Collection of over 200 prints from the Frank H. Taylor series Ever-Changing Philadelphia and Old Philadelphia, issued 1915-1925. 

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Girard Row
Depicts the busy intersection near 11th and Chestnut surrounded by residences and tall commercial buildings. The street is filled with pedestrians, as well as an early automobile and a horse-drawn carriage., The block of ground between Market and Chestnut streets and west from Eleventh street, was bought by Stephen Girard as a site for his projected college. Having later decided to build it elsewhere, he erected residences along Chestnut street and, in 1837, upon both sides of the intermediate street which bore his name. These spacious houses, of the typical Philadelphia design, became the homes of many prominent persons. The Peale, Peters, Ingraham, Cottman, Cresson, Chambers, and McConnell families were among the residents. Two mayors of the city, Benjamin F. Richards and Robert Conrad, also resided in the street. The last of the old-time occupants to remain was Miss Anna Tilghmann, who dies here in 1910. During and after the Civil War the Military Headquarters and bureaus of the Department of the Susquehanna, U.S. Army, were located in some of the houses. Later tennants included the Engineers' Club and Philadelphia Real Estate Board. The houses on the northern side were displaced long ago by N. Snellenburg & Company, who have in 1917 built a warehouse upon the southside also., Taylor Catalog Number: 117
Gloria Dei
View of a church surrounded by a crowded graveyard., One of Philadelphia's most venerated treasures is the quaint little structures of "Old Swedes" Church. It stands, in the midst of its field of the graves of generation of its congregation, far down town. The building replaced in 1700, the original block house used alike for worship and defense. Services have been conducted, since 1818, in English. Old Swedes ante-dates Christ Church some forty-four years., Taylor Catalog Number: 290
Good-Bye, Natatorium
Reproduction of a drawing depicting a multi-story urban building labeled "Est. 1858 Natatorium Physical Institute." Lower floor has two raised entrances marked "Swimming School" and "Natatorium Hall." Four figures are in the foreground, exiting the building and walking by on the sidewalk., The Natatorium has been a feature upon South Broad street, at No. 219, from the year 1858. Thousands of sedate and elderly citizens may recall that it was here, under the tutelage of the genial old Jansen, they had their first swim, and a multitude will remember that it was in Payne's winter dancing classes they were drilled into pedal dexterity and grace. But now it is all of the past. Mr. W. E. Adams, the present owner, who continued the swimming and dancing features after 1909 as well as his confectionery store, is transforming the building into a hotel of modest proportions, which will doubtless win favor, both by reason of its ideal location and the Adams way of doing things., Taylor Catalog Number: 126
Gray's Gerry and Gardens; A Bartram House on Woodland Avenue
Contains two panels depicting homesteads on the Schuylkill River. The top image shows a three-story building with a two-story porch on the front. The bottom panel shows a two-story residence with a horse-drawn carriage waiting outside., Gray's Ferry and Gardens: A map of 1750 indicates two Gray homesteads upon the east side of the Schuylkill River, where the Gray family had long served wayfarers by ferry across the stream, at first by the batteaux and later by means of a floating bridge of logs, which connected the odl Gray's Gerry Road with the Southern Post Road, now known as Woodland Avenue. This bridge was rebuilt by the engineers of the British Army in October, 1777. Forts were placed to defend it and armies crossed to and fro. After the Revolution G. and R. Gray environed their tavern upon the Kingsessing shore with spacious gardens. On April 20th, 1789, Washington, on his way to assume the Presidency of the Republic, crossed the bridge beneath triumphal arches, and in the following year he was twice the chief figure of distinguished gatherings attending splendid fete's at Gray's Gardens. The decline of Gray's resort began with the opening, in 1803, of the permanent bridge at Market Street, and after the completion of the famous plowed railway sidings, fell from its high estate, lapsing into the ruin depicted in this print, drawn from a Newell photo. A Bartram House on Woodland Avenue: This sturdy house, located upon the east side of Woodland Avenue just north of Fifty-fourth Street, formerly stood well back from the road in the shade of large trees. It was built by William, a son of John Bartram, in 1807. The frame work is of heavy hewn timbers. When Bartram's lane gave way to Fifty-fourth Street the house stood in the road and was moved to its present site. The porch was built by the father of Councilman H.D. Beaston, who lived here for many years., Taylor Catalog Number: 161
