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Title: Winter scene in Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for Daniel Mershon's Sons heating and ventilating warehouse at 1203 Filbert Street. Shows busy street and pedestrian traffic in front of the four-story red brick warehouse heavily adorned with signage and a "Russian Heater Works" flag at the northwest corner of Twelfth and Filbert streets. Signs advertising patent airtight heaters, grates, registers, ventilators, fireplace heaters, ranges, slate mantels, and house warming and cooking ranges are visible near the doorway and in the show windows of the storefront. Stoves, ranges, and fireplaces are displayed in the windows and on the sidewalk. Laborers load heating equipment into a store delivery wagon marked "Prepare for Winter" as a patron leaves the store near a policeman standing at the corner of the building. Several pedestrians wearing heavy coats, hats, and muffs walk in the street and on the sidewalks near several horse-drawn vehicles, including sleighs and a "Twelfth Street Passenger Railway" streetcar. Also shows partial views of horse-drawn wagons and of neighboring buildings in addition to a man on horseback. The business, established as Fink, Potts & Savoy in 1838, was known for the "Mershon" Patent Shaking Grate" and was renamed Daniel Mershon's Sons following the death of the original successor, Daniel Mershon, in 1865., Not in Wainwright., Filbert St. and Twelfth St. printed below the image as key., Title from item., Date inferred from original letter of copyright issued to H.H. & Geo. Mershon held in the Print and Picture Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa. Copyright letter No. 2333A. [Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories & Foundries (A-M)]., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 846 variant, Variant copy at Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 M 574, Longacre & Co. operated at 30 & 32 S. 7th Street in 1871.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, artist
Date: [ca. 1871], 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2022.62.3.38]

Title: Junger Maennerchor, Philadelphia, 1868
Description: Group portrait in an outdoor setting, probably the Junger Maennerchor annual picnic and summer night's festival at Schützen Park, depicting hundreds of members (several with their faces likely based after photographs) of the German-American choral society founded in 1852. The massive crowd of white men sit, stand, drink beer, and smoke cigars and pipes. In the left foreground, a number of men hold sheets of music, with one, seated, and in the gesture of conducting across from another seated men leaning on a bound volume resting on a stack of bound volumes of likely music. Also shows a man in the right foreground pouring beer from a keg, and in the center background, two men on horseback, a man holding the society flag, and a man holding a trophy and gesturing toward another man. In the far background, pavilions, several trees, and a partially obscured building is visible. The men are attired in shirt sleeves or suits with ties. Some also wear hats or their hats rest beside them on the ground or they hold walking sticks. By the mid-1870s, German-Americans had formed 24 singing societies in Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Includes pictorial detail of an eagle with a lyre and a banner reading "Junger Maennerchor" within the title text between the words "Maennerchor" and "Philadelphia.", Title and date from item., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 299
Creator: Ch. P. & A. J. Tholey, artist
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2020.39.11]

Title: A. Fiot publisher of music, importer of musical merchandize [sic]. Wholesale & retail, No. 196 Chestnut Street Philadelphia Piano, harps, guitars, violins, flutes, brass instruments, Italian strings. &c. &c
Description: Advertisement containing a whimsical view surrounded by an ornamental border to promote the music store of Augustus Fiot. View shows cherubs playing and surrounded by instruments, including a cello, harp, trumpet, flute, guitar, and organ. Scene also includes sheet music resting on the floor and propped on a stand. The ornamental border includes a vignette, cherubs playing instruments (harp, cymbals, trumpet, flute), vinery, and floral details. Vignette shows a woman at a piano and a boy playing the flute at a recital in front of a small audience. Fiot began to publish music in 1835 with partner Leopold Meignan. The partnership operated until 1839. Fiot continued to operate a music store until 1855., Title from item., Date inferred from the content., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 1, Copy printed in red ink at Free Library of Philadelphia: Jackson Collection of Early Lithographs - J 60, Digital image of Free Library of Philadelphia copy included in Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog.
Creator: Dacre, Henry, approximately 1820-
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.23]

Title: West Arch Street Presbyterian Church, corner of Eighteenth & Arch streets, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view showing the church also known as Arch Street Presbyterian Church built by Joseph DeNegre in 1855 after the designs of Joseph C. Hoxie at 1726-1732 Arch Street. Also shows parishioners, men, women, and children, leaving the church, walking past it, and convening in couples and groups on the sidewalk around the building. Also shows a horse-drawn carriage galloping in the street., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of partnership of M.H. Traubel & Co., Length of House 150 feet, Width " " 87 ", Height of Front Tower 115 feet, " " Centre " 170 "., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 882, Gift of David Doret., Print received after original dates of project.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection - Prints [P.2020.39.13]

