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Title: The gold & silver artificers of Phila. In civic procession 22 Feb 1832
Description: Event lithograph showing the gold and silver artificers of Philadelphia on procession past the Second Bank of the United States (420 Chestnut) for the centennial celebration of the birth of George Washington. Government officials and prominent citizens led the parade order, followed by the tradesmen, then the volunteer fire companies, and lastly the military. Shows the craftsmen, all attired in top hats and sashes, led by a parade marshall on horse-back. He is followed by a six-horse mounted team pulling a float carrying men operating and protecting a coin press. Two other men, probably the marshall's aids, on horseback, one on a rearing horse, flank the rear of the vehicle. Several rows of marching artisans follow the float led by an artificer carrying a large banner adorned with a bust portrait of Washington. The portrait is encircled by a wreath and bordered by an eagle that clasps a banner in his beak reading "Pater Patriae" [design on distributed coin]. Along the parade route, throngs of spectators watch from the steps of the bank, along the street, and from the second floor windows of businesses adjacent to the financial institution. Signage for "Thomas Fletcher, Manufacturer of Silver Plate and Jewelry"; "Fletcher & Gardiner"; and "Browne & Robb 132" adorn the storefronts. Merchandise is displayed in the windows of Fletcher & Gardiner. Spectators along the street include well-attired men, women, and children, including several boys who run to and gather in front of the float to retrieve freshly pressed coins being thrown from the vehicle. Many raise their arms and retrieve coins from the ground. Also shows two dogs in a tug of war over something in their jaws, trees flanking the bank, and partial views of surrounding buildings in the background., Sketches of the recto and obverse of the coin "Struck & Distributed to Civic Procession Feby. 22 1832. The Centennial anniversary of the Birthday of Washington by the Gold & Silver Artificers Philada." printed below the image. One side of die cut by Albert Bird and the other by Mr. Folwell., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 318, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Brown, Mannevillette Elihu Dearing, 1810-1896
Date: 1832
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W380 [P.2212]

Title: The New Masonic Hall, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view showing the four-story Gothic-style hall built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart at 713-721 Chestnut Street. A small portion of the adjacent Washington House hotel signboard is visible (right). On the sidewalk, eleven pedestrians (men wearing top hats and canes, women with parasols, and a child wearing a wide-brimmed hat) greet one another, converse, stroll, and admire the building. Hall building sold circa 1873 following the completion of the new Masonic Temple on North Broad Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 501, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979 p. 43., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 05 T 451.
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898, artist
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W385 [P.8467]

Title: The new Moravian church of 1856, S.W. corner of Wood & Franklin Sts
Description: Exterior view of the third church building, with side courtyard, completed in 1856 after the designs of J. A. C. Trautwine for the Moravian congregation, established in 1742. Trees and an iron-work fence surround the Norman-style building. Neighboring buildings are also visible., Published in Abraham Ritter's History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell,1857), opposite page 176., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 504, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: hand-colored in Am 1857 Rit 14341.0 (Rush) and 75004.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 138 M 7972e, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:7, hand-colored.
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W386 [Am 1857 Rit 14341.O.opp176 (Rush)], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W386 [Am 1857 Rit 75004.O.opp176]

Title: The offering of the carriers of the press to their patrons January 1st, 1863
Description: Carriers' address containing a montage of seven, titled vignette views of historic sites, predominately Independence Hall, used by the Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1776. Includes "Hall of Independence - Front" and "Hall of Independence - Rear" showing the Chestnut Street elevation and rear elevation with Independence Square; "Carpenters' Hall" exterior view; "Signing of the Declaration of Independence" based after the John Trumbull painting; "House in which the Declaration was written, S.W. corner Market and Seventh Sts."; "Carpenters' Hall - Interior"; and "Hall of Independence - Interior" showing the Assembly Room utilized as an exhibit gallery. Most of the views include pedestrian or visitor traffic. "House" view shows the Jacob Graff house used as a storefront and adorned in signage reading "W. Brown & Co.," "Book & Job Printing Office," and "Birth Place of Liberty." Vignettes surrounded by a border of vinery containing an American eagle and shield., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 519, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PRM23
Date: [1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W387 [P.2213]

Title: The original Moravian church of 1820. S.E. corner of Moravian Alley (now Bread Street) & Race St
Description: View showing the new church building, built 1819 after the designs of master builder Joseph Worrel, near the original parsonnage on the 200 block of Race Street. Part of the front facade is visible behind a gate and courtyard extending between two dwellings situated in front of the church. Two men converse in front of one of the residences. Also shows Moravian Alley, i.e., N. Bread Street, and a partial view of a neighboring building in the right of the image. The building was sold in 1854 when the church relocated to a new building built 1855-1856 at Wood and Franklin Streets, Published in Abraham Ritter's History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Published by Hayes & Zell, 1857), opposite page 168., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 532, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.8 and Am 1857 Rit 75004.0 and 14341.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W389 [P.9830.8]

