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Title: A profiled Friends grave yard at Sadsbury in Lancaster County together with an index book of many names of our silent lead designating the several places in which they repose made and presented by John Gest to the preparative meeting of men and women Friends who hold their religious meetings in the house of where our fathers, mothers, relations and Friends congregated in worship
Description: Plan of the cemetery established in 1725 near the Sadsbury Meeting House established the same year in Sadsbury Township, later Gap, PA. Shows the plots arranged in a grid bordered on three sides by "Samuel Sellers land" and the land of the Sadsbury Friends Meeting. Lands delineated with hand coloring. Also includes a pathway and a border delineated in hand coloring., Title transcribed from manuscript note on item., Includes plot numbers and dimensions., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., John Gest, was son of Joseph Gest (d. 1815), the carpenter of the second Sadsbury meeting house built in 1760.
Creator: Gest, John, 1783-1865
Date: [ca. 1815]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors - Maps [P.2017.15.21]

Title: Too late. Kings Highway, Haddonfield, N.J. Dec. 1, 1882
Description: Pencil sketch of scene looking down King's Highway toward a train traveling past the partially visible train station. A woman pedestrian attired in a shawl and bonnet walks on the sidewalk past the side of a building, toward the moving train in the left. In the right, a man pedestrian attired in a jacket, pants, and wide -brimmed hat and followed by a girl pedestrian holding a package toward her chest walk on the opposite sidewalk, near a tree, away from the train. The girl wears a cap, overcoat, and calf-length skirt., Artist's signature lower right corner., Title from manuscript note on recto of item., Manuscript note on verso: Abbie A. Peacock, Designing Room, Dec. 1, 1882. Original., Date from title., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Abigail "Abbie" A. Peacock (1864-1927) was an artist who trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women 1880-1884. A resident of Friends Insane Asylum, Philadelphia by 1900, Peacock later was a resident of the Camden County Hospital for the Insane beginning in 1905.
Creator: Peacock, Abigail A., 1864-1927, artist
Date: [December 1, 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.61.8]

Title: F ourth and Chestnut Phila
Description: Impressionistic drawing from a raised vantage point showing the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Provident Life and Trust Company Bank and Office Building at 401-411 Chestnut (built 1876-1879, altered 1888-1902, demolished 1959-60); the Philadelphia Trust Company at 413-417 Chestnut (built 1873-1874, demolished 1959); Philadelphia National Bank at 419-423 Chestnut (built 1857-1859, altered between 1892-1908); Farmers and Mechanics Bank at 425-429 Chestnut (built 1884-1885, altered 1917); and the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities at 431 Chestnut (built 1871-1873). Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including automobiles., Title inscribed in pencil on mount., Signature of artist in lower right corner., Date inferred from drawing style and depiction of automobiles., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Philip Kassel, born in Germany, was a commercial artist and illustrator in Philadelphia by 1910. Between the 1910s and 1950, he was listed in city directories with offices on the 300 and 400 blocks of Walnut Street.
Creator: Kassel Philip, 1876-1959, artist
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.61.18]

Title: West End Social Club of Reading, Pa. Articles of Incorporation
Description: Calligraphic document explicating the five articles of incorporation for the association with the object to "encourage and foster among its members a spirit of self improvement, moral and literary, the cultivation of sociability and of the manners and graces of polite society ..." Contains ornamented letters and a border adorned with S-shaped and hinge-like ornaments that contain jagged edge and leaf details., Title and date from item., Per Curiam November 5, 1888., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Creator: Harris, William, calligrapher
Date: [1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Calligraphic Works [P.2017.15.20]

Title: St. Joseph's Hospital, Reading, Pa. This is to Certify that by the direction of the Board of Trustees, the report of the committee appointed to take action upon the death of Daniel J. Driscoll is entered upon the records of the hospital
Description: Calligraphic memorial work with some watercolor details commemorating the philanthropic work of the Auburn, Schuylkill county iron foundry proprietor Daniel J. Driscoll. Includes ornamented letter, scrolls, filligree, and ornaments. Driscoll's foundry purportedly manufactured the first seamless steel tubing in the United States., Title and date from item., Contains a seal., Attested by [John B. Leeway?] Secretary; [William Taylor Stevens?], President; C. Raymond Heizmann, Vice President; and Albert N. Bunkholder., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Item mounted on board with lower edge lined with dry glue remnants.
Date: [1919]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - Calligraphic Works [P.2017.15.19]

