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Title: The Inasmuch Mission
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a busy street scene with the four-story "Inasmuch Mission Men's Hotel and Restaurant" at 1019 Locust Street, Philadelphia. Completed in 1913, the mission house, the exterior resembling a warehouse, rehabilitated "fallen" men through religious and social services. Scene includes views of the nearby markets adorned with awnings under which men and women shoppers peruse displays, converse, and stand idle. The African American man, attired in a bowler hat, a shirt, a jacket, pants, and shoes, stands leaning against the awning pole with his hands in his pockets. In the right, the Chinese man, wearing a queue and attired in a tunic, pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes, stands against a wall and looks down the street away from the viewer. A horse-drawn wagon and pedestrians traverse the street. In the left, a man organ grinder with a monkey entertains children standing on the sidewalk., Copyrighted., Drawn by artist in 1914., See accompanying pamphlet containing the artist's descriptions of the views, "Ever-Changing Philadelphia" (Philadelphia: Frank H. Taylor), p. 6., Accessioned circa 1916., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, artist
Date: [drawn 1914, printed 1915]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Taylor - Case 11-6 [2717.F]

Title: John Krider's Gun Store
Description: Depicts a shop on the corner of Second and Walnut Streets. Signs hanging on the building read, "John Krider: Gun Manufacturer.", For the period of a long generation when the sportsmen of America thought of Philadelphia they thought, also, of John Krider, master workman of dependable guns and fishing rods. John Krider is gone, but the sturdy old colonial building at the northeast corner of Second and Walnut Streets still houses his shop and store, now conducted, in 1918, by L.C. Siner & Co. The upper floors present the appearance of a veritable "old curiosity shop" of sporting materials. The building occupies the site of the Drinker residence, built in the days of William Penn, wherein, according to tradition, the first white child of Philadelphia nativity was born., Taylor Catalog Number: 142
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: A Hotel Once Famous
Description: View of a Chestnut Street hotel and the adjacent buildings., The La Pierre House, built in 1853, stood upon part of the site now covered by the Land Title Building. It was opened by the Edward brothers, who had the preceding year also completed the Girard House. The La Pierre was enlarged by an addition extending to Chestnut street and the old building of the Academy of Natural Sciences was annexed as a dormitory. In its earlier years, prior to the opening of the Continental hotel, in 1860, it ranked as the leading hotel of the city. For a considerable period prior to its disappearance it was called "The Lafayette.", Taylor Catalog Number: 48
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Old Perot Engine
Description: Sketch of an engine built for Francis Perot with parts of the machine labeled., Within the present year (1915) the Francis Perot's Sons Malting Company, the oldest business concern in America, has removed, for substantial reasons, from Philadelphia to Buffalo, taking with them the famous old engine long stored, as a relic, at their Vine Street brew house. This stationary engine, of low pressure type was built, in 1819, by Thomas Halloway for Francis Perot. It is supposed to have been the first set up, people coming in large numbers to see the marvel. It was in service until 1872, after which it was stored in the courtyard of the venerable malt house upon Vine Street, and appeared occasionally upon floats in industrial parades. The sketch indicates the general appearance of the machine. The condenser consists of an iron box, 5 feet long, 2 feet wide and 20 inches deep, upon which the valve chest and cylinder are bolted. The latter is 40 inches long, the piston rod extending upward to the floor above to a crankshaft, upon which a flywheel 6 feet in diameter revolved. The governor kept company with the flywheel. The engine developed about 10 horse-power. The gauge consisted of a long glass tube containing mercury, from which a wooden stick projected upward as an indicator., Taylor Catalog Number: 51
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Sculptures Once Locally Familiar
Description: Two panels depicting architectural reliefs. The top panel shows cherubs with a harp and book. The bottom shows two cherubs with comedy and drama masks., These decorative lunettes were chiselled by Guiseppe Jardella, who was brought to America to design and execute ornamentation for the ambitious residence planned as a home for Robert Morris and generally known as "the Folly." The historian, Watson, states that these stones were intended for that structure. Eventually, however, they were secured by Latrobe, the architect, and used to ornament the first and second theatres located from 1793 to 1820, and from that date to 1855, respectively, upon Chestnut street, north side, west of Sixth street. After many years of obscurity in a marble yard they were purchased by the Rev. and Mrs. Louis F. Benson, and now embellish the interior of their residence at 2014 De Lancey Place., Taylor Catalog Number: 113
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Sparks' Shot Tower
Description: Depicts a narrow residential street with a corner store in the foreground and a large cyllindrical tower looming in the background., The long-discussed Sparks' shot tower remains a dominant feature of Southwark. It stands just west from Front Street and north from John or Carpenter Street. It was built in 1808 by Bishop & Sparks for the production of shot for sportsmen. In 1812, when the firm was called upon for shot to be used in the war, Bishop, being a Friend, withdrew from the business. It was continued by Sparks for many years. In the rear of the tower a small cemetery existed. This space and that upon which the tower stands have been taken by the city as a public playground., Taylor Catalog Number: 166
