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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: [Specimen sheet for Theodore Leonhardt & Son, Commercial Lithographers 922 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA.]
Description: Includes a "Specimen of High Grade Engraving" depicting an eagle. Leonhardt & Son was a partnership established circa 1874 between Theodore Leonhardt and his son Arno. The firm continued to operate into the early 20th century., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 87, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - L [P.2004.44.5]

Title: [The Germantown Academy
Description: View of an 1875 drawing showing the school built 1760-1761 by carpenter Jacob Knor at 110 School House Lane. Housed the bi-lingual private boys school established by the Pennsylvania Germans in Germantown in 1759. Building was used as a hospital during the American Revolution and was chartered as a public school in 1784., Reproduction of print published in Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania: a series of sixty former landmarks of Germantown and vicinity drawn on zinc during the years 1863 - 1888 by John Richards; collated, arranged and annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse (Philadelphia, 1913), plate LII. Caption in publication reads: The Germantown academy on southwest corner of Greene Street and School House Lane. Built A.D. 1760-61. Far famed for many of its teachers and pupils., Printed lower right corner: 1875., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 301, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Richards, John, d. 1889, artist
Date: [ca. 1913]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Education [P.2004.44.20]

Title: Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Co. Works, East Schuylkill Falls. Powers & Weightman, Manufacturing Chemists, Philadelphia. Established 1818
Description: Advertisement showing the large industrial complex, including warehouses, storage sheds, and a reservoir originally established in 1848 by Powers & Weightman. Several of the buildings contain working smokestacks. A horse-drawn wagon departs from the main entranceway and a number of others are visible within the complex. Train tracks run within and along the periphery of the plant. A locomotive with train cars, horse–drawn freight cars, and free standing freight cars are visible on the tracks. Fenced pasture land is visible in the background. Also contains two titled insets in the lower corners. "Tartaric and Citric Acid Department, Falls of Schuylkill" includes horse-drawn wagons arriving and crossing a small bridge in the foreground. "Laboratory for Fine Chemicals, Ninth and Parrish Streets" includes trains traveling in the foreground. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. Powers & Weightman merged with Rosengarten & Sons to form Powers, Weightman, Rosengarten Co. in 1905., pdcp00047, Not in Wainwright., Probably a later reprint with variant title of circa 1876 lithograph., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, artist
Date: [ca. 1905]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Factories, etc. - P

Title: Dreer's garden calendar 1899 ; Dreer's seeds, plants, bulbs, etc. [cover proof] Henry A. Dreer 714 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Proof of the illustrated front and back covers of the seed trade catalogue. Depicts the flowering plants "Dreer's Superb Nasturtiums" and "Montbretias" (i.e., red crocus). Also contains the company trademark adorned with a four-leaf clover labeled "Dreer's Fresh & Reliable Seeds." Dreer established the business in 1838. The firm was incorporated 1892 under his son, William F. Dreer, who assumed the business operations following his father's death in 1873., Contains register marks., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 60, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - Dreer [P.2006.28.8]

Title: Catalogue illustration - Exterior view of factory
Description: Specimen from the catalog of the lithographic establishment begun by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842 and incorporated as Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing company in 1896. Depicts the six-story manufactory and showrooms of Baumeister Pianos in New York City. Includes street and pedestrian traffic, including patrons approaching the entry of the building., Published in Ketterlinus Lithographic Mfg. Company. Makers of book and job printing novelties. Philadelphia. North west corner Arch and Fourth streets., Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Catalogue, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 9
Creator: Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufacturing Company
Date: [ca. 1896]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Catalogue

Title: St. Ann's Church Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic Church built 1866-1870 after the designs of Edwin F. Durang at 2328 E. Lehigh Street. Also shows the other properties of the church surrounding the building. Includes the rectory (built 1894, Durang), the church cemetery, the original church building partially visible behind the new structure, and the St. Ann School (built 1894-1895, Durang) at 2343 East Tucker Street. Street traffic includes a horse-drawn carriage, electric trolley, and man on horseback. Trees landscape the sidewalks and an iron fence lines the church and cemetery. Cemetery contains several headstones. Electric trolleys began operating in the city in 1892., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 229, PAHRC: Unitrd States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Ann's
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Ann's

Title: David Landreth & Sons, seed growers & merchants, Philadelphia. Our handy cabinet. Landreths' garden seeds from Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting a cabinet stored with packets and boxes of Landreths' fruit and vegetable seeds. Shows the cabinet cover decorated with a vegetable patch scene. Also contains advertising text explicating pricing, citing an enclosed circular, and promoting "The Oldest Seed House in America. Founded 1784."., Printed on recto: Patented., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 48
Creator: Butler, William H., lithographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.2004.29.1]

Title: [The Germantown Cricket Club]
Description: Lively view showing several spectators enjoying a match at the grounds of the cricket club (founded in 1854) at 411 West Manheim Street. Elegantly attired young men and women, walk, sit, and stand along the field and in a grandstand. Attire includes hats, bowlers, bustles, canes and parasols. In the right of the image, a lady converses with a cricket player near a couple conversing with spectators behind the brickwall of the stand. Others watch from a row of carriages near club buildings in the background. Several persons walk along a path bordering the field. Also contains 2 ink pen lithograph vignettes showing the front facade of the clubhouse and the gate to the club. Clubhouse vignette includes a cricket match. The clubhouse was built in 1891 after designs by McKim, Mead & White., Artist's signature in ink with date and in pencil in lower right corner., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 91, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1978 p. 53-54., Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan.
Creator: Cooper, Colin Campbell, Jr., artist
Date: 1892
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Recreation - G [8384.F.2]

