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- Title
- West Philadelphia Manufacturing Cos. starch & farina works. Chestnut & Bridgewater Streets, Philadelphia. Refined pearl starch & corn farina. [graphic] / James Queen.
- Description
- In Philadelphia and its Manufactures . . . in 1857 (Philadelphia, 1859), 460., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Freedley.
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1859.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W445-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W445.2
- Title
- Race Street between 6th & 7th, Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Strret, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 118 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Stret, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 118., Franklin marble mantel manufactory, marble mantels, tombs &c. neatly executed by Peter Fritz., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.5 a&b and in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and in Am1831 Por 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L., creator
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W303.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W303 [P.9830.5 a&b]
- Title
- Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philada. [graphic] : Founded in 1794 by the Revd. Richard Allen, Bishop of the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Rebuilt in 1805. / Drawn on Stone by W.L. Breton.
- Description
- Kennedy and Lucas, operated by David Kennedy and William B. Lucas, printed the city's first commercial lithographs, a series of church subjects drawn by W.L. Breton, probably including "Mother Bethel.", Exterior view of the rough cast second edifice of the African American church at 125 South 6th Street. Pedestrians and church attendees, predominately women, stroll the sidewalk and enter the house of worship adorned with a simple stone tablet inscribed, "Bethel Church." Known as "Mother Bethel," the church was formed from black congregants discriminated against by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The 1805 building, the site of the first convention of the Unified African Methodist Episcopal Church, stood until 1841 when a third building was erected on the site.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., artist., creator
- Date
- July 1829.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W026.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W26 [7500.F]
- Title
- A fourth day morning view of Friends Meeting House on Cherry Street. Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. L. Breton.
- Description
- Location: Cherry Street, northside, between Fourth and Fifth., Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
- Creator
- Breton, William L. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1829.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W002.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W2 [8153.F]
- Title
- North-east view of St. Peter's Church (Episcopal) Philada. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. L. Breton.
- Description
- Location: Third and Pine Streets., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, with corrections., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L. lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1829.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W253.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W253 [P.2148]
- Title
- Philadelphia Baths, corner of George and Seventh Sts., near Chestnut Street. [graphic] / WLB.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Breton, William L. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1829.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W280.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W280 [P.2170]
- Title
- The Catholic Church of St. Mary, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Drawn on stone by W. L. Breton.
- Description
- Location: Fourth Street bet. Locust and Spruce, west side., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Reaccessioned as P.2203., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb131 S146., Built 1763.
- Creator
- Breton, William L. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1829.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W370.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W370 [6548.F]
- Title
- Unitarian Church Philadelphia. [graphic] / W. L. Breton.
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, View of the front facade of the First Congregational Unitarian Church built in 1828 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland on the 900 block of Locust Street. Includes pedestrian traffic and a partial view of neighboring buildings obscured by trees. The columns supporting the portico of the church were salvaged from Benjamin Latrobe's pump house at Center Square. Church was demolished in 1885.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1829]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W413.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W413 [(4)1322.F.99]
- Title
- Comly Ville near Frankford - Philadelphia Co. [graphic] / Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography.
- Description
- Location: Asylum Road near Frankford Creek., Published by L. A. Godey in the first volume of his Lady's Book., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9210.15 and in (1)7397.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L. artist. Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1830.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W078.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W78 [P.9210.15]
- Title
- [Road to Philadelphy] [graphic].
- Description
- 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.
- Date
- [1830 or 1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W315.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W315 [P.2179]
- Title
- [Road to Philadelphy] [graphic].
- Description
- 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.
- Date
- [1830 or 1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W315.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W315 [P.9576]
- Title
- The Castle of the State in Schuylkill. [graphic] / From nature & on stone M. Swett.
- Description
- Location: West bank of the Schuylkill, opposite Bartram's Garden., First appeared in American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, 1, No.5, p. 217 (January, 1830), and then as frontspiece in William Milnor, Jr.'s An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company (Philadelphia: Published by Judah Dobson, 1830)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1830 Mil 7130.O copy 1 & 2., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: in Am 1830 Mil Ap83 M66 copy 1 & 2 and Wi.2.
