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Title: Rail shooting on the Delaware
Description: Genre print showing two men standing in a small boat navigating through the tall reeds and lily pads of a marshy section of the Delaware River. The gentleman in the front of the boat is poised to shoot a rail, a slow and steady game bird, while the man in the back poles slowly through the water., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Smithsonian Institution, NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection: DL*60.2797
Date: c1866
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL*60.2797]

Title: Amer ican hair dye warranted Prepared only by Dr. D. Jayne, No. 8 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Proprietor of Jayne’s Hair Tonic, which besides being a delightful perfume, will increase the growth [sic] & beauty of the hair, and prevent it from falling off. No gentleman or lady’s toilet should be without it
Description: Advertisement containing a full-length portrait of a Native American standing in a clearing in the woods. He holds a bow in one hand and points to the sky with the other. A bundle of arrows is partially visible from above his shoulder and he wears a feathered headband. An ornamental border surrounds the image., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00027, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 9, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Advertisements
Creator: Dacre, Henry, b. ca. 1820, artist
Date: [ca. 1848]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Philadelphiana - Advertisements

Title: St. Ann's Church Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic Church built 1866-1870 after the designs of Edwin F. Durang at 2328 E. Lehigh Street. Also shows the other properties of the church surrounding the building. Includes the rectory (built 1894, Durang), the church cemetery, the original church building partially visible behind the new structure, and the St. Ann School (built 1894-1895, Durang) at 2343 East Tucker Street. Street traffic includes a horse-drawn carriage, electric trolley, and man on horseback. Trees landscape the sidewalks and an iron fence lines the church and cemetery. Cemetery contains several headstones. Electric trolleys began operating in the city in 1892., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 229, PAHRC: Unitrd States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Ann's
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Ann's

Title: Fairmount Park
Description: Sheet music cover containing a view looking from Reservoir Hill toward Lemon Hill showing part of the Fairmount Water Works. Includes part of the mill race and the promenade on the old mill house, and visitors on the roof of the new mill house (completed 1862). Also shows a boat docked at the nearby boat landing and boat houses along the east bank of the Schuylkill River. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00018, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 235, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:1 and 30:86
Date: c1871
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 21:1 and 30:86

Title: St. Paul's M. E. Church Catherine St. above 6th. Philada Erected A.D. 1838
Description: Exterior view showing the Methodist Episcopal Church at 615-623 Catharine Street, set back from the street by a front lawn. A path cuts through the center of the lawn. Trees line the path, the street, and corners of the lawn. The trees obscure the view of the front facade, which includes the name of the church on the frieze above the doorway. Several well-dressed parishioners of all ages approach the church from the sidewalk and walk down the path to the entrance. Also shows a man at the doorway of the neighboring residence with rear buildings that border the fenced church lawn. An elderly man crossing the street. Congregation organized in 1833., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 715, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.473/20. Digital image shows AKM copy.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W350 [P.2008.34.14]

Title: 3' o'clock in the morning 3 uhr morgens
Description: Amusing genre scene depicting three drunk men stumbling arm-in-arm down a city block in front of fenced, wooden scaffolding. The man on the left skips, raises his hat and supports the unconscious man in the middle, who wears a lady's bonnet on his head. The man on the right also supports the bonnet-wearing man while he clings his arm around a lamp post as he holds a long pipe. Playbills and advertisements adorn the wooden fence in front of the scaffolding. The postings promote the National Police Gazette, Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, John Drew's National Theatre, the Academy of Music, and steam boat Edwin Forrest of Trenton Capt. McMakin. An African American coach driver, with a whip in hand, watches the frivolity in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 4, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.8.1, Copy with variant title and imprint ["Three in the Morning," Childs, 63 North 2nd St.] held in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society. AAS copy dated ca. 1863, probably 1860.
Date: c1857
Location: Atwater Kent Museum AKM 54.8.1

Title: Western Exchange Hotel, Market Street, west of Penn Square, Philadelphia Joseph Waterman, proprietor. The proprietor of this hotel, respectfully announces to the public, that he has refitted his hotel and is now prepared to receive his friends and patrons in a manner which he flatters himself they will find that attention to their comforts which will give entire satisfaction. -- This hotel embraces many advantages to the travelling public being contiguous to the great Central and Pennsylvania Rail Road Depot, and in immediate vicinity of the depots of the Baltimore, Wilmington, Pottsville and Reading Rail Roads. The Westchester cars leave the hotel morning and afternoon. -- Terms, one dollar per day
Description: Advertisement showing Joseph Waterman's stately six-story hotel building and adjacent properties on the north side of the 1500 block of Market Street. Gentlemen mingle on the second-story, arcaded balcony overlooking the street. A large cupola and weathervane surmount the penthouse. Horse-drawn carriages and carts labeled "Exchange Wagon," "Waterman's Hotel," and "Western Exchange," congest the street and transport patrons to and from nearby railroad depots. The hotel was patronized by farmers and used as the western terminus of several omnibus lines. Hotel removed circa 1860., Artist probably Frederick J. Pilliner who worked as a lithographer first in Boston in 1853-54 and in Philadelphia between 1856 and 1860., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 56.25.7, Pilliner worked from the address of the Lithographic Institute, which included lithographers Maurice H. Traubel, Theodore Leonhardt, Edward Schnabel, John F. Finkeldey, and William Demme in 1856 and 1857.
Creator: Pilliner, E, artist
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 56.25.7

