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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[Residence of Joseph Harrison, Esqr., Rittenhouse Square, Phila.] Front Elevation. [graphic].
Published in: Sloan, Samuel. City and Suburban Architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 108, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.
Residence of Joseph Harrison, Esqr. Rittenhouse Square, Phila. [graphic].
Location: Eighteenth and Locust Streets, northeast corner., Published in: Sloan, Samuel. City and Suburban Architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 107, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb16 H32.
[Ritter Cotterell & Ritter wholesale drug & chemical warehouse. Paints, oils, glass & dye stuffs. 132 North Third Street, corner of Branch Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / M. S. Weaver, del.
Location: 132 North Third Street, corner of Branch Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
[Road to Philadelphy] [graphic].
Attributed to E.W. Clay., Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright., 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., Racist caricature simultaneously mocking and condoning the pretentiousness and bigotry of early 19th century Philadelphia Quakers toward their "social inferiors." On a Philadelphia road in front of a small home with an open picket fence and a visitor arriving on horseback, a raggedly dressed dark skinned traveler with buck teeth, possibly an Irishman or African American, asks a rotund 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.
[Road to Philadelphy] [graphic].
Attributed to E.W. Clay., Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Clay, born in Philadelphia, was the most prolific caricaturist of the Jacksonian era. He became well known for his racist popular series, "Life in Philadelphia," published from 1828 until 1832, 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 trimmed print: W315., Gift of William Helfand., Racist caricature simultaneously mocking and condoning the pretentiousness and bigotry of early 19th century Philadelphia Quakers toward their "social inferiors." On a Philadelphia road in front of a small home with an open picket fence and a visitor arriving on horseback, a raggedly dressed dark skinned traveler with buck teeth, possibly an Irishman or African American, asks a rotund 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.
[Robert Shoemaker's wholesale & retail drugstore, corner of Second and Green Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 So. 5th. St.
Location: Corner of Second and Green Streets., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Robert Wood's railing, architectural & ornamental iron works, Ridge Road below Spring Garden St., Philadelphia. [graphic] / R. F. Reynolds, del.
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Robert Wood's steam iron railing works, Ridge Road above Buttonwood St, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, 17 Sth. 5th. St.
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Rockhill & Wilson, tailors & clothiers of men & boys wear, Nos. 205 & 207 Chestnut St & 28 South 6th Street. [graphic] / Lith. by W. H. Rease, N.E. cor. 4th & Chestnut Sts.
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Roper's Gymnasium. 274 Market Street, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Location: Market Street, two doors above Eighth., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Rowley, Ashburner & Co.'s oil, alcohol, fluid & pine oil works. [graphic] : Rowley, Ashburner & Co., manufacturers, Kensington screw dock, Penn Street above Maiden, Philadelphia. Store, No. 14 North Wharves, Philadelphia. / On stone by W. H. Rease 17 So.
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Ruins of St. Augustines Church North 4th Street Phila. Destroyed by a mob on the evening of the 8th of May 1844. [graphic] / L.F.
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S. F. Jacoby & Co. Importers & dealers in foreign and domestic marble in all their varieties. J. K. & M. Freedley dealers in American marble. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease 17 1/2 Sth. 5th. St.
LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #68., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
S. Tobias, importer & general dealer in wines, liquors, cordials and syrups, No. 68, North 3d. Street, above Arch, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 S. 5th. St.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
S. W. view of the old court house in Market Street, Philada at the time of its being taken down (7th April 1837). [graphic] / W. L. Breton del.
Location: Market Street at Second., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
[Samuel Powell & Co. ship & house work in tin, copper, brass and iron, No. 8 Market Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Location: 8 Market Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
[Savery & Co. Phila. iron hollow ware foundry, South Front St. below Navy Yard, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease 17 So. 5th St. Phila.
Printed on blue paper., Location: South Front Street below the Navy Yard., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Scene at the U. S. Agricultural Society's Fair, Philada. 1856. [graphic] / Js. Queen, delt.
Location: Powelton grounds in West Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb8 Q3.
[Schuylkill Boat Song sheet music cover illustration]. [graphic].
Location: Schuylkill River near the Columbia Avenue railroad bridge., Sheet music: Schuylkill Boat Song / Poetry by Thomas Dunn English M.D., music composed and dedicated to the Atlantic Barge Club by P. Blanchor. (Philadelphia: Osbourne's Music Saloon, 30, South Fourth Street, ca. 1842)., Sheet music cover. LCP Print Department copy image only., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Shad fishing (taking up the net.) [graphic] : On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance. / From nature and on stone by James Queen.
View of several fishermen, including African American men, most waist deep in the river and all but one in a semi-circle, gathering up their catch into a rowboat. A Philadelphia pier lined with residences, the mills of Gloucester, New Jersey, and sailboats on the river are visible in the foreground and background., Title from item., Date from manuscript note written on recto: April-May 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 691, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen was a premier Philadelphia genre, nature, and advertisement lithographer who with fellow lithographer P.S. Duval, was an early successful chromolithographer.
Souvenir of the coldest winter on record. Scene on the Delaware River at Philada. during the severe winter of 1856. [graphic] / From nature and on stone by J. Queen.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb72 Q3.
St. John's Church, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lith. of J.T. Bowen.
Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 19 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: (5)1322.F.70h 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:, Exterior view of the Gothic-style Roman Catholic church, St. John the Evangelist, opened for services in April 1832 at 23-25 South Thirteenth Street. Shows parishioners walking up the church steps and two women conversing on the sidewalk. An iron fence protects the building.