Title: The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons The State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Description: Membership certificate for the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons containing a bust-length portrait vignette of "Bishop White Presdt. 50 Years" and a "bird's-eye view of the Building's-Grounds and Environs" of Eastern State Penitentiary. Filigree surrounds the oval-framed portrait. View shows the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. Individuals walk and a horse-drawn wagon travel within the prison grounds that are surrounded by a brick wall with Gothic-style entrance gate. The grounds include garden plots. Pedestrians, including a man pushing a hand-cart, a carriage, and men on horseback travel in the streets outside of the penitentiary. Undeveloped land and cityscape, including Girard College, border the prison building. Also includes a descriptive paragraph about "This institution known as Cherry Hill State Prison 'At Philadelphia as the Model Prison of' The Pennsylvania System of Prison Discipline' or "Separate System' ..." Text describes the Separate System of incarceration where "each convict occupies a single cell or workshop" in addition to the construction, dimensions, and utilities of the building, including "seven corridors of cells," gas, "heat by hot water," and "water in each cell.", Issued to John McAlister [sic] Jr. on November 11, 1856. Signed by John B. Lytle, Secy. and James J. Barclay, Presdt., Attributed to James Queen., Contains blindstamp of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 597, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Societies, Certificates, Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W396 [P.2214]

Title: The terrible conflagration at Ninth and Washington Streets, Philadelphia On the morning of Wednesday February 8th 1865
Description: Disaster print showing the scene at the "disastrous conflagration commenced in the storage yard [of Blackburn & Co.] at Ninth & Washington Street" in the early morning hours of February 8, 1865. In the foreground, displaced and panicked residents of all ages attired in their night clothes, many holding their few possessions, run down and gather on the snowy streets. Amongst the commotion, police officers assist residents with their possessions (trunks, bedding, and cookware) and direct firefighters toward the blaze and burnt ruins of and surrounding the coal yard. The firefighters transport a ladder, hoses, and hose carriage toward the burning buildings as other volunteers rush to smother a man on fire and comfort a fleeing girl. Others depicted at the scene include two men laying an unconscious man attired in a nightshirt on the ground; a man and woman clutching their children to their chests; and a woman falling and dropping her baby in her flight as a dog runs past them. In the background, a small number of survivors and firefighters carrying victims, run down the 1100 block of Ninth Street that is lined with burning and destroyed buildings. Across from the coal yard, presumably the proprietor, James McManus, holds a bundle, and prepares to exit the doorway of the "Lager Beer Saloon" on the northeast corner of Washington Avenue and Ninth Street. Furniture covers the sidewalk in front of his establishment, the upper floors visibly on fire., Also contains several lines of text explicating the economic and human cost of the fire, including "loss of property" at "$400, 000," the "property destroyed" at about "one hundred structures," and the "List of Dead and Missing - Mrs. Barbara Ware, aged 43 years. Miss Annie Ware, 23 years._Emma Ware, 20 year._Helen Ware, 13 years._Isabella Ware, 4 years._Rebecca Ware._Albert Ware, 17 years._Clayton Ware, 10 years._The Scott Family is missing._Samuel McMenamin Fleetwood". A barrel of coal oil ignited through arson stored at Blackburn & Co. started the blaze shortly after 2 A.M. The fire destroyed the coal yard, which then caused a stream of burning oil to flow down Washington Avenue and Ninth Street that spread the fire to neighboring blocks of Federal and Ellsworth streets., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 746, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reaccessioned as P.2215., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Fire described in the Philadelphia Inquirer, February 9, 1865, p. 8.
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W397 [6549.F]

Title: The Weccacoe Engine Co.'s house and the reception of the United Fire Co. of Baltimore
Description: View showing Weccacoe Fire Company firefighters (left) welcoming the firefighters of the United Fire Company of Baltimore (right) in front of the three-story Weccacoe engine house on the 100 block of Queen Street in Southwark. An eagle surmounts the dormer-like addition on top of the building. The captains (including General Anthony Miltenberger, chief marshall of the Union Fire Co., center right), shake hands in front of the open engine house doors, behind which the faint outline of equipment is visible. Both companies wear uniforms. The Weccacoe firefighters wear long, belted jackets under red capes adorned with "Weccacoe W.E.S", and hats marked with "Weccacoe 1800" on the front and "FA" (Fire Association of Philadelphia) on the back. The United Fire Co. firefighters are dressed in red jackets with green lapels, green and gold hats labeled "Union" on the front, and brass belt buckles., Date supplied by duplicate in the collections of the Maryland Historical Society., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 824, James Fuller Queen was a volunteer firefighter with the Weccacoe Fire Company., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W398 [6621.F]

Title: Thomas Hargrave ornamental carver and sculptor s.w. corner of Ridge Road & 13th St
Description: Advertisement showing the three-story business facade, adorned with signage, and the adjacent marble yard at N. 13th Street and Ridge Avenue (east of North Broad and north of Spring Garden streets). A female patron enters the doorway of the establishment in which a monument adorned with a figure in recline is visible within the window. Below the window, signage for "Union Refectory. Oysters Terrapins & Game in Season by Charles Epley" hangs. A male patron descends the stairs to the oyster cellar. A man and boy admire the sepulchral monuments and headstones, many ornamented, which crowd the adjacent fenced, marble yard. Ornamentations include eagles, urns, a female figure at recline, and the inscription "Mother." In the street, a horse-drawn cart is positioned to receive goods across from a stopped "Girard College & Green Hill Chesnut [sic] and Thirteenth" omnibus. A couple exits the rear of the horse-drawn vehicle that is filled with passengers. A landscape view decorates the cab. In the background, neighboring buildings, one with smoking chimneys, are visible. Hargrave established his business at the address in 1844 and operated from the location until the later 1860s., Date supplied by Wainwright., Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 28, 1858, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 751, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reynolds worked from Gaskill Street 1844-1852.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [ca. 1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W402 [P.2217]