- Creator
- Swett, Moses., creator
- Date
- [1830]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W369.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W369 [Am 1830 Mil 7130.O]
- Title
- Bowlby & Weaver's hardware store No.77 Market Street Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 113 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 113., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and in Am1831 Por 20876.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L., creator
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W032.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W32 [see above for holdings]
- Title
- Dawson's Brewery. N.W. corner of 10th & Filbert Streets. [graphic] / W. L. Breton.
- Description
- Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 56 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1881 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 56., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and in and Am1831 Por 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L., creator
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W092.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W92 [see above for holdings]
- Title
- No. 150 Chesnut Street Philadelphia. [graphic] / W. L. Breton.
- Description
- Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 60 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 60., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and in Am1831 Por 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Depicts storefront of Loud & Brothers piano forte manufacturers.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., creator
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W251.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W251 [see above for holdings]
- Title
- Philadelphia Citizen's Line of steam boats to New York & Baltimore. [graphic] / W. L. Breton, delt.
- Description
- Location: Arch Street and Delaware River., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 17 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvement of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 21., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.2 a&b and in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and in Am 1831 Por 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Loose prints gift of Jay Snider.
- Creator
- Breton, William L. artist., creator
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W283.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W283 [P.9830.2 a&b]
- Title
- View of the glass works of T. W. Dyott at Kensington on the Delaware nr Philada. [graphic] / W. L. Breton, delt.
- Description
- Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110. Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 24 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 24., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.3 a&b and in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and Am1831 Por 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L. artist., creator
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W431.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W431 [P.9830.3 a&b]
- Title
- Wetherill & Brothers' white lead manufactory & chemical works. Corner of 12th & Cherry Streets Philadelphia. [graphic] / [W. L. Breton].
- Description
- Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 122 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 8131: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 122., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.4 and in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and Am1831 Por 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L., creator
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W451.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W451 [P.9830.4]
- Title
- Roper's Gymnasium. 274 Market Street, Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Location: Market Street, two doors above Eighth., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857., creator
- Date
- ca. 1831.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W320.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W320 [P.2181]
- Title
- Mount Airy Seminary: [graphic] American Classical and Military Academy, at Mount Airy, Germantown, 8 miles from Philadelphia / From Nature & on Stone by G. Lehman.
- Description
- Cephas G. Childs and Henry Inman were partners 1831-33., Exterior view. Right wing is the former country seat of Pennsylvania Chief Justice William Allen known as "Mount Airy." Founded as Mount Airy Seminary (later Mount Airy College or Collegiate Institute) in 1807, the school served as a military academy 1826-1835 under the superintendence of Augustus L. Roumfort. Demolished in 1848 or 1849.
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist. Childs & Inman, lithographers., creator
- Date
- ca. 1831.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W015-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W15 [P.2010]
- Title
- Indian Queen Hotel. [graphic].
- Description
- Manuscript note on verso: No. 15 So. Fourth Street., Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson inscription on recto: 1831, no. 15 So. Fourth Street., Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story hotel at 15 South Fourth Street operated, as indicated by a placard above the door, by Horatio Wade. Wade remained proprietor from 1831 until 1833. Elegantly dressed guests enter the building, converse on the sidewalk, and rest and read inside near the first floor windows. On the sidewalk, well-dressed pedestrians stroll and an African American hotel porter pushes a wheelbarrow of luggage. The Indian Queen Hotel established in 1771, the building altered several times until razed in 1851, was until the mid 19th century incorrectly identified as the site of Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence.
- Date
- [[1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W184.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W184 [P.2051]
- Title
- F. Leaming & Co. hardware, nail, steel, hollow-ware & looking glass store. No. 215 Market Street. [graphic].