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: McAran's Pleasure Garden
Description: Shows a park with tree-lined paths, ampetheatre and an adjacent building. People watch a performance in the ampetheatre and a horse-drawn carriage goes down the path., John McAran was, about 1828, a gardener and florist occupying a suburban tract west of Seventeenth and south of Arch Streets. He developed this location as a public amusement park which was opened on June 13th, 1840, at which time D.J. Kennedy made the drawing from which this sketch has been copied. Fireworkds, music and dancing attracted the evening crowds. A feature was a fine collection of birds. He was induced to join with Ward & McIntosh, in the erection of a theatre upon the site. This venture failed and the ground was soon afterward devoted to the building of residences and two churches., Taylor Catalog Number: 254
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Where American Paper Was First Made
Description: View of a brick farm house and outbuilding next to a creek. There is a path leading to a bridge over the creek., One of the most treasured of the colonial homes now within Fairmount Park is a quaint little home upon the Wissahickon stream neaer Valley Green. It was here that William Rittenhouse, a German immigrant, built and operated in 1690, the first paper mill in America. This mill, no longer existent, stood just across the small run, opposite the house, within which David Rittenhouse, scientist and astronomer was born in 1732. A second paper mill was built, by William Dewees, brother-in-law of William Rittenhouse, in 1710, on the Wissahickon above the original mill., Taylor Catalog Number: 264
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: A Study of Chimneys
Description: Study of the skyline on Locust street., This casual grouping of walls, roof expanses and chimneys may be enjoyed through a window of the Philadelphia Library building at Locust and Juniper Streets. Arrayed along a bit of morning sky those towering shafts, rising from broad fire-places, seem to proclaim a plenty of interior comfort of the old sort which still holds so many of our "best families" close to the heart of the old town., Taylor Catalog Number: 292
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Parkway Fountain
Description: Sketch of the fountain in Logan Square. Automobiles drive around while a caretaker and child walk along a path. City Hall can be seen in the background., Of the several public spaces provided in the survey of the original city of Philadelphia, Logan Square, has been subject to the most change. As a feature of the broad plan for linking up the centre of the city with Fairmount Park, it is an impressive and beautiful forecast of an avenue of great splendor. Where these waters now arise and flowers adorn the borders the great fair of the Sanitary Commisson was held in the early Summer of 1863., Taylor Catalog Number: 288
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Fair of the U.S. Sanitary Commission in 1864
Description: Aerial view of the U.S. Sanitary Commission Fairgrounds in Logan Square., In the early summer of 1864 the United States Sanitary COmission, devoted to the welfare of the Soldiers and Sailors of the Federal forces held a series of great fairs in thirteen cities. The most important of these events was opened at Logan Square in Philadelphia upon June 7th and continued two weeks. The Art Gallery, filled with a loan collection of notable paintings remianed open to July 6th. The proceeds of the enterprise exceeded $1,000,000. The temporary buildings erected for the exhibition were afterward occupied, for a short time, as barracks for 3000 concalescent soldiers from the military hospitals of the city., Taylor Catalog Number: 293
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Where Old Philadelphia Still Clings to the Soil
Description: Sketch of the rooftops of a cluster of crowded homes., Taylor Catalog Number: 4
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1911

Title: The Old Navy Yard
Description: View of the navy yard in 1864. Small boats, cannons and soldiers are on the docks, while various types of vessels are in the harbor. Buildings used for making boats are seen in the background., The first United States navy yard, located at the foot of Federal Street upon the Delware River, was established here in the year 1800. The site had been previously occupied by Joshua Humphries, who had built here the famous frigate United States and also, in 1799, the frigate Philadelphia. Among the noted vessels launched here by the Government were the ship-of-the-line North Carolina, the frigate Pennsylvania (largest ship ever built up to 1837), the Vandalia, Dale, Germantown, Wyoming, Raritan, Wabash, Lancaster, Mississippi and Susquehanna; also the fast Princeton, of Arctic fame. The navy yard was the scene of great activity during the Civil War. One feat was the construction of the sloop-of-war Tuscadora in fifty-eight days. Other ships turned out here in the course fo the war were the Juniata, Swatara, Yantic, Monongahela, Shenandoah, Neshaminy and the monitor Tonowanda. The old yard was sold in 1875., Taylor Catalog Number: 51
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: On Election Night
Description: Night scene with crowded streets, trolley cars and early automobiles. On one side of the street there are businesses, "Edwards," "Starks Oyster House," "Prudrette Crops" and a sign shop.