Greenway Public School
Reproduction of a drawing depicting a series of buildings along a quiet, tree-lined street. The building in the foreground has a plaque that reads "1859," and has a figure in the doorway and children on the sidewalk., Greenway Public School, on Greenway Lane west of Woodland Ave. Erected in 1859., Taylor Catalog Number: 186
The Griffith Jones House
Shows a stone farm house with outbuildings and two cows in front., This substantial relic was existent until the year 1917. It stood near the intersection of Wyoming avenue and Rising Sun lane, just south of the Torresdale Boulevard. Griffith Jones was one of the twelve resident members of the Society of Free Traders who purchased largely from William Penn. Jones alley, now Church street, east of Second street, derived from him its name. His tract in Bristol township was originally of 500 acres, extending along abrank of Frankford creek. The house was built about 1687. Griffith Jones became a mayor of the city in 1704. The land of Joseph Willcox adjoined the Jones tract. The latter, also an early mayor, married Ann Powell, stepdaughter of Mr. Jones. This couple acquired the Jones property whoich they called Annsberry Farms. In 1755 the place was sold to Thomas Roberts in whose family it remained more than a century. But 13 acres were left of the ground when it was finally taken for building operations., Taylor Catalog Number: 94
Hall of the German Society
Reproduction of a drawing depicting a building on a busy street. The building has a sign above the door that reads "Gas Office," and pedestrians gather on the steps to the building and by the tree directly in front of the building., The German Society, formed for teh assistance of newcomers from the fatherland, was organized in 1764. Its meetings were held for a dozen years in the building of the German Lutheran School on Cherry street, east from Fourth street. The Society was incorporated in 1781 and built, at that period, a substantial structure on Seventh street, a part of which was reserved for a library and reading rooms. Wings were added in 1841. The city leased the main structure in 1866 for offices of the gas works. Subsequently a new front was extended to the street line. The Builders' Exchange bought the property in 1893 and made radical alterations, including the construction of an office arcade upon the gorund covered by the original building. The German Society is now located (1915) at Marshall and Spring Garden Streets., Taylor Catalog Number: 64
Hammer and Anvil
Depicts a low, square building covered in ivy. Early automobiles are parked in front of the structure., The rhythmic clink of hammer on anvil echos softly to the ears of the inmates abiding within the beneficent Presbyterian Hospital. The old building, now given over to the repair for wagons and hapless autos, is a quaint feature at a corner fo Thirty-ninth and Flibert Streets. Within the memory of neighbors it was a stable of the nearby hotel, but tradition asserts its orignial state as a real roadside smithy, at its best in the days when the tavern yards hereabout were filled at night with the wagons of the Chester County farmers laden with produce for the early morning markets., Taylor Catalog Number: 197
The Heart of
Reproduction of a drawing depicting a row of stores with awnings on Chestnut Street. Pedestrians are present on both sides of the street, and horse-drawn carriages and wagons are present., This vista of Chestnut Street, upon the north side between Second and Fourth Streets, has been drawn from a photograph loaned by Mr. Gutekunst, who copied a daguerreotype made in 1845 by Mason. The view is especially notable in depicting the then indispensable array of wooden awning-posts, common to the business sections of the city. In that period, seventy years ago, this neighborhood was the centre of extensive commercial and financial interests.