Title: [Thos. Minford. Wholesale & retail grocery & tea warehouse, s.w. corner of Second and Walnut Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing a southwest view of the three-story storefront, adorned with signage, on the 200 block of Walnut Street. In front of the store, a female patron reaches into a sack - one of several sacks, crates, and canisters displayed on a platform near the open doorway. Within the store, a couple stands near one of two rows of shelves of merchandise furnishing the establishment. On the second floor, large, open panel doors expose the room lined with hay. A barrel and crates, and boxes of tea and sacks stacked in the rear of the floor are visible. Several brooms are stored in front of the third floor windows. At the side of the building, two gentlemen converse near a side door and hand-cart across from a row of crates and barrels that are lined against the wall. Also shows a partial view of the adjacent building. Minford tenanted the site 1845-1847, and later relocated to New York City., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: June 1847. S.W. cor. Second and Walnut., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 754, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [June 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W405 [P.2218]

Title: Two of the killers
Description: View showing two outlandishly-attired members of the Philadelphia gang known as the "Killers" carousing on the street. One sits on a fire hydrant and the other leans against a lamp pole (posted with a "Sale" notice") at a street tenanted by a "Grocery" and adorned with broadsides. The men wear patterned pants, jackets with tails, oversized neck ties, and top hats. One also wears a pin adorned "K." They each have their hands in their pockets and smoke cigarettes. The grocery displays a barrel of brooms in addition to signs reading "Coffee Sugar Tea" and "Teas Coffee 5." The broadsides adorning the opposite building advertise "Auction this Evening" and "Circus The Old Man of the Mountain..... Dan Rice Clown." The playbill is illustrated with a scene of an equestrian trick. The "Killers," organized circa 1846, were a band of young men who menaced the Moyamensing neighborhood and were associated with the Moyamensing Hose Company and the Democratic Keystone Club., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: 1848., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 761, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of American city (Published by Camino Books in cooperation the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), page 199.
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W408 [P.2219]

Title: Tabernacle M. E. Church. 11th St. above Jefferson St. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church,, Exterior, oblique view looking southwest at the two-story Roman Corinthian church and rotunda of the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church, erected in 1853 after the designs of Stephen Decatur Button. Corinthian pilasters and narrow, arched windows adorn the front facade, which is surmounted by a dome and lantern made of wood and tin. An ornate iron railing extends south from the church to the partially visible adjacent three-story row house at 1528 North Eleventh Street. Includes five pedestrians (two couples and a woman) walking on the sidewalk in front of the church. Purportedly the first, and possibly only, Methodist Church in Philadelphia to have a dome or spire. A fire destroyed this first structure on January 18, 1857, and a second church, modeled on the first building, was completed in 1858., Dated supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 739, For architectural descriptions of the exteriors and interiors of the 1853 and 1858 church structures, see Poulson's Scrapbook of Philadelphia History, vol. VIII, p. 10, and vol. X, p. 65 (LCP reference copy Uy 8, 2526.F)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Watson, John Frampton, artist
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W361 [P.2259]

Title: Tamany Fish House, on the Pea Shore, R. Delaware
Description: View showing visitors enjoying the public grounds of the Tamany Pea Shore Fishing Company, a social and sporting club founded by Philadelphia artisans in 1803 on the New Jersey Shore above Camden. People stroll on the veranda of the club house remodeled in 1832 and are visible in the upper-floor windows. The building, reflected in the water, is adorned with a flag and a weather-vane shaped as a fish. The kitchen building stands to the right of the main building. Between the two buildings, two men stand in front of a water pump. Couples stroll and an older man fishes on a wooden pier, to which a rowboat is tied, that stretches from the shore. In the right, a rowboat carrying seven passengers (5 men, 2 women) approaches a boy and a man preparing to fish next to their grounded rowboat on the riverbank. Other guests stroll and greet each other on the shore that is lined with trees. Club named after Tamane, a respected Delware chief who purportedly died near the site fo the clubhouse., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 742, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #72., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: Snider gift., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 03 Tl 53., Gift of Jay Snider., Date of founding of the club from article in Public Ledger, October 12, 1882.
Creator: Scott, Thomas M., artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W363 [P.9830.9]

Title: [Patent improved lead pipe sheet lead and composition gas tubes, manufactured by Tatham & Brothers, office 15 Minor Street, Philadelphia, and No. 249 Water Street, New York.]
Description: Advertisement showing the factory complex at 608 Delaware Avenue (occupied 1844) for the lead pipe manufactory established in 1841 by George N., Henry B., and William P. Tatham. Factory employees work in front of and at the wharf of the industrial building that is covered with signage. Men lift a barrel with a hoist; guide horse-drawn drays into a courtyard, down an alley, and to be unloaded; move planks of wood; and spray a hose into the river. Also shows partial views of surrounding buildings. Tatham & Brothers, a firm established in New York in 1838, operated the Philadelphia branch from the address until circa 1867. The firm patented a hydraulic pressure method to produce pipe in 1841., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. Delaware Avenue., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 547, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba34 T218., HSP copy contains advertising text about the "better quality" patent leaden pipe process and price lists printed in letterpress. Price lists documents "Water Pipes for Hydrant, Pumps &c."; "Fountain or Aqueduct Pipe"; and "Sheet Lead."
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W364 [P.2200]

