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Title: Dr aught, Dauphin County, Frederick Lubold, 48 acres 56 perches strictmeasure
Description: Manuscript property map with printed illustration showing landowner’s names, land patents, and acreage of properties in Lykens, Pa. Properties listed include: Frederick Lubold, Frederick Harner, Jr., George Hoffman, John Gerger, George Rissinger, George Mayer, and Theodor Gratz. Also contains an illustration engraved by George Gilbert in the top center and depicting a crest with a ship, a plow, and sheaves of wheat. Above the crest is an eagle with outstretched wings and that is flanked by two horses on each side. Illustration also includes a banner reading “Virtue, Liberty, & Independence” that spans the bottom edge of the image., Title and date from item., Manuscript written on recto: Resurveyed and Divided formerly for Frederick Lubold, on the Twentythird Day of November, Anno Domini, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fortythree. The above Described tract of Land, Situate in Lykens Township, in the County of Dauphin, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Containing Fortyeight Acres and Fiftysix Perches of Land, Strictmeasures. Which being part of a larger tract of Land. John Paul, Jun’r., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Paul, John, Jr., surveyor
Date: [1843]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Manuscripts [P.2019.62.6]

Title: Storming of Missionary Ridge
Description: Panoramic view showing the Union victory at the Battle of Missionary Ridge near Chattanooga, Tennessee on November 25, 1863. Shows Union troops carrying an American flag as the men break through the Confederate line. An African American Union corps drummer marches behind the soldiers. Shows Union and Confederate soldiers firing and falling in battle near brush and fallen trees, and Confederate troops retreating past a homestead in the background., Title from item., Gift of David Doret, 2002., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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.
Creator: Philadelphia Panorama Co., distributor
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Campaigns & battles - Missionary Ridge [P.2002.50.3]

Title: Deutsche Ev: Luth: Zions Kirche. (gegrundt 1766.) = The German Lutheran Zion Church. (founded 1766.)
Description: View of the Zion Lutheran Church, also known as the New Lutheran Church, rebuilt 1794-1796 at Cherry and North Fourth streets following a fire in 1794. Church originally built 1766-1769 after the designs of Robert Smith. Also shows a partial view of neighboring buildings and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians include a boy, and women carrying parasols and baskets., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 181, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Breton, William L., lithographer
Date: [1829]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches & meetinghouses [P.2005.20]

Title: The First Presbyterian Church, New Orleans, L Rev. Benjamin M. Palmer, D.D. Pastor
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-Revival style church built in 1857 after the designs of architect Henry Howard. Shows the front entrance of the church with the large steeple. Men, women, and children pedestrians walk on the sidewalks and cross the street in front of the church. The church building was destroyed by fire in 1854. The newly rebuilt church opened in 1857 and was destroyed by a hurricane in 1915. Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902) served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in New Orleans from 1856 to 1902. He advocated for Louisiana to secede and join the Confederacy., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist and publisher and content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: P.S. Duval & Son, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Churches & Meetinghouses - First [P.2010.35.1]

Title: Eugenie Empress of France and ladies of her court
Description: Print depicting the Empress of France, Eugénie de Montijo, and eight of her ladies-in-waiting seated on the grass surrounded by trees. The Empress, attired in a white, off-the-shoulder dress with a red bow and a crown of flowers, holds a bouquet of flowers in her left hand. From right to left in a circle, the eight ladies sit and stand: Anne d'Essling, attired in a blue, off-the-shoulder dress; Louise Poitelon du Tarde, attired in white-and-black striped, off-the-shoulder dress and a black bow choker necklace; Jane Mary Thorne, attired in a white and peach colored, off-the-shoulder dress; Adrienne de Villeneuve-Bargemont, attired in a blue, off-the-shoulder dress, holds a bouquet of roses; Anne Mortier de Trévise, attired in a dark blue, off-the-shoulder dress, holds a hat with a blue ribbon in her right hand; Claire Emilie MacDonell, attired in a white and peach, off-the-shoulder dress; Nathalie de Ségur, attired in a light blue, off-the-shoulder dress; and Pauline Marie Ghislaine de Bassano, attired in a white, off-the-shoulder dress and a red shawl. Empress Eugénie de Montijo commissioned Franz Xaver Winterhalter to create this painting in 1855 to be exhibited at the painting salon of the Exposition Universelle., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist and content., Text printed below image: Me La Mse de Latour-Maubourg, Me La Mse Marismias, Me La Anne de Malaret, Me La Ctesce de Montebello, Me La Desse de Bassana, S. M. L'Impertrice, Mc La Vtessa de Lezay-Marnezia, Me La Bnne de Pierres, Me La Pcesse D'Esseling., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Recreation [P.2010.35.2]

Title: The Hawks Nest or Marshalls Pillar A celebrated cliff on the Kenawha River, Virginia
Description: View of the Kanawha River at Hawks Nest or Marshalls Pillar near Ansted, West Virginia. In the right foreground, shows three men fishing on a large rock. The large Kanawha River flows towards the viewer. Trees grow along the shorelines and on the cliffs that rise in the background. The area was called Marshalls Pillar after Chief Justice John Marshall, who visited. By the Civil War, the area was named Hawks Nest. It was established as a State Park in 1935., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the lithographer and content., Text printed below image: Measuring 1200 feet from the top of the cliff to the river beneath., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Bowen, John T, approximately 1801-1856?, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - United States - Virginia [P.2010.35.7]