Title: Hofstetter Bros. Lithographers, stationers, printers, and blank book manufacturers. 508 & 510 Cherry Street, Philadelphia Manufacturing labels & brands a specialty. Checks. Bonds. Certificates. Diplomas. Show cards. Bill heads. Letter heads. Note heads. Statements. Box labels. Dry good labels. Portraits. Book illustrations. Blank books of every description made to order. Flat opening blank books a specialty
Description: Advertisements for the late 19th-century Philadelphia lithographic firm, originally established as a blank book manufactory ca. 1874 by bookbinders and brothers John and August Hofstetter. Name of the establishment ornamented with pictorial details, including a landscape view, a book, and artist's brushes. Prints contain a sentimental and comic scene. Sentimental scene shows a peasant girl, accompanied by a dog, walking through the woods and knitting. Comic scene shows a gentleman, near a lake, inspecting his rear covered in paint in front of a bench adorned with the sign "Paint." Also includes the promotion "Color Work a Specialty." Hofstetter & Bros. relocated to 508 -510 Cherry Street ca. 1892., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 39, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Peasant Girl, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Gentleman
Creator: Hofstetter Bros.
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Peasant Girl, Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection – Lithography – Vertical Box 1 - Hofstetter - Gentleman

Title: F.A. Poth Brewing Company, Philadelphia
Description: Album containing 26 lithographic illustrations documenting the Philadelphia brewing complex at the northwest corner of Thirty-first and Jefferson Streets, including exterior and interior views of individual buildings within the complex and detailed scenes of laborers operating equipment and transporting the finished product to and from railroad stations. Shows exterior and interior views of the office building, boiler house, stable, and malt house; exterior views only of pitching house, pitching yard, and shipping department; interior views of private offices, beer stube, refrigerating machines and engine room, brew house, fermenting room, beer storage, racking room, wash house, and kiln house; and modes of transport including a delivery wagon loaded with barrels of beer approaching the F.A. Poth depot at Trenton, New Jersey. Includes a "bottled by" list on the last page with names and addresses next to two F.A. Poth bottles of beer. Under the list: "100,836 barrels were sold between January 1, 1890 and January 1, 1891.", Established in 1865 by Frederick August Poth at the northeast corner of Third and Green Streets, and moved to Thirty-first and Jefferson Streets in 1871. Incorporated in 1877, and later renamed F.A. Poth & Sons, Incorporated., Title from cover., Bound in a fine diagonal-ribbed blue cloth, black and gilt stamped, with the company's logo on the front board., Plates signed A.M.J. Mueller., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 225
Creator: Mueller, A. M. J., artist
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [67309.D]

Title: E. A. Wright, bank note engraver, lithographer, plate printer. Chestnut & 11th sts
Description: Trade card with ornate lettering, shading, and filigree. Ernest A. Wright established his firm in 1872 at 1032 Chestnut Street, and later relocated to 1108 Chestnut Street ca. 1891., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 17, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Ephemera Late Trade Print 0093
Creator: Wright, E.A
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Ephemera Late Trade Print 0093

Title: The Bergner & Engel Brewing Co., Philadelphia
Description: Album containing 37 lithographic illustrations documenting the Philadelphia brewing complex on Thirty-second Street between Jefferson, Master and Thompson Streets, including exterior and interior views of individual buildings within the complex and detailed scenes of laborers operating equipment, transporting the finished product to and from railroad stations, and loading it onto ships. Shows exterior and interior views of the office building on Master Street; exterior views of the brew house and milling department, machine repair shop and fermenting houses; interior views of refrigerating machines, the first and second floors of the brew house, fermenting room, beer storage, cooper shops, racking room, wash house, shipping department, boiler house, pump room, electric light machines, machine repair shop, the ale and porter brewery and bottling house; and modes of transport including a refrigerating car, delivery wagon and locomotive. Other plates depict out-of-state depots and offices in Washington D.C.; Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia; Jacksonville, Florida; and Trenton, Sea Isle City, and Atlantic City, New Jersey and commemorative illustrations of the company's first-place winnings at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and Paris Exposition in 1878., The partnership of Bergner & Engel was formed in 1870 at the brewery of Bergner (erected 1857-1858) following the dissolution of the partnership of brewers Wolf & Engel. Construction of new buildings and additions and the purchase of new equipment for the Brewerytown complex took place in the 1870s. At this time, Bergner & Engel was one of the largest breweries in the country and had an international reputation. Bergner & Engel ceased operations during prohibition., Title from cover., Bound in a fine diagonal-ribbed maroon cloth, black and gilt stamped, with the company's trademark phoenix on the front board., Plates signed A.M.J. Mueller., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 15
Creator: Mueller, A. M. J., artist
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [67310.D]

