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Title: Craig, Finley & Co. Lithographers and printers. Commercial stationery, stock certificates, and checks. 2218-20-22 Vine Street, Philadelphia. Established 1867 Telephones. Bell: Rittenhouse 7842. Keystone: Race 6379
Description: Blotter illustrated with an exterior view of the Philadelphia printer's factory and adjoining buildings on the 2200 block of Vine Street. Signage with the firm's name adorns the three-story main building depicted with a working smoke stack. Pedestrians walk in front and across from the building. Also shows a car and a Craig, Finley & Co. truck parked in the street. Established as Craig, Butt & Finley in 1869, the firm was renamed Craig, Finley & Co. in 1872. It remained in operation until 1950., Image caption reads: A Plant Equipped Solely for the Production of First Class Lithographing and Printing, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 123, See also the Craig, Finley & Co. entry in the online Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary., Gift of Erika Piola.
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 11 x 14 - Industry - C [P.2014.18.2]

Title: Charles Baeder's Philada. Steam Works, manufacturer of glue, starch, curled hair & hidewhips, store, N. 7 South Third Str No. 750 Old York road [sic] or North 6th Str. above Camac Str. and store no. 45 Fulton Str. New York. The highest price given for damaged hides, glue pieces, ceroons &c &c
Description: Advertisement showing a view of the glue and animal product manufactories of Charles Baeder on a lot of land on the 1700 block of North Sixth Street. Includes the seven-story glue works with cupola and the smaller multi-story starch, hide whip, and curled hair factory. Two outbuildings with active smoke stacks stand between the factories. Trees and bushes are visible on the property. A horse-drawn cart travels in the foreground. The firm, established in 1828 by Baeder, became the premier manufacturer of its kind in the United States. The manufactory, of the firm later renamed Baeder, Adamson & Co., relocated to Richmond Street, Allegheny Avenue, and Westmoreland Street circa 1866., Not in Wainwright, Manuscript note in ink on verso: Glue [illegible] A.D. 10cts. by 80# or 1 bbl. Buffaloe No. 2 at 20 cts., Manuscript notes in pencil on verso: A. & D. 10 [symbol for cents]/ Buffaloe No. 2 15 [symbol for cents]/Horse [edges?] 15 yds [frm?] 2 00, 2 25, 2 50., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 878, Kuhl operated from 120 South Second Street, rear circa 1842-circa 1851.
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - Baeder [P.2015.19]

Title: Hagar & Campbell's Dime Museum, Ninth & Arch Sts. Opens Monday September 3d 1883
Description: Lively advertising print for the dime museum operated by W. D. Hagar and W. T. Campbell 1883-1885. Shows throngs of people entering the mansard-roofed building, heavily adorned in signage and over 40 pictures of the museum's performers, at the northwest corner of Ninth and Arch Streets. Signs read "Specially Adapted for Ladies & Children: Open Daily from 1 to 10 P.M."; "Curiosities Constantly Arriving From All Parts of the World"; and "Philadelphia's Pleasure Palace Containing Countless Curiosities / Peerless Parlor Peformances." Other signs announce the hours of operation, the museum's purpose for the "instruction and amusement" of ladies and children, and the admission price - 10 cents. Performer's pictures primarily depict human curiosities and include tattooed men and women, a bearded lady, clowns, a two-headed woman, little people, an armless man, a man eating a slate, exotic and native costumed figures, as well as a magician and a ventriloquist. Graphics also show exotic animals and birds. Building also adorned with flags promoting the museum and its attractions, including "birds, beasts, and mechanical marvels." In the street, three street cars (nos. 44, 33, and 26) and one wagon, advertising Hagar & Campbell's, travel and stop in front of the museum. Wagon is composed of billboards illustrated with an image of seven women with floor-length hair and captioned "Seven Wonders of the World.", Also shows adjacent buildings, a crowd of people at the side of the museum, and pedestrians and passersby in the street, on the sidewalk, and near and looking at the street vehicles. Print also contains portraits of owners W. D. Hagar and W. T. Campbell in the upper corners. By 1884, Campbell and Hagar were officers in the Barnum and London show managing "Privileges." Campbell stayed with Barnum until at least the early 1890s., Date inferred from title., Gift of Barbara Fahs Charles and Robert Staples., POSP 286
Date: [1883]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Advertisements - H [P.2013.82]

