View showing the south side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Lacey & Phillips, saddlery and harnessmaker (1220 Chestnut); Reeve L. Knight & Son, carpets (1222 Chestnut); T.L. Jacobs & Co., shirt manufacturers (1226 Chestnut); Peck & Co., druggists (1228 Chestnut); Edward Borhek & Son, opticians (1230 Chestnut); and Carrington, DeZouche & Co., window shades and paper hangings (Chestnut and Thirteenth). Lacey & Phillip's building is adorned with signage advertising the business's awards for excellence. A woman stands in front of Carrington, DeZouche & Co. Also shows a boy leaning on a lamppost and letterbox at the street corner., Attributed to Robert Newell., Unmounted half of stereoview., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date
[ca. 1869]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(8)1322.F.49i]
Landscape view showing railroad tracks near the Susquehanna River. Incorporated as the New York and Erie Railroad in 1832, the railroad was reorganized as the Erie Railway in 1861. The Starucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pa., constructed by the railroad in 1848 after the designs of engineers James P. Kirkwood and Julius W. Adams, is visible in the distant background. A man stands in the foreground., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount., Possibly photographed by C.W. Buell., Walker, a stationery store owner and publisher of New York stereographic views, had a working relationship with photographer C.W. Buell, who operated a studio from Walker's business address., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Walker, Lewis E., 1826-1916
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Walker [P.9168.8]
Shows the theater built 1826-28 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland at 609-615 Arch Street. Also shows two women and a man posed in front of the building; a playbill on display; street lamps; and adjacent businesses, including Christian Bird's Billiard Hall., Title from manuscript note on mount of (8)1322.F.5d., Orange and yellow paper mounts with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., One of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Manuscript note on mount of 7992.F.1: Arch St. Theatre, Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Theaters [(8)1322.F.5d-2; 7992.F.1]
Portion of the series published by North Conway photographer Nathan W. Pease in 1870 documenting the landscape of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The mountains, spilt by the Crawford Notch, comprise two ranges named Presidential (east) and Franconia (west). The scenic mountains inspired the 19th-century "White Mountain School" of painting and the publication of several series of stereographic views in the mid to late nineteenth century., Views show the Crawford Notch; Middle Montain (North Conway); Diana's Baths waterfall (North Conway); the Flume gorge with Pendent Boulder (also known as the "Great Hanging Boulder") at Franconia Notch; Crystal Cascade waterfall at the Pinkham Notch; Glen Ellis Falls; and the carriage road and "half-way house and ledge" on Mt. Washington. Views also show a stream, cliffs, trees, and a couple., Titles printed on mounts., Photographer's imprint printed on versos., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Series numbers: 26, 53, 128, 149, 151, 165., Seven of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American views., Described in "Stereoscopic Views and Photographs." Anthony's Photographic Bulletin 1 (Sept. 1870), p. 165., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Pease established his New Hampshire photographic studio in 1858.
Creator
Pease, Nathan W., 1836-1918
Date
[1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Pease - Views - White Mountains [5739.61c-d; 5739.F.61h; 5739.F.62a-c; 5739.F.62e; P.9022.15]
Stereograph, possibly published in London, depicting a scene satirizing race relations in America. Shows the dandy standing and with one foot on the boy's shoe shine box in front of a back drop depicted as a wall adorned with broadsides referencing abolition, slavery, and emancipation. The dandy is attired in striped and checkered pants, a jacket with tails, a ruffled shirt, and top hat. He holds a walking stick under one arm and a cigarette in his other hand. The boy kneels and shines the dandy's shoes with his shining supplies and tools by his box. Broadsides include a "playbill" reading "Adelphi. Tonight The White Slave. Octoroon Farce" and an advertisement for "Fast Clipper. Clyde. For New Orleans." Other posts read "No Slavery. Freedom" and "Great Meeting. Negro Emancipation. Poor Slaves.", Place of publication and date inferred from image content containing a reference to the "Octoroon" at the "Adelphi." Adelphi is a London theater where The Octoroon was performed 1861-1862., Grey mount with square corners., Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch African American History Fund., See similar visual trope "I say Billy, do you know why I'm doing this? Cause, I'm going to run for Congress soon!" [Political cartoons - 1863-13W, 8033.F.3]
Date
[ca. 1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. photo - Genre - African [P.2014.29]
Souvenir viewbook containing 48 views depicting principle buildings at the Centennial Exhibition that celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Includes Memorial Hall or Art Gallery; Main Building; Horticultural Hall; Machinery Hall; Agricultural Hall; United States Government Building; Women's Pavilion; Judges' Hall; Shoe and Leather Building; Carriage Exhibition Building; Photograph Exhibition Building; Pomological Building; Brewers Building; Butter and Cheese Factory; Department of Public Comfort; Pennsylvania Educational Building; English, French, and German Commission buildings; Brazilian Commissioners' Building; Spanish Building; Japanese Dwelling; Swedish School House; Canada Log House; New Hampshire Building; Massachusetts Building; Connecticut Cottage; New York Building; New Jersey Building; Pennsylvania Building; Delaware Building; Maryland Building; West Virginia Building; Arkansas Building; Mississippi Building; Ohio Building; Indiana Building; Illinois Building; Michigan Building; Wisconsin Building; Kansas and Colorado Building; Cook's World's Ticket Office; Glass Exhibition Building; Singer Sewing Machine Co.; New England Kitchen & Log House; Campbell Printing Press Building; Photographic Association Studio; and Japanese Bazaar. Views also show pedestrian traffic. Majority of the buildings were built after the designs of Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson., Includes "Contents"; "Map of Centennial Grounds"; and "Dimension and Costs of the Principal Buildings.", Titles of views in English, German, Spanish, and French., P.2010.21.6-8 gift of David Doret., P.2008.36.45 & 46 gift of Michael Zinman., Zinman copy digitized., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Inger, Christian, artist
Date
c1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection Centennial Ephemera [P.2010.21.6-8], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection [P.2008.36.45 & 46]
Title supplied by cataloger.