Title: Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., office 2 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the terminal, factory complex and railyard adjacent to the piers and wharves at Greenwich Point along the Delaware River in South Philadelphia. Signage reading "Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co." adorns the storage warehouse on the pier in the foreground, and "Office Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co." is painted in large letters on a smaller building nearby. The on-deck rail carries cargo on tracks to and from docked ships into the second floor of a long building that sits behind Tygert-Allen's warehouse on the pier. Super phosphates storage, millroom, storeroom, engine house and boiler house are all located within the long building. Locomotives and carts full of freight travel along the railroad tracks that run parallel to the factory buildings. Workers and horse-drawn carts and coaches labor throughout the complex. A barge carrying railroad cars is docked in front of a slip labeled "P.R.R. Ferry". Several lines of elevated railroad tracks carrying carts and locomotives run next to the slip and into the distance. Steamboats with smoke billowing from the stacks and sailing vessels with men on deck approach the piers in the foreground. The Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., formed by J.E. Tygert, H.S. Tygert and Penrose Allen about 1889, also operated an office at 2 Chestnut Street. A fire in February 1892 destroyed most of the buildings within the factory complex, causing a loss of about $50,000., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 256
Creator: Packard, Herbert S., 1850-1912, artist
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.2008.34.29]

Title: David Heston & Sons, Frankford, Philadelphia. Specimens and price list, lithographic labels The U.S. Label Printing Establishment. Founded in 1868. Folding druggist bottle boxes. Labeled pill & powder boxes. For gummed work the extra charge is 12 1/2 per cent. We do not furnish less than 1000of any lithographed label
Description: Illustration on recto of specimen sheet/price list depicting the factory for the printing establishment at 1525 Orthodox Street (corner of Orthodox and Franklin (later Griscom) Streets). View also includes street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn drays and wagons. A square border with cornice ornaments surrounds the view. Image also contains decorative and pictorial elements. The firm operated from the location until at least the mid 1920s before relocating to 1208 Race Street by 1936. Heston, a printer and a minister of the Society of Friends, partnered in the firm with his sons Charles B., William, and John B., until his death in 1905., Not in Wainwright., POS 875
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 11837.F (Helfand)

Title: The Prospect Brewing Co. Eleventh, Oxford & Marvine Sts. Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Advertisement showing angels delivering a crate of "The Prospect Brewing Co.'s Beer" to a well-mannered woman at her doorway. A cat holds a bottle of beer in its paw at her feet and the angels fly above the porch lined by shrubery in front of the house. Also shows a placard above the head of the "lady of the house" that reads "Purity and Perfection Uphold The Fame of Our Beer.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 192, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Beer - Box 3 Folder 22 - Prospect Brewing Co.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center - Warshaw Collection - Beer - Box 3 Folder 22 - Prospect Brewing Co.

Title: The Bergner & Engel Brewing Company, Philadelphia, Pa. [fire insurance survey]
Description: Site plan and perspective drawing of the brewery complex at 32nd and Thompson Streets detailing fire insurance characteristics. Includes ale and porter brewery; refrigerating houses; bottling establishment; shipping house; barrel shed; office building; and stables and carriage houses. Site plan includes adjoining businesses J & P Baltz Brewing Co.; H. Rothacker & Sons' Lager Beer Brewery; Henzler & Flach's Brewery; and F.A. Poth's Malt House., Survey no. 2247-2248., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 16, Gift of Manuel Kean.
Creator: E. Hexamer & Son
Date: c1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Industries [P.8737]

Title: Peter Schemm & Son. Brewery, 25th & Poplar sts. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing an exterior view of the brewery complex operated as Peter Schemm & Son 1887-1908 that was originally built in 1855 and expanded between 1885 and 1887. The depicted red brick buildings include the brew house, storerooms, office building, and carriage house. The roofs are adorned with a cupola, smoke stacks, an American flag, and a weather vane. One building also contains a date marker (1885). Pedestrians, including boys in baseball uniforms and a family, walk in front of the brewery. Workers convene near the entrance and handle horses at and depart with drays and wagons at driveways and cartways of the complex. A laborer pushes a handcart past several large barrels lining the sidewalk near an idle truck and a man on horseback riding in the street. A Schemm delivery wagon loaded with barrels drives past the brewery on Poplar Street across from street cars approaching and departing from the adjacent block, West College Avenue. At the opposite corner, pedestrians walk past a curved brick wall behind which a tree stands and a couple in the street wave to a male passenger at the front of the approaching street car. Neighboring buildings are visible in the background. Also contains an inset titled “City Office, 238 Race St.” showing a patron entering the building with signage advertising “Office of Schemm’s Brewery” and “C.A. Widmayer.” Barrels are piled on the sidewalk across from a man talking to another man in a militia uniform. Pictorial elements in the upper right and lower left include a full beer mug, a Schemm’s Standard Lager beer bottle, twigs of barley and hops, and a banner reading “Lager Beer” (right) and a beer cask marked “P. Schemm & Son Brewers” (left)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 171, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 31 S 323
Creator: Mueller, A. M. J., artist
Date: [ca. 1887]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bc 31 S 323

Title: Geo. S. Harris & Sons. Printers & lithographers. Nos. 718, 720, 722, 724 Arch St. Philadelphia Branch houses: New York: S.E. cor. Grand & Brewery. Chicago: No. 53 State St
Description: Advertisement calendar for the year 1886 containing a genre scene bordered to the left by pictorial details for the firm renamed Geo. S. Harris & Sons in 1876. Scene shows a woman attired in a naval-themed costume dress descending a flight of marble stairs during a masquerade ball. She holds a mask in one hand and the hem of her dress in the other. In the background, a few men in costume, including a harlequin and clown, watch the woman. Border details include an oriental-style vase of roses atop cloth draped over the calendar, and the lithographer's tradecard. Also includes decorative trim in the upper edge. Harris, first listed as a printer in 1847, operated one of the largest Philadelphia lithographic studios in the later 19th-century. The firm specialized in cigar box labels and stock trade cards., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00014, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 34, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Lithographers
Creator: Geo. S. Harris & Sons
Date: 1886
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Lithographers