Title: Cunningham & Hill, 204 Church Street, Philadelphia. Flags and shields of all nations and sizes, gas jets of any device or design, banners and silk flags for inside decoration
Description: Advertisement issued during the Centennial Exhibition 1876 for the upholstery manufacturers and dealers containing illustrations of 5 different styles of patriotic bunting and an exterior view of a residence adorned with bunting and commemorative window shades. Illustrations depict bunting designs composed of shields, flags (including America, France, Great Britain), swaths of fabric, panels, and fringes. One design includes shield with portrait of George Washington. Section of advertisement also includes a design for lettering reading "1776 Union 1876" complemented by the figure of an eagle. View of residence shows a three-story mansard-roofed building with a portico entrance. The name and address of Cunningham & Hill are printed over and within the illustrations. Cunningham & Hill, the partnership between William B. Cunningham & Philip Hill, operated between circa 1871 and 1876 when the partnership dissolved., Advertising text printed below image: We would respectfully call your attention to the above illustration of store and house decoration, and advise those who attend decorating to do so at their earliest convenience to avoid a rush, which will be inevitable. Our shields are made of papier-mache, and can be exposed to all weathers, and can easily be attached to any window with out patent group-socket for five flags, making a beautiful group. Manufactured wholesale and retail., POSP 285
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Centennial [P.2011.53]

Title: Independence Hall in 1776
Description: View looking east showing the State House at 520 Chestnut Street built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Includes the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut) and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). View also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a conestoga wagon and the adjacent street corner., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 876, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Government Buildings - S [P.2011.51.8]

Title: Views of a cemetery
Description: Shows funeral processions passing a man reclining on a hilltop adorned with mausoleums, possibly in Laurel Hill Cemetery, and arriving at a plot enclosed by a circular fence at an unidentified cemetery. Views include a minister; an open grave; grave diggers; mourners; horse-drawn carriages; and a distant view of a body of water. One view also contains an ornate border including a crucifix, sepulchral monuments, and vaults. Vaults inscribed "Anderson"; "Sylancliff"; and "Holmes.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 264, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Cemeteries [(7)1322.F.458b; P.2277.27]

Title: The little pilferers When we are sent on an errand for any thing that is good to eat or drink we may be tempted. But we must resist the temptation for in God's sight it is stealing
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing two girls standing on the sidewalk in front of the shop window of a bakery. One holds a basket of bread under her right arm, as the other girl steals a sip from a drink., Not in Wainwright., Date supplied by cataloger., Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "Avoid the beginning of evil" moralizing that "there is no such thing as a little sin" since small lies engrain a "habit of falsehood and dishonesty" making children "a little bolder at every step.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 136, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Morality [7822.F.4]

Title: Penn talking to the Indians
Description: Print invoking the treaty made at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington) on the Delaware River. Penn, with his delegates, displays a large sheet of paper to a delegation of Delaware Indians. A crate, barrels, and textiles lie on the ground between the two groups of men. Two of Penn's men open the crate. The top of a barren tree, a cabin, and the outlines of human figures are visible in the background. Contains decorative border., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 554, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Penn [P.2007.39.22]

Title: Assembly Building schottisch
Description: Sheet music cover showing a busy street scene with the "Assembly Buildings" music hall rebuilt 1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. at 1000-1002 Chestnut Street. Signage for tenant F.A. Hoyt & Brother, boys clothing, adorns the frieze of the building used for concerts, exhibitions, and balls. The hall also displays signage for the "Assembly Dinner Saloon," the eating saloon in the basement. Several pedestrians walk on the sidewalks, convene at the intersection, and cross the street in which horse-drawn carriages and an omibus travel. Pedestrians include ladies with parasols, a boy with a hoop, and two men shaking hands. Also shows two men on horseback near a street lamp at the corner, a dog, and neighboring buildings., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by J.W. Roddon., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 28, Possibly printed by Jacob Haehnlen.
Date: c1852
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Theatres [6482.F]