- Description
- LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Date
- ca. 1831.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W119.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W119 [P.9094]
- Title
- [Moss Upholsterer, 127 Walnut Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
- Description
- Location: 127 Walnut St. (pre-consolidation), Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol II, oppostie page 108 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 108., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mea 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mea Log 4072.D and in Am1831 Por 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Date
- [1831]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W238.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W238 [see above for holdings]
- Title
- Horizontorium. [graphic] / From the original drawing by Wm. Mason in the possession of Charles N. Bancker Esqr.; Drawn on stone by J.J. Barker.
- Description
- Location: [Philadelphia Bank, SW cor. Chestnut & Fourth Sts.], LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #47., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc19 H811.
- Creator
- Barker, J. J., lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1832.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W178.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W178 [P.2070]
- Title
- Railroad depot at Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Location: Green and Ninth Streets., Attributed to William L. Breton., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb862 B756 #43.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., creator
- Date
- [1832]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W305.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W305 [P.2177]
- Title
- The gold & silver artificers of Phila. In civic procession 22 Feb 1832. [graphic] / M.E.D. Brown's Lith. No. 5 Library St.
- Description
- Location: Second Bank, Chestnut Street, Fourth to Fifth., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Brown, Mannevillette Elihu Dearing, 1810-1896 lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1832.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W380.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W380 [P.2212]
- Title
- Friends Asylum for the Insane near Frankford. [graphic] / Doughty, del.
- Description
- Location: Roosevelt Blvd. at Adams Ave., Frankford., Frontispiece to Fifteenth Annual Report of the State of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason, (Philadelphia: Printed by T.A. Conrad, corner Sixth and Cherry Streets, 1832). Report also contains "Map of the Asylum Farm" and "Groundfloor of the Asylum" printed on tissue by Childs & Inman Lithrs. Philadelphia., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1814 Phi Asy (box) 9092.O.11a., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Doughty, Thomas, 1793-1856 artist., creator
- Date
- [1832]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W143.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W143 [Am 1814 Phi Asy (box) 9092.O.11a]
- Title
- [Taylor & Teese, saddlers and A. R. Chambers, currier, 67 & 69 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.] [graphic] / G. Lehman del.
- Description
- Location: 67 and 69 Chestnut Street (pre-consolidation)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870 artist., creator
- Date
- 1832.
- Location
- http://www.librarycompany.org/Wainwright/W365.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W365 [P.2201]
- Title
- Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. Near Philadelphia. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by G. Lehman; Childs & Inman Lithrs.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb26 L528.
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870 lithographer. Childs & Lehman lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1833.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W106.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W106 [P.2041]
- Title
- Fairmount Waterworks. From the Forebay. [graphic] / From nature & on stone G. Lehman; Childs & Inman Lithrs.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd88 L528.
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870 lithographer. Childs & Inman lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1833.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W122.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W122 [P.2085]
- Title
- Philadelphia Arcade. Joseph L. Moore, dealer in fancy & staple dry goods, corner of Pine & Water Streets New-York. [graphic] : Having established a branch in the Arcade south front, and fitted up his store with a separate apartment for selling at whole sale, is constantly receiving from New-York auctions every description of goods in his line which will be sold at very reduced prices. / G. Lehman on Stone.
- Description
- Location: Chestnut, bet. 5th & 6th Sts., northside., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870 lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1833.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W279.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W279 [P.2169]
- Title
- View of the Philadelphia alms house : Blockley. [graphic]: Taken from Hyde Park, east side of Schuylkill. / From nature & on stone by G. Lehman; Lehman & Duval Lithrs.
- Description
- View of the Blockley Almshouse on the west side of the Schuylkill River. Designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland and constructed 1833. View shows the riverbanks where two men fish and cows graze. A two masted sailing ship passes on the river.
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist., creator
- Date
- ca. 1835.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W433.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W433 [P.2236]
- Title
- Girard college. Main building. Now erecting near Philadelphia under the superintendence of T.U. Walter Esq. [graphic] / Designd. by T.U. Walter. Archit. ; Geo. Lehman, del.