Title: Dreer’s garden calendar 1886 [catalog cover]
Description: Front and back covers of the seed trade catalogue for the Henry A. Dreer firm. Front cover shows a property containing a mansion house (with an attached greenhouse), tree orchard, garden patch, and two outbuildings, including one with a windmill. In the foreground, a man on horseback passes on a road through the estate. Back cover shows a display of farm produce including, celery, pumpkin, corn, potatoes, watermelon, beets, lettuce, carrots, and asparagus in the foreground of a farming scene. Decorative trims line the top and bottom edges. The firm was incorporated 1892 under his son, William F. Dreer, who assumed the business operations following his father's death in 1873., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00055, Price list of available gardening book titles, index to calendar, "useful tables" for planting, and prices for flower pots and garden sticks printed on verso., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 59, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards, Butler previously was a partner of the Packard & Butler, later Packard Butler, & Partridge firm which ceased operation in early 1886 following a fire. Butler operated a studio solely until 1893.
Date: [ca. 1886]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards

Title: Pennsylvania State Fair, Philadelphia, 1885. $41, 000 in premiums! Opens September 23d, closes October 14th Manufactures, machinery, implements, produce, live stock
Description: Advertising card containing a montage of captioned vignettes depicting the fair buildings and heavily trafficked grounds at Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue. Vignettes show the Main Building (Society of Arts); Poultry Agricultural Hall; Cattle Sheds; Restaurant; and Music Stand. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts.", Advertising text on verso: 31st. Pennsylvania State Fair, 1885. The spacious building and fine grounds, Broad St. and Lehigh Ave., Phila'a. for all the purposes of a grand exhibition of American industry, In [sic] all its departments, are unsurpassed in the United States. The lofty Main Building and its Annexes are devoted to General Machinery and Manufactured Goods, under the management of the Society of arts, office and books of entry, 411 N. 18th St., George W. Fryer, secretary. The Agricultural, Horticultural and Poultry, as well as other Live Stock Buildings, are devoted to special agricultural machinery products and manufactures. Under the management of the Penna. State Agricultural Society, Office and Books of Entry, N. E. Cor., 18th and Market Sts. D. W. Seiler, Secretary, Cheap Excursion Fares on all railroads entering Philadelphia. Low special rates of transportation on all objects entered for exhibtion. Trains run to Fair Grounds without change. Books of entry close Sept. 16., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 288, See POSP 239, Free Library of Philadlephia - Oversize Philadelphiana - Fairs, festivals, See related tradecard for Cheltenham Coach Works, Shoemakertown, PA. Moore & Ervien in FLP Americana - Tradesmen's Cards (A-D) - Folder C. Tradecard illustrated with a montage of views of the fair buidlings.
Date: [1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | Print Department trade card - Pennsylvania [P.2014.41.1]

Title: Residence & property of James Holgate, n. w. cor. Lehigh Ave. & Eleventh St. Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View, probably from an atlas, showing the Victorian-style house and substantial property of the state legislator at 1109 Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia. The property, surrounded by a fence, contains a carriage house and large landscaped garden, including a wall of trellises, a green house, and a dog house. A gardener works near the trellises. Neighboring buildings, including row houses and W.C. Gill, apothecary, are visible in the background. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages; a lamppost with mailbox at the corner; and the names of the streets inscribed on the sidewalks., Contains inset of a view showing three elegant row houses. Includes pedestrian traffic., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 194, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 16 H 716
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Residences [7810.F]

Title: Geo. S. Harris & Sons, printers, engravers, lithographers, 718, 720, 722 & 724 Arch Street, Philadelphia Branch House, 53 State St., Chicago
Description: Advertisement containing a montage of images depicting the business and evoking the decorative arts. Includes an exterior view of the firm's building; an interior view showing artisans at work on and around printing presses; object d'art and works of art; an artist's palette; a seascape; printed wallpaper; draperies; and flowers. Exterior view includes street and pedestrian traffic. Harris' firm moved to this address circa 1882 and later relocated to 1033 Chestnut Street circa 1898., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 33
Creator: Geo. S. Harris & Sons
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.9349.406]

Title: J.W. Paxson & Co. Philadelphia Shippers of moulding sand, pier 45, North Delaware Avenue. Manufacturers of foundry facings and foundry supplies
Description: Advertisement showing the busy "Pier 45" and factory of the firm at North Delaware Avenue. On the pier, laborers drive loaded and empty horse-drawn carts, unload sand from a barge, operate hoists from within sheds, and work on a raised platform between warehouses marked "Sand." Boatmen and workers operate equipment and perform manual labor on barges and boats, most with visible names, surrounding the pier. Names include Walter C. of Burlington, Sherman, Wilson, Willie Paxson of Philadelphia, Minerva, Samuel Miller, Estelle (built by Pusey & Jones, delivered 1884 to Paxson), and Saml. C. Bougher. In the background, the factory buildings, connected by an overpass, are visible neighbored by the B&O and P.R.R. freight depots, a pier covered in barrels and bales of wood, and other surrounding buildings. Also shows a locomotive at the P.R.R. freight depot, smokestacks, and carts departing from the Paxson pier under the overpass. Also contains a bust portrait of Paxson, and two lists of 18 types of sand, lead and facings available from the firm, printed below the image. Products include Lumberton Sand, Albany Sand, Crescent Sand, Fire Sand, Silica Sand, Columbo Lead, American Lead, Machinery Facing, and Pipe Blacking. Company moved to this location in 1882., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 123, Reproduced in Jennifer Ambrose's Nineteenth-century Philadelphia advertising prints, Magazine Antiques (August 2006), fig. 10., Contains crude repairs upper and lower edges.
Creator: Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [7813.F]