Title: Water works of Philadelphia on the Schuylkill
Description: Book illustration of a view looking south showing the Fairmount Water Works and the Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge. The water works include the engine house and mill house originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. The single span bridge, also known as the Upper Ferry Bridge, was erected 1809-1812 with Robert Mills serving as architect, and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. The bridge burned 1838 and was replaced by the Wire Bridge at Fairmount (built 1841-1842)., Manuscript note below title: From "DeRoos 'Personal Narrative and travels in U.S." London, 1827!!!, Published in F.F. De Roos's Personal narrative of travels in the United States and Canada in 1826 ....(London: W.H. Ainsworth, 1827), opp. p. 44. [Am 1827 DeRo 6310.O]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 822, Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of "Illustrations of Philadelphia."
Date: [1827]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilities [(1)1525.F.59e]

Title: Edward L. Waller, lithographic printer. Portraits, landscapes, buildings, animals, charts, maps. Circulars, bill heads, music titles, checks, cards, labels, transfers from copper or steel, lithographed in a superior manner, no. 17 Minor Street, third story, Philadelphia
Description: Directory advertisement containing lettering in various styles. Waller operated a studio in Philadelphia 1856-1858., Published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [6], back ad section., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 25
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 10578.Q.6 (back ad section)

Title: P.S. Duval, lithographer, no. 7 Bank Alley, near the Merchant's Exchange, Philadelphia Portraits from life, on stone, landscapes from nature, anatomical & architectural drawings, machinery, music titles, maps, plans, circulars, checks, bill heads, bills of lading, price currents, fac-similes, transfers from steel, copper, wood, and autographs, printing in colors, &c &c. Executed in the best possible manner, and on low terms
Description: Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Mercantile register, or business man's guide.. (Philadelphia: H. Orr, 1846), p. 198., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 76
Date: [1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1846 20728.O.1.198

Title: P.S. Duval's lithographic establishment, No. 7 Bank Alley, Philadelphia Long and favourably known under the firm of Childs & Inman. P.S.D. respectfully infroms the artists of Philadelphia, and the public in general, that he is prepared to execute orders in all the various branches of the above art in a superior style. N.B. Likenesses drawn from life on stone, maps, charts, plans, bill heads, bills of exchange, cheques, professional and visiting cards, labels &c. &c. will receive prompt attention, and no exertion spared to render perfect satisfaction in every department of lithography
Description: Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 106., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 77
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.106

Title: J.T. Bowen, lithographer & print colourer, no. 94 Walnut Street, Philadelphia N.B. Views of public buildings, landscapes, maps, plans, charts, circualrs, &c. executed in the most beautiful style, and at the shortest notice; also portraits taken from life, or reduced from paintings, or enlarged from miniatures
Description: Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 107., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 41
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.107

Title: John Collins, lithographer, no. 79 South Third Street, Philadelphia Plans, maps, circulars, portraits, landscapes, anatomical, and other drawings executed in the most accurate and highly finished style
Description: Directory advertisement containing an ornamental border around advertising text., Published in The Philadelphia circulating business directory. For 1838. (Philadelphia: Published at Morris's Xylographic Press, 1838), p. 107., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 49
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1838 (35) 10840.O.107

Title: Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list G. & H. Barnett No. 39, 41 & 43 Richmond Street Philadelphia Pa
Description: Illustrated title page showing an exterior view of the factory complex for the file Works "established in 1863" in Richmond. Shows clerks and laborers moving and loading crates on to a company horse-drawn wagon parked in front of the office building. Individuals stand in the doorway of the building that is adorned with signage containing the name of the company and proprietors. In the rear of the office, the "File Factory" with several operating smokestacks, one adorned with a model of the company trademark, stands. Figures are seen in a window and door of sections of the edifice. At a two-story building, adjacent to the office, a worker carries planks of wood through the door. Also shows a "Richmond & Exchange" horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers passing in the street., Not in Wainwright., Published as title page in Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list. ([Philadelphia, 1874])., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 57, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare **Am 1874 G.& H. Barnett 10069.F.title page

Title: Philadelphia as it is in 1852
Description: Red, blue and yellow flowering vines surround colored vignettes of Benjamin Franklin reading and the seal of Philadelphia. A solid gilt border encloses the vignettes., Title page in R.A. Smith's Philadelphia as it is, in 1852: being a correct guide to all the public buildings; literary, scientific, and benevolent institutions; and places of amusement; remarkable objects; manufactories; commercial warehouses; and wholesale and retail stores in Philadelphia and its vicinity. With illustrations, and a map of the city and environs (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1852)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 173
Date: [1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Smith [68527.D.title page], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Smith [(2) 10006.D.title page], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Smith [(3) 10006.D.title page]

