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Title: Algernon Roberts, 1828-1868. Age about 21. Pencoyd
Description: Seated, waist-length portrait of Roberts, well coiffed, wearing a big black bowtie. His left arm is resting on a table. Pencoyd was the Roberts Family estate near Philadelphia., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Dark purple velvet., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. It is shaped like a book and is similar to Fig. 41 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) The case manufacturer is identified as H.A. Eichmeyer of Philadelphia., Attributed to Simons based on entry in Robert's diary dated September 4, 1848 (HSP, Roberts Family Papers #2087) that reads: Had my daguerreotype taken with Sidney for Uncle George at Simmons [sic] ....He took us in a sitting posture., Reproduced in "The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families" by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) p. 210. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: September 4, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.5]

Title: [Architectural drawing of the front elevation of Strawbridge & Clothier, 8th and Market Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows the five-story, multi-section front facade of the department store (established in 1868) at the northwest corner of 8th and Market streets. The expanded Strawbridge & Clothier building was completed circa 1897 after the designs of Philadelphia architect Addison Hutton., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inferred from manuscript note on related print. See related print **Architectural Drawings - unid. - Strawbridge [P.2010.35.9], Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **architectural drawings - unid. - Strawbridge [P.2010.35.8]

Title: Asher M. Childs clothes renovating establishment, No. 145 N. 9th St Old clothes made to look equal to new, by cleaning or dyeing without taking a part. Also repairing, and altering done to the latest fashions. All work done in a superior manner
Description: Advertisement containing an exterior view of the storefront flanked by patriotic vignettes. Vignettes show the figure of liberty and a sailor, with a woman at his feet, holding an American flag. Also includes interior scenes of employees dying and brushing clothes., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Advertisements - C [(2)5786.F.162a]

Title: Baxter's panoramic business directory of Philadelphia Chestnut Street from Seventh to Eighth, (south side)
Description: View showing the south side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street (700-732). Addresses printed below the buildings. Businesses with signage include W. L. Germon's Photographic Rooms (700); Frederick, Penabert & Germon, photographers (702); Jules Hauel & Co., perfumer, and Meyer & Warne, silverplaters (704); Winchester & Co., gentleman's furnishing store (706); John W. Proctor & Co., cloaks and mantillas (708); Cornelius & Baker, manufacturer of gas light fixtures (710); Hancock & Co. (712); Charles Desilver, publisher and bookseller, and Samuel W. Pepper, jeweler, and Edward W. Carryl, home furnishings (714); T. H. Peters & Co., perfumers (716); Warner, Miskey & Co., manufacturer of gas light fixtures (718); Spieler's Photographic Rooms, and Mrs. E. W. Brown's Dressmaking establishment, and Sarmiento & M'Grath, tailor (720); Lee & Walker, piano store (722); Glenn & Co., perfumers, and Mooney Manley & Co., importers of millinery goods, and Stern & Freeman, manufacturer and importer of artificial flowers (726); McAllister & Brother, opticians (728); Grover & Baker, sewing machines (730); and Duff & Co.'s Commercial College and R.K. Stewart, trimmings (732). Includes pedestrian traffic., Printed on recto: Copyright Secured., Copyrighted by Baxter & Neff., Contains several lines of advertising text below the image promoting the value of a Business Directory that was to depict panoramas of "Chestnut, Market, Third, Second, and Front streets" and the "City Front." Also promotes the directory's detail to architectural characteristics of each building; its use as a future reference; its mutual benefits; and "Its Permanency." Text also solicits subscriptions from businesses in return for a "view of their buildings"; an "Advertising card"; and "one hundred plates of the entire square for their own distribution.", Also contains notice that King & Baird will print the plates on paper of the "best quality," "Terms of subscription," and advertisements for D. W. C. Baxter & Co., publishers, and Baxter & Harley, engravers, below the image., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Variant of 1322 1/2.F.18 and P.2006.1.15a&b.
Creator: Baxter, De Witt Clinton, ca. 1829-1881, engraver
Date: 1859, c1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Baxter - Chestnut Street - 1859 [1322 1/2.F.19]

Title: [Bnjn. Swain, umbrella & parasol manufactory billhead.]
Description: Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Creator: Byram, Joseph H.
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Business - Swain [(1)1525.F.45c]

Title: [Bootmaker with a boot on the table beside him.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Faded red velvet. Embossed in center Reimer 617 N. 2nd St. Philada. Fancy scroll work all around., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Geometric design in center surrounded by fancy scrolls and swirls. Same design on verso.
Creator: Reimer, Benjamin, 1826-1899, photographer
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2003.23]