St. Peter's Catholic Church of Philadelphia. At Fifth and Franklin Streets.
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 131 S149., Select link below for a digital image., Exterior view of the Roman-style German Catholic church, St. Peter the Apostle, built 1842-1847 at 1015 North Fifth Street after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including two children holding hands.
Stand pipe. For West Philada. Water Works. [graphic] / On stone by Rease & Shell, No. 17 So. 5th. St.
Location: vicinity of Thirty-Fifth and Sycamore Streets., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #77., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., See Poulson's scrapbook vol. VII, pg. 119 for clipping concerning the raising of the stand pipe dated December 15, 1853., Designed by the engineering firm of Birkinbine & Trotter.
State House. Philadelphia. [graphic] / J. C. Wild ; Lith. of J.T. Bowen.
Location: Chestnut and Sixth Streets, southwest corner., Originally published as plate 11 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. Loose print lacking copyright statement., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P. 2195 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:
The State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania [graphic].
Location: Twenty-first and Fairmount Avenue., Attributed to James Queen., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Membership certificate for the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons containing a view of Eastern State Penitentiary and a portrait of William White.
Steam tugs, Columbus and Alert. Vessels of all classes towed to and from sea and about the harbor; towing to and from Schuylkill and all other descriptions promptly attended to. S. Flanagan No. 78 South Delaware Avenue. [graphic] / Lith. by Rease & Schell
Location: Delaware River off Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
[T. E. Chapman, book store, 74 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by Wm. H. Rease, No. 17, So. 5th.
Location: 74 North Fourth Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
T. I. Dyre, Jr. bell & brass founder, corner of Washington & Church Streets, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, 17, So. 5th. St.
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[T. Sharpless & Sons, wholesale ware room, clothes, cassimeres, merinoes, silks and vestings, South Second Street and Trotter's Alley, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by R. E. Reynolds.
Location: Trotter's Alley and South Second Street., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
[T. Wattson & Sons, biscuit bakery, 129 North Front Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th. St.
Location: 129 North Front Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Tabernacle M. E. Church. 11th St. above Jefferson St. Philadelphia. [graphic] / Lith. by J. F. Watson S.E. cor, of 4th & Walnut.
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Tamany Fish House, on the Pea Shore, R. Delaware. [graphic] / Thomas M. Scott.
Location: New Jersey Shore about two miles north of Camden., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #72., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: Snider gift., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc03 Tl53., Gift of Jay Snider.
[Tatham & Brothers, sheet lead rolling mill and lead pipe factory, 608 South Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On Stone by W. H. Rease.
Location: 608 South Delaware Avenue (pre-consolidation)., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba34 T218., HSP copy contains advertising text and price list printed in letterpress.
[Taylor & Teese, saddlers and A. R. Chambers, currier, 67 & 69 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.] [graphic] / G. Lehman del.
Location: 67 and 69 Chestnut Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," [graphic] : On the Delaware River, opposite Philadelphia, on the night of Saturday, March 15th, 1856, between 8 and 9 o'clock, by which dreadful calamity sixty-one lives were lost. Nam
Dramatic view of the steamboat engulfed in flames and smoke, the captain still at the helm as the passengers escape into the icy river. Panicked-looking passengers jump into the water already teeming with disaster victims, including an African American man, who thrash, swim, and attempt to stay upon and assist others onto cakes of ice, debris, and a single rowboat. Rescuers from the nearby wharf, including firemen, work in a frantic manner and desperately throw a rope to a white woman standing on an ice floe. Also shows a horse on the fire engulfed deck and a white woman propelled by a flame off of the rear of the boat. A sign for "Baths" is visible on the riverbank in the background. Contains the names of the 107 white and "colored" dead, missing, and saved passengers in three columns below the image. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as a result of defective boilers, a fireplace, and brick work. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river., Title from item., Date supplied by Wainwright., Copyrighted by A. Pharazin., Philadelphia on Stone, Purchase 1965., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," [graphic] : On the Delaware River, opposite Philadelphia, on the night of Saturday, March 15th, 1856, between 8 and 9 o'clock, by which dreadful calamity sixty-one lives were lost. Nam
Copyrighted by A. Pharazin., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Dramatic view of the steamboat engulfed in flames and smoke, the captain still at the helm as the passengers, including African Americans, escape for their lives into the icy river. Panicked passengers jump into the water already teeming with disaster victims who thrash, swim, and attempt to stay upon and assist others onto cakes of ice, debris, and a single rowboat. Rescuers from the nearby wharf, including firemen, work frantically and desperately throw a rope to a woman standing afloat a cake of ice. Contains the names of the 107 white and "colored" dead, missing, and saved passengers in three columns below the image. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as the result of defective boilers. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river.
Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steamboat "New Jersey," on the Delaware River, above Smith's Island, on the night of March 15th, between 8 and 9 o'clock, in which dreadful calamity over 50 lives are supposed to have been lost. [graphic].
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
The terrible conflagration at Ninth and Washington Streets, Philadelphia. On the morning of Wednesday February 8th 1865. [graphic].
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Reaccessioned as P.2215., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
This institution known as "Cherry Hill State Prison" at Philadelphia, is the model prison of "The Pennsylvania System of Prison Discipline" or "Separate System" as it is called to distinguish it from "The Congregate." [graphic] / From a drawing by convict
Location: Twenty-first and Fairmount Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:

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