Collection featuring 285 of the lithographs described by Nicholas B. Wainwright in his book Philadelphia in the Romantic Age of Lithography: An illustrated history of early lithography in Philadelphia with a descriptive list of Philadelphia scenes made by Philadelphia lithographers before 1866 (Philadelphia: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1958).

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John C. Baker & Co. wholesale dealers & importers of drugs, medicines, chemicals, paints & dye stuffs, No. 100, North Third St. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease No. 17 So. 5th St.
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John C. Farr & Co. importers of watches, watchmakers tools. Silver & plated ware, musical boxes, etc. No. 112, Chestnut St. between 3rd & 4th St. Philada. [graphic].
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John Hibler, importer & wholesale dealer in foreign & American wines & liquors. No. 56, North Third Street, (second door above Arch,) Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W.H. Rease, 17 So. 5th St., Phila.
Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Advertisement depicting the four-story shop containing signage advertising wines & liquors. The doors, windows, and cellar are open for business. Inside the shop, wine casks, crates, jugs, and bottles line the floors and a laborer raises a cask with a pulley. Outside, a laborer loads casks onto a horse-drawn cart as nearby. An African American peddler with a basket and ringing a bell passes by. Partial views of the adjacent stores, possibly an apothecary and bolting cloth business, are visible. Hibler, operated the wine business at the location from 1840 until 1844, where afterward he operated a grocery.
[John Horn, drugs and chemical store, N.E. corner of Third & Brown Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, 17 1/2 S. 5th. St.
Location: 801 N. Third Street., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
[John Ziegler, grocer, N.W. corner of Callowhill and Water Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, 17, So. 5th. St.
LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Jones & Co. of the crescent one price clothing store, No. 200 Market Street, above 6th Philada. [graphic] / On stone by R. F. Reynolds No. 30 S 5th. St.
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[Jordan & Brother, wholesale grocers, No. 121 North Third Street, Philadelphia.] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, No 17, So. 5th. St.
LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 J82.
[Joseph Feinour & Son stove store and Joseph Feinour's tin, copper brass & iron ware house 213-215 South Front Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / ...by W. H. Rease, 17, So. 5th St.
Location: 213-215, later 345-347 South Front Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Joseph Oat & Son, coppersmiths, No. 12 Quarry Street Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn by W. H. Rease, 17 S. 5th. St.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Oat was located at this address for some time before taking his son George R. Oat into the firm in 1843. In 1857, the address changed to 232-234 Quarry Street.
Joseph Ripka's mills. Manayunk 21st Ward Philadelphia. Manufacturer of all description of plain and fancy cottonades for men & boy's clothing warehouse 32 So Front St. [graphic] / Lith. of W. H. Rease N.E. cor. 4th & Chesnut.
Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 77. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 R588.
Keyser & Foxe's mahogany steam saw mill & turning shop No. 21 [later 225] Crown St. between Race & Vine Sts., Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by G. Heiss.
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Keystone Marble Works. S. F. Jacoby & Co., Market St. betw. 20th & 21st Philadelphia. [graphic].
Location: 2025 Market Street., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 53 1/2. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 K44.
Knight's patent paper machinery. [graphic].
Location: Schuylkill Eighth [i.e. Sixteenth] Street , opposite Columbia Railroad., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Lacey & Phillips. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W.H. Rease No. 17 So. 5th St., Philda.
Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Select link below for a digital image., Advertisement depicting William N. Lacey's and Samuel R. Phillips' busy four-story equestrian store at 12 South Fifth Street selling "ladies and gentlemen's saddles, single and double harnesses, and bridles and whips." Saddles, bridles, harnesses, and blankets are prominently displayed in the storefront window and on the building facade. On the upper floors, several employees work by open windows. Elegantly dressed patrons converse near the entryway and four horses are lined up in the street awaiting and receiving service including a pair reined in by an African American coach driver. Partial view of the adjacent building containing the carpenter, W.B. Morrell, is visible. Lacey and Phillips partnership, established in 1845 remained at the site until 1852.
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia. [graphic] / [J. C. Wild].
Originally published as plate 20 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2090 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
[Lewis Fatman & Co., blacking manufactory, steam friction matches manufactory, back of No. 412 Coates Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Location: 412 Coates Street, later Fairmount Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
[Lewis Fatman & Co., steam paste blacking, steam friction matches, 41 N. Front Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Location: 41 North Front Street (pre-consolidation)., LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Lippincott & Co. [clothing] south west corner of Fourth & Market St Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by R.F. Reynolds, No. 78 Dock St.
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[Lockwood & Smith, importers and dealers china, glass and Queensware, 7 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th. St.
Location: 7 South Fourth Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Louis L. Peck manufacturer & dealer in burning fluid varnishes, pine oil, virgin & sp[iri]ts of turpentine absolute, apothecaries, deodorized and fluid alcohol, of a superior quality linseed oil, white lead, lamps of every description, German & English br
Date supplied by Wainwright., Contains statement on product and shipping costs., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Quarter of a Millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981, rev. 1990), p. 177., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #79., Advertisement showing the busy street corner at Front and Walnut streets near the Delaware River with a view of the building containing the oil manufactory, and the flour and farina store. The scene is depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame containing an inset of an exterior view of Peck's Works at Dock Street. Delivery wagons and drays traverse the business-lined streets, including one for Peck's driven by an African American man. Pedestrians walk the sidewalks and cross the intersection, and a boy rolls a hoop passed a female peddler sewing by her foodstand. Visible in the background are the busy Walnut Street Ferry wharf and Smith and Windmill Islands in the Delaware River. Louis L. Peck's varnish business operated from around 1848 until 1855.
The Magnetic Observatory at the Girard College [graphic] / S. Rufus Mason.