The Herkness Bazaar
View of a rotunda-shaped building, identified as the Herkness Bazaar, and adjacent buildings. A sign on the building beside the rotunda advertises the Walnut Street Theatre., The interesting structure upon Ninth Street, adjoining the Walnut Street Theatre, known for generations as the Herkness Bazaar, has been removed in the present year (1915). This building was erected prior to 1847 for the exhibition of a Cyclorama of Jerusalem. In that year it was bought by Alfred M. Herkness as a sales mart for horses and vehicles, and the business was continued by a surviving son until 1913. This bazaar is supposed by many persons to have been the old Baptist building, erected in 1812 and long popular as "Dr. Stoughton's church," which was also a rotunda in form. There is conclusive evidence, however, to show that the latter stucture was situated in the middle of the block, upon Sansom Street below Ninth Street., Taylor Catalog Number: 37
Historic Mansions Become Green's Hotel
View of a four-story hotel on a cobblestone street a horseback rider goes down the street while a horse-drawn carriage waits in front of the building., Much is preserved in the architecture of the Green's Hotel which identifies it with the notable residences which once occupied the site. The front walls, some of the original apartments with their heavy chandeliers and a fine colonial stairway still exist. Just where the hotel office is placed was the portal, considerably more than a century ago, of the home of Edward Burd, whose son, Edward Shippen Burd, bought and lived in the large and elaborate residence at Ninth and Chestnut streets. The Burd home was occupied subsequently by Mr. Burd's son-in-law, Daniel W. Coxe, and after his death by several descendants. This house was leased in 1798 to Robert Morris, and it was here, just opposite the unfinished mansion of his hopes called the "Folly," that ruin enveloped him. From here he fled to aviod importunate creditors to the mansion at Lemon Hill. The house at the corner of Eighth street was built by Gen. Philemon Dickinson, of New Jersey. In 1837 it was altered into a four-story structure, which was called the Union Building, and was popular for many years as a meeting place for societies. The quaint old assumbly hall, now a feature of the hotel, remains almost unchanged. The Franklin Library Association, Pennsylvania Literary Institute and Artillery Corps of Philadelphia Grays were among the tenants. The two buildings were adapted to restaurant purposes by Peter A. Dooner in 187-. The two buildings were reconstructed and became Green's Hotel. Mr. Green conducted the house in 1893 when it was taken over by Mr. Newton, who organized the Green's Hotel Company. Mr. Robert J. Diamond, who is still active in its management had been identified with the hotel from 1883., Taylor Catalog Number: 80
Historic Mansions Become Green's Hotel
View of a row of three residences, one of which has been converted into a hotel. Pedestrians stand on the sidewalk and a horse-drawn carriage waits in the street., Much is preserved in the architecture of Green's Hotel which identifies it with the notable residences which once occupied the site. The front walls, some of the orignal apartments with their heavy chandeliers and a fine colonial stairway still exist. Just where the hotel office is placed was the portal, considerably more than a century ago, of the home of Edward Burd, whose son, Edward Shippen Burd, bought and lived in the large and elaborate residence at Ninth and Chestnut streets. The Burd home was occupied subsequently by Mr. Burd's son-in-law, Daniel W. Coxe, and after his death by several descendants. This house was leased in 1798 to Robert Morris, and it was here, just opposite the unfinished mansion of his hopes called the "Folly," that ruin enveloped him. From here he fled to avoid importunate creditors to the mansion at Lemon Hill. The house at the corner of Eighth street was built by Gen . Philemon Dickinson, of New Jersey. In 1837 it was altered into a four-story structure, which was called the Union Building, and was popular for many years as a meeting place for societies. The quaint old assembly hall, now a feature of the hotel, remains for societies. The quaint old assembly hall, now a feature of the hotel, remains almost unchanged. The Franklin Library Association, Pennsylvania Literary Institute and Artillery Corps of Philadelphia Grays were among the tenants. The two buildings were adapted to restaurant purposes by Peter A. Dooner in 1875. In 1883 the buildings were reconstructed and became Green's Hotel. Mr. Green conducted the house to 1893 when it was taken over by Mr. Newton, who organized the Green's Hotel Company. Mr. Robert J. Diamond, who is still active in its management had been identified with the hotel from 1883., Taylor Catalog Number: 80