Title: Brown & Magee, manufacturers, 708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Photographic advertising card promoting Brown & Magee, trunk manufacturers, as successors to James E. Brown. Brown & Magee succeeded Brown circa 1866. Depicts a labeled display of men's and women's bags, valises, and trunks. Includes a soufflet bag; a French sac; an officers bag; a tourist bag; and an Army trunk., Inscribed in ink on image: Brown and Magee., Advertisement printed on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Date: ca. 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 unidentified - Business [(5)5786.F.114a]

Title: Centennial Circular 1876 C.H. Garden & Co. 606 & 608 Market St. Philada
Description: "Fortieth Illustrated" circular advertisement, probably distributed to retail dealers, for the hat manufacturer established in 1841. Contains captioned images of 66 types of men's and children's hats for the "Spring" season of 1876. Captions detail style, finish, and colors. In tribute to the upcoming Centennial Exhibition, vignettes at top depict Carpenters' Hall, Independence Hall, and a buffalo hunt. Building views inlcude pedestrian traffic. Also contains trademark for the firm with motto "Semper Paratus" (i.e., always prepared). Internal text promotes the quality and styles of hats offered, including fine soft hats, fur and wool hats, harvest hats, mackinaws, and trimmed and untrimmed hats. Text on verso encourages business people to visit Philadelphia prior to the opening of the Exhibition in order to become acquainted with the city and its accommodations, and to purchase spring fashions at the firm., Accompanied by advertising envelope for the firm illustrated with a transfer lithograph of the store at 606 & 608 Market Street. View includes crates being loaded on to a horse-drawn dray parked in front of the store. Addressee is Mr. Minot Riley of Springville, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, a merchant and store owner (POS 91)., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 90, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1999 p. 43-45.
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.9695.1-2]

Title: Charles C. Watson & Sons, 92 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement for the tailor containing the numbered front and back of a male figure corresponding to a key of directions on taking measurements. Also includes text requesting "the height of the person to be sent" and the"length & widths to be stated in inches.", Variant published in Joseph Shaw's United States directory for the use of travellers and merchants...: (Philadelphia: Printed by James Maxwell, 1822)., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellany.
Date: [ca. 1822]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8x10 - Advertisements - W [5786.F.166a]

Title: Charles Oakford's hat & cap store, wholesale & retail, No. 104, Chesnut [sic] Street, Philadelphia Officers of the army & navy supplied with dress & undress caps of the latest regulations. Gentleman's fashionable hat & dress caps, also gentlemens', youths & childrens' dress & fancy caps with a large assortment of fancy travelling hats. Plain hats for Friends wear. This branch of the manufacturer is conducted by an old and experienced workman
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the exterior of the hat store (300 block Chestnut Street) surrounded by a decorative border comprised of hats and vignettes. Shows the proprietor of the business standing behind the double-sided glass door of his establishment. Displays of hats adorn the showcase windows of the store. Also shows a ribbon hanging from above the entrance, a shadowy figure of a patron, and a basement cellar door. Border includes military hats, boys caps, a Friend's hat, and beaver hat. Vignettes show a military officer on horseback and an outdoor scene with beavers at a tree. Oakford established his business in 1827 and located to 104 Chestnut in 1843 where he began his wholesale trade in 1850. He operated from the address until 1852., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 108, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W57 [P.2039]

Title: Chestnut Street from Seventh to Sixth, (north side)
Description: View showing the north side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street (639-601). Addresses printed below the buildings. Includes Crittenden's Commercial College (637-639); Leonard Benkert, boot maker (635); Jayne's Hall (627-633) tenanted by Farrel, Herring & Co., safe manufacturer (631); Arcade Hotel, built 1826-1827 after the designs of John Haviland (615-621); Commonwealth Fire Insurance Co. (613); Cowperthwait's Building tenanted by Gaut & Volkmar, booksellers, Joseph A. Speel, book binder, and Granville Stokes, clothier (607-609); Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605); and E. V. McKoy, silk hat manufacturer (601). Contains advertisements for three of the businesses, a "directory to the above square," and an advertisement for Baxter & Harley, the undepicted business of D. W. C. Baxter, below the image., Printed on recto: Copyright Secured., Copyrighted by Baxter & Neff., One of the images probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Baxter, De Witt Clinton, ca. 1829-1881, engraver
Date: [1859, c1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Baxter - Chestnut Street - 1859 [1322 1/2.F.15; P.2006.1.14]

Title: [Christmas display in grand court of John Wanamaker department store, Philadelphia)
Description: View of interior decorated for Christmas holidays. Giant wreath and candles adorn the large pipe organ while lit trees and wreaths decorate display case area. Banner with central star recording the number of Philadelphia casualties in World War II hangs below organ. Visible in center of court is back of large eagle sculpture by August Gaul. Building, designed by Daniel H. Burnham & Co., opened in Philadelphia in 1911 as one of the world's largest retail merchandising building., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Hood, Harry S., photographer
Date: ca. 1943
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - Hood [P.8454.9]