Title: Sacred Heart Convent, "Eden Hall." Torresdale, Pa
Description: View of the girls boarding school and convent administered by the Society of Sacred Heart Sisters that was built 1849-1850 after the designs of Frank Wills at 4800 Grant Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The stone building contains several wings and a chapel. Crosses adorn the roofs. Girls play on the grounds landscaped with trees. Also shows a woman and child walking up the path to the school entrance and a man with a horse-drawn wagon near the chapel. A border, arched at the top with simple art details, frames the image. The society purchased the Torresdale estate of F. Cowperthwait in 1847 and operated a school on the property until 1969., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 199, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Walker & Co., the Boston lithography firm established in 1879, sought the patronage of Roman Catholic clergy in the early 1880s.
Creator: Geo. H. Walker & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Religion - Sacred Heart Convent [P.9372]

Title: Geo. S. Harris & Sons, printers, engravers, lithographers, 718, 720, 722 & 724 Arch Street, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing a montage of images depicting the business and evoking the decorative arts. Includes an exterior view of the firm's building; an interior view showing artisans at work on and around printing presses; object d'art and works of art; an artist's palette; a seascape; printed wallpaper; draperies; and flowers. Exterior view includes street and pedestrian traffic. Harris' firm moved to this address circa 1882 and later relocated to 1033 Chestnut Street circa 1898., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 32
Creator: Geo. S. Harris & Sons
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.8729.15]

Title: The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Co. 316-318 and 320 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Advertisement showing an exterior view of the building built 1873-5 after the designs of Furness & Hewitt. Several pedestrians stroll on the sidewalk, including a man with a cane, and patrons enter the safe deposit company. In the right of the image, shows the gates open to the alley leading to Carpenter's Hall, visible in the background. Also contains the names of six officers of the bank, including President Thomas Cochran, printed below the title. The Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, established in 1872, provided safe storage for securities, currency, jewelry, silver plate, and other valuables., Manuscript note on recto: Complt. of John C. Browne. Nov. 19, 1886., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 102, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 3 G 914, Burk & McFetridge operated from 304 and later 306-308 Chestnut Street.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 3 G 914

Title: The celebrated Blasius Pianos. Blasius & Sons piano manufacturers Warerooms: 1101-1103-1119 Chestnut St. Factory: 2240-2242-2244, 2246-2248 North Ninth St. Philadelphia Pa
Description: Advertising card containing a romantic genre scene bordering captioned views of the Chestnut Street warerooms of the manufactory established in 1855. View captioned "Warerooms: 1119 Chestnut St.” shows part of the front façade of the 4-story storefront marked “Blasius & Sons Piano Manufacturers.” Patrons and pedestrians mill in front of the business. View captioned “Warerooms: 1101 & 1103 Chestnut St.” shows the multiple-story storefront marked “Blasius & Sons Manufacturer of the Blasius Pianos.” Several pedestrians walk in front of the large display windows and patrons enter the building. A horse-drawn carriage is parked in the street. In the left of the print, the genre scene set during the medieval period shows a troubadour serenading a lady from below her window., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00005, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 23, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 11th-12th
Creator: Hoover, Joseph
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 11th-12th

Title: Blasius & Sons, dealers in pianos & organs When you buy a musical instrument, get the best. Pianos tuned, moved, packed, stored. Pianos repaired, rebuilt, revarnished. Send to us for catalogue and prices. Instruments exchanged, pianos to rent
Description: Tradecard containing an interior view of one of the showrooms of the manufactory at 1101-1103 and 1119 Chestnut Street. Shows upright pianos lining the walls and baby grand pianos displayed down the center of the room. Patrons mill the aisles created by the display of the pianos. A woman, possibly a clerk, sits at a baby grand at the end of the row of instruments and talks with a couple standing next to her. Framed signage is displayed on the wall, including one reading “Steinway & Sons. Grand Squares Upright Pianos.” In the right of the image, the "Office" booth is visible lining the wall adjacent to the flight of stairs marked "Organ Department Upstairs." A couple descends the stairs. Business established in 1855., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00002, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 18, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 11th-12th, One of three prints mounted on one sheet.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 11th-12th

Title: Chas. Blasius & Sons. The largest piano & organ house 1119 Chestnut St. Phila
Description: Trade card containing an exterior view of one of the two Chestnut street storefronts of the manufacturer. Signage reading “Blasius & Sons. Steinway Pianos” adorns the multi-story building in which a piano is visible in the large display window. Two lady patrons enter the building across from horse-drawn wagons marked “Packard Organs Blasius & Sons” and “Steinway Pianos Blasius & Sons” parked in the street. Also contains a geometric border with floral cornices., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00003, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 29, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 11th-12th, One of three prints mounted on one sheet.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 11th-12th