Title: Proposed stand pipe for Delware Water Works, Water Department, Philada
Description: Architectural drawing showing the front elevation of a stone building with a stand pipe adorning a pyramid hip roof proposed for the Delaware Water Works, formerly the Kensington Water Works. Building includes brick details around the doorway and the five windows. Ornamental details adorn the standpipe. The waterworks, completed in 1852, at the foot of Wood Street (i.e., Susquehanna Avenue) near the Delaware River provided water for the district of Kensington. Also includes an inset depicting an interior section of pipe. Chief Engineer of the Water Department H.P.M. Birkinbine recorded the need for a stand pipe at the Delaware Water Works in his 1858 Annual Report of the Chief Engineer of the Water Works of the City of Philadelphia (published 1859). He publically announced proposals for enlarging the Delaware Water Works, including a stand pipe in 1864. A new standpipe was completed in 1865., Title and date from item., Manuscript note below title on recto: Scale 1/8 in. to a foot., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See Annual report of the chief engineer of the Water Works of the city of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1859), p. 10. [Am 1859 Phil Pa Water 52642.O .9 (Hare)]., See also Philadelphia Inquirer, June 4, 1864, p.6 and Public Ledger, January 13, 1865, p. 1.
Creator: Birkinbine, Henry P. M., artist
Date: [March 4th, 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.1]

Title: Plan of the town of Blue Rock situate in Manor Township, Lancaster County on the eastern shore of Susquehanna River
Description: Manuscript map showing lots of land near and between Bitner, George, Elizabeth and Water Streets. Also includes the "Road from Columbia to Safe Harbor"; public grounds; a barn; ice house; and dwelling house., Title from item., Manuscript note on verso: Plan of Blue Rock. Filed in the Recorder's Office., Date inferred from reference to "Road from Columbia to Safe Harbor" Columbia was renamed from Wright's Ferry in 1788., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date: [ca. 1800]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors [P.2018.61.21]

Title: Addition to residence of Mr. & Mrs. William J. Strawbridge near Paoli, Penna
Description: Architectural drawings showing the first floor plan and exterior of the Strawbridge estate in Willistown, PA. Plan includes terraces, library, reception room, dining room, gallery, hall, lavatory, closet, living room, garden court, and box garden. Also includes details for a "beam over"; cedar dipping well; measurements for the reception room, hall, gallery, living room, and garden court; and a compass., Title from drawings., Signature of architect in lower right corner. P.2018.62.3 also contains initials of architect in lower right of image., Date inferred from architect's active dates in Philadelphia, his membership in American Institute of Architects (AIA), and the aesthetic of the drawing., Caption on P.2018.62.2: Plan of First Floor., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., G. Edwin Brumbaugh was a Philadelphia architect and architectural historian who specialized in restoration. A member and fellow of the AIA, he worked for the firms Mellor & Meigs and Charles Barton Keen 1912-1920s, as well as started his own practice in 1916.
Creator: Brumbaugh, G. Edwin, 1890-1983, architect
Date: [ca. 1940]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors [P.2018.62.2&3]

Title: Windmill Island
Description: View looking from Philadelphia toward Windmill Island in the Delaware River. In the foreground, the edges of piers are visible. Sailboats and a steamboat traverse the river. The island, including a building and several trees (left), and the cityscape of Camden (right) comprise the background. In 1838 a channel was cut through Windmill Island in the Delaware River to improve navigation between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey. Smith Island to the north and Windmill Island to the south served as summer resort areas. Removal of the islands to allow unobstructed navigation of the river was completed in 1897., Title written on recto., Artist's signature and date written in lower right corner.
Creator: Anderson, Reginald, artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.5]