Title: Costume des Quakers Bibliothéque de Philadelphie
Description: Plate showing a Quaker man outside and a Quaker woman and man within a fence in front of the subscription library, Library Company of Philadelphia, at 5th and Library streets. The men wear broad rimmed hats, long coats, and pantaloons. The woman wears a plain dress, shawl, and bonnet. She holds a basket. The Library Company, established by Benjamin Franklin and his Junto in 1731, occupied the hall built in 1790 after the designs of Dr. William Thornton until 1880. The building was razed in 1887., Published in Édouard de Montulé's Voyage en Amérique, en Italie, en Sicile et en Egypte, pendant les années 1816, 1817, 1818 et 1819 (Paris, Delaunay [etc.], 1821)., Printed in the upper right corner: Pl. 6., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 166
Date: [1821]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Libraries - Library Company [P.8476]

Title: D-horseshoe spectacles
Description: D-horseshoe spectacles with blue-tinted lenses. Marked with "McAllister" and a flower with pivot-style temples. The flower mark was commonly used as a journeymen's mark., Gift of Dr. Vincent J. Marchese, 2013.
Creator: John McAllister Jr. & Co.
Date: ca. 1826-1837, probably 1830-1835
Location: OBJ 893

Title: [Elsie Todd]
Description: Portrait of an elderly Todd in Quaker dress. She wears eye glasses and a high white bonnet., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Very dark faded purple velvet., Mat: Paper. Ornamented octagonal., Case: Leather. Within a double oval is one large open flower surrounded by scrolls. No design on verso. Manuscript note inside case reads: Elsie Todd ask Cousin Lydia., Reproduced in "The Ties That Bind: Daguerreotypes and the Roberts and Thompson Families" by Sarah Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual 1999 (Pittsburgh, Pa.: The Daguerreian Society, 1999) p. 212. See also the Board Report for January 20, 1998.
Date: ca. 1845
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9562.8]

Title: The farmer macaroni E'en farmers dress & mount their ponies, and all alike are macaronies
Description: Inscribed: V. 4, 1., One of a series of "macaroni" caricatures published by Darly.
Date: July 24th, 1772
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1772 - Macaroni [619.F.74b]

Title: [Fashion print showing a couple attired in Quaker costume]
Description: Fashion print showing a young couple in plain dress on promenade. The man wears a broad-rimmed hat, white cravat, and suit. The woman wears a poke bonnet and a plain dress with a large white collar and puff sleeves. Each holds or wears gloves., Date from manuscript note on recto: Costume 1844., Philadelphia on Stone
Date: 1844
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Fashion [P.2005]

Title: [First floor plan of John Wanamaker's grand depot, 1887]
Description: First floor plan indicating location of different departments in store. Goods sold included dry goods, books, stationery, milinery, and ready-made clothing. John Wanamaker opened his Grand Depot in former Pennsylvania Railroad sheds in 1876., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Original part of McAllister scrapbook.
Date: 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr-8x10-Business [(6)1322.F.76b]

Title: French millinery, and fancy dress making establishment
Description: Caption title., Blank order form, p. [3], dated: 183[blank]., Madame Gaubert is listed in Philadelphia directories from 1831 to 1842; she is listed at this address from 1831 to 1833, but by 1835 is listed at 221 Chestnut Street., Printed on p. [1] and [3] only., Not in Checklist Amer. imprints., Library Company copy has Mme. Gaubert's MS. notes.
Creator: Gaubert, Madame
Date: [between 1831 and 1834?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1831 Gaubert 14395.Q

Title: Godey's lady's book for 1881 will contain a complete novel in every number and every number will be complete in itself. Subscription price, only $2 per year For a period of more than fifty years this magazine has been a favorite with the American people, and its present owners have shown their ability and purpose to maintain its well-earned reputation as the cheapest and best lady's book in the world!
Description: Printed in red and blue; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 43.9 x 27.8 cm.
Creator: Godey's Lady's Book Publishing Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1880 Godey 10400.F (Doret)

Title: Great Central Depot, southwest corner of 7th and Market Streets
Description: Men looking in windows of shop with comments in speech balloons. William Brown, prop., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Ph Pr - Business - Grand Central Depot [P.9178.16]

Title: H.G. Clagston, 806 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, manufacturer of military and naval goods Corps badges- - - Army of the Potomac
Description: Advertisement containing 18 red, white, and blue specimens of corps badges for the 1st, 2d, and 3d Divisions of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th, 6th, and 12th Corps. Also contains a decorative border and advertising text promoting new designs and bargain presentation swords., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 11x14 - Advertisements - H [(2)5786.F.1a]