Historic St. Paul's
Depicts a large Episcopal Church on Third Street with a wrought iron gate and pedestrians in the front., It should be a matter of satisfaction to survivors of time-honored St. Paul's Church, which adorns Third Street opposite Willing's Alley, to know that it has been repaired as is to remain in use as the home of the Protestant Episcopal CIty Mission, which has been located in part of the building since 1904., Taylor Catalog Number: 354
The Home of John Fries, Merchant
View of the former residence of John Fries on the southwest corner of Third and Market Streets. It is depicted as a commercial building featuring signs and an awning., This venerable structure, which yet stands, in 1924, at the southwest corner of Third and Market Streets, after many changes, was built before 1790. It was the home of John Fries. It covers the site of the city's second prison, of tragic repute, which was erected there in 1732, the location being then at the western limit of the town. Prisoners of war were confined there by the British authorities during the War of the Revolution. Adjoining, upon the west, was the city residence of John Bartram, the noted botanist., Taylor Catalog Number: 347
The Home of Joshua Humphreys
Depicts the busy intersection near 11th and Chestnut surrounded by residences and tall commercial buildings. The street is filled with pedestrians, as well as an early automobile and a horse-drawn carriage., This once stately mansion was yet existant, in 1923, when this sketch was made. It was the home for many years of Joshua Humphreys who is known to history as the designer and builder of naval and other ships of his time. The house is located in Montgomery County near Haverford. Humphreys was a native of Delaware County. He was born in 1751 and lived eighty-seven years. He built many noted vessels of our early navy. Among them the Chesapeake, Constellation, Constitution, President, Congress, and United States. The latter was the only one built by him in Philadelphia. He is spoken as the "father of the American Navy.", Taylor Catalog Number: 310
The Home of the "Contributionship"
Depicts a four-story residence with columns on the front porch. Three men stand on the sidewalk., This building, a pleasing example of the typical architecture of the old-time Philadelphia, was designed by Thomas Y. Walter and built in 1837 for the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Losses by Fire, the oldest corporation of the kind in the United States, dating from 1752. It is located at 212 South Fourth Street, upon the site of the residence of Charles A. Poulson. At the period of its construction it was customary for the treasures of financial institutions to live in the building containing the corporate office, there being no safe repositories elsewhere. The Contributionship building was, therefore, a residence, notable in a section once distinguished for the quiet elegance and wealth., Taylor Catalog Number: 138
The Home Of
Reproduction of a drawing depicting a large building set back from the main road. A woman is standing at the top of the starts at the front entrance, while a male and a female figure converse in the foreground. A tall tree also stands in the foreground., The Site and Relic Society of Germantown has an ideal home in a spacious old mansion standing well back from Main Street, in Vernon Park, now city property. The mansion was erected in 1803 by James Matthews, who sold it, after a few years, to John Wister, whose son of the same name was at one time a member of Congress, and who occupied it until his death in 1883. The Society maintains a museum of Colonial and Revolutionary treasures which is open free of charge to all visitors daily, between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. For an interesting sketch of Vernon Park see Mr.Charles F. Jenkins' Guide eBook to Historic Germantown., Taylor Catalog Number: 171
Hope Farm
Reproduction of a drawing depicting several residential buildings and factories surrounding a dock. A boat, fishermen, and stacks of goods are in the foreground., William Ball, a native of Devonshire, England, and first of the Pennsylvania branch of the Ball family in America, bouught a large tract of riverfront land in Kensington in 1728. This he called Hope Farm. The residence built thereon he named Richmond Hall, probably in complement to his Virginian relatives, one of whom, Mary Ball, "the rose of Epping forest," became the wife of Augustine Washington and mother of George Washington. Richmond Hall was loacated close to the Delaware River shore just north of the foot of Norris Street. A son of William Ball, bearing