Title: View of the city of Philadelphia, and its principal buildings
Description: Print containing a central panoramic view of Philadelphia surrounded by vignettes of prominent Philadelphia institutions. View looks west from Camden, New Jersey, showing islands and vessels in the Delaware River. Vignettes include the Almshouse, Fairmount, Girard College, Merchants' Exchange, Moyamensing Prison, Chestnut Street Theatre, U.S. Naval Asylum, State House, U.S. Mint, and the University of Pennsylvania. Most vignettes include small details like carriages, horses and pedestrians on foot., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 40.14.19
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: 1842
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 40.14.19

Title: Fashions by S.A. & A.F. Ward, spring & summer 1850, no. 62 Walnut St. Philad
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 15 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor and an outdoor setting. Scenes surrounded by a border designed as tree branches and tools of the design trade, including rulers, scissors and protractors. Upper panel shows the parlor scene. At the center of the panel, two men stand showing their backs as they peer at the countryside from the curtained window. They are flanked by two groups conversing in the parlor. On the left side, a woman attired in a bonnet, long pleated shirtwaist, and white gloves stands in the middle of two men attired in long jackets, vests, and neck ties. The men on the right side wear the same style, while the woman wears a dress with a low cut neckline, gloves, and a small hat. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. Furniture in the parlor includes a high back chair, wing chair and an ottoman. Lower panel shows a beach scene and a hunting scene. Dividing the two are a man and a woman mounted on horses. The woman sits sidesaddle in a long skirt, shirtwaist, and hat. Her male companion, and the men gathered in front of their horses, are attired in vests, jackets, cravats and top hats. A casually-dressed, barefoot man, wearing loose trousers and an unbuttoned white shirt, observes the scene from a distance. On the opposite side of the horses, two men gather their prey from a recent hunting expedition. One man stands with a rifle in his right hand and points at the dead hare and fowl at his feet as another man, more casually dressed, puts the kill in a sack. A dog is curled up, asleep at their feet., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 69, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3070]
Date: [1850]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3070]

Title: [Interior and exterior of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon hospital, southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues, Philadelphia]
Description: Proof print containing side by side views of the volunteer hospital situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South. Interior view (left) shows a hospital ward. Mainly empty beds line the walls, including a small draped off area, and a male and female volunteer (carrying a tray of medicine) attend to two patients, one seated, and the other in a bed. The ward also includes a stove, books resting on a draped table, and framed prints adorning the walls. Exterior view (right) shows a patient arriving by gurney outside of the small hospital building that is adorned with a flag pole and eagle ornament. A volunteer waits by the open door as children and female passers-by watch the scene. Also includes two boys playing on a wood gate, two dogs in the street, and the main building of the volunteer saloon in the background., Attributed to James Queen., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints and drawings (C size)-55 prints Saloon Hospital
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints and drawings (C size)-55 prints Saloon Hospital

Title: Fashions by S.A & A.F. Ward spring & summer No. 62 Walnut Philada. 1852
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 17 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor and an outdoor, country setting. Scenes surrounded by a border designed as foliage and filigree. Upper panel shows the parlor scene. Three men attired in suits, top hats and canes converse. One man leans against a writing desk, one shows his back, and the other man is seated in a wingback chair . At the center of the panel, a woman wearing a full dress with wide sleeves stands with a boy, a girl, and a puppy. A man wrapped in a lavish robe and fez hat sits on chaise lounge, looking right in the direction of two men who stand and converse. Lower panel shows a country scene. At the center of the scene two women attired in long-sleeve dresses and plumed hats are seated sidesaddle on horses. The men flanking the two women are attired in vests, jackets, cravats and top hats and some hold canes. One of the men rests his right hand on a rifle. A boy dressed in a vest, pants, boots and cap plays with a hoop and watches the horses. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. Key numbered 1-17 printed below the figures., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 71, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3067]
Date: 1852
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3067]