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1914

Title: The First Photograph Made in America
Description: The image depicts an early street scene showing the State Arsenal, the then new High School and the Horse Market Tavern on Juniper Street, now covered by the Wanamaker building. Views of buildings on Market, Juniper and Filbert streets are seen in the distance., The possibility of obtaining "sun pictures" was known to European scientists in the early period of the eighteenth century, but it remained to Daguerre, one of a group of French experimenters, to produce definite heliographs. When, in 1839, he was pensioned by the French Government, the process was made public and the formula soon reached American scientific bodies. A brief account appeared in the "United States Gazette" of September 25th. Among those few who regarded the discovery seriously was Joseph Saxton, and employee at the Mint upon Chestnut Street. He obtained a small lens and an "exposure" from a rear second-story window of the Mint. This picture, taken upon October 16th, 1839, was the first "heliograph" made in America. He is said, by Dr. Julius Sachse, in his pamphlet report to the Franklin Institute, to have taken other views from the same outlook on the following daw. THis drawaing depicts what the camera "saw," even though but faintly, in those epochal views. Joseph Saxton was an inventor of numerous scientific and mechanical devices. He died at Washington in 1873.
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1916

Title: Greenway Public School, on Greenway Lane
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a series of buildings along a quiet, tree-lined street. The building in the foreground has a plaque that reads "1859," and has a figure in the doorway and children on the sidewalk., Greenway Public School, on Greenway Lane west of Woodland Ave. Erected in 1859., Taylor Catalog Number: 186
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1919

Title: Building the Bridge, 1923
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a construction site on the water. Wooden scaffolding holds up cranes, with boats stationed nearby. Two men watch from the foreground., This powerful group of derricks, in use, when sketched, at the foot of Race Street, in the early months of 1923, rise in their strength, as a promise of fulfillment. Guided by the brain and hand of unseen men of skill they are clearing the way and delivering the material wich goes into the making of the great bridge which will soon span the Delaware river and bring millions of people into closer touch at a vast and constant saving of time and money., Taylor Catalog Number: 287
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: Delaware River Bridge Tower
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting the construction of a bridge tower. Figures work near the scaffolding clustered around the left-hand side of the tower, and automobiles are in the foreground., A sketch of the Delaware River Bridge Tower at the foot of Race Street, Philadelphia, in December, 1923., Taylor Catalog Number: 318
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: The Columbia Bridges at Belmont
Description: Reproduction of two drawings depicting a bridge over a river. Top image depicts a covered railroad bridge with a train going across, with a horse-drawn covered wagon and a train car pulled by mules in the foreground. The bottom image shows an uncovered bridge with two steam locomotives moving in opposite directions, and two automobiles and horses on the lower bank of the river., The original railroad bridge spanning the Schuylkill River at Belmont was completed in 1834. It was built by the State of Pennsylvania, at a cost of $235,000, to provide connection of the city with the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad. It was the first railroad bridge built within the State. Cars were drawn to Belmont by mule power and hoisted by steam up the incline at Belmont a distance of 2000 feet. Thence they proceeded to Columbia, at first by horse power, and, after 1836 by small locomotives. Sectional canal boats were transported upon trucks over the same route, these providing means for freightage and passenger travel to and from Pittsburgh. The bridge was bought by the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company after the old State railroad was superseded by the Pennsylvania (central) line. The old bridge was displaced by one of iron in 1889. This second bridge will be removed, in the course of 1920, by a splendid arched bridge of concrete which is, at this time (1919), in course of construction., Taylor Catalog Number: 184
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1919

Title: Horticultural Hall
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a building on a busy street. Pedestrians gather on the sidewalk in front of the entrance, and automobiles and a figure on horseback are on the street in the foreground., In the autumn of 1917 this building, located south of the Academy of Music upon Broad street and one of the most beautiful structures in Philadelphia, was destroyed to make room for a theatre. The fact directs attention to the long and noteworthy record of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society which, formed in 1827, was the successor of the first American Agricultural Society, organized in 1785. The original Horticultural Hall was built in 1865. The Hall was burned out in 1881 and again in 1893. The structure lately removed was the fourth owned by the society. The repeated rebuilding of the property was due to the liberality of Mr. William A. Schaeffer, who held the position of President seventeen years. In 1884 his widow placed the building in the hands of trustees "for the benefit and use of the Society forever." Many eminent citizens have been identified with the Society in the course of its existence., Taylor Catalog Number: 112
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1917

Title: St. George's Hall