- Description
- View of Founder's Hall, Girard College based on designs by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter, issued separately as a souvenir of the building while it was still under construction. Constructed 1833-1847, the hall occupied a site between what became Girard Avenue and Ridge Avenues 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.
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1835.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W154.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W154 [P.2057]
- Title
- Philadelphia Exchange. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by Geo. Lehman.
- Description
- Location: Dock Street at Walnut St., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb34 L528.
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870 lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1835]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W285.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W285 [P.9192.1]
- Title
- United States Bank Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook., Constructed 1818-24 based on designs by Philadelphia architect William Strickland. Served as the Bank of the United States (i.e. Second Bank) until 1836 when the charter was not renewed. Served as U.S. Custom House 1844-1935.
- Date
- [1835]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W416.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W 416 [(1)1525.F.45b]
- Title
- Friends' Asylum for the Insane near Frankford. [graphic] / From nature & on stone by G. Lehman.
- Description
- Published as the frontispiece of the annual reports of the asylum (entitled: ... Annual Report of the State of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason) from 1836 to 1840., Select link below for a digital image., Exterior view of the front of the almshouse founded by the Society of Friends in 1813 located in the Frankford section of Philadelphia.
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist., creator
- Date
- [1836].
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W144.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W144 [P.2049]
- Title
- N. E. view of the old court house in Market Street Philada. [graphic] / W. L. Breton del.
- Description
- Location: Market St. at Second St., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L. artist., creator
- Date
- 1837.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W243.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W243 [P.2101]
- Title
- 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.
- Description
- Location: Market Street at Second., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Breton, William L. artist., creator
- Date
- 1837.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W326.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W326 [P.2184]
- Title
- [Wine & liquor store. Charles Egner 10 North Third Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On stone by W. L. Breton.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Breton, William L., creator
- Date
- ca. 1837.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W460.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W460 [P.2244]
- Title
- The Philadelphia Firemen's Anniversary Parade March composed for his brass band expressly for the occasion, arranged for the piano forte and respectfully dedicated to the Fire Department by Francis Johnson Philadelphia. [graphic] / Designed & drawn on stone by J. Queen ; P.S. Duval Lith.
- Description
- Sheet music cover. Wainwright originally dated ca. 1848., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: Sheet music collection 8189.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
- Date
- 1837-1842.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W392.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W392 [Sheet music 8189.F]
- Title
- Portico Square. [graphic] : Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies 6 Portico Square. M. Rosienkiewicz, del.; On stone by George Lehman.
- Description
- Published as frontispiece to Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (Philadelphia, 1837)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Reassigned McAllister accession number., Poor condition., View of the brick rowhouses also known as Portico Row built 1833-1835 after the designs of Thomas U. Walter at 900-930 Spruce Street. Tenants of the row included the Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies (1836-1841), commodore Isaac Hull (1842-1843), and author Sarah Josepha Hale (1859-1861). Also shows surrounding dwellings north and south of Spruce Street. Philadelphia High School for Young Ladies was a private school established circa 1830 that provided its students with an education based on religious principles, including courses in art, languages, and sciences.
- Creator
- Rosienkiewicz, Martin, artist., creator
- Date
- [1837]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W297.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W297 [(8)1322.F.7g]
- Title
- [Marshall House, 207 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. E. Badger, proprietor] [graphic].
- Description
- LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- [Feb. 1, 1837]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W228.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W228 [P.2102]
- Title
- Destruction by fire of Pennsylvania Hall. On the night of the 17th May, 1838. [graphic].