Title: [J.H.R. Richelderfer, manufacturer of gent's fine shirts & collars, 1032 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view a group of employees, male and female, posed in front of the store. Includes two large windows displays filled with ties, shirts, socks, and gaters. Signage advertises "gents' overgaiters and furnishing goods, celluloid & chrolithion water proof linen collar & cuff depot" and "manufacturers of gent's over gaiters, children's leggings.", Buff mount with rounded corners.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 5 x 7 - unidentified - business [P.9946]

Title: John B. Stetson & Co., manufacturers of fine fur soft and stiff felt hats, Philadelphia Office and salesroom, 1746-62 North 4th St. Philadelphia. Salesroom, 546 Broadway, New York
Description: Exterior view from the northeast of factory buildings at the southwest corner of 4th and Montgomery Streets. Includes signage depicting a hat. Also depicts Charles Schaufler's brewery at 1742 N. 4th Street.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **photo - Gutekunst [P.8751]

Title: John Kean, on the corner of Market and Third Streets Philadelphia, [blank] 1783. [blank] bought of John Kean
Description: A blank invoice form., The illustration is a woodcut of a spinning wheel., Not in Evans, Bristol, or Shipton & Mooney., Library Company copy completed in MS. for July 3, 1783, William Sample's purchase of corduroy, muslin, silk, and chintz; from the McAllister Collection., NEH-Readex: Not in Readex; not at AAS.
Creator: Kean, John, 1762-1818
Date: [1783]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1783 Kean 7311.F.6 (McAllister)

Title: John Wanamaker's grand depot
Description: Bird's eye view of store showing block occupied by building and surrounding neighborhood. Other labeled structures include U.S. Mint, City Hall, Pennsylvania Railroad Station at Broad Street, and Masonic Temple. John Wanamaker opened his dry goods store, the Grand Depot, in former Pennsylvania Railroad sheds in 1876., Title from manuscript note on recto., Published in Book News Monthly (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, December 1884) vol. 3, no. 12., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook.
Date: 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr-8x10-Business [(6)1322.F.76a]

Title: Jones & Co. of the crescent one price clothing store, No. 200 Market Street, above 6th Phila Has constantly on hand a large & fashionable stock of clothing made in the best manner, expressly for retail sales, with the very lowest selling price marked in plain figures on each article & never varied; so all must buy alike, and with the full assurance of getting a good article at the lowest rates. Remember the crescent above 6th in Market St. No. 200
Description: Advertisement depicting the two-bay, five-story, green building occupied by Owen Jones's clothing store since 1846. White text advertising the business as a cheap, one price clothing store covers the facade. A columned arcade extends along the ground floor of the properties depicted, stopping at the States Union Hotel (right). A sales booth displaying wares is sandwiched between two columns at the street level. Men's vests, pants, and jackets hang under the arcade, as several men, and a couple stroll by on the wide, brick sidewalk., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 413, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W206 [P.2142]

Title: Joseph Ripka's mills. Manayunk 21st Ward Philadelphia. Manufacturer of all description of plain and fancy cottonades for men & boy's clothing warehouse 32 So Front St. [graphic] / Lith. of W. H. Rease N.E. cor. 4th & Chesnut.
Description: 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 77. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 R588.
Creator: Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
Date: [1856]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W211.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W211 [P.2139]

Title: Life in Philadelphia. "Good evening Miss..."
Description: Sexist caricature satirizing middle-class mores and depicting a white man dandy sexually harassing a well-to-do white woman as she traverses a Philadelphia street. The man stands next to her, in the right, and the woman has an aghast expression. She has a bouffant hairstyle adorned with yellow flowers and ribbons. She wears a long pink cape with a blue hood over her hourglass shape and large hair. The dandy is dressed in a corset, a black top hat, blue coat with tails, pink vest, gloves, and large pink bow tie. He holds a walking stick toward the ground in his right hand. A white handkerchief hangs out of his right coat pocket. Cityscape and two men pedestrians are seen on the street in the background., Title from item., Date from item., Inscribed: Plate 8., The symbol of a key is used in place of the name Clay., Contains five lines of dialogue above the image: “Good evening Miss, shall I have the pleasure of walking with you?” _ Me sir!! for whom do you take me, sir? __”Come, come that’s a good one!__ for whom do I take you? Why for myself to be sure!”__, Sarah Hart was a Jewish Philadelphia stationer who with her son, Abraham Hart, a future eminent Philadelphia publisher, assumed publication of the "Life in Philadelphia" series in 1829. She, alone, reprinted the entire series of 14 prints in 1830., Reaccessioned as P.9701.2., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [P.9701.2]