Title: [Taylor & Teese, saddlers and A. R. Chambers, currier, 67 & 69 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Advertisement showing the 4-story adjacent storefronts for Andrew R. Chambers, leather dealer and Taylor & Teese, saddlers at 67-69, i.e., 223-225 Chestnut Street. Signage for the businesses, the street numbers, and a drain pipe marked "1832" adorn the building. Merchandise adorns the display windows and sidewalk of Taylor & Teese. Includes a stack of trunks, a harness, saddles, and a feedbag. Rolled merchandise is also visible through the open doorway of Chambers. Taylor & Teese and Chambers resided as neighbors circa 1832-circa 1837., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date supplied by Wainwright., Poulson inscription on recto: Chestnut Street, Chestnut Street, Aug 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 743, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Childs & Inman, a partnership between engraver and lithographer Cephas G. Childs and portraitist Henry Inman, was active in Philadelphia between 1830 to 1833.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W365 [P.2201]

Title: Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steamboat "New Jersey," on the Delaware River, above Smith's Island, on the night of March 15th, between 8 and 9 o'clock, in which dreadful calamity over 50 lives are supposed to have been lost
Description: Dramatic view of the steamboat, its nameplate visible, engulfed in flames and smoke, as the passengers escape into the icy river. Panicked passengers huddle, jump and dive into the water already teeming with disaster victims. The river-bound men and women bob; swim; and lie on, attempt to stay upon, and assist others onto cakes of ice and debris. In the lower right of the image, a rowboat containing a rower and a man holding a baby as well as a victim hanging on to the rear of the vessel arrives at the nearby wharf. The rescuer hands the limp baby to its mother, next to whom a man stands with a look of concern. In the left background, signage for "Baths" adorns the riverbank. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as a result of defective boilers, a fireplace, and brick work. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 745, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 19:33
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W366 [P.2202]

Title: The castle of the state in Schuylkill
Description: Exterior view of the clubhouse known as The Castle of the Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill. Shows men spread out across the grounds, some sitting at a table outside, others walking in the woods near the clubhouse and stables. Two men stand with a dog at the edge of the river, looking toward a man in a rowboat in the foreground. Association formed in 1732 for hunting and fishing, originally on "Eaglesfield" the old estate of William Warner on the western bank of the Schuylkill River. Construction of the Fairmount Dam circa 1822 forced the clubhouse to rebuild their home near Gray's Ferry, across the river from Bartram's Garden on Rambo's Rock., First published in American turf register and sporting magazine, 1, No.5, opposite p. 217 (January, 1830), and then as frontspiece in William Milnor, Jr.'s An authentic historical memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company (Philadelphia: Published by Judah Dobson, 1830)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 84, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1830 Mil 7130.O.frontispiece copy 2 & 3; Per A 184 16783.O v. 1., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: in Am 1830 Mil Ap83 M66 copy 1 & 2 and Wi.2., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 21:50. Includes: "Lithd. for the Americana Turf Register & Sporting Magazine."
Creator: Swett, Moses, artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W369 [Am 1830 Mil 7130.O.frontispiece copy 2], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W369 [Am 1830 Mil 7130.O.frontispiece copy 3], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W369 [Per A 184 16783.O.opp217 v. 1], http://www.lcpimages.org/wainwright/W369.htm

Title: The Catholic Church of St. Mary, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the rectangular front facade, red-brick Roman Catholic church built 1763 and enlarged 1810-1811 (Charles Johnson, master carpenter) at 242-250 S. 4th Street. Crucifixes, arched windows and entrances, and a tablet reading "Founded 1763 Enlarged 1810" adorn the building protected by a brick wall with iron work fencing and gates. Well-dressed men and women, including two women with parasols and a mother and child, walk outside the church property. Cellar doors jut out from the brick wall and a fire hydrant is visible on the sidewalk. Also shows the side of the church and alley in addition to partial views of neighboring buildings., Inscribed on recto: 1830., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 88, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Reaccessioned as P.2203., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 131 S146.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [ca. 1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W370 [6548.F]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier. Loose print lacking copyright statement., Issued as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume containing twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2204 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.1 [P.2204]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume containing twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2205 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.2 [P.2205]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue.In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch.Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2206 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.4 [P.2206]

Title: The farm. A scene near Gray's Ferry, Philada. Co., Pa Design XXVII. pl. I
Description: Plate in architectural design book illustrating an Italianate mansion at the intersection of two roads in Gray's Ferry near Philadelphia. In the foreground, three boys fish in a stream that runs parallel to the property leading to the Schuylkill River in the background (left). An orchard occupies the land in front of the house, and farm land sprawls across the property behind the house. A team of two horses plows the farm land, and a sailboat is visible on the river in the distance., The lithography firm of Peter S. Duval operated as P.S. Duval & Co. from 1851-1857., Published in Samuel Sloan's The model architect. (Philadelphia: Published by E.S. Jones & Co. S.W. corner of Fourth & Race Sts., c1852), vol. II, plate I, design XXVII., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 243, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1852 Sloan (2)1382.F, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Farms
Creator: Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date: [1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W376 [*Am 1852 Sloan (2)1382.F.opp10]