Various printers, including Simeon Boerum; Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co.; Geo. S. Harris & Sons; J. Ottmann; and Wm. F. Murphy Sons.
Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349].
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Series of titled views of the exterior and interior of the facilities of the Civil War volunteer relief agency near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues in Philadelphia. Predominately shows the patriotically adorned refreshment saloon with male and female members of the working committee, staff, and a patient in a robe posed among rows of tables set for a dining service. Also includes a view of patients posed near beds and a model ship in a ward at the hospital and a large crowd of men and boys standing in front of the hospital and saloon. Exterior also shows a parital view of the cannon, known as "Fort Brown." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency in operation between 1861-1865 provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen., Yellow mounts with square corners., Accompanied by publisher's labels inscibed with titles., Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to the Cooper and Union Shop Volunteer Saloons and Hospitals., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Added to African Americana Digital Collection through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date
[ca. 1863]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Associations [5778.F.26b & c; 27a, ax, bx & c]
Landscape view showing a gorge through which the river flows., Title from label on negative., Unmounted half stereograph., Inscribed in negative: 135., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of New York., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - non-Philadelphia - New York [5741.F.76b]
Exterior view looking west at the three story corner grocery store owned by Frank Hummel. A table advertising "Old Dutch Cleanser" sits in front of the shop facing Roxborough Avenue and a wooden stand rests underneath the shop window facing Fleming Street. A side entrance enables access to upper floors above the grocery store along the southeast flank facing Roxborough Avenue. A one story shed occupies the lot north of the grocery store on Fleming Street., Title from manuscript note on verso., Real photo. Divided back. AZO stamp box with diamonds in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [P.2005.6]
Interior view of living room section of enormous furniture showroom, showing couches, chairs, lamps and tables., Advertisement on verso. Post marked 1922. AZO stamp box with upward pointing triangles in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1922
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Business - [P.2005.7]
A woman in a white dress and hat pushes a Genuine "Philadelphia" Lawn Mower through a green yard. Includes a stake in the ground that advertises the name of the product, "Genuine "Philadelphia" Lawn Mower"., Numbered 3115 on verso., Advertisement on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Business - [P.2005.5]
Exterior view of 13th Street front and south flank of library., The Free Library system began in 1891. The first library occupied three rooms in City Hall in 1894. It moved to 1217-21 Chestnut Street in 1895, to the northeast corner of 13th and Locust Streets in 1910 and into its present site in 1927., Postcard issued by William H. Rau, Philadelphia and the Albertype Co., Brooklyn, N.Y., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Libraries - [86754.D.2]
Depicts a small brick building sitting on a hill on the grounds of Fort Morris in Shippensbrug, Pa., Numbered 121 on recto., Divided back. AZO stamp box with upward pointing triangles in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Military - [P.8674.2]
Depicts the front facade of the Rodin Museum built 1926-1928 after designs by Paul Philippe Cret. Includes the statue "The Thinker" by Rodin in the foreground., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1900-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Museums - [P.8712.5]
Exterior views of the Franklin Institute building constructed 1929-1931 after designs by John Torrey Windrim. Includes the Benjamin Franklin Memorial in the foreground, designed by James Earle Fraser in 1938., Divided backs. Text on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1940
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Museums - [P.9441.22 - 23]
Depicts the Strawberry Mansion Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River, built 1894-1896 by Russell M. Thayer and Theodore Cooper. Depicts the bridge in Fairmount Park from Strawberry Mansion., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Also known as the Fairmount Park Trolley Bridge., Accession numbers: P.9048.116, P.9048.333 and P.9076.12., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Bridges - [various]
Depicts statues of four prominent Catholic men standing on large stone fountains around the central figure of Moses, including John Barry, Charles Carroll, John Carroll and Theobald Matthew. Also includes carved portraits of Comte de Grasse, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Marquis de Lafayette, George Gordon Meade, Orono and Casimir Pulaski. Designed in the shape of a maltese cross by Herman Kirn in 1876., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Accession numbers: P.9048.124, P.9048.142 and P.9076.5., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Monuments and statues - [various]