Title: Fashions for spring and summer 1853 by S.A. & A.F. Ward, No. 62 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 15 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor and a fair setting. Upper panel shows the parlor scene. Eight of the nine men are attired in jackets, vests, cravats, top hats and canes. Some wear plaid and striped pants. One man, seated with sheet music in his lap and a stringed instrument by his side, is attired in an elaborate silk robe. The remaining men, most standing, converse in groups and study framed images hanging on the wall. The left image is a landscape, and the right depicts a portrait of an older man. Lower panel shows the New York Crystal Palace, an exhibition building designed by Georg Carstensen and German architect Charles Gildemeister and constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City in 1853. View includes foot, carriage, and omnibus traffic. Couples, children and dogs stroll the grounds. In the foreground, flanking the view of the exhibition building, are six figures, including a gentleman standing with his back shown, looking at a woman on a horse and a boy holding a watering can. The man is attired in a jacket, top hat and cane, and the boy wears a ruffled cape-like jacket, knickers and a cap. The woman, sitting sidesaddle, wears a dress, jacket, gloves and a plumed hat. On the right side, two men stand with a boy. All of them wear jackets, vests, cravats, patterned pants, boots and hats. One man holds a rifle in his left hand. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. New York's 1853 exhibition was held on the site now home to Bryant Park. A fire destroyed the exhibition building in 1858., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 76, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3068]
Date: 1853
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3068]

Title: Fashions, fall & winter, 1850-1, by S.A. & A.F. Ward, No. 62 Walnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 21 elegantly attired men, women, and children in outdoor settings. Scenes surrounded by a border designed as bare tree branches. Upper panel shows five men, three women, and two boys dressed in autumn clothing. All of the men wear jackets, vests, and cravats. Some wear, or hold, top hats, and one man sports a double-breasted coat. One woman is attired in a long-sleeve, high-collared dress, and wears a hat adorned with a feather. She is about to clasp the hand of a boy standing with her, who is dressed similarly to the men in the image, with a long waisted jacket and pants. The woman in the center is attired in pearls, bangles, and an elaborate, shoulder-bearing dress with a flounced skirt. The woman to her right shows only her profile, and is covered in a bonnet and ruffled shawl over her skirt. Another boy, dressed in a cropped jacket, pants, and a cap, stands nearby. Lower panel shows a winter snow scene in the country. Ten men and one boy stand conversing in their layered winter clothing, which includes jackets, capes, coats, vests, cravats, pants, boots and hats. Some wear gloves and hold canes. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. Snow, bare trees, fences, and a country house are visible in the background., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 71, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3074]
Date: 1850
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3074]

Title: Fashions for fall and winter 1848-9 by S.A. & A.F. Ward, no. 62 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 20 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor and outdoor setting. Upper panel shows six men and two women conversing in a parlor decorated with fine furniture and carpet. All of the men wear long jackets, vests, pants, and cravats. Some hold top hats and canes and wear gloves. An older gentleman is seated in a wing back chair with a paper in his left hand. Attired in high collared, long-sleeve dresses, one of the women holds a hankerchief and the other wears a top hat with a veil. Lower panel shows a fall scene of eight men and four boys standing and conversing in a field near a body of water. They are dressed in layers of clothing, including coats, capes, vests, cravats, striped pants, plaid plants, boots, top hats, and gloves. Two men hold canes and another a rifle. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. The boys, similarly dressed in long jackets, pants, boots, and caps, hold canes and a hoop. Buildings, possibly country homes, are visible in the background., Not in Wainwright., Illegible signature in lower right corner., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 74, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3073]
Date: 1848
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3073]

Title: The grounds and buildings of the United States Centennial International Exhibition, May 10th to November 10th 1876
Description: Bird’s eye view looking toward East Fairmount Park showing the entire expanse of the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows the English Commissioners Building, U.S. Government Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, Ladies’ Pavilion, Judge’s Hall, Horticultural Hall, offices, Photographic Hall, Art Gallery, and the Main Building. Also shows fountains, hotels, and the Columbia, Girard and New York-Connecting Railroad bridges spanning the Schuylkill River. Cityscape is visible in the background. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Printed with red tint stone: The Only Complete View of the Centennial Exhibition officially recognized., Signatures of the Director General, Architects, and Engineers printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 3, AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 2, untinted.
Creator: Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877, artist
Date: c1876
Location: American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 3

Title: [Philadelphia Brewery]
Description: Advertisment showing the brewery marked as established "1861" and adjacent residences. Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels from the brewery depart the fence-lined, landscaped property from under an archway reading "Philadelphia Brewery" and travel in the street in the foreground. Also shows a couple walking on the sidewalk in front of one of the residences., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, Trimmed, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]

Title: Girard College for Orphans, at Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder’s Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. Shows several figures walking the grounds of the school in addition to street and pedestrian traffic including horse-drawn carriages and coaches, men on horseback, promenaders, and a laborer pushing a hand cart. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 307/308, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 Girard College
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 Girard College

Title: Knights of Pythias [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate containing vignettes of scenes representing the tenets of the order (i.e., friendship, benevolence, and charity) composed within a border designed as a monument. Scenes include figures attired in Roman costume during acts of intervention from persecution and imprisonment. Also contains bust-length portraits of Roman soldiers, allegorical female figures, and emblems of the order, including a sword laid on an open Bible; crossed swords; a sprig of myrtle; and spikes. Knight of Pythias was an international, non sectarian, fraternal order established in 1864 on the principles of "toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government.", Text printed with green ink., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by S.S. Davis Supreme Chancellor., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 129, Library of Congress: PAGA 7, no. 2005e (E size) Knights of Pythias
Date: c1873
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA 7, no. 2005e (E size) Knights of Pythias