the same name, succeeded to the Hope Farm property. He became, by appointment in 1761, the first Provincial Grand Master of the Free Masons of Pennsylvania. He died in 1810. The Hope Farm manor and residence were willed to his only daughter, "Harriott." The tracts appears upon a map of 1774 as Ballstown. An advertisement appeared in Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, in 1821, referring to teh Richmond Hotel, "one mile above Kensington on the Delaware." The proprietor, C. J. Wolbert, was famed for the excellence of his catfish dinners. This hotel was the old Ball Mansion. The Port Richmond coal terminal is upon land of the old Ball estate. This drawing has been made from an illustration printed in 1853., Taylor Catalog Number: 165
Horticultural Hall
Reproduction of a drawing depicting a building on a busy street. Pedestrians gather on the sidewalk in front of the entrance, and automobiles and a figure on horseback are on the street in the foreground., In the autumn of 1917 this building, located south of the Academy of Music upon Broad street and one of the most beautiful structures in Philadelphia, was destroyed to make room for a theatre. The fact directs attention to the long and noteworthy record of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society which, formed in 1827, was the successor of the first American Agricultural Society, organized in 1785. The original Horticultural Hall was built in 1865. The Hall was burned out in 1881 and again in 1893. The structure lately removed was the fourth owned by the society. The repeated rebuilding of the property was due to the liberality of Mr. William A. Schaeffer, who held the position of President seventeen years. In 1884 his widow placed the building in the hands of trustees "for the benefit and use of the Society forever." Many eminent citizens have been identified with the Society in the course of its existence., Taylor Catalog Number: 112
A Hotel Once Famous
View of a Chestnut Street hotel and the adjacent buildings., The La Pierre House, built in 1853, stood upon part of the site now covered by the Land Title Building. It was opened by the Edward brothers, who had the preceding year also completed the Girard House. The La Pierre was enlarged by an addition extending to Chestnut street and the old building of the Academy of Natural Sciences was annexed as a dormitory. In its earlier years, prior to the opening of the Continental hotel, in 1860, it ranked as the leading hotel of the city. For a considerable period prior to its disappearance it was called "The Lafayette.", Taylor Catalog Number: 48
In Busy Dock
Reproduction of a drawing depicting a busy day on Dock Street. Shows the Merchant Exchange Building on the left, with a row of commercial buildings with awnings in the background. In the foreground there are pedestrians, automobiles, and a streetcar., When this sketch was drawn in 1924, the old provision stores and warehouses facing the upper reach of Dock Street are awaiting removal to make room for a more modern structure devoted to the welfare of seamen when in port. This improvement, in the heart of the city's most picturesque section, probably indicates the general displacement of other time-worn buildings to meet the requirements of this centre of traffic in our food supplies. The building at the left of the row, No. 227, was once the home of the poet, Edgar Allan Poe., Taylor Catalog Number: 358
In Florist Street
A row of homes and possibly shops reside on a cobblestone street. Pedestrians are present on the narrow road, which include women, children, peddlers, and a mailman., The occupants of a number of neatly-kept homes in this narrow by-way, west from Front Street, were waiting, at the time this sketch was made, in 1923, early eviction to make clearance for the western approach to the great Delaware River bridge. These typical dwellings of the all but forgotten past are good examples of the architecture borrowed from London in the days of Penn and built, probably, when this was a desirable residential neighborhood with merchants and mariners., Taylor Catalog Number: 308
In Florist Street
A view containing three stately townhomes. The residence on the left features a pass-through for carriages, while a horse and carriage wait in front of the residence on the right. Two men converse in the foreground., A trio of dignified old-time dwellings, upon the north side of Branch street, now called Florist Street, which are marked for destruction by the bridge builders, bear evidence, in their frontages of alternate red and black bricks, of long existence. Although but a single square in length this wide thoroughfare still carries something of quiet exclusion from a time when it was entirely residential in character and when, very likely, the ancestors of some of the present owners (in 1922) such, for instance, as the Logans, Shippens, Fishers and Cadwaladers, may have dwelt within the block., Taylor Catalog Number: 259