Title: Part of ward 7
Description: Plate from a Philadelphia ward atlas showing a section of the seventh ward. Map includes area from Pine to South Streets and Eighteenth through Fifteenth Streets. Buildings are labeled with property owner, business, organization, and school names, including the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity, Thomas Durham Public School, Frederick Douglas Memorial Hospital & Training School, and Wesley A.M.E. Church., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Scale statement on map reads, “50 feet to one inch.”, Printed on recto: Plate 19., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.49]

Title: View of Cameron Street arch. Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Bridge, Harrisburg, Pa
Description: Ground-level view of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Bridge created after the designs of Arnold Brunner, Sidney Ross, and William Gehron and completed in 1930 in Harrisburg, Pa. Shows automobiles driving under the multiple arches of the stone bridge. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalks on the street and across the span of the bridge above. The bridge memorialized those who served in the armed forces during World War One. Architects Sidney Ross and William Gehron revised the plans which Arnold Brunner began after his death in 1925., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Unidentified artist’s mark in the lower right recto.
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.47]

Title: [Half-length portrait of Peter Arnold Karthaus]
Description: Half-length portrait of Karthaus attired in a white collared shirt, waistcoat, and bowtie and a black jacket. He sits in a wooden chair and faces slightly right while his eyes look left. Below the portrait is a vignette of a landscape with trees and ships on the water in the background. Peter Arnold Karthaus (1765-1840) immigrated to the United States from Hamburg, Germany in 1796 and established a mercantile business in the West Branch of the Susquehanna River Valley., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from the item., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Fenderich, Charles, artist
Date: 1832
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.40]

Title: Part of ward 7
Description: Plate from a Philadelphia ward atlas showing a section of the seventh ward. Map includes area from Pine to South Streets and Nineteenth through Sixteenth Streets. Buildings are labeled with property owner, business, organization, and school names, including Philadelphia Polyclinic & College, St. Marks Church, and the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Scale statement on map reads, “50 feet to one inch.”, Printed on recto: Plate 18., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.48]

Title: Tred egar. Residence of C.W. Morgan, esqr. Germantown. Sidney & Neff, archts Frame. Cost $3,000
Description: Exterior view showing the two-story residence with an extension, gable roof, covered porch, and steps to the entrance as well as surrounding grounds. A pathway leads to the house. Trees line the fenced property which is also landscaped with a few plants and shrubs. In the right, a shed between two trees and near the edge of a pond is visible C.W. Morgan is possibly the Charles W. Morgan listed in the 1850 census as a resident of Germantown and an oil merchant in the fuel and ice retailing industry., Title and date from item., Printed in upper right corner: Plate 11., Probably published in J.C. Sidney's American cottage and villa architecture : a series of views and plans ... (New York: Appleton & Co., 1850). The book was to be issued in ten parts, monthly, beginning in July, 1850. The series was never completed and 4-5 parts containing a total of 22 plates by various Northeastern architects are known., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 298
Date: 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2019.64.36]

Title: FacSimile of the revolutionary flag, A.D. 1774
Description: Depiction of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry’s flag from 1774. Shows the flag with fringed edges on a spiked flagpole adorned with two tassels and held open by a rope from its upper right corner tied to a tree in the right. In the top left of the flag are thirteen stripes representing the colonies. In the center, flanking a shield illustrated with thirteen ropes tied into a Gordian Knot are allegorical figures representing Liberty and Fame. Liberty, depicted as a barefooted Native American figure attired in a headdress, feather skirt, and with a quiver of arrows on their back, carries a bow and a liberty cap on a pole. Fame, depicted as a winged angel, blows a trumpet. Above the shield is a horse’s head wearing a bridle with the letters “LHC,” which stands for light horse cavalry. A banner below the shield reads, “For these we strive.”, Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1839, by Wm. M. Huddy, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna., Printed on recto: Plate No. 4., Gift of David Doret., RVCDC
Date: 1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.33]

Title: Horatio Gates Sickel. Brev. Maj. Gen. U.S. Vols
Description: Half-length portrait of the Union Army officer. Sickel, wearing a mustache and goatee with his hair parted to the left and attired in his Union Army uniform, faces slightly left., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Facsimile signature of sitter printed below image., Gift of David Doret., Buttre, a prolific New York portrait painter and engraver, published later in his career, a three volume set of celebrity portraiture, "American Portrait Gallery," in 1877, which was reissued from 1880-1881.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.32]

Title: Reading from the south
Description: View depicting Reading, Pa. from near the tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad along the Schuylkill River. Two small boats and a few ducks move along the river. People and horses walk on the trails on either side of the waterway. In the background, the city of Reading is visible including buildings, church steeples, and smokestacks. In the right, a train travels down the tracks. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad was chartered in 1833 to build a line between Philadelphia and Reading along the Schuylkill River. The portion from Reading to Norristown opened in 1838 and the full line opened in 1839., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1839]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.34]