Title: Ansicht von Fairmount in Philadelphia
Description: View looking from the east bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Shows the engine house; mill house; pavilion on the mound dam, stand pipe (built 1852) and Reservoir Hill. View also includes two men with a canvas and easle on the river bank across from a steam boat traveling on the water in the foregound and the Wire Bridge at Fairmount (built 1841-1842) in the background., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 22, Library of Congress: PR 13 CN 2001: 033
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PR 13 CN 2001: 033

Title: The little homeless one or "no one to kiss me good night"
Description: Sheet music cover containing a view looking down an alley of wooden buildings, probably in Philadelphia. Shows a male figure leaning on a lamppost in front of a girl seated on the sidewalk and leaning on a shed on a street lined with debilitated colonial-style small wooden dwellings., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: P&P Sheet Music Little Homeless One
Date: c1867
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC P&P Sheet Music Little Homeless One

Title: St. Francis Xavier's Church. Philadelphia, Penna Rev. James Maginn, Pastor
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic church at Twenty-fifth and Biddle Streets (i.e., Buttonwood Street) below the Fairmount Waterworks Basin in Fairmount. Church contains a dome and bell tower. Also shows an adjacent four-story rectory building, convent, or school. Building contains an attached covered shed. Trees line the church properties. Street and pedestrian traffic includes individuals crossing the street, strolling on the sidewalk, and a horse-drawn carriage with passengers. Rev. Maginn was appointed pastor in 1863. The church relocated to a new building at 24th and Green streets in 1898 with the Philadelphia Museum of Art erected at the prior location., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 232, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Francis Xavier's Church
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Francis Xavier's Church

Title: St. James Church. West Philada Rev. F. P. O'Neill, Pastor
Description: View showing the stone edifice of St. James Church, the church's first building, constructed in 1851 after the designs of John T. Mahoney at the southeast corner of Thirty-eighth and Chestnut Streets and two adjacent structures, possibly the church rectory and orphans' home. Shows pedestrians promenading on the sidewalks, including two women walking arm-in-arm along Thirty-eighth Street in the foreground. Also depicts a horse-drawn Chestnut-Walnut Street car travelling west along Chestnut Street. Reverend Francis P. O'Neill served as pastor of the church from 1875 until his death in 1882. Structure demolished in the summer of 1881 for the erection of the Gothic Revival church designed by Edwin F. Durang., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 233, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. James Church
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. James Church

Title: Interior of St. Malachy's Church, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Confirmation and Holy Commmunion certificate containing an interior view of the Roman Catholic church built 1851 after the designs of Joseph D. Koecker in North Philadelphia. View looks toward the altar of the ornately decorated church and shows a large painting of the crucifixion behind the altar; other religious paintings; pews; small altars adorned with several candles; a frescoed ceiling; and religious statuary. Founded by Irish immigrants and the Sisters of Mercy in 1850, the church was nicknamed the "Church in the woods.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 120, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Malachy
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Malachy

Title: St. Michael's Church
Description: View looking southeast at the Roman Catholic church built 1846-1847 after designs by Edwin Forrest Durang at Second and Jefferson Streets in Kensington. Some fashionably dressed parishioners converse on the sidewalk, while others walk in the direction of the church. Includes an enclosed yard (left), the cemetery behind the church, buildings adjacent to the church on Second Street, probably the rectory and/or convent, and a partial view of a street car travelling south on tracks running the length of Second Street. Church erected following the destruction of the first church building during the Nativist Riots on May 8, 1844., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, PAHRC: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Michael
Creator: Inger, Christian
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Michael

Title: Church of St. Philip Neri. Philadelphia, Penna Rev. N. Cantwell, Pastor
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic church built in 1840 after designs by architect Eugene Napoleon Le Brun. View includes two horse-drawn coaches travelling Queen Street, pedestrians promenading, and a church rectory or convent building immediately west of the church building. Damaged during the Nativist Riots in the spring of 1844, the church maintained most of its original appearance. Reverend Nicholas Cantwell served as pastor of the church from 1845 until his death in 1899., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 37, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri
Creator: Packard, Herbert S., 1850-1912, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri

Title: Interior of St. Philip Neri Church. Philadelphia, Penna
Description: Confirmation and Holy Communion certificate containing an interior view of the Roman Catholic church built in 1840 after designs by architect Eugene Napoleon Le Brun. View looks toward the nave of the ornately decorated church and shows boys and girls kneeling in a long row in front of the chancel rail during their Holy Communion ceremony. Two priests flank the bishop as he addresses the children from within the chancel. Murals and statuary of religious icons and angels adorn the sanctuary, frescoed ceiling, and alcoves of the church. Damaged during the Nativist Riots in the spring of 1844, the church maintained most of its original appearance., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri interior
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri interior

