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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: Along Lower Chestnut Street - 1853
Description: Depicts a row of large commercial buildings. Pedestrians stand on the sidewalk and buy items from a stand., Taylor Catalog Number: 66
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924
Location: Taylor - Case 7-19 [2717.F]

Title: Historic St. Paul's
Description: Depicts a large Episcopal Church on Third Street with a wrought iron gate and pedestrians in the front., It should be a matter of satisfaction to survivors of time-honored St. Paul's Church, which adorns Third Street opposite Willing's Alley, to know that it has been repaired as is to remain in use as the home of the Protestant Episcopal CIty Mission, which has been located in part of the building since 1904., Taylor Catalog Number: 354
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: St. Joseph's Historic Church
Description: Shows a Catholic church and attached school, featuring large panels of stained-glass windows., Known to few others than the devout old St. Joseph's Catholic Church is accessible only by way of Jesuits coming from Maryland. The present building dates from 1838. It is recorded that the dominant Quakers of the period were tolerant of these strangers, who, in time, also built St. Mary's Church upon Fourth Street. They also contributed to the building of St. Augustine's Church. A tablet set in the wall of St. Joseph's preserves the memory of Rev. Joseph Greaton. A school is connected with this institution., Taylor Catalog Number: 355
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: Oxford Trinity Church
Description: Depicts a church surrounded by a graveyard. Two people stand at the entrance., Once a remote outpost of the Protestant Episcopal Church, this "meeting house" of a congregation well beyond its second century remains devoted to its original service. It was built by Welsh settlers in Oxford Township "nine miles form Philadelphia," as a mission of the English CHurch. The present building replaced a former structure burned in 1762. The tower was built in 1839. Its field of graves holds the dust of very many of the once prominent people of the section., Taylor Catalog Number: 359
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: The Rock House
Description: View of two modest wooden houses in Germantown, Pa. Laundry hangs out to dry and a child and dog stand in the yard., Historians of Germantown describe, at some length, this yet well-preserved relic of the early days. It is located, upon the remnants of its rock, on Penn Street, formerly Shoemaker's Lane, near Wingohocking Station. The drawing has been made from a photo taken in 1924 by Mr. John C. Trautwine, Jr., Taylor Catalog Number: 332
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: The Garrick House, a Colonial Relic
Description: Shows a three-story colonial residence with a yard bordered by hedges. Pedestrians stand outside while an early automobile is parked in the street., The "Yellow Mansion," at Paschall Avenue and Sixty-ninth Streets, is one of the best preserved among the colonial homes of the city. It was formerly known as the Garrick house. In the course of the Revolution it was used as a place of storage for weapons and equipments intended for American troops. General Howe made his deadquarters here prior to the capture of Philadelphia. The owner, in 1923, is Mr. A.E. Kerschner., Taylor Catalog Number: 331
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: In Library Street
Description: Depicts the busy intersection near 11th and Chestnut surrounded by residences and tall commercial buildings. The street is filled with pedestrians, as well as an early automobile and a horse-drawn carriage., This brief highway, extending eastward from Independence Square, below Chestnut Stret, derived its name from the Mercantile and that other most venerable of libraries the "Philadelphia," which occupied its Fifth Street corners. The sketch shows a glimpse of the old United States Custom House building and, in the centre, of the venerable structure, ascribed to Nicholas Biddle, which at the period of this writing, in 1924, is marked for removal to make space for something more modern and profitable., Taylor Catalog Number: 333
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: Dooner's Hotel
Description: Sketch of a well-kept hotel on a street corner, which only served men., This hotel, one of the last of its type, in Philadelphia, was opened in 1883, by Thomas Dooner, who had previously conducted a hotel at Chestnut and Eighth Streets. "Dooners" catered to men only and had always a capacity patronage. It has now, at the beginning of 1924, been sold to the Federal Reserve Bank and will soon, it is understood, be replaced by a structure required by the business of that financial corporation. In recent years Dooner's has been conducted by Mr. Thomas F. Dooner, the son of its founder., Taylor Catalog Number: 338
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

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 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: A Survival of the Stone Age
Description: View of a stone residence with columns across the front porch. A man and dog stand in the foreground of the image., In the course of one of its migrations the City History Society came upon this venerable habitation, yet occupied, when sketched, in 1923, as a dwelling. It is located near Twenty-fourth Street and north from Hunting Park Avenue. Its walls are built of rough field-stone, now adorned with a sturdy growth of ivy. It stands upon the margin of dwelling and factory extension. Research and inquiry upon the part of the artist, have failed to discover the story of its erection or of those by whom it was built., Taylor Catalog Number: 339
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Taylor - Case 7-17 [2717.F]