Title: [St. David's Church and cemetery, Wayne, Pennsylvania.]
Description: View depicting the Episcopal stone church (built 1715-1717) and surrounding cemetery on Valley Forge Road in Radnor and border of Wayne, Pa. Trees adorn the property lined by headstones., Title supplied by cataloger., Date supplied from original provenance copyrighted in 1890 and published in parts between 1891? and 1894?, Published in Historic churches of America; their romance and their history (Philadelphia : H.L. Everett, [1891?-1894?]), Part IV., Signed by artist in lower right., Includes remarque depicting a vignette view of "Gen'l Wayne's Monument" in lower left., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Taylor, M.M, etcher
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.20]

Title: [Main building, Centennial Exposition]
Description: Probably trimmed, vignette exterior view of the Main building from the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph Wilson. Shows the Main Exhibition Building decorated with flags. In the foreground, a number of men, women, and children walk on the grounds., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.21]

Title: [St. David's Church and cemetery, Wayne, Pennsylvania.]
Description: View depicting the Episcopal stone church (built 1715-1717) and surrounding cemetery on Valley Forge Road in Radnor and border of Wayne, Pa. Trees adorn the property lined by a stone embanakment. Headstones surround the church., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from copyright statement: Copyrighted by 1894 by F De. B. Richards., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), etcher
Date: 1894
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.19]

Title: Sparks’ Philadelphia Shot Tower
Description: Exterior view depicting the 142-feet-high Sparks’ Shot Tower built by Thomas Sparks and John Bishop in 1808 at 129-131 Carpenter Street, Philadelphia. Includes partial views of adjacent two-story buildings. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalks. A man drives a two-horse cart down the street. Four generations of Sparks operated the Tower until 1903 when it was sold to the United Lead Company. The City of Philadelphia bought the site in 1913., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: John A. Lowell & Co.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.35]

Title: [Trio gem lantern slide of scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin]
Description: Lantern slide with three sequential scenes from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s "Uncle Tom’s Cabin." Depicts scenes from chapters 26, 40, and 41. Chapter 26 image shows the deathbed scene of Eva St. Clair. Shows Eva in bed, seated up, holding a bouquet of flowers in her lap, and surrounded by people. Eva's parents Mr. and Mrs. St. Clare sit on either side of the bed and Miss Ophelia kneels and cries behind Mr. St. Clare. Mrs. St. Clare holds a fan, has a handkerchief in her lap, and looks toward Eva. Mr. St. Claire, rests his head in one hand, and has his other hand on the bed. In front of Eva, the enslaved men and women of the household, including Tom, kneel, stand, pray, hold handkerchiefs, and cry. The setting also includes a window with open drapes, a curtain behind Eva's bed, and a side table adorned with a vase of flowers. Chapter 40 scene represents the beating of Tom by his enslaver Simon Legree following the escape of the enslaved Cassy and Emmeline. Shows Tom, with grey hair, a grey beard, and barefooted, lying on a pile of cotton on the floor of a shed. Legree stands over him with one hand clenched in a fist toward his chest and the other clenched by his side as he raises up one of his feet. Chapter 41 scene shows an adult George Shelby visiting with the beaten and dying Tom after locating him in order to see if he "couldn't buy him back." Shows Tom lying on a pile of cotton near the opening to a shed. An open book lies near him by his hand. Shelby leans over Tom and holds his hand. In the background, outside of the opening, Legree stands, with his hands in his pant pockets and watching the men., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from format., Printed on cover glass: Gem Slide. Gem Slide., Contains ornamental pictorial details in the corners of the cover glass., Contains label with series number: 107., Gift of David Doret., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Photographs [P.2020.39.9]

Title: Summer rambles. - Frankford Creek
Description: View of a tree stump covered with brush on the bank of the Frankford Creek in Philadelphia, Pa. The stump, with an overgrowth of plants on top of it, rests on the edge of the bank as the creek flows around it. Trees and shrubs are visible growing in the background., Title from item., Date from manuscript note written on verso: Nov. 14, 62, -- 25 [?], Attributed to John Moran., Yellow mount with square corners., Distributor's name embossed on mount on recto: Paul & Curtis, New York., Manuscript note written on verso: Frankford Creek, near Phila. Penn., Gift of David Doret., See duplicate, trimmed copy: stereo - Moran - Views - Frankford [5759.F.19].
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: Nov. 14, 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Photos [P.2019.64.51]