Title: First city hall, court house and jail
Description: Pencil drawing showing the Camden, NJ three-story, municipal building built in 1829. Two trees stand in front of the building near a fenced walkway. The building was replaced by a market house in 1877., Title written on recto., Date inferred from complementary drawing signed E. Craft 1890 [P.2018.62.7]., Artist possibly Edward Craft, a fireman, listed in the 1890 Camden City Directory., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-12].
Creator: Craft, E., artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.6]

Title: [Architectural drawing depicting a tower, possibly a standpipe for a Philadelphia water works]
Description: Architectural drawing showing a tower with arch details at the base and a spire adorned with a flag., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from possible Philadelphia water works context., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.4]

Title: [South side, 400 block Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, including United States Bank of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bank]
Description: Watercolor and gouache view looking east on Chestnut Street between Fifth and Fourth Streets depicting the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes two banks designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland. Shows the United States Bank of Pennsylvania, formerly the Bank of the United States (i.e., Second Bank, later U.S. Custom House, 1844-1935), constructed 1818-24 at 420 Chestnut Street and the Philadelphia Bank, completed in 1837 at 400-408 Chestnut Street. Also contains partial views, in the foreground, of an adjacent storefront with signage for "Hanry [sic] Parkin.." as well as the entryway of the United States Hotel on the opposite side of the street. Men enter the storefront and stand in the entryway to the hotel. Also includes street and pedestrian traffic. Women promenade as couples, men converse, and men walk up and down the stairs of the United States Bank., Title supplied by cataloger., Date range inferred from fashion of figures depicted and manuscript note lower left: From a contemporary picture.
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.61.19]

Title: Pyne Point Mansion
Description: Pencil drawing showing the one-story residence with two-and-one-half-story addition, known as Cope House, originally built in 1695 in Camden above the Delaware River. Leafless trees line the property. The dwelling was acquired by first Camden settler William Cooper's son Joseph in 1709. The addition was built for Joseph's son Isaac before 1785. William Cooper settled in Camden circa 1680s and named the adjacent land to his residence Pyne Ponte because of the numerous pine trees., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-9 and 11-12].
Creator: Haines, D., artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.10]

Title: Old Browning home, Pea Shore, De Lair Bridge
Description: Pencil drawing showing the two-and-one-half-story residence of George Browning who settled near Pea Shore (later Stockton Township) during the mid 1700s. Residence includes a covered porch. Two rocking chairs are visible on the porch. A tree stands on the property to the right of the dwelling., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7 and 9-12].
Creator: Duffield, artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.8]

Title: [Quaker marriage certificate of William and Hannah Fish, May 25, 1780]
Description: Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell.
Date: 1780
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.61.14]

Title: The view from Springland Cot
Description: Depicts the Neshaminy Creek and lush grounds near William Birch's estate in Bucks County. View includes a woman standing near a potted tree, an abandoned bridge, and the abandoned toll house converted by Birch into his studio. Birch resided at the estate from 1798 to 1818. Birch sold the property in 1805, continue to dwell on the grounds, and repurchased the estate in 1813., Title from item., Date inferred from 1809 publication date of plate after drawing., Published as title page to first edition, later subtitle plate in The country seats of the United States of North America, with some scenes connected with them., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2019, p. 88-89.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, artist
Date: [ca. 1808]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.4]

Title: Home of Walt Whitman, 330 Mickle St., Camden, N.J
Description: Pencil drawing showing the front facade of the two-story, wood-slat, row house residence purchased by poet Walt Whitman in Camden in 1884. Building includes a stoop to the doorway and seven windows, including three upper ones with shutters and two on the cellar level. Also includes partial sketches of adjacent buildings. Whitman died in the residence in 1892., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-10 and 12].
Creator: Miller, Max, artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.11]