Title: Edward Stern & Co., printer and lithographer. 125 & 127 N. Seventh St. Philadelphia
Description: Tradecard for the Philadelphia printing firm containing a floral design. Design shows a stemmed rose. Verso contains advertising text for the "Floral Cards" and price information. The firm was established by brothers Edward, Harry F., and Simon in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Illegible manuscript notes on recto and verso., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 26, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - S - Stern
Creator: Edward Stern & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern - verso

Title: Edward Stern & Co., printer and lithographer. 125 & 127 N. Seventh St. Philadelphia
Description: Tradecard for the Philadelphia printing firm containing a floral design. Design shows a stemmed rose. Verso contains advertising text for the "Floral Cards" and price information. The firm was established by brothers Edward, Harry F., and Simon in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Illegible manuscript notes on recto and verso., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 26, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - S - Stern
Creator: Edward Stern & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern - verso

Title: Edward Stern & Co., printer and lithographer. 125 & 127 N. Seventh St. Philadelphia. Bookmarker
Description: Bookmark advertisement for the Philadelphia printing firm containing a floral design. Design shows a stemmed rose. Verso contains advertising text for the "bookmarker" and price information for lots of 500, 1000, and 5000. Text promotes the "advertising medium" as valuable in addition to their usefulness will "insure their being preserved." The firm was established by brothers Edward, Harry F., and Simon in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 27, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker
Creator: Edward Stern & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker - verso

Title: Edward Stern & Co., printer and lithographer. 125 & 127 N. Seventh St. Philadelphia. Bookmarker
Description: Bookmark advertisement for the Philadelphia printing firm containing a floral design. Design shows a stemmed rose. Verso contains advertising text for the "bookmarker" and price information for lots of 500, 1000, and 5000. Text promotes the "advertising medium" as valuable in addition to their usefulness will "insure their being preserved." The firm was established by brothers Edward, Harry F., and Simon in 1871., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 27, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker
Creator: Edward Stern & Co.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - S - Stern bookmarker - verso

Title: Graf Brothers, lithographers, 125 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Tradecard depicting an Autumn genre scene with a girl and a pug dog. The girl, attired in a bonnet and dress with a large bow in the back, holds a stick over her shoulder and watches pine cones fall from a tree. Her dog watches from behind. Verso contains advertising text promoting "Graf & Brother, Practical Lithographers, Engravers and Printers, South-East Corner Fourth and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia Pa." Products include bonds, certificates, notes, checks, billheads, diplomas, maps, views, show-cards, architectural drawings, businesss cards, and chromo cards, the "Best Thing For Advertising Medium Extant.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 37, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Tradecard Collection - G
Creator: Graf & Brother
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Tradecard Collection - G

Title: Liverpool & London & Globe Ins Co. 331-333-335-337 Walnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing an exterior view of the building for the insurance company that established a branch in Philadelphia in 1851. Also shows patrons exiting and entering the building; walking on the sidewalk; and a horse-drawn carriage passing in the street. The insurance company, organized in Great Britain in 1836, established a branch in the United States in 1848., Manuscript note on recto: Complt. of John C. Browne. Nov. 19, 1886., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 137, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 3 L 785
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 3 L 785

Title: St. Alphonsu's[sic] Church. Philadelphia
Description: Certificate containing view showing St. Alphonsus, the Roman Catholic church completed circa 1865 after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun, at 4th and Reed streets (1400-1402 S. 4th) in South Philadelphia. A man passes the rectory located at the rear of the church. A parishioner descends the steps of the church. Also shows a neighboring townhouse and two other gentlemen walking on the sidewalk and in the street., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 228, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 131 Sa 22
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 131 Sa 22

Title: Grounds and club-house of the Belmont Cricket Club, at Elmwood 58th St. and Darby Road Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view showing the grounds of the club founded in 1874 in West Philadelphia. In the center of the fenced-in grounds, members engage in a cricket match in front of the club house and an auxiliary building. Clusters of spectators watch the match and arrive by foot, coach, wagon, and bicycle. In the left, a bowler practices his throw in a netted area. In the background, people engage in matches on a series of tennis courts separated from the cricket field by a row of trees. Trees, a red brick building, dirt roads, and pastures surround the grounds. A horse-drawn buggy and street car travel around the club and a locomotive passes nearby. Also contains insets showing the "Field View of the Club House" and a "Lawn Tennis" doubles match. Belmont, one of the four chief Philadelphia cricket clubs, disbanded in 1914., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 101, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 03 B 451, Inscribed on verso: E. R. Jones 3-14-1913.
Creator: Kurtz, Horatio I.
Date: [1885]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 03 B 451

Title: [Segment of circular advertising Chas. Blasius & Sons, piano manufacturer, Philadelphia]
Description: Includes a central view flanked by two vignettes. View shows "“1119 Chestnut St. Girard Row," one of the two Chestnut street storefronts of the manufacturer. Signage reading “Blasius & Sons. Steinway Pianos” adorns the multi-story building in which a piano is visible in the large display window. Two lady patrons enter the building across from horse-drawn wagons marked “Packard Organs Blasius & Sons” and “Steinway Pianos Blasius & Sons” parked in the street. “Pianos to Rent” printed above the image. Left vignette shows “2nd Floor Back Wareroom.” Includes pianos, piano legs, shelves of parts and clerks at work near the skylight railings. Right vignette shows “4th Floor Wareroom.” Includes a clerk with a gentleman near the skylight railings reviewing pianos in various stages of assembly. Shelves line the wall., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloguer., pdcp00004, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 209, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 11th-12th, One of three prints mounted on one sheet.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 11th-12th