Title: [First Reformed Presbyterian Church, Broad Street between Spruce and Pine streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view showing the building of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church (i.e. Wylie Memorial Church) erected in 1854 on the 300 block of Broad Street after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. Pedestrian traffic, including a couple on promenade, walk in front and in the courtyard beside the church. Congregation organized in 1798. Church renamed in the early 1890s for long-term pastors T.W.J. Wylie and Samuel Wylie., Title supplied by cataloger from manuscript note on recto: First Reformed Presbyterian Church - Moved [...] & Lombard [crossed out] Phila. Rev Dr. Wylie., Date inferred from completion date of building depicted and attire of pedestrians depcited., Inscribed on verso: J.M., Not in Wainwright., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 262, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 136 C 445, Trimmed.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.6]

Title: A group of new fuchias From H. A. Dreer's Seed and Plant Establishment, 714 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Supplemental illustration to a garden calendar depicting sprigs of fuchias in tones of white, red, and purple. The sprigs also contain leaves. Each specimen is annotated with a printed number. Henry A. Dreer established a seed store in Philadelphia in 1838. It was incorporated in 1892 under his son, William F. Dreer, who assumed the business operations following his father's death in 1873., Title from item., Date from item., Includes key to flower specimens below image: No. 1. Regalia; " 2. Montrose; " 3. Enchantress; " 4. Tribune; " 5. Arabella Improved; " 6. Conspicua., Manuscript note on recto: Jane Darlington., Gift of David Doret., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.17]

Title: Office of the Penn Life Insurance Company
Description: View depicting the four-and-one-half story building of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company built 1850-1851 after the designs of Gordon Parker Cummings at 129 South Third Street. A statue of William Penn adorns the alcove above the doorway. A man enters the building near a man at the foot of the entryway. On the sidewalk, in the right, two men and a boy converse. The men wear top hats and overcoats. The boy wears a suit and a cap. Building was demolished in 1956. Penn Mutual Life Insurance was founded, chartered, and opened in 1847., Title from item., Date from manuscript note on recto., Gift of David Doret., Fernando E. Woods was an antebellum Boston wood engraver.
Creator: Worcester, Fernando Edwards, 1818-, engraver
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.18]

Title: [Country place of worship]
Description: Genre scene from a children's moral instruction book showing a man, children, and horses at leisure outside of a small church building within a grove of trees. In the right foreground, an African American man lies against a log, arms crossed, head down, and dozes near three, saddled horses bridled to a tree. Behind him, two white boys sit in the grass beside a dog and look over a book. In the right background, two, saddled horses are bridled to a tree near two white boys and a girl in conversation. In the left background, three, saddled horses are bridled within a cluster of trees. Scene also includes a small turtle passing the horses in the foreground. One appears to watch it. A white man stands near the church in the center background. Pastureland is visible in the distant, right background. All the male figures are attired in hats, jackets, and pants. The girl wears a bonnet and dress., Title from manuscript note on recto., Date from date of publication in which print is included., Published in Common sights on land and water (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1852)., Gift of David Doret., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906
Date: [1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.4]

Title: View in the park
Description: View of a marble sculpture, probably Dionysus, in Fairmount Park, Pa. Shows the sculpture of Dionysus, attired in a loincloth, a crown of ivy and grapes, and carrying a thysus, i.e., a staff topped with a pine cone which symbolizes fertility. Behind and near the sculpture a walkway and tree are visible. In the left, a person, attired in a brimmed hat, sits on the grass and looks at the viewer. Urns filled with plants decorate the edge of the path. In the right a collection of tree branches lies by the tree near the sculpture., Title from name on series list on verso., Date inferred from content., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Photos [P.2019.64.52]

Title: Philadelphia. William Penn House, Fairmount Park
Description: Postcard depicting exterior view of the house, also known as the Letitia Street House, built for merchant Thomas Chalkley in 1713 to 1715. Shows the two-and-a-half-story house with a gabled roof and dormer; green shuttered windows on the façade; and a sign above the front door that reads, “William Penn.” The front doors and windows are open. In the left, ivy grows up the wall. Four young girls and one boy, some with baskets on their laps, sit on a bench beside the house and look toward the viewer. Numerous trees stand on the property around the house. Image is also pasted with glitter that decorates the grounds, as well as the border of the house, like garland. In the 19th century, the house was misidentified as being built by William Penn in 1682 and given to his daughter Letitia. The building served as a tavern for many years before being moved from Second and Chestnut Streets to Fairmount Park (3401 West Girard Avenue) in 1883., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Also known as the Letitia Street House., Manuscript note written in lower right on recto: Mother., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.31]

Title: [Half-length, forward facing portraits of an unidentified older man and woman portrayed side by side]
Description: Shows possibly Quakers with the white man in the left and the white woman in the right. The man wears his white hair combed back and is attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket. In the right, the woman wears her gray hair parted in the middle and is attired in a white bonnet tied under her chin and a black, long-sleeved dress with a shawl., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from the item., Signed by the artist in the lower right corner., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Greiner, [S], artist
Date: 1897
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Framed [P.2019.62.27]