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a building at the corner of an intersection, with an inscription on the front that reads "St George's Hall." Pedestrians stand on the steps of the building or walk by, and a horse-drawn streetcar travels in the street., A century since there was, among the array of shops along then fashionable Second Street, a retail dry goods store conducted by an energetic young citized named Matthew Newkirk, who so prospered that he was voted, twenty years later, to the presidency of a group of transportation enterprises which he presently welded into the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, in testimony of which there yet stands, near the site of the once famous "Newkirk Viaduct," at Gray's Ferry, a neglected monument. Out of the profits of this and other achievements he built this palatial home, in 1837, at the southwestern corner of Thirteenth and Arch streets. Mr. Newkirk resided here about thirty years. He died in 1868. Just prior to the Centennial period the Society of the Sons of St. George bought the property and made extensive alterations. The long-familiar bronze of "St. George and the dragon," which surmounted the building, was cast in England. When the Society removed, not long ago, to its new home at Nineteenth and Arch streets, the bronze was taken along. The site of the mansion is now occupied by the "St. George Building," a business structure., Taylor Catalog Number: 69
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Hall of the German Society - City Gas Offices
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a building on a busy street. The building has a sign above the door that reads "Gas Office," and pedestrians gather on the steps to the building and by the tree directly in front of the building., The German Society, formed for teh assistance of newcomers from the fatherland, was organized in 1764. Its meetings were held for a dozen years in the building of the German Lutheran School on Cherry street, east from Fourth street. The Society was incorporated in 1781 and built, at that period, a substantial structure on Seventh street, a part of which was reserved for a library and reading rooms. Wings were added in 1841. The city leased the main structure in 1866 for offices of the gas works. Subsequently a new front was extended to the street line. The Builders' Exchange bought the property in 1893 and made radical alterations, including the construction of an office arcade upon the gorund covered by the original building. The German Society is now located (1915) at Marshall and Spring Garden Streets., Taylor Catalog Number: 64
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Third Street Hall
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a five story building at an intersection. The building has a sign that reads "Third Street Hall," and there are both pedestrians on the porch of thebuilding and horse drawn carriages in the street., This once popular hotel, located at the corner of Third and Willow Streets, enjoyed prosperity in the early days of rail and canal travel from the fact that it was the starting point for the cars of the Peoples' Line, connecting through to Pittsburgh, and also for vehicles carrying passengers to the depot of the Philadelphia & Trenton Railroad, in Kensington. The structure was built in 1833 by Enoch Middleton. It contained above 100 rooms for lodgers. When, in the summer of 1840, an effort was made to lay tracks fro Kensington along Front Street to Willow Street and so reach the company's headquarters in the hotel, a fierce riot ensued and the project was abandoned. In addition to the passenger trains starting by horse-power, from Third Street and over the "Western Railroad," the Willow Street tracks were used by a line of pleasure cars which ran hourly, to and from Fairmount, at a fare of twenty-five cents. This line of cars was operated by an Italian confectioner named Lucian. The first locomotive ever operated in Philadelphia was moved over the Willow Street route in September, 1832, this beign so recorded by Scharf & Westcott. Thebasis of this drawing was a wood cut of 1840, at which time Joseph Hall conducted the hotel and the depot of the "Eastern and Western" Railroad lines was in the building to the right of the view., Taylor Catalog Number: 188
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Musical Fund Hall
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a building at night, with a sign along the top that reads "Musical Fund Hall." Well-dressesed pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and horse-drawn carriages are on the street in the foeground. ., Th music lovers of the city felt the need a century ago of co-operative encouragement of the art and some practical assistance to professionals in want of support. To this end the Musical Fund Society was organized in 1820 and incorporated three months later. In 1824 the Society purchased a church structure upon the south side of Locust street, west from Eighth street, and adapted it to their requirements. Then in the centre of a refined residential section, it was long a fashionable place of entertainment. Its auditorium as known far and wide as the finest in its acoustic quality in the United States. The most eminent song artistes of their time appeared upon its stage, including Malibran, Sontag, Jenny Lind, Alboni, Grisi, Mario, Ole Bull, and Vieuxtemps. Concert orchestras often numbered on hundred and twenty performers. The present drawing represents the original facade. The Society still exists, and its once-noted home, dingy and forgotten, is now environed by a decadent vicinage and elbowed by crowding industries. There are yet some living who cannot look upon the old structure without a sense of fond recollection of the gifted ones, the gay throngs of friends, the triumphs of which only fading memories now remain., Taylor Catalog Number: 114
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Clarke Hall, S.W. Corner of Third and Chestnut Streets
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a series of buildings on the corner of an intersection. Pedestrians are walking on the sidewalks and conversing, and there is a horse-drawn carriage in the intersection in the foreground., This drawing of a pair of once notable buildings has been copied from a sketch by McAllister, dated 1808. The original structures were built by William Clarke, a wealthy attorney, soon after the year 1700. They were, probably, the first residences erected west of Third Street. In 1704 William Penn, Jr., lived in one of them. Subsequent owners were Andrew Hamilton, attorney general of the Province, and Israel Pemberton, who developed gardens in the rear, extending along Dock Creek. During the decade from 1790 the property was occupied by Alexander Hamilton as offices of the United States Treasury. THe Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank was located here in 1809. In the course of time the old double house was subjected to many changes. For a long period, prior to 1840, it was tenanted by a number of artisans and storekeepers. In that year the building was demolished by Messrs. Swain, Abel & Simmons, who had come here, four years before, from New York and founded the Public Ledger. They erected the brick Ledger building on the site, which is now covered by the Merchant & Mariner office building., Taylor Catalog Number: 160