Title: A List of the prices of boots and shoes, &c as agreed to by the master cordwainers of the city and liberties of Philadelphia, at a meeting held the 8th November, 1790
Description: Caption title., Text in two columns; printed area, including ornamental border, measures 27.5 x 17.6 cm.
Date: [1790]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1790 Phi Cor 6639.F

Title: A macaroni in a morning dress in the park
Description: Inscribed: V. 3, 3., One of a series of "macaroni" caricatures published by Darly., Text above reads: Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, and some made coxcombs, nature meant for fools. - Pope.
Date: April 23d 1772
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1772 - Macaroni [619.F.74c]

Title: [McAllister & Brother, opticians, 728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of storefront at 728 Chestnut Street. Signage advertises mathematical instruments, spectacles, microscopes, spy glasses, thermometers. Image includes the bust of Franklin which adorns the second floor of the shop, and pedestrians in the street. Address on plate altered from an earlier version of the engraving created in late 1854 or early 1855 when McAllister & Brother moved from 48 Chestnut to their new location at 194 Chestnut. The address changed to 728 post-consolidation necessitating the alteration of the plate., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook.
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, ca. 1828-1872 or 3, engraver
Date: [after 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Business - McAllister & Brother [(2)1525.F.18b]

Title: McAllister & Co. at the old established stand No. 48 Chestnut Street third door above Second St., Philadelphia. Have always for sale a great variety of spectacles, ... They have also for sale mathematical instruments, ... Spy glasses, ... Microscopes, ... Thermometers, ... Walking canes. ... A liberal discount made to those who purchase to sell again. Spectacles repaired,--new glasses fitted to old frames, &c
Description: McAllister & Co. are listed at this address in Philadelphia directories through 1853; in 1854, the listing at this address is for McAllister & Brother; in 1855, McAllister & Brother are listed at 194 Chestnut., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 27.9 x 17.4 cm.
Creator: McAllister & Co. (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [not after 1853?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1853 McAllister 15004.Q (Doret)

Title: Mrs. S. A. Lingle, 734 Spring Garden St
Description: Advertisement depicting a woman shopkeeper showing a hat to a woman and two girls near a hat display., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Advertisements - L [(7)1322.F.471x]

Title: North side of Chestnut St., extending from Sixth to Seventh St., 1851
Description: Street view depicting businesses along the north side of Chestnut Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets. Most of the buildings include signage. Includes, right to left, the four-story brick building with Blood’s Dispatch and Dr. J.H. Schenck & Co. "Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup" (601 Chestnut Street); the second building of the Chestnut Street Theatre (603-609 Chestnut Street, built 1820-1822 after the designs of William Strickland); the three-and one-half story hotel Bolivar House (611-613 Chestnut Street); Dr. Jayne's Philada Arcade & Dr. Davidson's Arcade Baths (615-619 Chestnut Street); Columbia House hotel operated by Ferguson & Bro. and tenanted by tailor E. G. Dorsey (625-631 Chestnut Street); and the three-story red brick building tenanted by L. Benkert's Boot Store (633 Chestnut Street), "Philadelphia Fashions" publisher Francis Mahan(635 Chestnut Street), and druggist A. Smith (637-639 Chestnut Street). Also includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including horse drawn carriages and carts and an omnibus, strolling couples, couples in conversations, and a newspaper boy at work., Title from item., Date inferred from commission date of other drawings in collection., Inscribed in lower left corner: 1851., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Library Company. Annual Report, 1975, p. 6-11., Watercolor commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer circa 1880 and probably based on Julio H. Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser (Philadelphia: Julio H. Rae, 1851) plate 9, north side and plate 10, north side.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.44], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc044.html

Title: Oliver Brooks, wholesale and retail, hat, cap & fancy fur warehouse London & Paris. Fall & spring fashions, regularly imported. Superior otter & seal caps. Leather hat cases & silk & cotton umbrellas
Description: Advertisement depicting an ornate table with scroll legs covered with a jumbled variety of men's and women's hats in addition to an umbella (handle visible). Brooks patented an improvement in cassinmere hats in 1842., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: August 1846., Probably printed by John Frampton Watson., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 158
Date: [August 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8929.23]

Title: Oval spectacles
Description: Round spectacles marked "McAllister Philad" "18" with extendable temples. Missing lenses., Gift of Dr. Vincent J. Marchese, 2013.
Creator: John McAllister & Son (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: ca. 1825-1835
Location: OBJ 892