Title: Old Diamond Cottage
Description: Pencil drawing showing the two-story wooden cottage with shingle roof, double entryway, and diamond-paned windows at Penn Street below Seventh street, Camden, N.J. A horse is bridled near one of three trees (in the right) adorning the property. The building was torn down in 1891 and was a part of the pleasure garden Diamond Cottage Garden, later Diamond Cottage Park., Title written on recto., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-8 and 10-12].
Creator: Haines, D., artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.9]

Title: Old Federal Street Ferry
Description: Pencil drawing showing the Federal Street Ferry house with a mansard roof. The Federal Street Ferry was established circa 1764 by Daniel Cooper. A new ferry house and ships were built about 1863 and about 1900., Title written on recto., Date inferred from complementary dated drawings., Contains incomplete pencil sketch depicting part of a building and a tree on verso. Similar to Old Browning House image [P.2018.62.8]., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.7-11].
Creator: Miller, Max, artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.12]

Title: [Joseph] Cooper home, Park Bouelvard
Description: Pencil drawing showing the 18th-century Georgian residence, also known as Pomona Hall, originally built in the 1710s and expanded in 1726 and 1788 at Park Boulevard and Euclid Avenue in Camden, N.J. "12 M" and "1726" are written on a chimney on the left of the building. Trees line the front of the property. Erected by Quaker yeoman and slave owner Joseph Cooper, Jr., the residence was inherited by his nephew Marmaduke Cooper in 1767. The estate became the property of the Camden County Historical Society in 1924 following the sale of the building to the city in 1915., Title written on recto. Misidentifies name of original owner of residence: Jacob M. Cooper Home, Park Boulevard., Date inferred from inscription on recto: 1890., Artist possibly Edward Craft, a fireman, listed in the 1890 Camden City Directory., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., See complementary drawings depicting Camden views, Doret & Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.62.6 and 8-12].
Creator: Craft, E., artist
Date: [1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.62.7]

Title: Commissioners Hall, 2nd and Christian St., 1873
Description: Exterior view of the Southwark Commissioners Hall erected in 1811 at Second and Christian Streets, Philadelphia. Shows the front façade of the neo-classical, two-story building containing a clock on the pediment, a bell tower and cupola with a weather vane on top of the roof, and stairs leading to the front door that is decorated with columns and a lunette window. Image also shows pedestrians walking along the sidewalk and partial views of the adjacent buildings. Following the consolidation of Southwark into Philadelphia in 1854, the building was used as a police station until it was demolished in 1882., Title and date from item., Artist’s signature in the left corner., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Later copy of an Evans watercolor created for Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer circa 1880., See also Benjamin Evans Watercolor Collection.
Creator: Keller, J.M, artist
Date: [1896]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.3]

Title: Stone prison, s.w. cor. 3d & Market St., 1723. From old drawing in Philad Library
Description: Exterior view of the High Street Prison built circa 1723 at Third and High (Market) Streets. The site included a debtor's jail (High Street side) and workhouse (Third Street side) joined together by a wall that formed part of a yard enclosure. Pedestrians walk down the sidewalks and across the street. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison., Title and date from item., Artist’s signature in the left corner., Based on a lithograph by William L. Breton, Stone Prison at Philadelphia, 1728, published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia ... (Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830)., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Keller, J.M, artist
Date: [1896]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.4]

Title: [Philadelphia street scene with gas station]
Description: Watercolor of a street scene in Philadelphia, probably with the United States Custom House in the background. Shows pedestrians walking on the sidewalks down the street. In the right, shows the front entrance to the three-story, brick building. In the left, a black car is parked near two, red gas pumps at a gas station. Behind the station is a large, near block-long, four-story building. View also shows a large skyscraper, probably the United States Custom House constructed from 1932 to 1934 after the designs of Ritter and Shay at 200 Chestnut Street, towering in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by artist in lower right corner., Verso contains a rough sketch of a landscape of hills., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., John J. Dull (1859-1949), an architect and artist, was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts., An instructor at Drexel University and the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Arts, he was also a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the T-Square Club.
Creator: Dull, John J., 1859-1949, artist
Date: [ca. 1935]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.1]

