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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Location: Seventh and Market Streets., LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Manuscript note at lower right: April 1847.
Date
[April 1847]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W107.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W107 [P.2043]
Location: 41 North Front Street (pre-consolidation)., LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date
[Dec. 1847]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W217.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W217 [P.2110]
LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 88 B786.
Date
c1838.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W009.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W9 [P.2006]
Huddy & Duval's Military Magazine., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: *Per M Military Magazine 5531.Q, vol. 1.
Date
ca. 1839.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W262.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W262 [*Per M Militray Magazine 5531.Q v. 1]
Location: Third and Race Sts., northwest corner., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date
ca. 1842.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W193.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W193 [P.2053]
Location: Schuylkill Eighth [i.e. Sixteenth] Street , opposite Columbia Railroad., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date
ca. 1845.
Location
http://www.librarycompany.org/wainwright/W214.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W214 [P.2137]
Location: Girard and Corinthian Avenues., Frontispiece to Plates to Magnetic and Meteorological Observations. Companion volume to three volume set Observations at the Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory at the Girard College, Philadelphia (Washington: Gales and Seaton, printers., 1847)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1847 Obser 12240.O.1.
Date
[1847]
Location
http://www.librarycompany.org/wainwright/W383.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W383 [*Am 1847 Obser 12240.O.1]
Published in: Sloan, Samuel. City and Suburban Architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 108, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.
Date
[1867]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W310.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W310 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F]
Contains seven vignettes: Signing of the Declaration of Independence; Hall of Independence - Front; Hall of Independence - Rear; Carpenters' Hall; Carpenters' Hall - Interior; House in which the Declaration was written, and Hall of Independence - Interior., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date
1862.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W387.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W387 [P.2213]
Location: Race and Crown Streets., Copyrighted by Charles Baum., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc85 B347.
Date
1863.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W435.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. ***W435 [P.2262]
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Proprietors, Allmond & Stem. The hotel's address changed to 227 North Third Street in 1857.
Date
ca. 1855.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W102.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W102 [P.2040]
Location: Old York Road, later 435-437 and Willow St., S.E. corner., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date
[ca. 1855]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W236.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W236 [P.2106]
Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of American City Philadelphia (Published by Camino Books in cooperation the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), page 199.
Date
[1848].
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W408.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W408 [P.2219]
Location: York Avenue, from Tammany Street., LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #75., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Date
ca. 1855.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W436.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W436 [P.2237]
Location: Twenty-first and Fairmount Avenue., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date
1855.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W401.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W401 [P.2216]
Copyrighted by A. Pharazin., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Dramatic view of the steamboat engulfed in flames and smoke, the captain still at the helm as the passengers, including African Americans, escape for their lives into the icy river. Panicked passengers jump into the water already teeming with disaster victims who thrash, swim, and attempt to stay upon and assist others onto cakes of ice, debris, and a single rowboat. Rescuers from the nearby wharf, including firemen, work frantically and desperately throw a rope to a woman standing afloat a cake of ice. Contains the names of the 107 white and "colored" dead, missing, and saved passengers in three columns below the image. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as the result of defective boilers. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river.
Date
[[1856]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W478.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W478 [P.2252]
Location: 2025 Market Street., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 53 1/2. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc38 K44.
Date
[1856]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W213.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W213 [P.8691]
Illustration in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its Manufactures (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 333 Walnut Street, 1858), opposite page 301., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1858 Fre 67170.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date
1857.
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W033-2.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W33.2 [Am 1858 Fre 67170.D]
Frontispiece of the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7), Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Exterior view of department buildings including the girls' and boys' dormitories; girls' dining and sewing rooms; boys' school rooms; and the superintendent's rooms. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850.
Date
[1858]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W426.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W426 [(1)1525.F.41a]
Frontispiece to the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the House of Refuge (Philadelphia: Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1858) (LCP Am 1858 Phil Hou 14483.O.7), Exterior view of department buildings including the girls'and boys' dormitories; girls' work and sitting rooms; boys' workshop; and the officers' rooms. The buildings, located between Parrish and Brown Streets between 22nd and 24th Streets, opened in 1850.
Date
[1858]
Location
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W428.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W428 [P.2234]