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: The Philadelphia dandies. A group of fashionables. "Shoot folly as it flies."
Description: Caricature lampooning "fashionable" middle-class Philadelphians depicting two scenes of “belles” being greeted. The first scene portrays a white belle, in the right, being greeted by a white dandy, in the left, who holds up a monocle in his left hand and asks, "How do you do?" They are each bent over and face each other. The dandy is attired in a white ruffled shirt, blue waistcoat, tan pants, and grey boots with spurs. He holds down a black top hat from which a cane hangs in his right hand. The belle is attired in a large green bonnet that curves at the back of her head and that is adorned with feathers and a ribbon, a pink, long-sleeved, knee-length, belle-shaped dress, and boots. She holds a green umbrella up in her right hand toward the raised arm of the dandy and the back of her dress has risen up. A pug-like jumps up and barks at her from behind. She responds that she is “rather cold.” The second scene depicts a white belle being greeted by a "fashionable" white woman and girl whose hand she holds. The women and girl are all similarly attired in large bonnets adorned with flowers, long-sleeved, high waisted, calf-length dresses in pink or green, and boots or ankle-laced shoes. They are also portrayed with stooped postures and accentuated posteriors. The woman with the child also holds a pink purse in the same hand as that of the girl who also wears pantalettes and holds a green parasol in her left hand. A third woman wearing a mortarboard style hat adorned with feathers, a long-sleeved, calf-length, high-waisted dress with under skirt, and boots, holds a spear-shaped umbrella over her shoulder and "marches" passed them in the right. Also, shows a pug-like dog standing in the left by the women who greet each other., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Contains two bubbles of dialogue within image of first scene: How do you do? How do you do? Madam! How is it with you today? It is rather Cold, sir!-, This caricature is similar in content to the prints from the series, "Life in Philadelphia" (London Set), and has been catalogued as part of the series., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Kensett, Thomas, 1786-1829, engraver
Date: [ca. 1820-ca. 1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (London Set) [P.9720]

Title: The Philadelphia fashions & tailors' archetypes
Description: Cover title., Copyright 1849 by S.A. & A.F. Ward., Plate 1 shows the pattern pieces for a frock coat; plate 2 shows the pattern pieces for dress pantaloons., In printed paper wrapper.
Creator: S.A. & A.F. Ward (Firm)
Date: [1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1849 S A & A F Ward 15120.Q

Title: Philadelphia fashions, 1837
Description: Racist cartoon depicting middle class African American Philadelphians used to arouse Northern anti-Black fears that well-to-do African Americans threatened the racial status quo. Depicts a physically attractive and elegantly dressed African American man and woman couple who have stopped during a stroll. The woman, attired in a large bonnet, elegant gown, and holding a parasol asks in the vernacular, "What you look at Mr. Frederick Augustus?" The man, attired in a suit, a top hat, and holding a walking cane in one hand and a monocle to his eye with the other answers, "I look at dat White loafer wot looks at me. I guess he from New York." The man and woman also each wear broaches depicting portraits. The couple are possibly prominent African American Philadelphians Frederick Augustus Hinton and Elizabeth Willson Hinton., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1837, by H.R. Robinson in the Clerk's Office of the Dist Court of the U.S. of the Southern District of N. York., Due to the similar content of this caricature to the prints from the series, "Life in Philadelphia," the lithograph has been catalogued as a part of the series., Purchase 1958., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., E.W. Clay (1799-1857), born in Philadelphia, was a prominent caricaturist, engraver, and lithographer who created the "Life in Philadelphia" series which racially lampooned middle-class African American Philadelphians of the late 1820s and early 1830s.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: 1837
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1837 - Phi [6281.F]

Title: Philadelphia fashions, spring & summer 1845, by S. A. & A. F. Ward no. 62 Walnut St
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 16 elegantly attired men, women, and boys in a parlor and outdoor setting. Upper panel shows the parlor scene. A couple in bed coats sits on a chaise lounge. The man accompanied by a boy, attired in a military-style suit, talks to another man, wearing a suit with patterned pants. The woman talks with another lady attired in a bonnet, shawl, and full skirt. A third gentleman stands near two columns to the left. He wears a suit with a lavishly patterned vest and striped pants. On the opposite side of the columns, two women in evening dresses sit at a piano. One wears a feather in her hair and the other wears an elaborate up do with ringlettes on the side. Two men in evening suits join them. Furnishings also includes a framed painting and mosaic carpeting. Lower panel shows the outdoor scene. At the banks of a river, possibly the Schuylkill, 5 men, one woman, and a boy are gathered. The woman, at the center of the scene, wears a riding habit and sits side saddle on her horse. Her male companion, in a riding suit, stands next to her, dismounted from his horse. To the left, a man in a hunting outfit and with a dog stands between two men in suits and top hats. To the right, a man attired in an overcoat stands with a boy, attired in a suit. Each wears a top hat. All the men wear pants of various patterns and different styles of neckwear. Most carry a cane and the hunter holds a rifle. Most of the depicted men have some facial hair. Key numbered 1-9 and 10-15 printed above and below the image., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 179
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Fashion [P.2007.28.28]