Title: Capitol Washington Declaration of Independance [sic] at Philadelphia. July 4. 1776. (Thomas Jefferson supposed to be the author.) The fourth of July is the day of national rejoicing, for on that day, the Declaration of Independance [sic] that solemn and sublime document was adopted
Description: Postcard depicting the view after the circa 1819 Trumbull painting showing members of the Second Continental Congress gathered in the East Room of Independence Hall signing the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. John Adams, Robert Sherman, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin stand before John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress in the foreground. In the left, the Liberty Bell is depicted ringing and with the inscription, “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”, Title from item., Date inferred from content., Publisher from copyright statement on recto: Copyrighted No. 8090 Am. Hist. Art Publ. Co. New York City 111 E. 14 Str. St. Louis, Mo. 813 Chestnut Str., Name of distributor printed in lower left on recto: C.L. Traver, 108 S. Broad St., Trenton, N.J., Series no. printed in lower right on recto: Colonial heroes, no. 20., Expository text printed on recto: In the steeple of the state-house was a bell, imported twenty-three years previously from London by the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania. A joyous peal from that bell gave notice that the bill had been passed. It was the knell of British domination., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date: [ca. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.30]

Title: City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Postcard depicting exterior view of City Hall constructed 1871 to 1901 after designs by John McArthur Jr. at 1 Penn Square, Philadelphia. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk in front of the building., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.29]

Title: Harrison's Columbian hair dye Manufactured by Apollos W. Harrison, 8 1/2 South 7th St
Description: Advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer containing an ornate frame comprised of vignettes, pictorial details, and ornaments surrounding ornamented text. Vignettes depict patriotic symbols of the American eagle and U.S. shield and two scenes. Scene in the left shows a gentleman being attended to by his valet. The gentleman has wavy, ear-length, dark hair and wears a blue and red patterned dressing gown. The valet, in a grey suit, looks at a bottle in his gentleman's left hand. The gentleman scratches his head with his right hand. Scene in the right shows a woman, looking down, pulling her fingers through her long dark hair that rests over her shoulders past her waist. She wears a peasant-like dress with a red bodice and green-striped skirt with a paisley pattern. The border also contains scroll-like pictorial details, geometric shaped ornaments, and pattern backgrounds. The background is printed in red and is framed by a blue border. Harrison, originally a book, map, and ink dealer, began operating his perfumery, including hair dyes, circa 1853. By the late 1850s, Harrison employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Title from item., Date and publication information supplied Library Company duplicate with variant colors., Not in Wainwright., See related: *BW - Advertisements - H [P.2015.71.2]., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 291a
Creator: Schussele, Christian, 1826?-1879, artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.45]

Title: [View of the Centennial Machinery Hall with people from all nations]
Description: Block-printed wallpaper depicting an exterior view of Machinery Hall designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Horse-drawn carriages bring visitors to and from the Hall. A large crowd of spectators walk on the grounds. In the foreground, people from various nationalities and ethnicities are represented including Native Americans attired in feather headdresses; two men, including a Black man, attired in fez hats; two Chinese men, one carrying a fan, attired in conical hats and robes; two Arab men in white headdresses and robes; and a Scottish man attired in a kilt. Other spectators include a man attired in a sailor’s uniform, men and women couples, and young boys., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.49]

Title: John Hay
Description: Bust-length, forward-facing portrait of the Secretary of State. Shows Hay wearing a beard and attired in a white collared shirt, a black tie with a decorative pin, and a black waistcoat and jacket. Hay was Secretary of State from 1898 to 1905., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Engraved and copyright by Max Rosenthal, Phila., 1906., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date: 1906
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.48]

Title: Washington National Monument, Washington, D. C
Description: Print commemorating the Washington Monument after the designs of Robert Mills and constructed 1848 to 1884 in Washington, D.C. In the center, shows the original designs created by Mills of a large obelisk with a colonnaded building at the base. On top of the building's portico are sculptures of Washington standing in a chariot holding the reins of six horses. Flanking the staircase leading to the monument are sculptures of Patrick Henry and Jefferson. In the background, the White House and U.S. Capitol building are visible. Numerous pedestrians walk around the monument and other landmarks. An eagle soars through the air in the left. Below the image are three vignettes depicting Washington resigning his commission to Congress; a bust-length portrait of Washington; and the signing of the Declaration of Independence., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1885, by S.H. Austin, 129 S. 7th St. Phila., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Hunter, Thomas, approximately 1828-approximately 1894, artist
Date: 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.42]

Title: [Bust-length portrait of Horace Greeley]
Description: Proof of a bust-length portrait of the New York abolitionist, newspaper editor, and politician. Greeley wears a chin beard and is attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat with a gold pocket watch chain, and a black jacket., Title supplied by cataloger., Date and publication information supplied from duplicate in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.46]