In Library Street
Depicts the busy intersection near 11th and Chestnut surrounded by residences and tall commercial buildings. The street is filled with pedestrians, as well as an early automobile and a horse-drawn carriage., This brief highway, extending eastward from Independence Square, below Chestnut Stret, derived its name from the Mercantile and that other most venerable of libraries the "Philadelphia," which occupied its Fifth Street corners. The sketch shows a glimpse of the old United States Custom House building and, in the centre, of the venerable structure, ascribed to Nicholas Biddle, which at the period of this writing, in 1924, is marked for removal to make space for something more modern and profitable., Taylor Catalog Number: 333
In Little Quince Street
Depicts the busy intersection near 11th and Chestnut surrounded by residences and tall commercial buildings. The street is filled with pedestrians, as well as an early automobile and a horse-drawn carriage., The factory and warehouse builders have tumbled the aged walls of much that bordered the eastern side of Quince Street, in that section of the little thorofare south of Walnut Street, but his quaint well cared-for trio of houses still hold their place as does, also, the neat little home of Mrs. J.M. Mays and her daughter, at 208, opposide. The group here sketched has come into the possession of Dr. Eugene Pettit who has expended upon them the artistic care of an enthusiast and found space, within, for a wealth of rare furnishings thus providing an interesting example of what may be done, by way of intelligent restoration, in other like hid-away by-ways of this long neglected section of old Philadelphia., Taylor Catalog Number: 249
In Lodge Street
Street view with horse and carriage in the foreground. Resdiences and pedestrians are in the background, as well as a section of the old Pennsylvania Bank., Taylor Catalog Number: 73, There is a forgotten dingy little alley connecting Second and Dock Streets, south of Chestnut street, which was once a pleasant and flowery by-way in the centre of Philadelphia's most exclusive residential section. Until lately it was named "Lodge Street." It is now called "Sansom." It is sometimes confused by historians, delving in the old directories, with "Lodge Alley," which is now Jayne Street. In colonial times, upon the southern side of this little lane, at Second Street, was the Griscom residence, the first brick house built in Philadelphia, and which was vis-a-vis to the "slate-roof house." The Griscom garden extended to the grassy verge of Dock Creek. Adjoining it, on the south, stood the double house of Edward Shippen, first Mayor of the city. Midway, in Lodge Street, and on the south side, was built, in 1755, the first Masonic hall in America. During the Revolution it was used as a prison of rQuaker tories. These several structures were replaced in 1788 by the classic building of the Bank of Pennsylvania, which, after the financial storm of 1857, remained to become a Federal provost prison in the period of the Civil War. The view here presented depicts the western front of the band with its neat garden and the range of time-worn warehouses and shops which were originally the homes of some of our "first families." The site of the Pennsylvania Bank is now covered by the United States Appraisers' Warehouse, built in 1871, in preparation for which the work began with the removal of the massive columns in the sections as shown in the drawing.
In Mascher Street
Shows a three-story residence where two people stand on the stoop and a carriage sits in the adjacent alleyway. An inset depicts a similar residence where children play outside in the street., Here, in the little byways to the south of Race Street and east from Second Street, are to be found many neatly kept little homes, which are interesting survivals of our local past and pleasing subjects for the pencil and camera., Taylor Catalog Number: 323
In Nectarine Street
View of row houses on a cobblestone street. Three people converse on a stoop while a cart rests in the road., This historic lane, just south from Green and west from Front Streets, was opened, in Colonial days, as a part of the British military reservation and barrack ground. It was then called Artillery Lane. In later days it was shown upon local maps as Dana Street. As Nectarine Street it has come within the line of the eastward extension of Spring Garden Street and its substantial old-style houses have been (in 1923) left to the wreckers.