Title: Philadelphia, Paris & New-York fashions, for spring & summer of 1864. Published and sold by F. Mahan, no. 911, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Fashion print containing two rows of full-length models displaying men's and women's indoor and outdoor clothing. Top row features figures posed against a domestic interior featuring a large window overlooking a country landscape and patterned carpeting and drapes. Two female figures in the center of the row display dresses with large hoops. Bottom row features figures dressed in outdoor clothing including two Union generals, Brig. Gen. Henry Morris Naglee and Maj. Gen. Nathanial Prentiss Banks, in military uniforms and two sportsmen carrying hunting rifles posed in front of a military camp., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 185, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1991, pgs. 48-49.
Creator: Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903, artist
Date: c1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Fashion [P.9366.1]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified, bearded man, head tilted slightly to his left.]
Description: Hand colored pink on cheeks., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Mat: Ornamented oval. Photographer's imprint stamped on mat: Germon. 702 Chest. St. Phila., Case: Leather. Lacking cover. Small urn on a pedestal in the center surrounded by ornate scrolls and swirls.
Creator: Germon, W. L. (Washington Lafayette), 1822-1877, photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.8504.1]

Title: [Portrait of an unidentified couple.]
Description: She is holding an unopened book in her right hand. He is holding his eyeglasses in his left hand. Hand colored very pale pink on cheeks of both sitters., Cased photographs retrospective conversion project., Pad: Purple velvet. Large scrolled border. Embossed: S. G. Hewes., Mat: Elliptical., Case: Leather. Spray of mixed flowers within a nonpareil-like border. No design on verso., See 2000 LCP Annual Report, pp. 59-60., Reproduced in Sally Hewes, Female Daguerreotypist by Sarah J. Weatherwax in The Daguerreian Annual, 2002-2003, page 24., Reproduced in More Than "An Elegant Accomplishment": Sarah Garrett Hewes and Pennsylvania's Early Female Photographers by Sarah J. Weatherwax in Pennsylvania History, Autumn 2014, page 438. Reproduced in Samuel Broadbent, Daguerreian Artist in The Daguerreian Annual, 2001, page 142.
Creator: Hewes, Sally Garrett, d. 1853, photographer
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.9833]

Title: Promenade in Washington Square
Description: Caricature depicting a modishly dressed white couple (man and woman) strolling through Philadelphia's Washington Square near the Society Hill section of the city. The woman wears a bright yellow dress with extremely puffed leg o'mutton sleeves and a dramatically large yellow hat with a massively wide brim. Blue and yellow striped ribbons are attached to the hat and hang down from the brim. A kerchief and necklace adorn her neck. She carries a purple purse and a pink umbrella in her left hand and a pink monocle in her right. She holds the monocle close to the side of her chin. The man wears a blue waistcoat with massively puffed leg o'mutton sleeves, a plaid cravat, brown trousers, and top hat. He holds a walking cane in his left hand to the side of his waist. Both figures are depicted with corseted waists. Two fashionably dressed women, a fashionably dressed couple (man and woman) with a child, and multi-story buildings and trees are seen in the background. In the early 1800s Washington Square evolved from a pasture ground and a burial ground for the city’s African American community, indigent community, and Revolutionary War soldiers in the 18th century to a park at the request of the wealthy residents in the neighborhood., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of later plates in the series., Probably published by William Simpson., Inscribed: Plate 1., Nancy Reynolds Davison's E.W. Clay: American political caricaturist of the Jacksonian era. (PhD. diss., The University of Michigan, 1980), p. 86. (LCP Print Room Uz, A423.O)., Part of the digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Accessioned in 1999.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, etcher
Date: [1828]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Life in Philadelphia (Philadelphia Set) [P.9688]

Title: The simpling macaroni Like Soland-goose from frozen zone I wander, on shallow banks grows fat, Sol*****
Description: Inscribed: V. 3, 18., One of a series of "macaroni" caricatures published by Darly., British Museum identifies this portrait as a caricature of Dr. Daniel Charles Solander, a British naturalist who accompanied Sir J. Banks on ocean expeditions.
Date: July 13th, 1772
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1772 - Macaroni [619.F.74a]

Title: South view. Looking towards Navy Yard, Southwark and Moyamensing
Description: Panoramic view looking toward the Delaware River showing cityscape in South Philadelphia. Includes residential buildings, storefronts, factories, warehouses, St. Peter's Church steeple, Sparks Shot tower, and the Navy Yard. Also shows trees in Independence Square in the foreground and maritime traffic on the river in the background., Series title, artist, and date information from complementary prints., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 544c, Trimmed.
Creator: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892, artist
Date: [c1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Views [P.2121]