- Description
- Artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Exterior view of Pennsylvania Hall engulfed in flames. A large crowd looks on. Fire fighters spray water on an adjoining building. Pennsylvania Hall was constructed 1837-1838 at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia as a meeting place for local abolitionist groups. Dedication ceremonies began on May 14, 1838 and continued over several days in a climate of growing hostility. On the night of May 17, 1838 a mob stormed the Hall and set it on fire. Fire companies refused to fight the blaze, and the building was completely destroyed. Bowen issued this print commemorating the event within a few days of the fire., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist., creator
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W094.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W94 [P.9057.27]
- Title
- Girard College [graphic]
- Description
- Issued as one of two annual "pictorial illustrations" for the Philadelphia Saturday Courier., LCP copy lacking title, imprint, and vignette., View of Founder's Hall at Girard College constructed 1833-1847 from designs by Philadelphia architect Thomas U. Walters. 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.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist. Philadelphia Saturday Courier., creator
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W155.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W155 [P.2058]
- Title
- Pennsylvania Hall. [graphic].
- Description
- Attributed to John Caspar Wild., Probably printed by Wild & Chevalier., Probably after the wash drawing by architect Thomas S. Stewart., Published in: [Samuel Webb's] History of Pennsylvania Hall. (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gun, 1838). (LCP Am 1838 Hist Pa Hall). Last page contains advertisement for a limited supply of larger frameable versions of the plate to be sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, No. 29 N. 9th Street, Philadelphia., Exterior view of the abolitionist meeting place and adjacent buildings at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia. Several pedestrians stroll the sidewalks. A carriage and horse-drawn cart pass by on the street. The hall, erected in 1838 as an arena for "free discussion", was set aflame by hostile mobs on May 17, 1838 after three days of interracial dedication ceremonies and services. The building ruins continued to stand until the Odd Fellows Society built a hall on the lot in 1846.
- Date
- [c1838]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W274.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W274 [P.2159]
- Title
- [Fairmount Waterworks. 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.] [graphic].
- Description
- LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846., creator
- Date
- [1838]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W124.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W124 [P.2086]
- Title
- [Merchant's Hotel, No. 38 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / On Stone by J. Wild.
- Description
- Location: Fourth St. above Market St., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Built 1837 based on designs by William Strickland. Burned 1966.
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 lithographer., creator
- Date
- 1838.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W234.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W234 [P.2104]
- Title
- Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. East. [graphic] / Drawn from nature and on stone by J. C. Wild.
- Description
- Plate one of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838.) Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., Copyrighted by Wild & Chevalier., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2153 and in * Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1838.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W264-1.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W264.1[P.2153]
- Title
- Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. North. [graphic] / Drawn from nature and on stone by J. C. Wild.
- Description
- Plate 2 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five number of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., Copyrighted by Wild & Chevalier., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2152 and in *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1838.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W265-1.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W265.1 [P.2152]
- Title
- Grigg Block, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / W.H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 South Fifth Street.
- Description
- Contains advertisements for six of the depicted businesses below the image., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848., View of the active business block containing and named after Grigg, Elliot, & Co., the largest and most prosperous publishing firm in the city that was founded by John Grigg in 1823 and purchased by J. B. Lippincott in 1849. Shows the block of buildings (10-20 North Fourth Street) covered in signage and including Barcroft, Beaver & Co., dry good dealers and S. M. Day, wholesale combs, brush and fancy goods trimmings (10); Goff & Peterson, importers and manufacturers of saddlery, carriage, and harness trimmings (12); Grigg, Elliot & Co. (14); C. H. & Geo. Abbott, dealers and importers of hardware and cutlery and C. Ahrenfeldt & Co., importers of toys & fancy goods (16); C. B. Lassell & Co., hats and caps and Charles Wingate, dealer in shoes, boots, and palm leaf hats (18); and Edwin & John Tams, importers and dealers of china, earthernware, and glass (20). Patrons exit and enter the various storefronts; delivery men, including an African American man, haul, load, and remove goods from horse-drawn and push carts; laborers load goods into shop storage cellars and use a pulley to raise a large cask; store clerks inspect and open newly arrived packages on the sidewalk; a horse-drawn dust settling machine passes in the street; and artisans and merchandise are visible in several of the shops' upper floor windows. Partial views of the adjacent buildings and a nearby alley with a laborer and push cart are also visible.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [[1848]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W162.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W 162 [P.2077]