Title: Buist’s garden seeds are the best
Description: Advertisement showing a socialite attired in a plunging lace lined bed gown, holding a handkerchief in one hand, and a feather fan in the other standing on her beautiful lawn in front of a mansion house, possibly in Germantown., pdcp00046, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 20, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards

Title: Thomas M. Harris & Co Buy the standard tip
Description: Advertisement showing children at play in a park setting. In the foreground, two boys, one in a sailor’s outfit, pulls a swing attached to a tree, on which a boy sits and a girl stands. The tree is adorned with a sign that reads “Best Childs Shoe Made.” At the boys' feet, a "Standard Tips" shoebox, with an eye-catching illustrated label lies on the ground. One of a pair of Standard Tips rests on the box, with the other lying next to it with the sole bearing a Harris trademark. In background, two boys play stick ball. All the children are well-dressed and wear 'Standard Tips" shoes. Also contains the Thomas M. Harris & Co. trademark marked with the dates and Aug. 1882 & July 1884 the motto "Our Sole Leather Tip the Best in the World.", pdcp00045, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 251, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards

Title: Flower advertisement prints "compliments of Henry A. Dreer..."
Description: Advertisements show Her Majesty (Actual Size) and "The Bennett." The firm was incorporated 1892 under Henry Dreer's son, William F. Dreer, who assumed the business operations following his father's death in 1873., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00053, pdcp00054, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 82, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Date: 1885-1886
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards

Title: Thomas M. Harris & Co. sole manufacturers Philadelphia The winning shoe
Description: Advertisement showing a boy brandishing a flag reading "Buy Standard Tip Shoes For Your Children" and using a gigantic "Standard Tip" shoe as a sulky in a harness race. His vehicle is pulled by horses "Tip and "Top" that leave a pileup of horses in the dust behind them. In the background, the judge's booth adorned with the "Standard" flag is visible along the fenced track next to cheering spectators. Image includes the company trademark which reads "Look For This Trademark on every Shoe. 'Our Sole Leather Tip Best in The World.' Thomas M. Harris & Co. Trade Marks Reg. Aug. 1882 & July 1884." Also contains advertising text on the verso., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00049, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 252, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards, Bertram & Co. assumed the lithographic shop of F.C. Paxson & Co. at 439 Chestnut Street circa 1885.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards

Title: Standard tip shoes. T.M. Harris & Co
Description: Advertisement showing a parade float, surrounded by sharply-dressed children, processing down the block with the "T.M. Harris & Co". multi-storied building at 821 Cherry. The float carries a large-model size Standard Tip shoe on which a toddler is seated and holding a Harris shoe. The children accompanying the vehicle play musical instruments, hold banners, and carry ribbons marked "Stand Tip." Two older girls flank and clasp one hand of the other over the float as three woman, including one attired as a nurse who holds a banner, follow the procession. The banners are illustrated with the company trademarks that advertise "Warranted Double Toe" and "Highest Grade." Spectators cheer from the windows of the company building that contains a cupola adorned with a weather vane. The building was previously occupied by the lighting factory of Cornelius & Baker., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00050, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 238, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards

Title: Church of Our Lady of Consolation. Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa In charge of the Augustinian Fathers
Description: Certificate containing an exterior view of the Roman Catholic church, also known as St. Mary's Lady of Consolation Church, and later Our Mother of Consolation Church, built in 1855 at 7-25 East Chestnut Hill Avenue. Church contains the Gothic spire built in 1885. A Victorian-style residence stands adjacent to the church and an iron-work fence bordered by bushes line the properties. A man enters the church building while nearby a lady walks across the path in the sidewalk, which leads to the church yard. In the street, a horse-drawn buggy travels. On the opposite sidewalk, a gentleman on a stroll walks in the direction of two young men, one carrying a basket on his arm. Also shows a street lamp. The church, founded in 1855, was built with funding from founding parishioner Joseph Middleton., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 32, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Our Lady of Consolation
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Our Lady of Consolation

Title: The Livzey [sic] Place, Allen's Lane & Wissahickon Creek
Description: View of the south elevation of the farmhouse also known as Glen Fern, originally built 1733-1739, on the east side of the Wissahickon Creek at 1100 Livezey Lane in Fairmount Park. A couple stands near the entrance of the kitchen and two chickens and a rooster forage in the foreground. Also shows the cooper shop, a small mason building, built circa 1808 on the property in the right of the image. Farmer, miller, and provincial commissioner Thomas Livezey purchased the land and residence in 1747. Property remained in the Livezey family until 1869 when purchased by the Fairmount Park Commission., Date printed on recto., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 138, Gift of David Doret., Hart originally issued a series of prints of Germantown between 1863 and 1888, several of which were published as John Richards' Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania. A series of sixty former landmarks of Germantown and vicinity... Collated, arranged and annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse (Philadelphia, 1913). Caption in publication reads: Glen Fern, or Livezey Mansions on the Wissahickon Creek at the foot of Livezey's Lane. Built about 1745. The scene of stirring events in Peterson's "Pemberton." [i.e., Henry Peterson's Pemberton, or One Hundred Year's Ago (Philadelphia, 1873).
Creator: Richards, John, d. 1889, artist
Date: 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW-Residences [P.2006.16.8]