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: When the Liberty Bell Came Home
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a lit window and open door at night. A backlit crane is lowering a bell into the doorway in front of a large crowd holding flags., Safely back from the acclaim of patriotic millions, loath to say "Good-bye!", the tired old Bell came, at last, to its home portal at nightfall upon Thanksgiving day, 1915. Welcomed by all Philadelphia, it had moved slowly, flower decked, with soldiery and music through the crowded streets to old Independence Hall. The gently creaking cordage swung it clear of its chariot; it was lowered upon the waiting pedestal; the lashings were loosed and the journey was done. The most thankful person in Philadelphia that night were, doubtless, those city officals and members of the police force who were especially entrusted with the safe handling and guarding of the priceless relic during this, the latest and longest journey to which it has been subjected., Taylor Catalog Number: 39
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1915

Title: The Old Structure at Fifth and Chestnut Streets and Philosophical Hall
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a two story building at a busy intersection. Independence Hall is visible in the background, and pedestrians, a horse-drawn carriage, and a horse-drawn streetcar are in the foreground., Through a period of more than seventy-five years, for want of a better place, the old Hall of Independence, with its flanking structures, were the seat of local government. So recent has grown the sentiment of national veneration for the group, compelling restoration and safeguarding, that the worn-out old Supreme Court building at the corner of Fifth Street, has not, as yet, in 1919, been put into good order. Thie building was completed in 1791. During nearly ten years it was occupied by the U.S. Supreme and other Federal Courts. City Councils met there through more than half a century. Prior to the completion of the Public Buildings the Central Police Station was housed here, the Mayor and his staff having the second floor. The library building of the Philosophical Society south of the old City Hall is shown in this drawing as it originally appeared. It was erected in 1787 upon ground granted by the State., Taylor Catalog Number: 190
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Hope Farm and Richmond Hall
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting several residential buildings and factories surrounding a dock. A boat, fishermen, and stacks of goods are in the foreground., William Ball, a native of Devonshire, England, and first of the Pennsylvania branch of the Ball family in America, bouught a large tract of riverfront land in Kensington in 1728. This he called Hope Farm. The residence built thereon he named Richmond Hall, probably in complement to his Virginian relatives, one of whom, Mary Ball, "the rose of Epping forest," became the wife of Augustine Washington and mother of George Washington. Richmond Hall was loacated close to the Delaware River shore just north of the foot of Norris Street. A son of William Ball, bearing the same name, succeeded to the Hope Farm property. He became, by appointment in 1761, the first Provincial Grand Master of the Free Masons of Pennsylvania. He died in 1810. The Hope Farm manor and residence were willed to his only daughter, "Harriott." The tracts appears upon a map of 1774 as Ballstown. An advertisement appeared in Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, in 1821, referring to teh Richmond Hotel, "one mile above Kensington on the Delaware." The proprietor, C. J. Wolbert, was famed for the excellence of his catfish dinners. This hotel was the old Ball Mansion. The Port Richmond coal terminal is upon land of the old Ball estate. This drawing has been made from an illustration printed in 1853., Taylor Catalog Number: 165
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Carpenters' Hall
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a building with the sinage "1724 Carpenters' Hall." Figures walk and converse in the courtyard in front of the building., This venerated structure is reached by a brief passageway leading south from Chestnut Street, between Third and Fourth Streets. It is owned by the ancient Carpenters' Company. It was within its walls that, nearly two years prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the first Continental Congress, composed of delegates from eleven provinces, adopted measures which advocated and finally led to the War of the Revolution and seperation from the dominion of Great Britain. The building is open to visitors upon weekdays., Taylor Catalog Number: 353
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Darby Meeting
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a scene showing two buildings in a pastoral setting with pedestrians on sidewalks in the foreground. Buildings are seperated by the sidewalk by a picket fence., The Darby "Friends," a group then zealous, if few in numbers, organized a meeting in 1864 and, three years later, built a place of worship of logs. This also served as a town meeting house. The existing buildings were erected in 1805. Most of the members came from the county Derby, England. After considerably more than a century of use the structures, in good repair, and the adjoining burial ground are maintained by the Quaker descendants of the original settlers., Taylor Catalog Number: 309
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: The Home of the Site and Relic Society