Title: Girard College for orphans at Philadelphia, Penn
Description: Exterior view of Girard College constructed 1833 to 1847 after the designs of Thomas Ustrick Walter at 1201-1211 West College Avenue, Philadelphia. In the center, shows Founders Hall designed in the Greek-Revival style with columns and a pediment. Two outbuildings flank either side of the Hall. A number of boys walk on the school grounds. Outside the walled campus, pedestrians walk along the sidewalk. Horse-drawn carriages travel down the street. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor, white, orphaned boys. The outbuildings, originally named Building 1 through 4, were used as student dormitories and residences for the president and teacher. In 1927, the buildings were renamed, Allen Hall, Bordeaux Hall, Mariner Hall, and Merchant Hall., Title and date from duplicate copies in Library Company collection., Trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Gift of David Doret., See related copies: **Ph Pr - Education - Girard [5225.F.7; 5225.F.11].
Creator: Graham, A. W., engraver
Date: [ca. 1840 or 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.39]

Title: This is to certify that [blank] has attended [blank] course[s] on practical anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania during the winter[s] of [blank]. [Blank], Professor of Anatomy. [Blank], Demonstrator
Description: Course certificate from the University of Pennsylvania containing a portrait of the physician and founder of modern human anatomy, Andreas Vesalius, above the text. Vesalius stands and places his left hand on the arm of the corpse of a man laid on the table in the right. His right hand moves to grasp a scalpel on the table in the left. Books and papers, surgical instruments, and a human skull are visible around the room. A crucifix hangs on the wall., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Completed in manuscript to J.B. McAlister for two courses during the winters of “84-85=85-86” and signed by Joseph Leidy, M.D., Professor of Anatomy and John B. Deaver, M.D., Demonstrator., Image caption: Vesalius., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, approximately 1828-1872 or 1873, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.37]

Title: William White, D.D Late Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the state of Pennsylvania, United States of America
Description: Full-length, seated portrait of the first Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania and civic leader who also served as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. White, attired in clerical robes, sits on a Gothic-style chair within the church and looks at the viewer. His left arm hangs down over the armrest, and he holds a book in his right hand on his lap. In the left is a table with vessels for the Eucharist, including a flagon, two chalices, a plate, and a stand. There is a kneeling cushion on the floor in front of the table. In the background, stained glass windows are visible., Title from item., Date inferred from content.
Creator: Wagstaff, Charles Edward, 1808-1850, engraver
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.45]

Title: New Excursion House, Atlantic City
Description: Advertisement showing an exterior view of the New Excursion House, opened in 1869, and beachfront in Atlantic City, N.J. Shows guests, sitting, standing, and looking out from the three-story resort hotel with a watch tower and covered porches. In front and near the hotel, men and women walk on the grounds, a man rides on a horse, and several horse-drawn carriages travel. In the left, a Camden and Atlantic Railroad Co. train stops at the hotel. In the foreground, waves crash on the shore as bathers wade into the water using two safety lines mounted between masts on the beach and in the ocean. Captain William Tell Street patented his Life Line for Sea Bathing safety device in 1868., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto below image: This house is situated within forty feet of the surf, constructed expressly for the accommodation of excursionists, and containing everything necessary for their comfort and amusement. Carncross & Dixey’s Brass Band and Orchestra has been engaged for the season, free of charge to excursion parties. Although the bathing is perfectly safe at this point, yet, to insure confidence, Street’s Safety Apparatus has been erected on the grounds. Excursion trains run directly to the house as represented.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.46]

Title: Nursing in union hospitals U.S. Sanitary Commission. U.S. Christian Commission
Description: Interior of a Union hospital depicting women nurses attending to wounded soldiers. In the center, a white man soldier lies in bed while three white women nurses, attired in head kerchieves, long-sleeved dresses, and sashes that reads, "Union," help adjust his pillow, kneel and pour a glass of water from a pitcher, and carry a tray. In the right background is a row of beds with two wounded soldiers. In the left, a white man soldier, attired in a uniform with a sash that reads, "Union," walks into the hospital carrying his coat. In the left and right, wooden chairs hold back curtains decorated with stars from the American flag. A framed portrait of a white man and a coat hangs on the wall. Also shows, in the center foreground, a basket of flasks laying on the floor., Title from item., Publication information and date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress A.D. 1865 by W.S. Williams & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.43]