Title: [Specimen sheet of volunteer fire fighting vignettes]
Description: Specimen sheet containing seven volunteer fire fighting vignettes numbered 998-1004. Vignettes depict a fire hydrant (998); firefighters racing a horse-drawn steam engine and hand-drawn hose carriage down a city street; the anchor emblem of the Hope Fire Company (1000); a firefighter in his uniform of helmet, long coat, and boats holding a hose with smoke in the background (1001); coat of arms of Philadelphia (1002); firefighters racing a horse-drawn ladder truck down a city street (1003); and a firefigher using a ladder to rescue a woman and baby from a smoke filled window with a hose at his side. In 1870 Philadelphia passed an ordinance establishing a paid fire department., Title supplied by cataloguer., Possibly printed by Theodore Leonhardt., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 226, Gift of Manuel Kean.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Fires & Firefighting [P.8511.1]

Title: Poplar Grove. Residence of E.S. Richards, near Germantown, Penna
Description: View showing the villa-like estate of merchant Edwin S. Richards. Shrubery and trees landscape the grounds in front of the residence. In the background, behind a picket fence, a stone building and gazebo stand next to other buildings., Not in Wainwright., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 614
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences - P [P.2003.37.2]

Title: Microscopic view of Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view predominately showing the built city from the Schuylkill to the Delaware rivers and Port Richmond to South Philadelphia. Market Street runs down the center of the view. Shows the residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying areas of Center City. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia, Windmill Island, and Camden, NJ. and public utilities, bridges, railroad depots, and reservoirs. Includes from west to east, the Woodlands, Blockley Almshouse, the Upper Ferry Bridge, Market Street Bridge, the two Gas Works, Fairmount Water Works, Girard College, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Naval Asylum, Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mark's Church, Christ Church, Independence Hall, Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Peter's Church, and Spark's Shot Tower. Also shows the five major squares (as well as Independence Square) and adjacent landmarks, including the P.R.R. Freight Depot, U.S. Mint, First Independent Church, Pennsylvania Asylum for the Blind, and Will's Eye Hospital. Masts of docked ships line the piers along the Delaware and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border the built city to the North and South., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 478, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Views
Date: c1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Views [P.9087]

Title: Pupil's polka composed and dedicated to the pupils of Hlasko's Dancing Academy by A. Tatzel, senr
Description: Sheet music cover containing an interior view showing children at dance class at the physical institute operated by Miecislaw Hlasko. A mother introduces her son to the instructor as boy-girl and girl-girl couples perform different dance steps. Parents watch the children from the dance floor and other chaperones and children sit on a long cushioned bench lining a side of the hall. Two musicians play from a raised platform adorned with a balustrade in the background. Space also includes chandeliers and a skylight., Prices printed on recto: Colored 4 1/2; Plain 3., Includes the sheet music., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 629, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [c[1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sheet Music Germ 11309.F (Doret)

Title: Confirmations-Schein Es wird hiermit bescheinigt, dass [blank] nachdem [blank] in den Grundlehren und Pflichten der christlichen Religion gehorig unterrichtet, durch die Confirmation in die volle Gemeinschafte der [blank] aufgenommen worden ist, den [blank] im Jahre unseres Herrn Ein Tausend Acht Hundert und [blank]
Description: Confirmation certificate issued by the Reformed Church containing a scene of a confirmation class, and Biblical passages, a confirmation poem, and text in German. Scene depicts a pastor at the altar of a church attending to four men and a woman kneeling in prayer in front of him. Also shows curved stairways in the background and the baptismal font in the foreground. Bible passages include Isaiah 54:10, Matthew 11:28, Deuteronomy 29:9, Mark 8:34, and Rev. 2:10. Also contains an ornamental border., Johanna Dorothea Wollenweber is listed at this address in Philadelphia directories from 1854 to 1857; M.H. Traubel is listed at this address from 1854 to 1856., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 22.7 x 17.6 cm.L, Not in: Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 42, Library Company copy completed in MS. for Amanda H. Beitenman, confirmed March 29, 1857 by Rev. A.L. Dechant, in Keeler's Church, Frederick, Montgomery County, Pa.
Date: [between 1854 and 1856?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1854 Confirm 14331.Q (Roughwood)

