after ore was discovered in the area, the iron works supplied "railroad iron." The partnership between the Reeves and the Abbotts lasted from 1849-1851., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 200, Bottom edge partially torn off.
[Samuel Powell & Co. ship & house work in tin, copper, brass and iron]
Advertisement showing the four-story storefront on an incline at 8 Market Street. Tea kettles, coffee pots, and other metal cookware adorn the shop window. Storefront also contains signage, and an oil can advertising "Oil Cans" hanging from the second story. A railing on a slant is visible in front of the store. Powell operated from the address 1846-1853., Title supplied by Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. No. 8 Market Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 673, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
The Sanitary Fair grand march /
Dedication: Respectfully dedicated to Mrs. Elizabeth R. Biddle [i.e., Elizabeth Rockhill Biddle, wife of William Biddle (1804-1876)?]., Cover illustration is a chromolithograph showing a bird’s-eye view of the exhibition grounds at Logan Square. Shows the square and surrounding cityscape from the northwest, including the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. Trees are visible beside the buildings and line the outside of the square where throngs of people walk the sidewalk and crowd the fair entrances. Horse-drawn vehicles, including carriages and omnibuses travel the streets and park along the grounds. American flags adorn all of the buildings. Wrigley designed the majority of the fair buildings except for the central thoroughfare designed by Strickland Kneass. Variant of the lithographs printed and for sale daily by P.S. Duval’s establishment at the fair. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission., Printer: P.S. Duval & Son Lith., Phila., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 646, Gift of David Doret., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
The Sarcophagus brought from Syria & presented By Come. Elliott to the Girard College.
View of the marble, garland sarcophagus of the Empress of the Roman Empire Julia Mamaea presented to the college in 1838. Tomb sculpted with garland, cupid, and female figure ornamentations. Jesse Duncan Elliott, commodore of the U.S. Constitution, obtained the sarcophagus in 1837 while commanding the U.S. Fleet during a tour of the Mediterranean. It was "rediscovered" in the basement by the school in 1883 and given on permanent loan to Bryn Mawr College in 1955., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 201, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Advertisement for print published in the North American and Philadelphia Inquirier, August 13, 1839 and the National Gazette, August, 20, 1839.
Satterlee Heights. Satterlee Hospital Grounds, 27th Ward. West Philadelphia.
Aerial view showing the area between 46th, 42nd, Walnut streets and Baltimore Avenue. Includes lots for purchase at Satterlee Heights, residences, Mill Creek Culvert (built 1855), ponds, groves of trees and landscaped blocks. Key to 52 property holders printed above and below the image. Properties include Twadell Estate (1), Woodland Presbyterian Church (18), G. C. Fell's Buildings (20), Morton McMichael (25); Clarence H. Clark (i.e., Chestnutwold, later Clark's Park) (29), John McArthur, Jr. (33), William Blasius (38), and Mrs. Josephine Simpson (52). Also shows minimal street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages. The residential development of Satterlee Heights proceeded on land previously occupied by the Civil War hospital Satterlee U.S. General Hospital that operated 1862-1865., Contains pencil annotations of lot numbers on recto., Includes compass pointed to right., Printed on recto: These Lots for Sale by, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 674, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Lower left edge mended.
Satterlee Polka for the piano. Composed and respectfully dedicated to Surgeon I.I. Hayes U.S.V. Comg. Satterlee U.S.A. Genl. Hospital W. Phila.
Sheet music cover containing a view looking down at the Satterlee U.S.A. General Hospital grounds from a hill in West Philadelphia. In the foreground, soldiers, women, and children, on foot and horseback, descend a path on the elevation en route to the Civil War Union hospital. Recuperating soldiers and visitors recline on a large rock on the hillside and in the adjoining valley. A foot bridge lined by trees leads from the valley to Satterlee. Several figures are visible walking, and arriving by foot and omnibus at the hospital grounds that are also lined by tents. In the left, a horse-drawn omnibus crosses a bridge, overshadowed by trees, spanning Mill Creek., Manuscript note on recto: NW fr. Balto Ave. N of 43rd St., Price printed on recto: 4., pdcc00023, Philadelphia on Stone, Library Company copy acquired after POS 2010: P.2011.63.5., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 9:71, Hayes served as the ship's surgeon during Elisha Kent Kane's Artic explorations (1853-1855) and organized his own Arctic exploration in 1860 before serving at Satterlee General Hospital.
Satterlee U.S.A. General Hospital, West Philadelphia.
Bird's eye view showing the hospital opened June 9th, 1862 at Forty-fourth Street and Baltimore Avenue. The hospital complex is surrounded by tents to accommodate the high number of patients as a result of the battles of Wilderness and Spotsylvania. Soldiers and visitors mill the grounds and horse-drawn ominbuses enter the compound. Outside the hospital, a horse-drawn wagon travels and soldiers drill in formation. Also contains several lines of descriptive text and the names of the principal officers printed below the image. Text describes the size and dimensions of the hospital, visiting hours, and patient services including Sisters of Charity on call, a sutler store, barber shop, printing office, and a band., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 676, One of the images gift of William Helfand.