Title: A View of Reading Taken from the west side of Schuylkill and most respectfully dedicated to the citizens of Berks County Pa
Description: View depicting Reading, Pa. from the west side of the Schuylkill River. In the foreground, foot and vehicular traffic travels on the dirt roads alongside the river’s edge, including a woman carrying a pail, a barefooted white boy with a bag and a dog at his feet, and a horse-drawn carriage carrying a white man and a woman. The women’s faces are obscured by the bonnets they wear. Also near the river, three cows lie down and one stands beside a wooden fence. Boats travel down the river. In the background, the cityscape of Reading is visible including buildings, houses, churches with steeples, and roads., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Holtzwart, Frederick A., artist
Date: [ca. 1837]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.40]

Title: Sections of wrought iron made at the Pencoyd Iron Works. A. & P. Roberts & Co Manufacturers of channels, beams, angles, tees, merchant-bars, rolled and hammered axles, shafting a specialty. Office 265 South 4th St
Description: Print depicting various shapes and sizes of wrought iron sections manufactured at the Pencoyd Iron Works by A. & P. Roberts & Co. Shows the pieces, including even and uneven leg angles and car-builder’s channel irons, labeled with weight and size measurements depicted in horizontal rows and in diagonals. Cousins Algernon and Percival Roberts established the iron foundry in 1852 in Philadelphia. The firm joined the U.S. Steel Company in 1900 and was renamed the American Bridge Company., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Expository text printed on recto below title: Scale ½ size. Weights given in pounds per yard. Minimum sizes and weights given., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.38]

Title: Orphans court sale. Plan of part of the property belonging to estate of John Earl, decd
Description: Map showing multiple Philadelphia properties belonging to John Earl to be sold at auction on April 14, 1857. Shows seven properties located between Crown Street and Frankford Road and two properties located between Union and Marlborough Streets. The acreage and ground rents are noted on each property., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on recto: To be sold at public sale, in pursuance of an order of the Orphan’s Court, on Tuesday, 14th April, 1857, at 7 ½ o’clock in the evening at the Philada Exhange. M. Thomas & Sons, auctioneers. NB. Other property, same estate, to be sold same evening, including vacant lots on Frankford Turnpike and Shackamaxon St. Also two four story brick stores nos., 172 & 174, North 3rd Street; Lot & buildings in Marshall Street, 9 well secured irredeemable ground rents &c., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.44]

Title: [Emma Louisa Gutekunst as the "Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe"]
Description: Full-length portrait of Emma Louisa Gutekunst depicted as the Mother Goose character, the old woman who lived in a shoe. She wears her hair in bangs and is attired in a long-sleeved dress with a white collar and cuffs. She stands inside an oversized shoe and holds a doll in her right hand. A variety of different sized dolls are all over the shoe and also on the floor, including two African American dolls., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from active dates of the photographer at the address and depicted age of the sitter., Photographer's imprint on verso: F. Gutekunst, 712 Arch St., Philadelphia., Manuscript note written on verso: F. Gutekunst's daughter as the "Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe" (photo he gave me, together with childhood picture of Adelina Patti)., Gift of David Doret, 2017.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection – Photos [P.2017.120.140]

Title: [New Excursion House, Atlantic City, New Jersey]
Description: Exterior view of the New Excursion House, opened in 1869, and beachfront in Atlantic City, N.J. Shows the guests sitting, standing, and looking out from the three-story resort hotel with a watch tower and covered porches. In front of the house, men and women walk and four horse-drawn carriages are parked. Also shows in the foreground, the Camden and Atlantic Railroad Co. tracks extending across the grounds and to the hotel., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Photographer’s imprint embossed on mount., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Photos [P.2019.64.25]

Title: Gallitzen [sic] and the great tunnel. Pennsylvania Central Rail Road
Description: View of construction on the Pennsylvania Railroad track in front of the tunnel at Gallitzin, Pa. Shows three men laborers, bent over, and laying down new wooden railroad ties on tracks leading to a tunnel through the mountainside. The figures are slightly blurred. In the right, a train car carrying a load of railroad ties rests near several large stacks of wood alongside the tracks. Adjacent to the stacks, beside the tracks, and on a hill in the background, several buildings and townscape is visible. The Gallitzin Tunnels are a set of three adjacent tunnels through the Allegheny Mountains completed in 1854, 1855, and 1902 by the Pennsylvania Railroad in Gallitzin, Pa., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Photos [P.2019.64.26]

Title: Nay Aug Falls, Pa
Description: View depicting the rushing water of Nay Aug Falls in Scranton, Pa. Trees and shrubs grow on both sides of the falls that were approximately fifteen-feet high., Title from manuscript note written on mount on recto., Date inferred from content., Yellow mount with square corners., Photographer’s label on verso: No. [120] Johnson’s Photographic Views, Tenth Series, Studies from Nature [Nay Aug Falls] Photographed by T.H. Johnson, Scranton, Pa., Color two-cent internal revenue stamp with portrait of George Washington on verso., Manuscript note written on verso: [Bo’t of?] Ballantyne – 7th ed. Wash. D.C. June 6, 65. 32[?]., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Johnson, T.H. (Thomas H.), 1821-
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Photos [P.2019.64.50]