Title: The Girard College, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 5 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 304.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Synder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W379.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: St. John's Church, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-style Roman Catholic church, St. John the Evangelist, opened for services in April 1832 at 23-25 South Thirteenth Street. Shows parishioners walking up the church steps and two women conversing on the sidewalk. An iron fence protects the building., Issued as plate 19 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 709.1. Digital image shows third state of print., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F and Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., (5)1322.F.71b originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W346.1 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F and 3008.Q (Poulson); (5)1322.F.71b]

Title: St. John's Church, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-style Roman Catholic church, St. John the Evangelist, opened for services in April 1832 at 23-25 South Thirteenth Street. Shows parishioners walking up the church steps and two women conversing on the sidewalk. An iron fence protects the building., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 19 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 709.2. Digital image shows third state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W346.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: St. John's Church, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-style Roman Catholic church, St. John the Evangelist, opened for services in April 1832 at 23-25 South Thirteenth Street. Shows parishioners walking up the church steps and two women conversing on the sidewalk. An iron fence protects the building., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 19 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 709.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: (5)1322.F.70h and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: 1848, c1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W346.3 [(5)1322.F.70h]

Title: Stand pipe. For West Philada. Water Works
Description: View showing the proposed design for a standpipe with an ornate spiral staircase and statute of George Washington to be erected at Thirty-Fifth and Sycamore streets as part of the Twenty Fourth Ward Water Works (i.e., West Philadelphia Water Works). Individuals gaze up at the stucture from its base as other men and women ascend the staircase and view the vista from the observation deck. Completed circa 1855, without the statue, after the designs of engineers Birkinbine & Trotter, the standpipe served as a reservoir for the waterworks located on the west bank of the Schuylkill River above the Fairmount Dam. The standpipe was removed in 1870., Manuscript note on recto: height 130 feet. diameter 5 ". Made of of B[?] iron., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 717, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #77., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., See Poulson's scrapbook vol. VII, pg. 119 for clipping concerning the raising of the stand pipe dated December 15, 1853., Trimmed.
Creator: Rease & Schell, artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W351 [P.2191]

Title: State House. Philadelphia
Description: Winter, evening scene looking southeast from Sixth and Chestnut streets toward the State House (Independence Hall) showing light pedestrian traffic. Pairs of men and women walk, converse, and cross the snow-covered street near Congress Hall and the intersection. A man and woman street vendor attend their stand near a watchman's house. Also shows City Hall (500 Chestnut) built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. in the background. The State House (520 Chestnut) was built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley and Congress Hall (540-558 Chestnut) was built 1787-1789., Artist's imprint lower left corner of stone., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 11 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 720.1. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2193 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W352.1 [P.2193]

Title: State House. Philadelphia
Description: Winter, evening scene looking southeast from Sixth and Chestnut streets toward the State House (Independence Hall) showing light pedestrian traffic. Pairs of men and women walk, converse, and cross the snow-covered street near Congress Hall and the intersection. A man and woman street vendor attend their stand near a watchman's house. Also shows City Hall (500 Chestnut) built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. in the background. The State House (520 Chestnut) was built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley and Congress Hall (540-558 Chestnut) was built 1787-1789., Artist's imprint lower left corner of stone., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 11 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 720.2. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2194 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W352.2 [P.2194]

Title: State House. Philadelphia
Description: Winter, evening scene looking southeast from Sixth and Chestnut streets toward the State House (Independence Hall) showing light pedestrian traffic. Pairs of men and women walk, converse, and cross the snow-covered street near Congress Hall and the intersection. A man and woman street vendor attend their stand near a watchman's house. Also shows City Hall (500 Chestnut) built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. in the background. The State House (520 Chestnut) was built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley and Congress Hall (540-558 Chestnut) was built 1787-1789., Artist's imprint lower left corner of stone., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 11 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838, and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 720.3. Digital image shows fourth state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W352.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q]

Title: State House. Philadelphia
Description: Winter, evening scene looking southeast from Sixth and Chestnut streets toward the State House (Independence Hall) showing light pedestrian traffic. Pairs of men and women walk, converse, and cross the snow-covered street near Congress Hall and the intersection. A man and woman street vendor attend their stand near a watchman's house. Also shows City Hall (500 Chestnut) built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. in the background. The State House (520 Chestnut) was built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley and Congress Hall (540-558 Chestnut) was built 1787-1789., Artist's imprint lower left corner of stone., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen. Loose print lacking copyright statement., Originally published as plate 11 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 720.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P. 2195 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W352.4 [P.2195]

Title: Steam tugs, Columbus and Alert. Vessels of all classes towed to and from sea and about the harbor; towing to and from Schuylkill and all other descriptions promptly attended to. S. Flanagan No. 78 South Delaware Avenue
Description: Advertisement for two tug boats, Columbus and Alert, depicting in the foreground the Columbus tugboat breaking the ice with a square-rigged ship in tow. Foggy view includes the helmsperson in the wheelhouse, and a man swinging open a door on the port side of the cabin. The steam tug, Alert, is visible in the left background, along with the horizon of Philadelphia. This scene is likely on the Schuylkill River., Additional title information on recto of lithograph provides the dimensions of both tugboats., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 725, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease & Schell, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W353 [P.2258]