Title: Mauch Chunk, PA canal
Description: Sketch depicting a bird’s eye view probably of the Lehigh Canal in Mauch Chunk, Pa. Depicts two boats, each with one man, being pulled with ropes by mules along the canal that runs through a valley. The boats also hold material that is probably coal. View also shows trees growing on the hillside bordering the canal, and in the left background, rail cars moving on the tracks towards wooden buildings along the waterway. Mauch Chunk was founded in 1818 and changed its name to Jim Thorpe in 1955. The Lehigh Canal opened in 1829 and ran until the 1930s., Title and date from manuscript note written on verso: Mauch Chunk, PA Canal, Augt 15th, 1859., Artist’s initials written on verso: E.S.H., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Date: Aug. 15, 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.2]

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 separated by the sidewalk by a picket fence. The Darby Meeting was organized in 1682 and the school built circa 1690. The building visible in the background was built in 1805., Accompanying label: The Darby "Friends," a group then zealous, if few in numbers, organized a meeting in 1684 [sic] 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 [sic]. 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: David Doret Collection of Prints, Photographs, and Ephemera

Title: Old Tun Tavern
Description: David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection, 2018., Label on the front reads: Old Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, Where the First Grand □ of F. & A.M. was Held in America. Tun Tavern stood at the intersection of King (later Water) Street and Wilcox (later Tun) Alley. It was the location of the first lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in the colonies as early as 1732. The June 26, 1732 Pennsylvania Gazette contains an announcement of William Allen being chosen Grand Master. The Tavern is also regarded as the location where the United States Marines held their first recruitment drive in 1775. In 1781, Tun Tavern burned down. A reproduction was built on the grounds of the 1926 Sesquicentennial and demolished after the exposition ended.
Date: circa 20th c
Location: OBJ 907

Title: Ledger Building, Sixth and Chestnut Streets
Description: Faded street scene showing commercial establishments on the block including the Public Ledger Building built 1866-67 after designs by Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. Depicts the western corner of the State House covered with theater broadsides., Title and publisher's imprint from series list printed on verso. One of 106 numbered titles in the series (No. 139-245)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Also published as a half stereoview mounted on paper [(6)1322.F.117d]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret., Robert Newell's son Henry entered the business in 1872 and the name changed to "R. Newell & Son".
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.2010.6.17]

Title: Church, Broad & Arch Sts., Phila. (Methodist) New Masonic Temple in the background
Description: View looking southeast at the Methodist Episcopal church constructed 1869-70 after designs by Addison Hutton. Shows the west front of the adjacent Masonic Temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of James H. Windrim, a coach parked in the right foreground, and the liquor store operated by Charles P. Collins at the northeast corner of Broad and Arch Streets., Title from two different manuscript notes on verso., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Religion [P.2010.6.18]

Title: U.S. Mint
Description: View looking northwest at the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. Also shows two horses on Chestnut Street in the left foreground., One of 107 titles printed in series list on verso (No. 139-245)., Publisher's imprint on verso., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Government buildings [P.2010.6.16]

Title: New Masonic Temple, corner Broad & Filbert Sts. Phila, Pa. To be dedicated Sept. 26, 1873
Description: View looking northeast showing the west front and north flank of the new Masonic Temple, built 1868-1873 after the designs of Freemason and Philadelphia architect James H. Windrim. Also shows construction materials and a dray in the street in front of City Hall in the right foreground., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Associations [P.2010.6.19]

Title: Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church [certificate]
Description: Life membership certificate containing a vignette contrasting scenes of apocalyptic doom and religious salvation. Shows to the right an angel trumpeting salvation and wielding the Bible above a missionary preaching to a large group of Native Americans and a converted Black family kneeling and reaching toward the heavens; broken shackles and swords beside them. Opposite the scenes of salvation, a cross rises from the ground, bringing forth a river of redemption too late for the lost souls of a bejeweled "heathen" woman and a skull-headed man entangled by serpents. Behind them a temple, probably the Vatican, collapses to the ground. The Missionary Society, officially organized in New York in 1820, worked first to convert Native Americans and enslaved people before extending their missions to the Black inhabitants of Liberia in 1823., Issued to Eliza J. Hamilton on April 7th, 1846. Signed by John Whitman, President and Saml. Sappington, Secretary., Gift of David Doret, 2009., See variant *Philadelphia Certificates - Organizations - M [P.P.2004.46.1]., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Access points revised 2021., Description revised 2021.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia Certificates - Organizations - M [P.2009.26.1]