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a large building set back from the main road. A woman is standing at the top of the starts at the front entrance, while a male and a female figure converse in the foreground. A tall tree also stands in the foreground., The Site and Relic Society of Germantown has an ideal home in a spacious old mansion standing well back from Main Street, in Vernon Park, now city property. The mansion was erected in 1803 by James Matthews, who sold it, after a few years, to John Wister, whose son of the same name was at one time a member of Congress, and who occupied it until his death in 1883. The Society maintains a museum of Colonial and Revolutionary treasures which is open free of charge to all visitors daily, between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. For an interesting sketch of Vernon Park see Mr.Charles F. Jenkins' Guide eBook to Historic Germantown., Taylor Catalog Number: 171
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Good-Bye, Natatorium
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a multi-story urban building labeled "Est. 1858 Natatorium Physical Institute." Lower floor has two raised entrances marked "Swimming School" and "Natatorium Hall." Four figures are in the foreground, exiting the building and walking by on the sidewalk., The Natatorium has been a feature upon South Broad street, at No. 219, from the year 1858. Thousands of sedate and elderly citizens may recall that it was here, under the tutelage of the genial old Jansen, they had their first swim, and a multitude will remember that it was in Payne's winter dancing classes they were drilled into pedal dexterity and grace. But now it is all of the past. Mr. W. E. Adams, the present owner, who continued the swimming and dancing features after 1909 as well as his confectionery store, is transforming the building into a hotel of modest proportions, which will doubtless win favor, both by reason of its ideal location and the Adams way of doing things., Taylor Catalog Number: 126
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Dock Street Market House
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a busy market scene. Depicts the Market House with awnings, displays of goods, and horse-drawn delivery trucks. Shoppers populate the stalls and delivery trucks, and there is a mother and daughter walking away from the market in the foreground., At the opening of the year 1924, when this drawing of the market house at Dock and Spruce was made, this busy centre of food retailing, especially in fish, was still open for business, although lately sold. The structure is one of the few of its type yet remaining. It was built by the city and, in 1874, was purchased by William Massey, from whose estate it was bought by John H. Dart, Jr., Taylor Catalog Number: 327
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: The Eastern Market
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a busy market scene. Displays of goods are visible as are banners reading "choice fruit in season" and "Partridges Dining Saloon," with shoppers and horse-drawn delivery trucks. There is a horse-drawn trolley in the foreground., The Eastern Market-house was built in 1859. It extended between Fourth and Fifth streets above Chestnut street. It was the third market building of its class built in Philadelphia. Some old citizens will recall Partridge's lunch counter as a popular feature here, for many years. The Market covered the site of the old Black Bear Inn. It was, in turn, displaced in the year 1900 by the Bourse building., Taylor Catalog Number: 279
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Fairmount Market
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a busy market scene. Shoppers are examining goods are displayed under awnings, which have vendor names written on them. There are motor cars, horse-drawn delivery trucks, and a trolley, and two figures are crossing the streetcar tracks in the foreground., This long popular market house, at the southwest corner of Spring Garden and Twenty-second streets, was bought, in 1917, by the trustes of Lu Lu Temple Mystic Shrine, from the estate of Joshua Haines. The space, covering 300 feet by 265 feet upon the two streets, respectively, will be used as the site for an ornate and costly Temple of the Order. This will be undertaken when the return of Peace and normal construction conditions make the improvement timely., Taylor Catalog Number: 111
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Heart of the Old Chestnut Street Trade
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a row of stores with awnings on Chestnut Street. Pedestrians are present on both sides of the street, and horse-drawn carriages and wagons are present., This vista of Chestnut Street, upon the north side between Second and Fourth Streets, has been drawn from a photograph loaned by Mr. Gutekunst, who copied a daguerreotype made in 1845 by Mason. The view is especially notable in depicting the then indispensable array of wooden awning-posts, common to the business sections of the city. In that period, seventy years ago, this neighborhood was the centre of extensive commercial and financial interests.,
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Around the Head of Old Dock Street
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a series of hotels, including the Exchange Hotel. There are pedestrians and horse drawn carriages in the street, and the end of a freight train in the foreground., In the forties and long afterward upper Dock street was the hub of business and social Philadelphia. In the broad space between the Pennsylvania Bank and the imposing building of the Commercial Exchange, built in 1832, was the point of arrival and departure of stages, hacks and in their time horse-cars, which provided much of the transit of their time. Here, also, were freight sidings, the cars from the West being drawn hither by long lines of mules. Round about were the most popular taverns and saloons of the town. One of these, the Exchange Hotel, then numbered 75 and 77 Dock street, managed by Copple and Jones, and at one time was called the "Wisconsin Hotel," was famous for its profuse menu. Masons of high degree banqueted at its table and often. Here in February, 1852, Gen. Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, with his staff, was entertained by important citizens, an event long remembered among the gustatory triumphs of the period. The old hotel was displaced long ago by a commercial edifice, now numbered 235 Doct Street. The present structure (in 1918) is marked for removal to make room for something still more modern and roomy., Taylor Catalog Number: 121