Title: The Southwark macaroni
Description: Inscribed: 3., One of a series of "macaroni" caricatures published by Darly., British Museum identifies this portrait as a caricature of Henry Thrale, M.P. for Southwark., British Museum copy contains artists imprint: I. Williams, sc.
Date: Aug. 24, 1772
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1772 - Macaroni [619.F.74d]

Title: [Stevens-Cogdell and Sanders-Venning family portrait collection]
Description: Primarily studio portraits and snapshots of members of the Venning line of the middle-class Philadelphia African American family descended from the 19th-century white South Carolinian Richard Walpole Cogdell (1787-1866), and Sarah Martha Sanders (1815-1850), a Black enslaved woman. Includes professionally photographed group portraits depicting the family's participation in the Philadelphia African American music community of the early 20th century, including: the Mendelssohn Singing Society; Sid Stratton's Orchestra; the Treble Clef Mandolin and Guitar Club; and the Soap Box Social, a minstrel club associated with the African American political club, Citizen's Republican Club. Other formal portraiture includes the graduation portrait for the South Philadelphia High School for Girls class of 1921, including Lillie Venning and contralto Marian Anderson, and a group portrait of the Citizens Republican Club (ca. 1910). Collection also contains studio portraits and snaphots photographed during family summer excursions to Pleasantville and Atlantic City, New Jersey; portraits of family friends and family members through marriage; silhouettes of members of the Cogdell family cut by Master Hankes, i.e., Jarvis F. Hanks (ca. 1828); and an album (ca. 1860-ca. 1913) containing portraits of members of the Venning family and of unidentified sitters., Sitters include members from the Cogdell family, the Venning family, the Capps family, and the Saunders family. Cogdell family members include: Cecilia Cogdell, wife of Richard Walpole Cogdell, and three of their sons - James Gordon Cogdell, George Burgess Cogdell, and John Walpole Cogdell. Venning family members include: Richard Cogdell and Sarah Sanders' daughter, Julia Sanders Venning, her husband Edward Y. Venning (a contractor), and his brother, Richard DeReef Venning (a government clerk). Julia Sanders Venning and Edward Y. Venning's children - Louise Sanders Venning, Miranda Cogdell Venning (a school principal), Oliver Casey Venning (family historian), George Edward Venning (postal worker), Sarah (Sallie) Venning (Holden) (substitute teacher), and her husband William B. Holden (caterer). George Edward Venning and Julia Capps Venning's children - Mary Venning, Martha Venning (Bowie), and her husband Charles Bowie. Capps family members include: Julia Capps Venning's father Augustus Capps (butler), and her siblings, Lillie Capps Adams (educator/musician), Oscar Capps (post office clerk), Adolphus Capps (an undertaker), Berkley Capps (bellman), and Meta Capps (Thomas). Other sitters include family members George Saunders; Agnes Saunders; Georgine Rex Saunders (Chew); Mary Saunders (Patterson) (soprano and music instructor of Marian Anderson); Susan Saunders (Williams); Richard Sanders Chew; and Charles Sanders Chew; and acquaintances African American bibliophile and Tribune columnist William C. Bolivar, African American undertaker Joseph Seth, and Mrs. and Dr. Perry., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Date of silhouettes inferred from active dates in Charleston, S.C. of silhouettist Jarvis F. Hanks. See Charleston Courier, March 13, 1828, 2 and "For A Few Days," Charleston Courier, March 31, 1928, 3., Various photographers, including the following Philadelphia photographers: Bell Studio; Frederick Gutekunst; H.D. Garns & Co.; Moses S. Hagaman; Charles Hagemann & Co.; Frank W. Harris, Jr.; Miles & Foster; Parlor Gallery; Charles M. Sullivan; and Daniel Slutzky Studio., Sitters identified by descendants, from manuscript notes on versos, and/or accompanying photographic prints., P.9367.32, ca. 1900 pastel portrait of possibly Clara, nurse to children and grandchildren of Sarah Sanders and R. W. Cogdell, after ca. 1875 tintype photographed by J. Fenton (729 South St., Phila.), P.2012.37.1.23b, Richard DeReef Venning Album, Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Collection., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 1991, p. 26-31., Gift of descendants Cordelia H. Brown, Lillie V. Dickerson, Mary Hinkson Jackson, and Georgine E. Willis in honor of Phil Lapsansky., LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45., Genealogical chart available at repository., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Middle-class African American family active in the Philadelphia African American political, social, educational, and cultural community from the 1850s to the 20th century. The family was involved in several prominent local African American institutions, including the St. Thomas P.E. Church, Church of the Crucifixion, Central Presbyterian Church, the Colored Institute of Youth, and the Citizens Republican Club.
Date: [ca. 1830 - ca. 1940, bulk 1910-1925]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT. Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Collection [P.9367.1-51]

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