Title: Horticultural Hall, Phila
Description: View looking west at the front elevation of Horticultural Hall, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's headquarters on South Broad Street. Gas lamps flank the entrance stairs and broadside posters adorn the front of the building and can be seen along the fence separating the hall from the Academy of Music. Includes a partial view of Lardner Street (i.e. Back Place). Samuel Sloan designed the hall in 1867. A fire destroyed this hall in early 1881, and it was rebuilt in 1882 after designs by Addison Hutton., Title from manuscript note on verso., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Stamped twice on verso: J.B. Sample., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: De Young's Palace Dollar Store (Firm)
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - De Young's - Theatres and halls [P.2010.6.3]

Title: The sick dolly
Description: Genre photograph showing a young white girl, wearing her hair in ringlets and attired in a dark-colored dress with decorative white piping, white stockings, and black shoes, sitting in a rocking chair in front of a chaise lounge. She holds her white porcelain doll in her arms like a baby. A doll's cradle sits at the girl's feet along with doll’s chair on which a cloth white doll sits. A Black cloth doll is propped on the lounge behind the girl. In the right is a small side table with a glass mug., Title printed on verso., Photographer's label pasted on verso over the printed text of another photographer or publisher., Buff mount with rounded corners., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret, 2010., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Genre [P.2010.6.1]

Title: Bird's eye view of Philadelphia, east from State House steeple
Description: Cityscape view looking northeast from State House (520 Chestnut) showing the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street before construction began on the Provident Life & Trust Company building (401-411 Chestnut) in 1876. Includes Peoples Bank (433-437 Chestnut, i.e., Girard Building, built ca. 1874); Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives & Granting Annuities (431 Chestnut, built 1871-73, Addison Hutton, architect); Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank (425-429 Chestnut, built 1854-55, John M. Gries, architect); Philadelphia National Bank (419-423 Chestnut, built 1857-59, John M. Gries, architect); and the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Co. (413-417 Chestnut, built 1873-74, James H. Windrim, architect). Also shows surrounding buildings including the steeple of Christ Church (22-34 North Second Street)., Title printed on mount and in manuscript note on verso of P.2010.6.2., Alternate title on negative of P.9168.17: "East from Sixth and Chestnut"., Photographer's imprint on mounts; in black text on P.2010.6.2 and red text on P.9168.17., Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of the city entitled, "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," printed on verso of P.2010.6.2. Text surmounted by vignette of state seal of Pennsylvania and surrounded by decorative border., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One of the images gift of David Doret (P.2010.6.2).
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.2010.6.2 and P.9168.17]

Title: [Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning family photographs]
Description: Collection of portrait photographs of members of the African American family, possibly compiled by Mary “Mose” Venning. Includes snapshots, studio portraits, and tintypes of men, women, and children, depicted individually and as groups. Settings include residential interiors and exteriors, including stoops and back porches; the beachfront; a school yard; and military grounds. Other photographs depict Lillie Gertrude Capps Adams in a formal white dress (dated 1903), a young man in a ship’s captain’s uniform, a series of different poses with two women and a man attired for tennis in front of a summer house; and an exterior view of the dental office of “Dr. A. T. Capps.” Several images also include studio backdrops and props; animals, including a bird, dogs, and horses; and automobiles., Sitters include Lillie “Buzz” Venning Dickerson; Martha “Mattie” Venning Bowie; Mary ‘Mose” Venning; Richard DeReef Venning; and Julia Capps Venning., Title supplied by cataloger., Accompanied by black leather binder., Few of the photographs contain manuscript notes on verso., Manuscript note on verso of P.2012.37.3.19: Dear Sister - busy with exams and haven’t time to answer your letter. Time is growing very short and the men are being sent home in large numbers. All are well and hope the same of you. Percy? Regards to you and kids. This is the target range., Various photographers, including Philadelphia photographers Bell's Studio, Mitchell Studio, The Bailey Studios, and Henrici & Withers., See LCP AR [Annual Report] 1991 p. 26-31., Gift of descendants Cordelia H. Brown, Lillie V. Dickerson, Mary Hinkson Jackson, and Georgine E. Willis in honor of Phil Lapsansky., See LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45., Genealogical charts available at repository., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1895 - ca. 1955]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders-Venning Collection [P.2012.37.3]