In Pent Up Places
The image is divided into three sections depicting residential streets. The left panel shows a man loading a cart in the street. The middle panel depicts people talking in the street with laundry lines overhead. Finally, the right panel shows a street with produce stand in front of one of the buildings., At this time, in 1923, when this sketch is made, the advance forces of the army of progress are busy with the wreckage of much that has both historic and artistic worth, but these little byways, bordered by humble homes, are being scrapped to make way for the great Delaware River bridge and for modern industrial enterprises that will soon replace them to the material advantage of all concerned., Taylor Catalog Number: 314
In the Path of the Parkway
View of a grassy area with benches and people sitting with residences and skyscrapers in the background., The foreground of this vista, sketched from a window of the U.G.I. building, was once covered by the Arch Street Prison. In later days there stood here the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, razed some years ago. The picturesque huddle of rear-buildings, in process of removal in the spring of 1917, reveal all that was then left of the former dignified homes of families once of businesses and social prominence, but which the present generation will recall only as an unregretted succession of saloons, restaurants and shops more bizarre than attractive., Taylor Catalog Number: 91
The Inasmuch Mission
Reproduction of a drawing of a busy street scene with the four-story "Inasmuch Mission Men's Hotel and Restaurant" at 1019 Locust Street, Philadelphia. Completed in 1913, the mission house, the exterior resembling a warehouse, rehabilitated "fallen" men through religious and social services. Scene includes views of the nearby markets adorned with awnings under which men and women shoppers peruse displays, converse, and stand idle. The African American man, attired in a bowler hat, a shirt, a jacket, pants, and shoes, stands leaning against the awning pole with his hands in his pockets. In the right, the Chinese man, wearing a queue and attired in a tunic, pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes, stands against a wall and looks down the street away from the viewer. A horse-drawn wagon and pedestrians traverse the street. In the left, a man organ grinder with a monkey entertains children standing on the sidewalk., Copyrighted., Drawn by artist in 1914., See accompanying pamphlet containing the artist's descriptions of the views, "Ever-Changing Philadelphia" (Philadelphia: Frank H. Taylor), p. 6., Accessioned circa 1916., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
The Jayne Residence
Depicts a four-story upscale residence on the corner of Eleventh and Chestnut Streets, identified as having been owned by David Jayne., Notable among the many once admired and spacious mansions, in a section once exclusively residential, is this building, long the home of David Jayne, at the South East corner of Nineteenth and Chestnut Streets, which was, in 1922, removed to make was for a highly illuminated "movie" palace., Taylor Catalog Number: 289
John Krider's Gun Store
Depicts a shop on the corner of Second and Walnut Streets. Signs hanging on the building read, "John Krider: Gun Manufacturer.", For the period of a long generation when the sportsmen of America thought of Philadelphia they thought, also, of John Krider, master workman of dependable guns and fishing rods. John Krider is gone, but the sturdy old colonial building at the northeast corner of Second and Walnut Streets still houses his shop and store, now conducted, in 1918, by L.C. Siner & Co. The upper floors present the appearance of a veritable "old curiosity shop" of sporting materials. The building occupies the site of the Drinker residence, built in the days of William Penn, wherein, according to tradition, the first white child of Philadelphia nativity was born., Taylor Catalog Number: 142
The Keene Mansion and the Franklin Market
Depicts a three-story brick residence on the corner of Eleventh and Chestnut Streets. Adjacent is a busy market building with people and horse-drawn carriages in front., A Scotch carpenter, John Fimeton, began the rearing of this fine residence at the northwest corner of Tenth and Chestnut Streets in 1790. His widow, a daughter of John Hart, one of the signers of the "Declaration," sold the partly built structure to Colonel Peter L. Berry, who in turn sold it to David Lenox in 1815. The greater part of the estate of the widow, Lucy Lenox, was willed to her niece, Sallie Lukens Keene, daughter of Genral Lawrence Keene, who served in the Revolution. Succeeding members of the family, including the wife of Coloner S.B. Wylie Mitchell, sold the property to the Mutual Life Insurance Company, who built here in 1874, the first modern office structure in the city. The Franklin Market, upon Tenth Street, was built in 1860. The enterprise was not profitable and the building was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1867. Two years later the Mercantile Library Company purchased and altered the structure to suit its purpose. The statue of Franklin, which long adorned the front, now occupies a similar place at the Ledger Building., Taylor Catalog Number: 34