Title: [Deeds of sale for Samuel Carpenter and Samuel Rhoads]
Description: Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1714 - 1796]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Manuscripts [P.2018.61.22-23]

Title: The “D.K.” watercolors
Description: Description of the watercolors and the possible identity of the artist known as D.K. written by Albert Wood on April 3, 1953. Text explicates that Wood’s grandfather, Alfred L. Wood, a carpenter, acquired the watercolors from an unknown source, either found from one of the houses he worked on or as payment from the artist. He recalls other paintings and objects his grandfather had collected. Wood also describes an African American man that his grandfather would hire to help clean the houses he did repairs on: “The cleaning was done by a (sic) elderly colored man. (the husband of my grandmother’s cook.) sometimes he was not well enough to work, and my grandfather would ask my brother and I if we would like to earn some money?”, Title from item., Date written on verso: April 3, 1953., First line of manuscript: The first time I saw a D.K. watercolor I was about nine or ten years of age, this was around 1905., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Wood, Albert
Date: [1953]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Manuscripts [P.2021.43.7]

Title: 130. City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., Masonic Temple in left foreground
Description: Postcard depicting a view of North Broad Street, Philadelphia showing City Hall built 1871-1901 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. and the Masonic Temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of James Hamilton Windrim. In the left, shows a partial view of Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church built 1869 to 1870 after the designs of Addison Hutton. Numerous pedestrians walk along the sidewalks and across the street., Title from item., Date from the publication series number., Series number printed in right corner on recto: 3A-H575., Divided back., Gift of David Doret, 2019., Curt Teich (1877-1974) founded the Curt Teich Company in Chicago in 1898 and began producing linen postcards in the 1930s.
Date: 1933
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.28]

Title: Boehm’s Reformed Church, founded Feb. 3, 1747, Boehm’s manse, the Kirkview, Edgar Vincent Loucks, minister
Description: Postcard depicting a vignette portrait of the church’s minister Edgar Vincent Loucks between views of Boehm’s Church constructed in 1818 at 571 Penllyn Blue Bell Pike and the parsonage, Kirkview, in Blue Bell, Pa. In the left, shows the front façade of the stone church with stained glass windows and a spire. A wrought iron fence surrounds the building. In the center is a forward-facing portrait of Loucks, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a tie, and a jacket. In the right is the three-story parsonage with a covered porch. The Church was founded by John Philip Boehm in 1740 and a building was erected in 1747 in Blue Bell, Pa. A new building was erected on the foundation of the older building in 1818. Extensive renovations, including the addition of the eighty-foot high spire with bell were completed in 1870., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Series number printed in left corner on verso: 66296., Divided back., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date: [ca. 1906]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.27]

Title: At the direction of [Alice] we have entered your name upon our list for a year’s subscription to Ladies’ Home Journal We trust that the copies we shall have the pleasure of sending will prove to be pleasant reminders of the friend who sends to you this holiday remembrance, the Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia
Description: Subscription certificate for the Ladies’ Home Journal containing images of a stained glass work depicting knights (recto) and a medieval royal court scene with white figures (verso). Stained glass illustration shows white men knights, attired in armor and holding a sword and a lance, flanking a shield containing the text of the certificate. Royal court scene after artist John R. Peirce depicts a king, queen, and other guests seated and dining at a long dining table. A woman walks behind the table while carrying a steaming plate of food. In the right, a lutist and a harpist, slouching on a chair, play music near two dogs standing on all fours. In the left, a princess, holding hands with a knight seated behind her, sits on a wooden bench and watches the musicians. In the background is a Christmas tree., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Name of publisher from copyright statement: c. by C.P. Co., Gift of David Doret., Pennsylvania artist John R. Peirce (1900-1970) was a commercial illustrator and also painted landscapes and portraits. He graduated from the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art.
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Prints [P.2019.64.19]

Title: Sesqui-centennial international exposition dinner to National Advisory Commission appointed by the President of the United States
Description: Text printed on cover: Benjamin Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa. January twentieth 1926., Gift of David Doret, 2019., Library copy in printed paper wrappers., Manuscript note written on back cover: Tableaux: 1. Declaration of Independence 2. Ringing of the Liberty Bell 3. Washington of Valley Forge 4. Presentation of Flag by Betsey Ross. Speakers: 1. Hon. Herbert Hoover. 2. Hon. James M. Beck. 3. Hon. William S. Vare. 4. Hon. George E. Darrow. 5. Hon. Philip Gadsden. 6. Dr. Herbert J. Tily.
Date: 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Ephemera [P.2019.64.22]

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