Title: [Full-length portrait of Maung Shaw Loo]
Description: Full-length, forward-facing portrait of Maung Shaw Loo, attired in traditional Burmese clothes, including a gaung baung (head wrap); a light-colored shirt; a striped longyi (sarong or long skirt); and a floor-length, striped cloth cape around his shoulders. He stands with his right hand on the back of a wooden chair. A curtain hangs in the right, and a patterned carpet is visible on the floor. Maung Shaw Loo (1839-1929) was born in Burma (Myanmar) and traveled to the United States in 1858. He attended the University of Lewisburg (later renamed Bucknell University) in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1864. He earned a medical degree from Cleveland Medical College in 1867, becoming the first Western-trained Burmese physician. He returned to Burma and continued work as a physician and educator., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from sitter's time in Lewisburg, Pa., Photographer's imprint on verso: E.L. Mowry, Photographer, Lewisburg, Pa.
Creator: Mowry, E.L, photographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Loo [P.2024.2]

Title: Kanrokuro Nakayama
Description: Bust-length portrait of Kanrokuro Nakayama. He wears his hair parted to the left and is attired in a white collared shirt, tie, and jacket. Kanrokuro Nakayama (1855-1934) attended Harvard Law School from 1877 to 1880. He returned to Japan and became Secretary to the Minister of the Interior., Title and date from manuscript note written on verso: Khanrokuro Nakayama, 5 April 1878., Photographer's imprint on verso: G.W. Pach, Photographer, No. 841 Broadway, Cor. 13th St. New York. Branches at Harvard and Yale. Poughkeepsie, Long Branch, and West Point, Ocean Grove. For duplicates order [214]., Gift of E. Perot Walker, 1980.
Creator: Pach, G.W, photographer
Date: 1878
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv portraits - sitter - Nakayama [P.8514.28]

Title: [Copy portrait of Mrs. Benedict Arnold and child]
Description: Portrait of a painting of a seated Arnold in a dress with a large bow at the waist with her arm around a young child who leans into her lap. Daniel Gardner painted the portrait of Margaret Shippen Arnold with either her son Edward or daughter Sophia in the 1780s., Title supplied by cataloger., Pad: Purple velvet., Mat: Oval., Case: Leather. Flower vase motif design on recto was engraved by Anthony C. Paquet and illustrated as plate 146 in Floyd and Marion Rinhart's American miniature case art (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co.), 1969. Geometric design on verso.
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos - Unidentified photo.-Identified sitter - Arnold [P.2009.10.1]

Title: [Statue of a seated young man]
Description: Statue of a young man dressed in working clothes and seated on a rock., Title supplied by cataloger., Photographer's label on verso.
Creator: Richards, F. DeB., (Frederick DeBourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2009.23]

Title: Chinese prisoner
Description: Full-length portrait of an unidentified Chinese man with his queue tied to a ladder. The man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a blue robe, belt, and cloth slip-on shoes, stands facing to the left with his hands inside his sleeves at his waist and his right foot forward. His hair is tied to a ladder that leans against the wall in the right. The manuscript inscription labels the man as a "Chinese prisoner.", Title from manuscript note written on recto under the image: Chinese prisoner., Date inferred from content., Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - unid. photographer - unid. men sitters [P.9057.71]