Title: St. Veronica's Church, Philadelphia, Penna
Description: View showing St. Veronica's frame chapel and rectory at Second and Butler Streets. Includes male pedestrians on the sidewalk and a man in church garb standing on the porch of the rectory. This parish outgrew this chapel, situated across from the New Cathedral Cemetery, and moved in 1892 to a newly constructed church at northeast corner of Sixth and Tioga Streets., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 235, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Veronica
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Veronica

Title: Girard College Pictorial embellishment of the Philada. Saturday Courier a family paper of the largest size published at two dollars a year in advance including two engravings of this kind yearly
Description: View of Founder's Hall at Girard College constructed 1833-1847 from designs by Philadelphia architect Thomas U. Walters. Also shows pedestrian traffic on the grounds. The Hall occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenue at Corinthian Avenue. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Issued as one of two annual "pictorial illustrations" for the Philadelphia Saturday Courier., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 311.2, Cited by Wainwright as in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Copy unlocated., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: copy unlocated
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania W155.2 [HSP unlocated]

Title: Fashions for spring and summer 1847 by S.A. & A.F. Ward, no. 62 Walnut Street Philada
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 17 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor setting and an outdoor hunting scene. Upper panel shows a parlor furnished with floral carpet, a fireplace, an ornate chandelier, window blinds, a portrait painting, and high-backed chairs. At the center of the scene a young boy with a hoop entertains two seated women attired in dresses and bonnets. Six men dressed in solid or plaid pants, jackets, vests, cravats, and top hats flank the women and child in the center and converse with one another. Lower panel shows six figures, some standing, some leaning against tree stumps, and a man and a woman mounted on horses in the center of the scene. The male figures, including one boy, are attired in solid or plaid jackets, plaid pants, vests, and top hats. One man holds a rifle and faces the boy (right) who holds what appears to be a dead bird behind his back, as another dead bird rests on the ground at his feet. The woman, sitting sidesaddle, wears a dress, jacket, gloves and a plumed hat. Many of the depicted men, in both scenes, have mustaches and or sideburns. Figures numbered 1-17., Not in Wainwright., Signed, "French," in lower right corner., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 176, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3069]
Creator: French, John Taylor, 1822-1852, artist
Date: 1847
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3069]

Title: O.N. Thacher, wholesale & retail hat, cap, & fur ware-house Nth Third St. No. 40 opposite the City Hotel Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the retail shop interior, showing a pile of hats, caps, and fur garments piled on the sales counter. Shelves built into the walls are lined neatly with merchandise behind the counter. An adjacent room is visible through an open door showing a male and a female worker standing over steaming tubs. Includes a vignette of a beaver, a symbol of the fur trade, gnawing through a tree near a stream. Oliver N. Thacher tenanted 40 North Third Street, opposite the City Hotel, from 1840 to 1842., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Duval - O.N. Thacher...Ware-house (Size A) [P & P]
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Duval - O.N. Thacher...Ware-house (Size A) [P & P]

Title: Franklin's experiment, June 1752 Demonstrating the identity of lightning and electricty, from which he invented the lightning rod
Description: Depicts Benjamin Franklin during his kite experiment in a meadow near a dwelling in Philadelphia in 1752. Shows Franklin holding the string of the kite on which a key is tied. His twenty-one year old son, William, anachronistically shown as a boy, assists him. A lightening bolt crosses the sky., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 278, Library of Congress: PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P]. LOC holds two copies, one tinted.
Date: c1876
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P], Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P] Tinted

Title: Freiheit Edelmuth & Bruderliebe, Unabhangiger Orden der Rothmaenner [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate for the Pocahantas Chapter of the Independent Order of Redmen at Philadelphia. Print contains seven small vignettes depicting scenes from the life of Pocahontas, the treaty between William Penn and the American Indians, and other scenes of Native American life. A larger scene showing a Native American chief addressing a group gathered around a fire surmounts the text. Vignettes of Native Americans hunting (left) and a Native American man providing a white man with a drink (right) flank the scene. At the bottom, an American Indian and a white man sit on a globe showing the Western Hemishere, clasping hands and holding a peace pipe. The vignettes are surrounded by intertwined icanthus leaves. Includes a red embossed seal in the lower left corner., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Otto Gratz on February 10, 1863. Signed by John Rumig and Heinrich Bissout., Includes a red embossed seal in the lower left corner., Philadelphia on Stone, Smithsonian Institution, NMAH, Home and Community Life Collection: *60.2396
Creator: Feusier, A.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2396]

Title: Abm. Miller manufacturer of portable furnaces, cylinders, fire bricks & tile, dentists furnaces . . . superior earthenware etc. Callowhill below Broad St. Philadelphia
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 8, Cited by Wainwright as in the collection of Marian S. Carson; given to Library of Congress in 1996; copy unlocated at the Library of Congress., Library of Congress: copy unlocated
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division W12 [LOC unlocated]