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: In Busy Dock Street
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a busy day on Dock Street. Shows the Merchant Exchange Building on the left, with a row of commercial buildings with awnings in the background. In the foreground there are pedestrians, automobiles, and a streetcar., When this sketch was drawn in 1924, the old provision stores and warehouses facing the upper reach of Dock Street are awaiting removal to make room for a more modern structure devoted to the welfare of seamen when in port. This improvement, in the heart of the city's most picturesque section, probably indicates the general displacement of other time-worn buildings to meet the requirements of this centre of traffic in our food supplies. The building at the left of the row, No. 227, was once the home of the poet, Edgar Allan Poe., Taylor Catalog Number: 358
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Farmers' Market on Market Street
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of the Farmers' Market House and nearby buildings. Awnings cover the ground level of the market, while pedestrians, a horse-drawn streetcar, and two freight cars are in the foreground., The Farmers' Market house, erected upon the north side of Market Street, west from Eleventh Street, was built in 1860 and was one of the first structures of this type which succeeded the old mid-street sheds. Soon afterward the Frankline Market Company, which had previously erected the market building now housing the Mercantile Library, built a large structure adjoining the Farmers' Market upon the west. In 1892 the Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company acquired both properties and placed upon the sites the present terminal building. By agreement the market people were given space beneath the terminal track floor which they still occupy. More extended particulars will be found in Mr. Joseph Jackson's comprehensive History of Market Street., Taylor Catalog Number: 132
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: "The Russian Shoe Market"
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a market night scene. The area under the awning is lit, and there are shoppers and a cart in the foreground., The above term was used by a neighboring saloon-keeper in reply to a question and it seems to well-fit the distinely foreign aspect of this scene which any delver may discover beneath the frontage of the old Union Market on Second Street north of Callowhill Street. The "high cost of living" has not reached this humblr mart, in the matter of shoes of every sort to suit the lean purse of teh Saturday night patron. Here is the southern outpost of a retail section along old Second Street, which remains, despite all competition the shopping district for a great population in the Eleventh Ward and beyond its confines., Taylor Catalog Number: 187
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Turmoil of Dock Street Never Ceases
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a busy day on Dock Street with buildings fronted by awnings as well as pedestrians, horses, a truck, and a streetcar. There are multiple pedestrians in the foreground, including a policeman and two men talking by a barrel., From the early days of the city those who prospered began to build spacious houses along the nether shores of Dock Creek where its twin affluents, winding through wildwood groves, met and formed a haven. Their gardens were spread along its slopes, gracing a scene of sylvan beauty, but there came a time whenpestilence spread from the polluted stream and, at great cost, Dock Creek was roofed by a pavement and this broad winding space became and has since remained our greatest provision mart, affording busy and always picturesque vistas of which this scene is typical. Dock Street is an arena of the never-ending battle between plenty and hunger. The vital business of fetching and distribution is Dock Street's one big occupation by night and day. If Dock Street ever sleeps it is just for a few hours on a Sunday., Taylor Catalog Number: 200
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Old River-Front Warehouse
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a busy warehouse with a sign reading "S. H. Levin's Sons." Men move barrels near the enterance with a horse-drawn wagon and an automobile in the foreground., When a few years ago the city authorities established a high-pressure pumping station at the foot of Race Street, it displaced the oldest and one of the most picturesque buildings along the water front. This ancient structure was built in 1705 and, in its time, housed many commercial concerns, the last of which was the firm of S. H. Levins Sons, dealers in salt fish. Its quaint architecture, strongly contrasting with the modern buildings around it, appealed strongly to local artists, and it has been painted, etched and sketched so many times that one more view, taken just before its destruction, can do no harm., Taylor Catalog Number: 270
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Water Street Warehouses as Seen in '61
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a series of warehouses, with signs reading "Wise & Co. Pipe Makers" and "Delaware House." Pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons are in the street while pedestrians interact at the warehouse enterances., These quaint old warehouses, which were photographed in 1861 by Amos Bonsall, stood upon Water street, between Dock and Spruce streets. The site is now, in 1918, covered by the rear building of teh Delaware Market. The original structure located here was a fish market, built by the city in 1764. A belfry surmounted the roof, the bell being rung to notify house-wives of the arrival of sloops bringing fish. At that time Water street bore the name of King street. Two bridges, just north of the market, spanned Dock Creek. The building was altered, about 1830, into stores, as shown in the drawing. One or both of them were occupied afterward by John Watt, a dealer in corn., Taylor Catalog Number: 128
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Old Schuylkill Warehouses and Coal Wharves