Title: Confirmations-Schein Es wird hiermit bescheinigt, dass [blank] nachdem [blank] in den Grundlehren und Pflichten der christlichen Religion gehorig unterrichtet, durch die Confirmation in die wolle Gemeinschaft der [blank] aufgenommen worden ist, den [blank] im Jahre unseres Herrn Ein Tausend Acht hHundert und [blank]
Description: Confirmation certificate issued by the Reformed Church containing a scene of a confirmation class, Biblical passages, a confirmation poem, and text in German. Scene depicts a pastor at the altar of a church attending to four men and a woman kneeling in prayer in front of him. Also shows curved stairways in the background and the baptismal font in the foreground. Bible passages include Isaiah 54:10, Matthew 11:28, Deuteronomy 29:9, Mark 8:34, and Rev. 2:10. Also contains an ornamental border., Johanna Dorothea Wollenweber is listed at this address in Philadelphia directories from 1858 to 1864; Schnabel & Finkeldey is listed from 1858 to 1863., Printed area, including ornament border, measures 22.6 x 17.6 cm., Not: in Wainwright., Library Company copy completed in MS. for Polly Rieth, confirmed May 6, 1858, by Rev. Augustus Bergner in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Upper Mahantango, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 43
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1858 Confirm 14332.Q (Roughwood)

Title: [Marriage certificate]
Description: Marriage certificate from a Bible illustrated with an ornate border containing a romantic scene. Scene shows a couple sailing in a gondola adorned with a garland of flowers. Border also includes flowers, vinery, doves, tassels, drapery, clasped hands, and the Bible., Title supplied by cataloguer., Copyrighted by William Flint. Name of copyright holder from duplicate (15129.Q)., Copyright statement partially illegible., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 143
Date: c1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1868 This 14333.Q [Roughwood]

Title: [Marriage certificate]
Description: Marriage certificate illustrated with an ornate border containing a romantic scene. Scene shows a couple, accompanied by the female allegorical figure Love, sailing in a gondola. Love holds an arrow and torch and the gondola is adorned with a garland of flowers. Border also includes flowers, vinery, doves, the Bible, and clasped hands over the Biblical quote "What God hath joined together let not man put asunder, Matth. XIX.6.", Title supplied by cataloguer., Copyrighted by J.R. Jones in Washington, D.C., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Mr. Daniel S. Schaeffer of Fleetwood Berks co. Pa. and Miss Mary F. Potteiger of Jefferson Twp. Berks Co. Pa. on September 4, 1875. Signed by Rev. Thomas Calvin Leinbach of Womelsdorf. Witnessed by Adam N. Potteiger and Adam S. bright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 144
Date: c1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 14342.Q [Roughwood]

Title: [Marriage certificate]
Description: Marriage certificate from a Bible illustrated with an ornate border containing a romantic scene. Scene shows a couple sailing in a gondola adorned with a garland of flowers. Border also includes flowers, vinery, doves, tassels, drapery, clasped hands, and the Bible. Certificate attached to a record sheet for marriages and births. Birth section contains annotations., Title supplied by cataloguer., Copyrighted by William Flint., Copy 15129.Q [Roughwood] records the marriage of Daniel Kemmer of Ober Wilford and Maryan Sangler of Wilford Bucks on August 10, 1867 at Fogelsville by William W. Kelfrich, Reformirfer Prediger., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 145/146, One of prints [P.2009.12] gift of David Doret.
Date: c1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 15129.Q [Roughwood], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Certificates [P.2009.12]

Title: [Merchants' Exchange, 143 South Third Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Proof print of a view looking northeast from the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets showing the Merchants' Exchange. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic. Horse-drawn street cars travel past and receive passengers in front of the exchange. A dray transports goods near pedestrians, including a man carrying a bundle on his back, crossing the street. Also contains partial view of Girard Bank (116-120 S. Third) in the background. Exchange built 1832-1833 after the designs of William Strickland. The Girard National Bank, formerly the First Bank of the United States, was built 1795-1797 after the designs of Samuel Blodgett. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as the Girard National Bank., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 473, Gift of David Doret
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Banks - M [P.2007.21.17]