Title: Commercial lithography. Theo. Leonhardt & Son, s.e. cor. 5th & Library sts. opposite Drexel Building, Philadelphia Bonds. Certificates of stock. Checks. Diplomas. Cards. Letterheads & Labels
Description: Copperplate of an advertisement for the firm used in the 1894-1897 editions of Gopsill's Philadelphia City Directory. Contains a view looking southeast of the multi-storied lithographic establishment and vignettes of the front and back of the "Silver Medal" awarded to the business by the Maryland Institute for "Lithographic Work" in 1878. View includes street traffic. Leonhardt & Son was a partnership established circa 1874 between Theodore Leonhardt and his son Arno. The firm operated from 123-125 South Fifth Street, i.e., s.e. cor. 5th and Library streets, beginning in 1890., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 11, See Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1894 (Philadelphia: James Gopsills Sons, 1894), p. 1162.
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1884]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department printing plates - Inventory #700

Title: State fair buildings and grounds, Philadelphia. Industrial Exhibition Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, North Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia Manufactures, machinery, implements, apparatus, produce & live stock
Description: View of the fair buildings and heavily trafficked grounds enclosed by a wood fence. In the foreground, outside of the grounds, pedestrian and street traffic is visible. Horse-drawn carriages and wagons travel in the street near pedestrians, including a woman walking her dog on the sidewalk. Horse-drawn omnibuses arrive at and depart from the multiple entrances to the fair at Fifteenth Street near a Philadelphia & Reading Railroad train arriving at the "Special Station." Within the grounds, visitors stroll on the paths between and enter the several exhibition buildings, including the Main Building (center), Restaurant, House of Public Comfort, Carriage and Wagon House, and Poultry House. Agricultural implements, fountains, and shrubbery adorn the grounds. In the background, the cattle sheds, rows of horse stalls, and the Executive Offices line the outskirts of the grounds in back of which trains on the Connecting Railroad and Pennsylvania Rail Railroad tracks travel past. Also shows the entrances, train station, and buildings decorated with flags. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts.", pdcp00044, Not in Wainwright., Key to buildings (left to right) printed below the image: Cattle Sheds. Connecting Railroad. Horse Stalls. Exercise and Parade Drive. Restaurant. Main Building. House of Public Comfort. Horse Stalls. Carriage and Wagon House. Pennsylvania R.R. Executive Offices. Fifteenth St. Entrances. Philadelphia & Reading R.R. Agricultural Building. Poultry House. Special Station P. & R.R.R., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 239, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana – Fairs, festivals, See related tradecard for Cheltenham Coach Works, Shoemakertown, PA. Moore & Ervien in FLP Americana - Tradesmen's Cards (A-D) - Folder C. Tradecard illustrated with a montage of views of the fair buidlings.
Date: c1884
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana – Fairs, festivals

Title: Geo. S. Harris & Sons. Printers & lithographers. Nos. 718, 720, 722, 724 Arch St. Philadelphia Branch houses: New York: S.E. cor. Grand & Brewery. Chicago: No. 53 State St
Description: Advertisement calendar for the year 1884 for the firm renamed Geo. S. Harris & Sons in 1876 that contains a large genre scene bordered to the left by pictorial details . The scene, set in a colorfully decorated room, shows a woman lighting the cigar of a man. The woman attired in a dress with a trim decorated in a mosaic flower pattern uses a slip of paper marked "1884" to light the cigar of the man who is attired in dress-tails. Border details include an oriental-style vase of roses atop cloth draped over the calendar, and the lithographer's tradecard. Also includes decorative trim in the upper edge. Harris, first listed as a printer in 1847, operated one of the largest Philadelphia lithographic studios in the later 19th-century. The firm specialized in cigar box labels and stock trade cards., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00051, Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 35, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Creator: Geo. S. Harris & Sons
Date: 1884
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards

Title: International Electrical Exhibition march
Description: Sheet music cover containing an exterior view, during the evening, of the temporary main building of the exhibition held under the auspices of the Franklin Institute (September 2 to October 11, 1884) at the 3200 block of Lancaster Avenue. Also shows the adjacent old Pennsylvania Railroad Station used as a display annex. A covered overpass connects the buildings. Light shines through the several windows of the main building adorned with Gothic towers. Visitors walk the grounds of both buildings and horse-drawn buggies and an omnibus travel in the street. Also includes an inset depicting a round electric light bulb. The exhibition of about 2,000 exhibits included historical and electrical displays, an extensive library, as well as the first public demonstration of a vacuum tube., Not in Wainwright., Price printed on recto: 4., Probably printed by Burk & McFetridge. See "The Exhibition. Lithograph Chart-Ordinance Display-Visitors and Commissioners," Philadelphia Inquirer, July 31, 1884., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 283, Johns Hopkins University: Levy Collection Box 165, Item 026
Date: c1884
Location: Johns Hopkins University | Special Collections at the Sheridan Libraries. JHU Levy Collection Box 165, Item 026, http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:165.026

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