Title: Gustavus Bergner's Lager Beer Brewery and vaults situate on the north side of Thompson Street bel. 32nd on the Reading R. R., about 1/2 Mile above Fairmount. Depot: No 239 Dock Str. below 3d. Philadelphia
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 336, Cited by Wainwright as in the collection of Marian S. Carson; given to Library of Congress in 1996; copy unlocated at the Library of Congress., Library of Congress: copy unlocated, HSP holds original watercolor.
Date: 1857
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division W163 [LOC unlocated]

Title: H. S. Tarr's Marble Yard No. 274 Green St. above Seventh Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 340.2, Cited by Wainwright as in the collection of Marian S. Carson; given to Library of Congress in 1996; copy unlocated at the Library of Congress., Library of Congress: copy unlocated
Creator: Heiss, George G., artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division W166.2 [LOC unlocated]

Title: Engel & Wolf's brewery & vaults at Fountain Green. Office No. 26 & 28 Dillwyn St. between Vine & Callowhill & Third & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia Including five large vaults containing 50,352 cubic feet cut out of the solid rock and about 45 feet below ground, where they keep their well known lager beer. Temperature of the vaults in midsummer 40 degrees of Fahrenheit. They are situated on the Columbia Rail Road, about one mile above the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia Co
Description: Advertisement showing the facility at Fountain Green (Fairmount Park) for the brewery established in 1844 by Charles Engel & Charles Wolf. Includes the wash house and entrance to the vault on the lowest level of the hill, the office (middle level), fermenting and brewing building, and storage house with fermenting cellar (upper level). Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels exit from different level entries to the buildings and a laborer working on a barrel toils within the brewery. Two gentlemen stand on the porch to the office and a woman with children uses the property for recreation. In the foreground, a Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad locomotive pulls a train car full of passengers, a double-decker horse-drawn omnibus travels, men ride on horseback, and individuals (woman with child and two men) stroll and descend the river embankment to greet a man arriving by rowboat. A weather vane designed as a beer barrel adorns the storage house. Engel & Wolf purchased Fountain Green in 1849 to dig lager beer vaults to ferment and age the beer brewed at Dillwyn Street. A third-story was added to the storage house after 1855 and the plant was remodeled in 1859. The brewery ceased operations in 1870 when Fountain Green, the former estate of Samuel Meeker, was seized by the city for the park., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 209, Atwater Kent Musuem: 54.3.6/3. Copy unlocated. Description based on Wainwright and second state of print held in the collections of the Library Company. See POS 210 for digital image of second state.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.3.6/3

Title: Church of St. Vincent de Paul, Germantown, Phila. Pa
Description: View showing the ornate interior of the Catholic church built 1849-1851 and enlarged in 1857 at 109 East Price Street. Looking toward the nave, the view includes the chancel, crucifix, wineglass pulpit, pews, stained glass windows, icons and angels depicted in murals and framed paintings, and the frescoed base of the church's dome. The church was the first parish named after St. Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century French priest and founder of the Congregation of the Mission., Contains dashed lines below the image., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 38, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Vincent de Paul interior
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Vincent de Paul interior

Title: Whalebone A noted horse for speed & bottom, Brightbay, 15 hands 3 1/2 inches high, has strong points & shews great blodd, was sired by Hamiltonian & Hamiltonian by old Messenger. He was bred by General Coles of Long Island
Description: Racing print showing Whalebone running, mid-galop, during a harness race. The jockey wears a cap tied under his chin and holds a whip in his right hand. Also contains several lines of promotional text describing Whalebone's excellent performances including an 1827 New York trotting course race, which "he accomplished in 54 minutes & 6 seconds with great ease"; his defeat of Creeper, Lady Kate, Grey Squirrel & Moonshine on May 15, 1828 in a Hunting Park Association race worth $200; his victory over Mr. Spicer in another Hunting Park Association course on October 15, 1829, in which he ran 16 miles in 4 mile heats in the unprecedented time of 46 minutes & 11 seconds, and performed the third heat in 11 minutes and 17 seconds; another Hunting Park Association victory on October 23, 1830, winning a purse of $300 for "beating Sir Peter, Jerry, Comet & Top Gallant, and distancing all on the 4th heat"; his defeat of the Calf, Comet and Sir Andrew, winning the 2nd and 3rd heats (the Calf took the first) on the Union Course Long Island on December 6, 1830; his victory over Sweet Brier on the Hunting Park Course, where he won each mile except the 2nd and the 5th; and his performance of 8 minutes 20 seconds in a 2nd 3 mile heat in harness on the Hunting Park course on October 14, 1829. For these reasons, Whalebone was considered one of the best bottomed horses in the country., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 275, Smithsonian Institution, NMAH, Home and Community Life Collection: DL*60.3564
Creator: Hillman, Richard S., artist
Date: ca. 1830
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL*60.3564]