Title: Near a fire. Say! Just hold this while I fetch another section, will you. (Likely?)
Description: One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows a volunteer, in full uniform, offering a flowing fire hose to an unsuspecting gentleman on a street corner. The gentleman whose hands are occupied with a cigar and a cane looks aghast at the firefighter. A woman watches the scene from the window of her dwelling. Additional streetscape, including a storefront, is visible in the background, Philadelphia on Stone., POS 253b, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Variant of P.8970.12., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.13]

Title: At a fire. What boys may expect when they get in firemen's way
Description: One of a series of satires mocking the ineptitude of Philadelphia volunteer firefighters. Shows a volunteer, in full uniform, spraying a boy bystander in the face, instead of a crumbling, burning building, with a fire hose. Fire house is attached to a hand-pumper visible in the background. Also shows fire debris, a hose attached to a hydrant, other fire fighters attending the fire engine, and the storefront of "F. Adams.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 253d, Harrison & Weightman was a partnership between Henry G. Harrison and William N. Weightman., Variant of P.8970.11., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - The Fireman (Cartoons)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.8970.14]

Title: Iron Manufacture : boilers, steam engines, hydraulic pumps Port Richmond Iron Works Philadelphia. I.P. Morris & Co. Iron founders, steam engine builders, general machinists, and boiler makers. : Southwark Foundry, cor. 5th & Washington St. Philadelphia. Merrick & Sons, engineers & machinists. : Camden Iron Manufacturing Company. Engineers, machinists, iron founders & boiler makers. Kaighn's Point, Camden, N.J. Agency: n.w. cor, of Front & Walnut sts., Philadephia
Description: Atlas advertisement containing exterior views of the two Philadelphia and the Camden foundries. Views contain promotional text about the products manufactured, the names of the proprietors, and the dates of establishment of two of the firms. Views include maritime traffic, horse-drawn trucks hauling machinery, and operating smokestacks. Machinery advertised includes pumping, hoisting, and stationery engines; sugar mills; iron boats; and bon black washers and bruisers. The Morris foundry was established in 1828 and the Merrick foundry was established in 1836. Atlas entry for "The State of Connecticut" printed on the verso., 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 23. (HSP O 458)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 392
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries - Morris [P.2007.22]

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: Swaim's building, s.e. corner of Chestnut and Seventh street Barnum's museum and theatre in the upper part. On the site of Wm. Waln's mansion house, which was removed [ ] for the above represented building, burnt down December 30th 1851
Description: View looking southeast from a terrace showing the Swaim’s Building tenanted by Barnum’s Museum at 628-632 Chestnut Street. Flags and posters adorn the building. Several pedestrians traverse and a horse-drawn wagon are parked in front of the museum. Also shows a partial view of 700 Chestnut Street and neighboring buildings on the 600 block of the street. Patent medicine purveyor William Swaim acquired the Waln House in 1826. Barnum opened his Philadelphia Museum in 1849., Title from Poulson inscription on mount., Probably originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 730/731
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Museums - Barnum [P.8970.5]

Title: [Swaim's building, s.e. corner of Chestnut and Seventh street]
Description: View looking southeast from a terrace showing the Swaim’s Building tenanted by Barnum’s Museum at 628-632 Chestnut Street. Flags and posters adorn the building. Several pedestrians traverse and a horse-drawn wagon are parked in front of the museum. Also shows a partial view of 700 Chestnut Street and neighboring buildings on the 600 block of the street. Patent medicine purveyor William Swaim acquired the Waln House in 1826. Barnum opened his Philadelphia Museum in 1849., Title from duplicate on mount with Poulson inscription., Black paper frame pasted on print., Contains watercolor sketches of windows on verso., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 730/731
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Museums - Barnum [P.8970.2]

Title: Museu de Filadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Philadelphia Arcade also known as the Philadelphia Museum originally built 1826-1827 as a shop gallery after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Pedestrians walk in front of and into the museum in which a woman is visible walking down a staircase. Also shows adjacent buildings, an awning post, and street lamp. Museum served as an exhibition gallery including the display of the Philadelphia Museum Company's holdings of artist Charles Willson Peale's collections as well as a concert, public meeting, and lecture space. The building was also used as a bathhouse and hotel before being demolished circa 1859-1860., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 495, Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner.
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Museums - Philadelphia [P.9057.33]