Title: [T. E. Chapman, book store and book bindery, 74 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-a-half story building on the 100 block of North Fourth Street for the bookseller, binder, and publisher Thomas Ellwood Chapman. A male patron enters the doorway of the building past advertisements (e.g. Books Stationery) adorning a mantle and the entry. A small broadside hangs in the window of the door, bundles of fibrous material rest atop the mantle, and shelves of books are visible lining the wall of the interior of the store. To the right of the doorway, a woman hunches over, and stands to the side of the closed cellar doors as she looks at one of several books and printed matter displayed in the window. A sign reading "Rags Bought" hangs below. Building facade also contains a wood door, possibly to an alleyway. Chapman opened the bookstore at the address in 1840, and added the bindery in 1843. He relocated in 1849., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. North Fourth St., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 734, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W356 [P.2196]

Title: T. I. Dyre, Jr. bell & brass founder, corner of Washington & Church Streets, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the foundry complex in South Philadelphia. Includes the "Black Lead Crucible Manufactory," "Brass & Bell Foundry," an office-like building, and a workshop with a stack spewing smoke. A gentleman enters the office as a laborer pushes a dray on the sidewalk toward an alley out of which a drayman leads his horse-drawn vehicle transporting a large bell. In the street, a crowded "Gray's Ferry" double-decker omnibus travels alongside a dog barking at the horses. At the rear of the street car, a man attempts to jump aboard. Also shows a couple standing at an opposite street corner, near the open doorway of possibly a grocery store, and surrounding buildings. By 1855, Dyre had relocated his foundry to Front Street., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Washington St. Church St. Mch. 1849., Title contains vine details., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 735, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [March 1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W357 [P.2197]

Title: [T. Sharpless & Sons, wholesale ware room, clothes, cassimeres, merinoes, silks and vestings and Pekin Tea Company, South Second Street and Trotter's Alley, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story double storefronts adorned with signage at 30-32 South Second Street, below Market Street. Massive merchandise displays adorn the windows and front facades of the businesses. At the wareroom, reams of different cloths hang within open windows from rods behind tables covered in swatches and bolts of cloth. A number of patrons, including women and a couple, admire the displays, and enter the open entry through which shadowy figures of female clerks are visible. More merchandise, including bolts of cloth and cloth-covered hat boxes, are visible in showcase spaces on the second floor. At the tea store, couples exit and enter the business in which several boxes of tea are piled between Chinese figurines displayed in the window. A clerk stands within the store. Potted plants adorn the third floor windows between which a large model of a box of tea hangs. In front of the store, boxes of tea are piled under a frame for an awning that displays a sign advertising "Fresh Teas." Manhole covers and a fire hydrant adorn the sidewalk as well. Around the corner of the building, a woman and girl walk past a horse-drawn dray travelling down a side alley to Strawberry Street partially visible in the background. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Pekin Tea Company relocated to Sixth and Callowhill streets in 1847. The textile firm established by Townsend Sharpless in 1815 located to the address in 1841 under the name T. Sharpless & Son. Firm was renamed T. Sharpless & Sons in 1842., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscriptions on recto: Strawberry. So. Second St. & Trotter's Alley. Sept. 1846. "Strawberry" written in image to identify street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 736, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., See related advertisement print, *W278 [P.2168]
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [September 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W358 [P.2198]

Title: [T. Wattson & Sons, biscuit bakery, 129 North Front Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the busy four-story factory for the bakery at 129 North Front Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. A gentleman, possibly the proprietor Thomas Wattson, stands in one of the open doorways to the bakery as laborers work around him. Near the doorways, workers load kegs onto a horse-drawn "T. Wattson & Sons Biscuit Bakery" wagon and dray. Other men, hoist kegs to upper receiving windows from a group of several lined in front of the factory. In a few of the windows, men at work and stacks of barrels are visible. Laborers hammer shut and move kegs. Also shows "X"-shaped joint bolts on a section of the building under near which a pedestrian walks past. Business established at address in 1846. Thomas Wattson sold the business to his son-in-law in 1852 and it was renamed Wattson & Co., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Front Street-Phila. Aug. 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 737, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W359 [P.2199]

Title: Potter & Carmichael, oil cloth manufacturers warehouse, No. 135, North Third Street, Philadelphia Patent oil cloths, for carriages, floors, tables, &c. Transparent window shades; dealers in carpets, &c
Description: Advertisement showing the busy factory complex on Second Street road above the Reading Railroad, i.e., 135 North Third Street above Race Street. Signage reading "Franklin-ville, Oil Cloth Works" adorns the roof of the main factory building around which several workers labor. Laborers stretch cloth on long flat racks and on the side of the main building in which other men move a roll of carpet into a hatch. In the courtyard, laborers load materials into a wagon, and transport materials by hand-cart and horse-drawn dray. Other factory workers pull a long sheet of cloth along the side of a smaller factory building. At the rear of that workshop, men work in and approach a shed. Crates and large packages rest near the pulling racks and are piled in front of the main building. Countryside frames the scene. The firm of Potter & Carmichael moved their warehouse to 135 North Third Street from 568 North Third Street (above Poplar Street) circa 1848. The partnership was dissolved in 1853., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1849. The above factory is situated on the Second St. road above the Reading Railroad., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 618, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [April 1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W298 [P.2174]