Title: In Nectarine Street
Description: View of row houses on a cobblestone street. Three people converse on a stoop while a cart rests in the road., This historic lane, just south from Green and west from Front Streets, was opened, in Colonial days, as a part of the British military reservation and barrack ground. It was then called Artillery Lane. In later days it was shown upon local maps as Dana Street. As Nectarine Street it has come within the line of the eastward extension of Spring Garden Street and its substantial old-style houses have been (in 1923) left to the wreckers.
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: In Florist Street
Description: A row of homes and possibly shops reside on a cobblestone street. Pedestrians are present on the narrow road, which include women, children, peddlers, and a mailman., The occupants of a number of neatly-kept homes in this narrow by-way, west from Front Street, were waiting, at the time this sketch was made, in 1923, early eviction to make clearance for the western approach to the great Delaware River bridge. These typical dwellings of the all but forgotten past are good examples of the architecture borrowed from London in the days of Penn and built, probably, when this was a desirable residential neighborhood with merchants and mariners., Taylor Catalog Number: 308
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: Some Spring Street Homes
Description: Depicts a row of small townhouses on a cobblestone street slated for demolition in 1923 to build the Benjamin Franklin Bridge., The tripods of the Delaware River bridge engineers have been set up in Spring Street, a little home thoroughfare leading west from Front Street and this group of old-time homes is marked for removal. Just beyond them in an angle are two other relics of colonial days also awaiting, in 1923, early destruction. One of these, according to tradition, is the house which was the first home, in Philadelphia, of the Boston boy, Benjamin Franklin., Taylor Catalog Number: 307
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: The Home of Joshua Humphreys
Description: Depicts the busy intersection near 11th and Chestnut surrounded by residences and tall commercial buildings. The street is filled with pedestrians, as well as an early automobile and a horse-drawn carriage., This once stately mansion was yet existant, in 1923, when this sketch was made. It was the home for many years of Joshua Humphreys who is known to history as the designer and builder of naval and other ships of his time. The house is located in Montgomery County near Haverford. Humphreys was a native of Delaware County. He was born in 1751 and lived eighty-seven years. He built many noted vessels of our early navy. Among them the Chesapeake, Constellation, Constitution, President, Congress, and United States. The latter was the only one built by him in Philadelphia. He is spoken as the "father of the American Navy.", Taylor Catalog Number: 310
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: A Birthplace of Notables
Description: Shows a residence on the corner of Sixth and Spruce Streets where Joseph Jefferson and E.T. Stotesbury were born., This drawing, made from a photo taken in 1923, by Mr. John C. Trautwine, Jr., depicts the dwelling, now somewhat changed, located at the Southwest corner of Sixth and Spruce Streets, which was the birthplace of Joseph Jefferson and also of Mr. E.T. Stotesbury., Taylor Catalog Number: 306
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: A Benton Street Group
Description: Depicts a street corner of townhomes, businesses, and an office building that dominates the background. People converse on the sidewalk., In the heart of the square West from Fifteenth Street and South from Market Street, these time-worn little homes and shops yet remain (in 1923) to afford a striking contrast with the lofty office structure rising behind them. The drawing aptly typifies the Philadelphia of the past and of the era of the "sky-scraper.", Taylor Catalog Number: 305
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: In Mascher Street
Description: Shows a three-story residence where two people stand on the stoop and a carriage sits in the adjacent alleyway. An inset depicts a similar residence where children play outside in the street., Here, in the little byways to the south of Race Street and east from Second Street, are to be found many neatly kept little homes, which are interesting survivals of our local past and pleasing subjects for the pencil and camera., Taylor Catalog Number: 323
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: In Pent Up Places
Description: The image is divided into three sections depicting residential streets. The left panel shows a man loading a cart in the street. The middle panel depicts people talking in the street with laundry lines overhead. Finally, the right panel shows a street with produce stand in front of one of the buildings., At this time, in 1923, when this sketch is made, the advance forces of the army of progress are busy with the wreckage of much that has both historic and artistic worth, but these little byways, bordered by humble homes, are being scrapped to make way for the great Delaware River bridge and for modern industrial enterprises that will soon replace them to the material advantage of all concerned., Taylor Catalog Number: 314
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

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: 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: 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: 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 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 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

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