Title: Washington Steam Mills, Gloucester N.J. near Philadelphia
Description: Packing label for Washington Mills, the Gloucester, New Jersey textile factory, established by David S. Brown in 1844, which specialized in imprinted textiles. Contains a border with a mosaic pattern in red, blue, and green., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 270, Gift of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - W [P.2002.67.75]

Title: [Views of four prominent buildings at the Centennial Exhibition, Fairmount Park, 1876]
Description: Proof containing four uncut views of prominent buildings built after the designs of Henry Petit, Hermann Schwarzmann, and Joseph Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition. Shows the Main Building, the Art Gallery (Memorial Hall), Agricultural Hall, and Horticultural Hall. Views include pedestrian and street traffic. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the anniversary of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 812
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Centennial [P.9558.2]

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: [Uncut sheet of four chromolithographs of children and animal scenes]
Description: Genre scenes show pairs of older girls and younger children interacting with animals in bucolic settings. Scenery includes a hillside, pond, farmyard with chickens, and a dirt path. Activities include feeding pigeons; playing fetch with a dog; observing rabbits in a hutch; and collecting flowers by hand and in a wagon acommpanied by a sheep., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 259
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Genre [P.9647]

Title: [Christ Chapel, Eddington of All Saints Church, Lower Dublin Townhsip, near Torresdale]
Description: Exterior view of the pastoral chapel erected in 1843 for the Protestant Episcopal congregation, All Saints church, organized 1772. Shows parishioners walking the grassy yard to the sanctuary surrounded by trees. Beasley served as rector of the church 1834-1878., Title supplied by cataloguer., Name of artist from manuscript note on recto., Manuscript note on recto: Near Torresdale, Penn. Oak Grove Church. Rev. Mr. Beesleys [sic] ch. PE., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 515, Morton, was rector of St. James Church, Philadelphia.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and meetinghouses - C [8314.F]

Title: [Advertisement calendar for printer]
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1858 containing classical figures, patriotic imagery, and scenes of a printer's establishment. Imagery includes the allegorical figures for art, music, prosperity, commerce, and time; the American eagle, shield, and flag; birds; cherubs; water sprites; and floral ornamentations. Scenes show artisans at work at lithographic and printing presses, a woman colorist, an artist at his drawing table, and a printer choosing typeface. Other pictorial elements depict symbols of art, trade, and industry, including a palette, globe, and bust. Filigree borders several of the images., Not in Wainwright., Name of possible printer from manuscript note on verso., Inset cut in upper portion of print., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 3, Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbooks of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - C [(2)1525.F.3]

Title: Hall & Carpenter. Tin plate & metals. 709 Market St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement calendar for 1873 promoting the tin plate firm founded in 1867 by Augustus R. Hall and George W. Carpenter. Products advertised include spelter, antimony, pig copper, pig lead, pig tin, sheet iron, sheet zinc, sheet copper, bolt copper, rivets and brass, copper, iron, and steel wire. Contains filigree accents. Firm continued after the death of Carpenter in 1883., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 104, Gift of Helen Beitler.
Date: 1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - H [P.2002.67.72]

Title: Philada. Physical Institute Prof. Hillebrand & Lewis' gymnasium. N. E. cor. 9th & Arch
Description: Advertisement containing vignettes showing male and female gym patrons participating in physical activities and the use of exercise equipment. Equipment includes parallel bars, pummel horse, pull-up bars, ropes, weights, and peg poles. Activities include shooting, fencing, boxing, gymnastics, and weightlifting. Exercise poles incorporated into the image as pictorial elements separating the vignettes. Also contains text advertising the hours of the establishment; the skills of its instructors; separate classes and drawing rooms for the different sexes; and the benefits of exercise for the "proper development of strength, health, mind and the cure of chronic affections" and the importance to ladies to produce "strength, health, beauty and grace.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 567, See related tradecards for Hillebrand & Lewis, including one printed by Stein & Jones. [P.9349.147a and 8608.F.5b].
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - H [P.8729.16]