Title: Price & Harper's steam saw mill, fancy chair manufactory, and lumber yard, Girard Avenue, between Seventh & Eighth, Philadelphia White & yellow pine, hemlock, birch, maple, beach, cherry, and other hard woods, seasoned and ready for sale. Mahogany and walnut boards and planks of all sizes. Mahogany, walnut, birch & maple veneers, for sale. All kinds of plain & fancy sawing, and turning done with neatness and despatch an assortment of bed posts and stand legs, balister, newells and caps, for stair builders, mahogany and walnut mouldings. Mahogany, walnut, cherry and maple table & stand legs
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story brick building and the adjoining lumber yard on Girard Avenue above Seventh Street tenanted by Price & Harper. Signboards on the front facade read, "fancy-chair factory, steam sawmill, turning & scroll sawing, and iron foundry." Large piles of lumber are visible in the yard that extends west to Eighth Street from the factory building. A man directs a horse out of the lumber yard gate. Horse-drawn carts, some pulling lumber, travel on the street in front of the building. A carriage and a man and woman travel south on Eighth Street, and a bale of hay rests on the sidewalk near a lamppost and a stalled carriage in the foreground. Price & Harper operated together between 1853 and 1855., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 626, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W299 [P.2089]

Title: Public baths. Thos. E. J. Kerrison's arcade-baths
Description: Advertisement showing the public bathhouse originally built 1826-1827 as a shop gallery after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Patrons enter one of the four arches to the visible interior of the arcade that contains stairs over a central enclosed space that is flanked by corridors of rooms. The front facade also contains statuary and advertising signs in two niches above gated cellar entrances to "D. Gibb, Franklin House." The signs promote the tenant oyster house. Also shows a boy posting a broadside on the building and a man and woman passerby. Kerrison operated the baths 1845-1849. Building demolished circa 1859-1860., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. Chestnut between Sixth and Seventh St., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 628, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed and lacking caption.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W301 [P.2176]

Title: Race Street between 6th & 7th, Philadelphia
Description: Book illustration advertisement showing the Franklin Marble Mantel Manufactory operated by Peter Fritz. Includes the manufactory and adjacent marble yard. Signage advertising "Marble Mantels, Tombs, &c. Neatly Executed by Peter Fritz" adorns the building. A factory employee is visible in the doorway and others work with a marble piece lying near slabs resting on the side of the building. Several headstones, monuments, and tombs fill the yard. Also shows the neighboring buildings along the alley at which the manufactory is located. Fritz, a veteran of the War of 1812, was a prominent Philadelphia marble manufacturer and a founder of the Philadelphia Savings Institution in 1833., Artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 118 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 118., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 630, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.5 a&b and in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and in Am 1831 Mease 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W303 [P.9830.5 a&b]

Title: Railroad depot at Philadelphia
Description: View showing a primitive steam engine locomotive pulling stagecoach-like railroad cars past the "Philadelphia Germantown & Norristown Railway Depot" at the southwest corner of Ninth and Green streets. A driver attired in a top-hat stands and operates the engine from a chariot like platform attached to the locomotive built by Matthias Baldwin. Several passengers occupy the lead coach and partially visible second one. Conductors sit in the cabs of the cars. The Philadelphia Germantown & Norristown Railway, incorporated in 1831, began service to Germantown in 1832 and to Norristown in 1834. The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad leased the company in 1870., Name of possible artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 634, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb862 B756 #43.
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W305 [P.2177]

Title: Residence of Joseph Harrison, Esqr. Rittenhouse Square, Phila Design XXIV. plate 107
Description: Plate in architectural design book illustrating a perspective view of a symmetrical, Italian-style, suburban mansion on the edge of Rittenhouse Square built 1855-1857 for Joseph Harrison, Jr. after designs by Samuel Sloan. Pedestrian traffic, including two gentlemen on horseback, a man and woman walking, and a horse-drawn carriage, pass in front of the mansion near the square in the foreground., Published in Samuel Sloan's city and suburban architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 107, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 641, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.107, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb16 H32., Atwater Kent Museum: 440.14.103.1
Creator: Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W309 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.107]

Title: Front elevation Scale 16 feet to one inch ; Design XXIV. plate 108
Description: Plate in architectural design book illustrating the front facade of a symmetrical, Italian-style, suburban mansion on the edge of Rittenhouse Square built 1855-1857 for Joseph Harrison, Jr. after designs by Samuel Sloan., Published in Samuel Sloan's City and suburban architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 108, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 642, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb16 H32., Free Library of Philadelphia: 724.3 SL52C, Atwater Kent Museum: 40.14.103.2/16 and 45.23.17
Creator: Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W310 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.108]

Title: [Ritter Cotterell & Ritter wholesale drug & chemical warehouse. Paints, oils, glass & dye stuffs. 132 North Third Street, corner of Branch Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront covered with lettering advertising products at the druggist on the 200 block of North Third Street. Products include "Wetherill & Co.'s Warranted Pure White Lead, Indigo, Madder, Logwood, Turpentine, Linseed Oil, &c, &c. Agency for Golsh's Patent Matches & American Brimstone." A male patron exits one of three open entryways to the store. Another patron is visible inside. Canisters and decanters fill the central display window and crates and barrels line the sidewalk in front of the building. At the side of the storefront, near the open cellar, a drayman stands by his horse that pulls a dray loaded with crates. A weather vane decorated with a fish adorns the roof of the building. The business operated as Ritter, Cotterell & Ritter from the address 1845-circa 1846., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Third, corner of Branch Street. Dec. 1846. 1846., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 651, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W314 [P.2178]