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of two warehouses on the Schuylkill River. The warehouse to the right is labeled "Bolton's Transportation Line" and "plaster" while the second warehouse reads "Fish and Salt." There are three boats on the river tied to the dock, and several men are loading barrels between the boats and dock., Among the pioneer merchants in Philadelphia who developed trade with the interior of Pennsylvania by boats navigating the channels and canal system up teh Schuylkill and Lehigh Valleys was Gideon Scull, who built these warehouses upon the Schuylkill River front, just to the southward of Fairmount, early in the last century. In 1827 he sold his venture to his cousins, Joseph R. and James Bolton, who were among the first to introduce anthracite coal for domestic and manufacturing purposes into Philadelphia. For a considerable period the coal interests were ranged along the Schuylkill shore from Boltons' wharves to South street, but it declined after the Reading Railroad tracks were extended via Willow street to teh Delaware River. Some of the old factories in the Fairmount section which have been removed to make room for the Parkway were built there because of the convenient coal supply., Taylor Catalog Number: 126
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Livezey Warehouses
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a group of buildings at a busy section. The corner building has the inscription "J L 1844" near the roof, and there are awnings along the ground floor. Pedestrians, horse-drawn carts, and automobiles fill the street., This group of buildings, located upon the north side of Race street between Water street and Delaware Avenue, came within the area required for the western approach of the Delaware or Interstate bridge and were marked for removal in 1922. They were owned by John Livezey, whose initials and the date "1844," were visible upon the peak of the lower struture. Two other stores west of Water street, of the same ownership were also destroyed., Taylor Catalog Number: 263
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: An Old Philadelphia School
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a schoolhouse. A signpost with an illegible sign stands out fround, and two men are standing on the sidewalk near the entrance., The German Lutheran School and Parish House, built prior to 1764, was an annex of the Zion Church and stood upon the north side of Cherry street, east from Fourth street. Dr. Julius Sachse, who was a pupil, states that the German Society met here before the completion of its Seventh street building after the close of the Revolution. He also states that the bells intended for the Zion Church were placed in the school belfry. The old building has been long used for business purposes., Taylor Catalog Number: 65
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The First Public School
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a former school turned into a factory. The building is at the corner of an intersection, with two horse-drawn wagons going by. A couple is conversing outside a building next door., In 1916, when the photograph from which this drawing has been made was taken, the once famous "model school" building was still existent upon Darien (formally Chester) street, north of Race street. This was the first public school established, under the act of 1818, in the city. It was opened in that year as a school of instruction for female teachers. In the interval between the sale of the "Boys' High School," on Juniper street below Market street, in 1853, and the completion of the new High School, at the southeast corner of Broad and Green streets, the Chester street building was used for that purpose. When, in the same year, the Normal School building was erected on Sergeant (now Spring) street, east of Tenth street, the "model school" was placed in the elementary class. For a long period this forgotten school, now a dingy factory in decadent surroundings, was a show place among educators. The property was sold by the city in 1878, to Charles S. Caffrey., Taylor Catalog Number: 92
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: "Old Jeff" on Tenth Street
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of the original building of the Jefferson College and Hospital. Located next to the building is Martin F. Eberly "Horses & Carriages to Hire" and there are pedestrians on the sidewalk. A horse-drawn carriage is parked in front of the building, while a horse-drawn streetcar travels down the street., The century old Jefferson College and Hospital is, in 1924, about to erect a costly and modern group of buildings within the square where this historic institution is now located. The original structue, herre depicted, was located upon Tenth Street north of Walnut Street. It was built nearly a century ago., Taylor Catalog Number: 321
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The College of Physicians
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a three-story building covered in ivy at an intersection of two streets. There is a streetcar one street and an automobile on the other, and there is a cluster of pedestrians near the door of the building., This venerable building, best remembered as the home of the College of Physicians, at the north-east corner of Locust and Thirteenth Streets has been occupied for some years, as a branch and adminstrative office of the Free Library System, which will remove in the course of the coming year, 1924, to the new central library building under construction upon the Parkway., Taylor Catalog Number: 295
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The College of Pharmacy
Description: Reproduction of a drawing that depicts a building with a sign reading "Philadelphia College of Pharmacy." Pedestrians walk by on the sidewalk and automobiles drive on the street in front., This college, founded in 1821 has always served as an important factor in the medical education of the nation. Among its many activities is the publication of the American Journal of Pharmacy. The building here shown, located at 145 North Tenth Street was erected for the college in 1893. The growth of the institution requires more space and convenience and, to that end, ground has been secured at Woodland Avenue and Forty-Third Street where extensive buildings will, in course of time, be erected., Taylor Catalog Number: 283
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

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