[Savery & Co. Phila. iron hollow ware foundry]
Advertisement showing the multiple buildings of the foundry established in 1841 at South Front and Reed streets (i.e., 1400 block S. Front). Buildings, most with smokestacks, include an office, sheds, and shops. Foundry employees exit and enter the buildings, pile wood, lead horse-drawn carts and drays into and out of the small complex, and move cauldrons lining the sidewalk. Also shows a couple passing by. Savery operated at the location until the late 19th century. The firm specialized in pots, pan, kettles, and other house wares in addition to agricultural implements., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. South Front St. below Navy Yard., Printed on blue paper., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 677, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Savournin's Celebrated Snow White Diamond for beautifying the complexion
Diamond-shaped advertisement with ornamental border containing a vignette-size, waist-length portrait of a young lady stroking her hands through her long tresses., Leonhardt operated from 114 So. 3rd Street circa 1868-1871., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 202, Gift of Margaret Robinson.
Scene at the U. S. Agricultural Society's Fair, Philada. 1856.
Scene showing a harness race at the track on the grounds of the fourth national exhibition of the U.S.A.S held at the Powleton grounds in West Philadelphia on October 7-11, 1856. Spectators, including men, women, and children, a few cheering, crowd outside of the track in the foreground. In the background, throngs of spectators (shown as a smudgy mass) watch the event from stands or standing within the center of the track. The judges' stand and several tents, including one waving the flag for the "President," are also visible inside the track. Also shows the tower of a building in the distance. The United States Agricultural Society, formed in 1852 at a convention called by 12 state agricultural societies, strove" to embody in one central Association, the valuable information already obtained by various local Societies, and to establish a more intimate connection between them; to correspond with foreign Societies, and to diffuse a knowledge of their most important Agricultural improvements and discoveries; and, in various other ways, to aid the promotion of this noble art.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 678, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb8 Q3., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:28 and Philadelphiana - Fairs., LOC holds artist's study. [DLC-PP-1997-105-Drawings-USAgricSoc].
[Scene in the woods at Landsdowne, the estate of the late Wm. Bingham Esqr. Pennsylvania]
Shows four men chopping trees and logs on the estate west of the Schuylkill River (West Fairmount Park) purchased by legislator William Bingham in 1797. Tree stumps are visible in the foreground. The estate, originally owned by Pennsylvania governor John Penn, was bought and ceded to the city in 1866 for inclusion in Fairmount Park., Not in Wainwright., Title from manuscript note on recto: Lansdowne woods & field., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 679, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 16 L 291a, Inscribed on verso: Gift of Thomas Wynne 9/13/[19]68
Scene on the Wissahickon
Bucolic scene showing an elegantly attired couple crossing the creek over a red foot bridge bolstered by stone abutments. Another couple, partially obscured by a tree, stands on the banks. The women wear bustles. The lush valley is visible in the background., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00013, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 203, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 39:53
Scenery of the Wissahickon near Philadelphia.
Landscape view showing the Wissahickon Creek in Fairmount Park. In the foreground, within a clearing, three visitors, two sitting on a log, admire the scenery. Scenery includes trees, bushes, rocks, hills, and a stone overpass in the distance., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 680, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Schlichter & Zug, Proprietors. 929 Market Street, Philadelphia. :
Advertisement showing a bust-length portrait of a beautiful young woman looking over her bare shoulder and holding an open book beside her face displaying the text "If you wish for perfect health use the National Bitters." She wers her hair in pincurls and tied back with a pearl hair clip. She also wears a pearl necklace and a pearl earring., Copyrighted by Schlichter & Zug., Manuscript note on recto: No. 611., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 204
Schnabel & Finkeldey, lithographers, 218 Walnut St., Phila.
Tradecard containing an ornate border design comprised of scrolls, vinery, and flowers surrounding the text. The partnership, formerly of M.H. Traubel & Co., was active 1858-1863., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 82, See tradecard with similar design for M.H. Traubel & Co. [P.9349.144q]
Schuylkill
Landscape view showing the Market Street Permanent Bridge commissioned by the Schuylkill Bridge Company and completed in 1805 after the designs of engineer Timothy Palmer. The William Ellis Tucker porcelain factory (est. 1826) in the old water works pumping station (Chestnut and 21st Street) stands in the foreground. A lumber yard, pairs of trees, and pastureland are visible across from the factory. Also shows Paul Beck’s Shot Tower and sailing vessels on the river in the background. Market Street Permanent Bridge was redesigned in 1850 by the Pennsylvania Railroad and destroyed by fire in 1875., Not in Wainwright., Date from inscription on stone: Ch 1836 [3 reversed], pdcc00020, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:90, See Kathleen Foster’s Captain Watsons’ travels in America" The sketchbooks and diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1772-1818 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), plate 7 for possible original study for print.

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