Title: Independence Hall in 1876
Description: Busy street view showing Independence Hall built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. Also shows the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans (500 Chestnut) and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). Pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles, including a woman pushing a baby carriage, wagons, carriages, and street cars, congest the sidewalks and roadway. Trees line the sidewalk and a large American flag adorns Independence Hall., Title from item., Date inferred from title., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 880, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Government Buildings [P.2010.6.30]

Title: Independence Hall
Description: View looking southwest showing the south side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street, including the front of the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Also shows a partial view in the left foreground of old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut), Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut), and the commercial building at the southwest corner of Sixth and Chestnut Streets where John McArthur would consruct the Public Ledger building 1866-1867 (600 Chestnut Street) in the distant right background., One of 107 titles printed in series list on verso (No. 139-245)., Publisher's imprint on verso., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [photographed ca. 1865, printed ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Government buildings [P.2010.6.13]

Title: Custom House, Phila
Description: Rooftop view looking east showing the government building at 420 Chestnut Street. Originally built as the Second Bank of the United States 1819-1824 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland, the building served as the U.S. Custom House from 1845 to 1935. Also includes the Philadelphia Bank Building built 1836 after designs by William Strickland at 400-408 Chestnut Street. Several individuals sit and stand on the steps of the customhouse., Title written in manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret., Robert Newell's son Henry entered the business in 1872 and the name changed to "R. Newell & Son".
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Government buildings [P.2010.6.14]

Title: [Pennsylvania Railroad Connecting Railway Bridge from Lansdowne, Philadelphia]
Description: View from the west bank of the river showing men and a woman holding a child standing and sitting near a rustic railing overlooking the New York Railroad Bridge, known as the Connecting Railway Bridge, built from 1866-1867 after the designs of Pennsylvania Railroad Chief Engineer John A. Wilson. The PRR bridge served as the railroad’s first connecting railway between Philadelphia and New York City., Title supplied by cataloger., Series list printed on verso. Includes one hundred titles in the series (No. 1-100)., Publisher's imprint printed on series label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.2010.6.12]

Title: Girard College. Front view
Description: Partial exterior view of the front facade of Founder's Hall constructed 1833-1847 in the Greek Revival Style after the designs of Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter at 1201-1211 West College Avenue. Also shows a group of women standing in the doorway of the building. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to Robert Newell., Yellow mount with rounded corners., For duplicate view see stereo - Newell - Education [P.8643.1], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Education [P.2010.6.15]

Title: Fairmount from Lemon Hill, Phila. Park
Description: View looking south from a path at Lemon Hill in East Fairmount Park. Depicts a group of women and children standing together at the edge of a slope leading down to the Schuylkill River. View also includes the Fairmount Water Works and the decorative distribution arch (built 1860) and standpipe (built 1852) on Reservoir Hill. Originally constructed between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, the waterworks were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., until 1872., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to Robert Newell., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.2010.6.8]

Title: Girard Ave. Bridge
Description: View looking east from Girard Avenue showing the Girard Avenue Bridge, completed in 1872-74 after the designs of Philadelphia architects Henry A. and James P. Sims, over the Schuylkill River in Fairmount Park. The wrought-iron Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, demolished in 1971, also served as a pedestrian bridge. Also includes a partial view of the nearby New York Connecting Railway Bridge, completed in 1867. In the foreground, spectators observe the river., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Bridges [P.2010.6.6]

Title: View from Belmont, Phila. Park. Schuylkill River in the distance with Penna R.R. Bridge
Description: View looking south from Belmont Mansion in West Fairmount Park showing the Columbia Railroad Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River in the distant left background. One of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, it was completed in 1834 after the designs of John C. Trautwine for the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad. The Reading Railroad purchased the bridge in the 1850s., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to Robert Newell., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.2010.6.7]

Title: View of wheel house, Fairmount
Description: View looking northeast from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house; old mill house; new mill house (completed 1862); and the observatory tower arch (built 1860) and stand pipe (built 1852) on Reservoir Hill. The waterworks, orginally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to Robert Newell., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Public Utilities [P.2010.6.9]

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