Location: Girard and Corinthian Avenues., Frontispiece to Plates to Magnetic and Meteorological Observations. Companion volume to three volume set Observations at the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory at the Girard College, Philadelphia (Washington: Gales and Seaton, printers., 1847)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1847 Obser 12240.O.1.
Manayunk near Philadelphia. [graphic] / [J. C. Wild].
Originally published as plate 18 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2094 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Market Street, from Front St. [graphic] / Lith. of J.T. Bowen.
Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Issued as plate 14 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Snyder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53., Select link below for a digital image., View of the active business-lined street containing the "New Jersey" Market terminus, named after its central location to the ferries of New Jersey, the city's main provider of farm produce. Several marketers and pedestrians, including African Americans, stroll the streets, sidewalks, and under the market shed designed with cupola and clock. Peddlers sell their goods from carts on Front Street. Built in 1822, the market operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859.
[Marshall House, 207 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. E. Badger, proprietor] [graphic].
LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Masonic Hall Chesnut St. Philada. Erected AD 1809. Destroyed by Fire A.D. 1819. [graphic] / Wm. Strickland architect; D. Chillas Lith. 50 S. 3rd Street.
Copyrighted by Wm. Spink, Wm. Kneass & Philip R. Engarg., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc05 S917.
McNeely & Co. manufacturers of morocco, buckskin & chamois, white leather, bark tanned, sheep, calf & deer skins, parchment, vellum &c. 64 N[or]th 4th. St. below Arch St. near the Merchants Hotel, Philadelphia. Manufactory 4th & Franklin Aven[ue] [graphic
Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Advertisement depicting the large factory's several industrial buildings, sheds, and fenced yard near a busy street and sidewalk. Workers attend to a maze of drying lines with hanging leather pieces; delivery carts traverse the yard and depart through the gate under the sign "McNeely & Co."; and a laborer uses a horse-drawn cart to collect coal from a mound beside the main building. Pedestrians, including a woman and boy, stroll and converse on the sidewalk. In the street, an African American couple push a filled handcart and a crowded horse-drawn omnibus from the "Frankford Road - Fourth Street" line passes by. The McNeely family operated a leather manufactory in Philadelphia from 1830 until the early 20th century.
Melloy & Ford, wholesale tin ware manufacturers. [graphic] / On stone by W. Rease, No. 17 Sth 5th St.
Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson's inscription on recto: Mar. 1849; Market Street., Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half-story manufactory operated by John M. Melloy and Robert Ford at 291 Market Street, later renumbered 723, promoting the "lowest rates", "quick sales & small profits," and "metallic roofing." The building heavily adorned with signage and product advertisements including a large scale model of a coffee pot contains prominent displays of tinware in the shop window, on the store shelves, and near the open cellar door. Near the front of the shop, a couple strolls, two laborers lift a crate onto a horse-drawn sulky, and a female customer enters the store. An African American peddler with tray and bell passes a line of crates on the sidewalk. Tinsmiths work near the third floor windows. Melloy & Ford, a partnership established in 1849, was in business until 1861 when Melloy entered partnership with Isaac Smith at the same address.
Merchants' Exchange. [graphic] / Lith of J. T. Bowen.
Location: Dock and Walnut Streets., Originally published as plate 14 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2092 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Merchants' Exchange. Philadelphia. [graphic] / MOC ; Lith. of J. T. Bowen.
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[Merchant's Hotel, No. 38 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On Stone by J. Wild.
Location: Fourth St. above Market St., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Built 1837 based on designs by William Strickland. Burned 1966.
[Morocco leather manufactory, B. D. Stewart, S.E. corner of Willow Street and Old York Road, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Location: Old York Road, later 435-437 and Willow St., S.E. corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
[Moss Upholsterer, 127 Walnut Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Location: 127 Walnut St. (pre-consolidation), Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol II, oppostie page 108 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 108., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and in Am1831 Por 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Mount Airy Seminary: [graphic] American Classical and Military Academy, at Mount Airy, Germantown, 8 miles from Philadelphia / From Nature & on Stone by G. Lehman.
Cephas G. Childs and Henry Inman were partners 1831-33., Exterior view. Right wing is the former country seat of Pennsylvania Chief Justice William Allen known as "Mount Airy." Founded as Mount Airy Seminary (later Mount Airy College or Collegiate Institute) in 1807, the school served as a military academy 1826-1835 under the superintendence of Augustus L. Roumfort. Demolished in 1848 or 1849.
Mower U. S. A. General Hospital, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia [graphic] / James Queen.
Location: Abington & Springfield Aves., Frontispiece to Rules and Special Orders of the Mower United States Army General Hospital at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1865)., Copyrighted by W. Kipling., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1865 Mower 15730.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc15 M936a.
Moyamensing Prison. [graphic] / Lith. of J.T. Bowen.
Originally published as plate 9 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2097 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Moyer & Hazard, successors of Alexander Fullerton, 174 Market Street, fifth door above Fifth Street, Philadelphia [and] Elijah Bowen, wholesale & retail hat & cap store, No. 176 Market Street, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Location: 174 Market Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
N. E. view of the old court house in Market Street Philada. [graphic] / W. L. Breton del.
Location: Market St. at Second St., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
[N. Helverson undertaker, 93 Coates Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2, S. 5th. St.
Location: 93 Coates Street, later 227 Fairmount Ave., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Neall & Matthews, iron founders and machinists, Bush Hill Iron Works (Formerly occupied by Rush & Muhlenburg,) corner of Fairview & Schuylkill Seventh St., Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease No. 17, So. 5th St.
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The New Masonic Hall, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Tholey ; Lithy. of Friend & Aub, 80 Walnut St.
Sloan & Stewart, Architects; S.K. Hoxie, Builder., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979 p. 43., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: BcO5 T451.

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