Title: [Robert Shoemaker's wholesale & retail drugstore, corner of Second and Green Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement for the three-and-a-half story storefront, covered in signage, on the 200 block of Green Street. Signs advertise Wetherill's Whitelead, drugs, medicines, paints, oils, glass, dyestuffs, "window glass of all sizes," picture glass, "cheap glass for hot beds," "white lead warranted pure by the ton or pound," ready mixed paints, linseed oil, plasters, pot ash, and soda. A male patron enters one of the two open entryways that are lined with barrels and sacks, some open. Within the store, two clerks, one assisting a customer, stand at the counter. Rows of shelves with pharmaceuticals line the wall behind the men. Several canisters and decanters are displayed in the three showcase windows at the front and side of the building. Within the second floor windows, stacks of boxes are visible. At the street corner, crates and boxes of pharmaceuticals, including indigo and oil of vitrol, line the sidewalk and are loaded on a horse-drawn dray accompanied by the driver. Also shows the open cellar, a model of a mortar and pestle adorning the store, and a partial view of the adjacent business with sign "..olds." Shoemaker operated the drugstore under this name and at this location 1837-1856. Shoemaker apprenticed at the store in the 1830's when operated by William Scattergood. He developed an alternative to homemade plasters and was possibly the first U.S. manufacturer of glycerin. He removed to Fourth and Race Streets in 1856 when he established Robert Shoemaker & Co., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: S.W. cor. Second & Green. Green. Second Street. Dec. 1846. 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 654, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W316 [P.2180]

Title: Robert Wood's railing, architectural & ornamental iron works, Ridge Road below Spring Garden St., Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the long three-story, brick factory occupied by Robert Wood's iron works at 1126 Ridge Avenue. The central portion of the building looms a few feet over the wings, and is adorned by tall, narrow windows on the second story, with a decorative cornice topped by a statue, bell cupola, and advertising flag. Statues of a lion and two dogs adorn an overhang near the open doorway of the iron foundry inside this central portion, under which a man and woman enter the office and warerooms. Visible inside the factory are several men at a forge, along with laborers working in the left and right wings. A man driving a horse-drawn company carriage emerges from the right wing. Four laborers load a lion statue into a cart on Ridge Avenue. Several boxes, addressed to "Mobile, Aa.," "Havana," "Jackson," "San Francisco, Ca.," "Smith & Co., St. Louis," "Cincinnati, Oo.," "Jones & Co., New Orleans," are scattered in the street nearby. Two laborers load (or unload) an iron railing from a covered cart in the foreground. Men working outdoors with unidentified piles, and additional brick factory buildings are visible in the background. A trompe-l'œil frame border surrounds the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 655, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W317 [P.2253]

Title: Robert Wood's steam iron railing works, Ridge Road above Buttonwood St, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing Robert Wood's long and narrow, four-story steam iron railing works on the 1100 block of Ridge Road. Signboards on the facade advertise "Wood's steam iron railing manufactory all kinds of ornamental & architectural iron work made to order," and "manufacturer of iron railings for cemeteries." Laborers are visible through the open windows and doors on all levels of the factory. Two men carry an iron piece into the ground level of the building, near a display of ornamental iron sculptures, that includes a large lyre. A laborer loads iron railings onto a horse-drawn cart near the entrance. Another man pulls iron bars from a dray and piles them into the open cellar door. Also shows a gentleman starting to exit from the rear of a crowded Girard College & Exchange line omnibus traveling north on Ridge Road, and children playing near a dog on a makeshift seesaw in the empty adjoining lot. Image is surrounded by a border of iron work models, and contains pictorial details of stairs with ornate iron railings., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 656, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [April 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W318 [P.2254]

Title: Rockhill & Wilson, tailors & clothiers of men & boys wear, Nos. 205 & 207 Chestnut St. & 28 South 6th Street Daniel H. Rockhill, Franklin S. Wilson
Description: Advertisement showing the wide, spacious interior of the clothing store tenanted by Daniel H. Rockhill and Franklin S. Wilson at 205-207 (ie. 603-605) Chestnut Street. Male clerks and patrons organize and sort through goods displayed in piles on tables throughout the ornately decorated store, which is adorned by pilasters, rounded pediments, rosettes, and flowery chandeliers and light fixtures. Two male clerks assist patrons in the foreground; one speaks with a woman and a young boy, and the other helps two gentlemen. Rockhill & Wilson moved their business from 111 (ie. 321) Chestnut Street to this location in 1857, and operated here until 1882., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 658, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W319 [P.2255]

Title: Newmarket hardware, cutlery and nail store, 244 South Second Street, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the storefront of Baxter & Brother hardware store at 244, later renumbered 522, South Second Street. Merchandise adorns the display windows of the shop and a clerk assisting a customer is visible through the doorway. A sign for "looking glasses," two teapots, and an anvil hang above the open entrance. In front of the store, crates, barrels marked "B&B," and unpackaged merchandise line the sidewalk and windowsills of the business. A shop employee rolls a barrel between the items that include shovels, rakes, and pots., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug 1846. Aug 1846. So. Second St. Probably a reissue. Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan was active 1844-1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 506, LCP copy trimmed and lacking complete title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [August 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W249 [P.2100]

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