Kingessing Farm Houses Now Gone
View of a long, wooden farmhouse and outbuilding. "East side of Kingessing Ave. above Fifty First St.," is written in the bottom left corner of the image., This and other old farm houses and tenements were still existent in the Fortieth Ward in 1896, when they were sketched by Mr. Taylor. They were located in the immediate vicinity of the Belmont Cricket Club grounds, now the Kingessing Recreation Centre. Some of them, being partially of log construction, antedated the Revolutionary period. The section upon which they were scattered is now almost entirely covered with modern homes, churches and public schools., Taylor Catalog Number: 169
Kingessing Farm Houses Now Gone
Two horizontal panels of farmhouses in Kingessing in the 1890s. The upper image is labeled, "Old Spring house, East side of Chester Ave. below Fifty Second St.," and the lower image is labeled "West side of Chester Ave. below Fifty Second St.", This and other old farm houses and tenements were still existent in the Fortieth Ward in 1896, when they were sketched by Mr. Taylor. They were located in the immediate vicinity of the Belmont Cricket Club grounds, now the Kingessing Recreation Centre. Some of them, being partially of log construction, antedated the Revolutionary period. The section upon which they were scattered is now almost entirely covered with modern homes, churches and public schools., Taylor Catalog Number: 167
Kingessing Farm Houses Now Gone
View of an old farm house shaded by trees. The image is labled "Greenway Ave. and Fifty First St.," in the lower left corner., This and other old farm houses and tenements were still existent in the Fortieth Ward in 1896, when they were sketched by Mr. Taylor. They were located in the immediate vicinity of the Belmont Cricket Club grounds, now the Kingessing Recreation Centre. Some of them, being partially of log construction, antedated the Revolutionary period. The section upon which they were scattered is now almost entirely covered with modern homes, churches and public schools., Taylor Catalog Number: 168
Lawyers' Row Upon Walnut Street West from Sixth Street
Tree-lined street containing well-kept homes and lawyers' offices., These structures, orignially built for residential purposes, housed, in later times, many noted attorneys. The Loganian Library was established upon the site in 1790, in which was deposited the valuable collection of rare books bequeathed to the Library Company of Philadelphia by Chief Justice James Logan, of Stenton. The small street extending northward to George or Sansom Street, was named in honor of George Swanwick, who bought the tract from the Gilpin and Fisher families in 1794. The small arched structure in the drawing gave access to the Ludwich Institute, and beneficence for the education of the boys established by Christopher Ludwich, a German cake baker, of Letitia Street, a friend of Washington and baker-general of the Revolutionary Army. It is worthy of mention that one of the journeymen employed in Ludwick's bakery was Frederick Fraley. Ludwick's home was in Germantown. He gave much of his savings to the Revolutionary cause. His legacy of $8000.00 was carefully fostered by the trustees, and some part of it is still administered. All of these buildings, as well as the substantial residences to the westward, in the same block, among them the homes of three of our mayors, were razed to be replaced by the great structure of the Curtis Publishing Company., Taylor Catalog Number: 143
The Little Home Street Called Cuthbert
Depicts a narrow cobblestone redidential street with a few people standing in the street. A cart is being unloaded in the background., Taylor Catalog Number: 312
The Little Street of Clubs
Narrow street with trees and few pedestrians., That much-abused term, "Bohemia," finds is sanest expression, among the art and litereary elements of Philadelphia, here in modest South Camac Street. First to come was the time-honored, yet ever virile, Sketch Club. Then followed the literati, who housed, hard-by, the Franklin Inn Club. Then the "Ad" men came with their "Poor Richard Club," closely followed by a coterie of lady art devotees with the "Plastic." Lastly, lest any should go hungry, came the cheerful Coin d'Or. Clever architectural contriving has changed a once dingy, unconsidered row of old houses into snug and joyous oases in local clubdom, full of real Philadelphia comfort and, therefore, different, in their homely outsides and their inside doings, from anything elsewhere vaunted, all assertions to the contrary notwithstanding. There are several other clubs round about, upon the borders of Bohemia, each providing to its membership something of that element of good-fellowship which the favored guest is sure to find in this quiet by-way of old downtown., Taylor Catalog Number: 27

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