Depicts hall built 1875 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann, demolished in 1955 even though the 383' long, 193' wide building was supposed to remain a permanent botanical conservatory, showcasing exotic plant species and Victorian gardens. Includes exterior views taken from various angles and nearby views of the Sunken Gardens and the Lily Pond., Contains 19 postcards printed in color and 4 printed in black and white., Accession numbers: P.9048.4, P.9048.25, P.9490.33, P.9048.69, P.9048.79, P.9048.121, P.9048.140, P.9048.174, P.9048.240, P.9048.263, P.9048.270, P.9048.275, P.9048.302, P.9048.312, P.9048.334, P.9048.346, P.9048.348, P.9048.352, P.9048.353, P.9048.361, P.9048.397, P.9048.419 and P.9076.11., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1900-1940
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Parks & squares - Fairmount Park - Horticultural Hall - [various]
Contains exterior views of Baptist Temple Church at North Broad and Berks Streets built in 1889 after designs by Thomas Preston Lonsdale. Temple College founded by Dr. Russell H. Conwell as a night school for parishoners of Grace Baptist Temple at the southeast corner of North Broad and Berks Street. He obtained a college charter in 1888 and three years later received the right to confer degrees., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Accession numbers: P.9050.3, P.9050.5, P.9050.8 and P.9050.26., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1905-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]
Exterior views of Christ Church built 1727-1744 after designs by John Kearsley. Steeple built 1751-1754 after designs by John Harrison II and Robert Smith. Also includes interior views of the nave, wine glass pulpit, sanctuary, pews, stained glass windows and the church's silver., Contains 19 postcards printed in color and 11 printed in black and white., Accession numbers: P.8712.5n, P.9048.145, P.9048.259, P.9048.265, P.9049.86, P.9050.21 - 22, P.9050.24, P.9050.27 - 28, P.9050.33, P.9050.35, P.9050.43, P.9050.52, P.9050.60 - 61, P.9050.65, P.9050.67, P.9050.74, P.9050.76 - 78, P.9050.86, P.9050.88 - 89, P.9050.96, P.9067.8, P.9105.12, P.9526.2 and P.2005.3.37., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1900-1940
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]
Depicts the neo-classical style marble pump house, completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827. Includes the Water Nymph and Bittern fountain sculpted in wood in 1809 by William Rush for the Centre Square Water Works, but later moved to the Fairmount Waterworks on the Schuylkill River., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Public utilities - [P.9049.31 - 32]
Exterior view of stadium built in stages from 1908-09 to 1939 by William Steele & Sons Company., Numbered A-17128 on verso., Also known as Connie Mack Stadium (1953)., Divided back. Post marked 1913., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
c1911
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Sports - [P.9049.9]
Contains views of the Protestant Episcopal church built in 1890 by Charles Marquedent Burns. Includes an exterior view of the front facade and interior views of the nave and sanctuary of the church., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Also known as the George W. South Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church of the Advocate., Two out of three postcards issued by The World Post Card Co., 1008 Walnut St., Philadelphia., Accession numbers: P.9049.87, P.9050.44 and P.9050.49., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1905-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [various]
Exterior view of the Baptist church organized by dissident members from the Spruce Street Baptist Church in 1870 at 258-260 South Broad Street. Building razed by fire 1881., Title and photographer's imprint from accompanying label., Green paper mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Duplicate of P.9047.12., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo -Newell -Religion [1322.F.4c-1]
Exterior views of meeting house built in 1832 at Orthodox and Penn Streets., Accession numbers: P.9048.258 and P.9050.95., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - Meeting houses - [various]
Depicts the exterior and interior, showing pews in the meeting house on Germantown Avenue., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - Meeting houses - [P.9048.257]
View of meeting house built in 1808. The original log meeting house was constructed circa 1684 on land donated by Henry English and later replaced by a stone building in 1714. The meeting house was rebuilt again in 1753, before the construction of the present building in the image., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - Meeting houses - [P.9050.14]
Advertisement for the piano tuning and repairing business of George L. Maitland, showing the exterior of his office and residence at 4806 Fairmount Avenue in West Philadelphia., Publisher's monogram on verso., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Residences - A - M - [P.2002.67.20]