Title: Fashions. Fall & winter. 1852-3, S.A. & A.F. Ward no. 62 Walnut St. Phila
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 21 elegantly attired men, women, and children in two outdoor settings. Scenes surrounded by a border designed as tree branches, filigree and scissors. Cherubic figures sewing and ironing flank the title at the bottom of the print. Upper panel shows 5 men, 1 woman, 4 boys and 2 girls socializing on a dirt pathway overlooking the city. At the center of the panel, the oldest boy sits on a bench telling the younger children a story. Three men converse on the left side, one with his back to the viewer, and on the right side, two men and a woman stand looking in the direction of the others. All of the men wear or hold hats and are attired in suits, including two in striped pants. The woman wears a full brown dress decorated with floral designs and alternating bands of different fabric. The boys are attired in jackets and ties, and two wear hats. The girls wear dresses, tights, boots and hats. Lower panel shows 7 men, a woman and a boy adorned in winter capes and jackets. The men and the boy wear striped or checkered pants, overcoats or capes, and sport top hats or caps. The woman wears a shirt waist and skirt with the ruching of her undershirt tied at her neck and a plumed hat secured by a strap under her chin. Behind her a man tries to reign in a horse. The boy holds a book opened to a sketch or an illustration. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. A steamboat is visible on the body of water in the background, not far from a factory building on the mountainous shoreline., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 73, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3072]
Date: [1852]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3072]

Title: Wagner & McGuigan's lithographic establishment for drawing lettering & printing no. 116 Chesnut [sic] St. Philadelphia Portraits, landscapes, anatomical & architectural drawings, views of stores, fancy prints, show cards, maps, plans, certificates, circulars, all kinds of fancy labels, cards, &c., printing in illuminated colours & gold, transferring from steel, copper & stone. Wagner & McGuigan have received the highest award [a silver medal] for their lithography from the Franklin Institute of the state of Penna. Orders done with neatness and despatch
Description: Advertisement containing an interior view of the shop at 116 Chestnut Street (ie. 320 Chestnut Street) after a daguerreotype depicting a long row of presses lined along the perimeter of the room near tall windows for natural light. Pressmen work on stones propped flat and on an angle. The man at the first press rolls ink onto a stone, as another man, probably an apprentice, carries a stone from the reserve of fresh stones arranged and stacked on the shelves on the opposite wall. Bottles and other supplies line the shelves between each window, and several packaged stones are piled on the floor in the foreground awaiting shipment. View includes a standing press. A foreman, possibly Wagner or McGuigan, attired in a suit observes the printers. Includes views of the recto and verso of the silver medal awarded to Wagner & M'Guigan for "skill and ingenuity" in lithography by the Franklin Institute in 1844 below the image and flanking the advertising text. Advertisement shows text printed in various fonts and shades to demonstrate the range and ability of the recently established lithographic firm of Wagner & M'Guigan (fl. 1846-1858)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 113, T.B. Shaw, possibly Trueman Shaw, operated from the same address as Wagner & McGuigan (116 Chestnut) between 1846 and 1849., Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3081]
Creator: Aub, Jacob, artist
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Smithsonian Institution, NMAH, Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3081]

Title: Three in the morning
Description: Amusing genre scene depicting three drunk men stumbling arm-in-arm down a city block in front of fenced, wooden scaffolding. The man on the left skips, raises his hat and supports the unconscious man in the middle, who wears a lady's bonnet on his head. The man on the right also supports the bonnet-wearing man while he clings his arm around a lamp post as he holds a long pipe. Playbills and advertisements adorn the wooden fence in front of the scaffolding. The postings promote "Dan Rice's Great Show. National Theatre Walnut Street above Eighth March 13, 60 ... English Steeple Chase"; "Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre"; "Academy of Music"; and "Steam Boat Edwin Forrest of Trenton Capt. McMakin." A coach driver, with a whip in hand, watches the frivolity in the background., Date supplied by playbill depicted in image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 4.2, American Antiquarian Society: Lithf ChilJ Thre, Copy with variant title and imprint ["3 O'clock in the Morning: 3 uhr Morgens," Childs, 152, late 84 Sth 3rd St.] held in the collections of the Atwater Kent Museum. AKM copy copyrighted 1857., See Public Ledger, March 1860 for advertisements for "Dan Rice's Great Show" at the National Theatre.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: American Antiquarian Society|a American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf ChilJ Thre