Title: U. S. Naval Asylum; State House = Malrosen Hospital bei Philadelphia; Das Rathhaus in Philadelphia
Description: Lettersheet containing vignette exterior views of the U.S. Naval Asylum, the convalescence home for retired sailors, and the State House, i.e., Independence Hall. Views show street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn wagon and omnibus as well as a man on horseback. Asylum built 1827-1833 after the designs of William Strickland at 2420 Gray's Ferry Avenue. State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 766/767
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hospitals [P.9454.6]

Title: F. & L. Ladner's Military Hall. No. 532 North Third St. Philadelphia Free concerts nightly
Description: Tradecard containing an exterior view of the saloon and concert hall built 1857 on the 500 block of North Third Street. Male patrons convene at and near the entry as pedestrians, including women, walk past the three-and one-half-story twin building with showcase windows. In the street, a horse-drawn carriage is parked and a "Richmond & Navy Yard/Second & Third St." street car travels. Also shows partial views of adjacent businesses, including a tobacconist. The Ladners operated the hall 1857-1881., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 221, See related advertisement print **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.9008], Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153o]

Title: [Geo. H. Vandike & Co., importer of wines & liquors], 630 Market St. Philada
Description: Advertisement, possibly from a circular or verso of tradecard, containing an exterior view of the four-story storefront. Gentlemen talk at the entrances of the building as laborers load a horse-drawn dray` and cart, parked in the street. First two numbers of address depicted in reverse on store. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings., Not in Wainwright., Printer inferred from related tradecard. [P.9349.153f], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 295, Leonhardt operated from 114 S. 3rd Street 1867-1871.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153i]

Title: Lafourcade, Bros. & Irwin [banknote vignette]
Description: Vignette illustrating a banknote for the Philadelphia National Bank. Shows the fabric store in Jayne’s Hall (constructed 1856) at 631 Chestnut Street. Members of the Lafourcade family worked as Philadelphia merchants from around 1840, with the partnership between the brothers and Irwin established around 1866. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk past a horse-drawn dray parked in the street to be loaded. A horse-drawn surrey travels nearby., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 427, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.126o]

Title: De Coursey, Bryan & Co. [banknote vignette]
Description: Vignette illustrating a banknote for the Philadelphia National Bank. Shows the importer and manufacturer of men's furnishing goods (618) in Artisan Hall at 616-620 Chestnut Street. Patrons enter the storefronts and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk near a horse-drawn dray parked in the street to be loaded. A horse-drawn carriage travels nearby. De Coursey, Bryan & Co. was active 1867-1868., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 173, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871., One printed in brown ink and one tinted with one stone.
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.126b&p]

Title: Gottleib Hartung's wine & lager beer hall and restaurant. Importer of Rhenish and Neckar wines, No. 512 Race St., Philadelphia
Description: Tradecard containing a view of the three-and-one-half story beer hall and restaurant adorned with signage reading "G. Hartung Hotel." A patron enters the establishment as a man, probably the proprietor, stands near the entrance. A laborer emerges from the cellar holding a keg. Kegs and a case of liquor bottles line the sidewalk near a horse-drawn dray situated in the street for loading. Hartung established his business on Race Street in 1860 and remained proprietor until his death in 1879, after which his wife Susannah assumed operations., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 323, Weiss operated from 600 Chestnut Street in the early 1860s., See Philadelphia Inquirer, October 25, 1879 for Hartung's obituary.
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.143b]

Title: Philadelphia Sketch Club
Description: Souvenir print, or possibly design for a membership certificate, for the professional artists' club founded in 1860. Contains an oval-framed depiction of a near nude, slightly draped cherubic boy, holding a scroll under one arm, and an artist's tongs in his other hand, as he leans on a bust of Minerva. Includes a silhouette of the boy and bust. Clasp-shaped adornments containing filigree details flank the oval. Clasps adorned with a sketchbook and paint palette that enclose a pencil and paintbrush, respectively., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 187, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.69]

Title: First annual prize exhibition of the Philadelphia Sketch Club held in New York January 1866
Description: Poster containing Gothic-style lettering bordering a central vignette. Vignette depicts an oval-framed mid-length portrait of a lady in medieval attire holding a pencil and sketchpad. The lady's hand with pencil ascends outside of the frame. The professional artists' club was founded in 1860., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 79, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.75a]

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