Title: Jacob Haehnlen's lithographic and steam power letter press printing rooms. Goldsmith's Hall, Library Street, opposite post office, Philadelphia. 1867-1868 All kinds of commercial & fancy printing executed promptly. Keep in stock the largest & most varied assortment of wine, liquor, druggists, perfumery & fancy labels and show cards in the United States. Several styles of pharmacy & physicians labels kept on hand of the latest publications, importer, dealer & manufacturer of fancy paper, ornaments, sachets &c. All kinds of materials for printers & lithographers
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1867 and 1868 containing a filigree border surrounding a view of the exterior of the six-story brownstone and print shop owned by lithographer Haehnlen at 420 Library Street. Signage advertising the "lithographic establishment" adorns the doorway, front, and side of "Goldsmith's Hall." Building also adorned with large display windows and an American flag. View includes street and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians walk and stand on the sidewalk. Horse-drawn wagons and drays pass in the street. Shop included salesrooms and offices, a machine shop, a drying room, lithographic presses, and card, handbill, and pamphlet printing presses. Haehnlen established his own studio at Goldsmith's Hall in 1866 and operated his business from all but the first floor. He sold his shop to the firm Lehman & Bolton in 1873. Building destroyed by fire on December 20, 1882., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto: Manuscript note on recto: Gold Smith Hall erected by L.J. Dreer 1851., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 44, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3090]
Date: [1866]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3090]

Title: The second great match game for the championship, between the Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia and the Atlantics of Brooklyn, on the grounds of the Athletics, Fifteenth & Columbia Avenue, Phila., Oct. 22nd, 1866
Description: Genre print depicting the Philadelphia Athletics and the Brooklyn Atlantics during a game in the Athletics field at Fifteenth Street and Columbia Avenue. The Brooklyn Atlantics are in the outfield, and an Athletics player positions himself to receive a pitch. In the foreground, two men sit at a table on the sidelines, three sit on chairs and other spectators watch the game, engage in fights, or keep score. In the left background, a low stand crowded with spectators is visible. The park is fenced and surrounded by trees. The names of each player and the umpire, and inning scores are included near the title. Formed in 1860 by James N. Kerns, the Philadelphia Athletics helped establish the National Association of Professional Baseball Players (NA) in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2809]
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: c1867
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.2809]

Title: Catalogue illustration - Exterior view of factory
Description: Specimen from the catalog of the lithographic establishment begun by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842 and incorporated as Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing company in 1896. Depicts the six-story manufactory and showrooms of Baumeister Pianos in New York City. Includes street and pedestrian traffic, including patrons approaching the entry of the building., Published in Ketterlinus Lithographic Mfg. Company. Makers of book and job printing novelties. Philadelphia. North west corner Arch and Fourth streets., Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Catalogue, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 9
Creator: Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company
Date: [ca. 1896]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Catalogue

Title: Harrison's Columbian Perfumery. Harrison's Columbia Ink Harrison's Columbian Establishment No. 10 South 7th Street, Philadelphia
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 343, Cited by Wainwright as in the collection of Marian S. Carson; given to Library of Congress in 1996; copy unlocated at the Library of Congress., Library of Congress: copy unlocated
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, ca. 1828-1872 or 3, artist
Date: 1853
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division W168 [LOC unlocated]

Title: Jos. Lubbermann's Brewery. Corner of 36th & Transcript Streets, West Philadelphia
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 415, Cited by Wainwright as in the collections of the Atwater Kent Museum. Copy unlocated., Atwater Kent Museum: copy unlocated
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM W208 [AKM unlocated]

Title: [Newsboy]
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, Cited by Wainwright as in the collection of Marian S. Carson; given to Library of Congress in 1996; copy unlocated at the Library of Congress., Library of Congress: copy unlocated
Date: c1853
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division W250 [LOC unlocated]

Title: West Philadelphia Manufacturing Cos. Starch & Farina Works. Chestnut & Bridgewater Streets, Philadelphia. Refined pearl starch & corn farina
Description: Shows the bustling industrial starch and farina works at the corner of Chestnut and Bridgewater Streets (ie. Chestnut and Thirtieth Streets) looking northeast toward the Schuylkill River. Laborers direct horse-drawn drays and wagons to and from factory buildings and railroad cars. Scene includes a man on horseback riding toward the factory buildings, a laborer standing in the foreground near the tracks, smoke rising from several chimneys in the complex, the Market Street Bridge crossing the Schuylkill River in the distance, and the outline of Philadelphia Gas Works gasholders immediately east of the bridge., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 826.1, Library of Congress: PGA - Queen (J.) -- West Philadelphia Manufactoring (B size)
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Queen (J.) -- West Philadelphia Manufactoring (B size) [P&P]

Title: [Wilson & Lavender. J. P. Wilson, Southwark Planing Mill Swanson Street near Christian, close to the Delaware]
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 844, Cited by Wainwright as in the collection of Marian S. Carson; given to Library of Congress in 1996; copy unlocated at the Library of Congress., Library of Congress: copy unlocated
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1849
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division W459 [LOC unlocated]

Title: First Baptist Church [Figures are given for its frontage and depth, and the height of its steeple] N.W. cor. of Broad & Arch Sts
Description: Philadelphia on Stone, POS 255, Cited by Wainwright as in the collections of the Library of Congress. Copy unlocated., Library of Congress: copy unlocated
Creator: Watson, John Frampton, artist
Date: 1853
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division W473 [LOC unlocated]

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