Title: U.S.P.O. & C., Lancaster, PA
Description: Exterior view of the United States Post Office and Courthouse built in 1892 after the designs of architect William Alfred Freret Jr. at 120 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pa. Shows the Venetian-Renaissance style building with a tower, and an American flag flying on a pole. A woman walks through the front door. Men, women, and children pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. A woman and girl walk a dog, and a dog runs through the street towards them. A horse-drawn carriage and a man on horseback travel down the street. The building was converted into City Hall in 1931., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist and publisher and content., Printed signature under the image: Will. A. Freret, Supervising Architect., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Peters, N. (Norris), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1892]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Government buildings - PA [P.2010.21.4]

Title: The Silver cascade, in the north of the White Mountains
Description: View depicting the Silver Cascade in the White Mountains of New Hamshire. Shows water flowing down the mountain. Two men fish at the edge of the water, and a man and a woman look on at the falls. Trees grow along the shoreline and cliffs., Title and date from item., Text printed below image: Cascade d’argent, dans le ravin des montagnes blanches. Die silbercascade in der thalenge der weissen berge., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Havell, Frederick James, 1801-1840, engraver
Date: 1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. - New Hampshire [P.2010.6.27]

Title: This diploma is awarded by the Sussex County Agricultural Society
Description: Certificate awarded by the Sussex County Agricultural Society and depicting vignettes of scenes of farming. In the top, shows allegories of "Liberty," depicted as a white woman with a pole and cap, and "Prosperity," depicted as a white woman with a cornucopia full of fruits and vegetables. In the background is a factory and sailing ships. In the center, shows a large crowd of men and women spectators watching a sulky horserace; fair attendees walking the grounds; large tents and stands and American flags flying on flagpoles; and houses and trees in the background. Vignettes around the image include: sheep; a farmer with two large pigs; a cow and a bull; a horse; a man driving a horse-drawn reaper; and fowl, including chickens, geese, and turkeys. Around the border are fruits, vegetables, wheat, corn, and farm implements, including plows, a shovel, rake, ax, and hoe., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed and manuscript written on recto: To [Mr. Daniel Post Newton] for [Premium in filly & (illegible) 4 years old, Black Hawk (illegible considered?)] At their annual fair, held [at Newton Oct. 8 1858] [V.M. Drake] Secy. [Lewis Dunn] Prest., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Certificates [P.2010.21.2]

Title: Elevation of the eastern front of the Capitol of the United States
Description: Exterior view of the east front of the U.S. Capitol building with landscaped lawn in the foreground. Shows the neoclassical-style building with decorative columns and a pediment with sculptures. Two American flags fly atop the building on flagpoles. People walk on the staircase leading to the entrance. In the foreground is a manicured lawn with walkways lined with trees. Men, women, children, and several dogs walk the grounds., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1839 by William Fischer, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Eastern Distt. of Pa., Attributed to P.S. Duval based on similar print in the collection of the Library of Congress., Gift of David Doret., Lib. Company. Annual Report, 2009, p. 51-2.
Creator: Fenderich, Charles, artist
Date: 1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC- government buildings [P.2009.6.6]

Title: Schooley's Mountain Seminary, N.J
Description: View of clapboard building surrounded by trees. One boy flies a kite, others push hoops, and groups of boys and girls stand on the front lawn and porch. The Reverend Luke Stoutenburg established a school ca. 1870 in Schooley Mountain (Morris County, N.J.), an area long known for its medicinal springs., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the lithographer and content., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Ferd. Mayer & Co, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Education [P.2010.6.26]

Title: [Edwin McMasters Stanton]
Description: Half-length portrait of Edward Stanton, wearing a beard and attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, waistcoat, and jacket. Stanton served as Secretary of War between 1862 and 1868., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress A.D. 1863 by M.B. Brady in the clerk's office of the District Court of the U.S. for the So. District of New York., Text on verso reads in part: From photographic negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery., Manuscript text on verso reads: Stanton., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896, photographer
Date: 1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv- portraits - sitter - S [P.2010.6.32]

Title: [Collection of engraved printing plates]
Description: Collection of printing plates, including several with a Philadelphia provenance and a number with engraved marks on the recto and verso. Designs include calling cards, scientific illustrations, border specimens, and the frontispiece in "Count Roderic's Castle, or, Gothic Times" (Philadelphia, 1795) illustrated with a swordfighting scene. Engraved marks depict birds, floral imagery, filigree, mathematical and anatomical diagrams, and geometric details. One plate also used as a trial plate and contains a montage of details, including a shield, sickle, female allegorical figure, a female figure leaning on a horse and with a basket at her feet, the monogram “CPH,” and strings of letters. Collection also includes two envelopes with inscriptions about their content and two type blocks containing marks depicting monograms. One type design also includes a woodpecker., Names on calling cards include Jabez Maud Fisher; Mr. J. F. Fisher; The Misses Fisher, Alverthorpe; Mr. George Harrison; William Bradford, 319 S. Fifteenth St., and Mr. Harrison., Engravers include John Vallance, E. Trenchard, and Dreka., Plate makers include J. B. Keim., Gift of David Doret., Housed in a phase box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Louis Dreka was first listed as an engraver in Philadelphia city directories in 1863.
Date: [ca. 1795-ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - engraved printing plates [P.2010.35.10-26]

Title: [Virginia and Trudy at the Daylesford, PA train station]
Description: Two smiling women, a suitcase at their feet, stand on a wooden train platform next to a small station identified with a sign as Daylesford. In the center, two white women, attired in brimmed hats, gloves, jackets, and skirts, look at the viewer. Empty train tracks stretch out behind them. Built as part of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the station, razed in 2000, was located on Lincoln Highway and Conestoga Street, 18 miles west of Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note written on recto: 1914; Daylesford, Pa; Va and True., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1914
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 - unidentified - Transportation [P.2010.6.22]

Title: Ercildowne, Wissinoming. Philadelphia
Description: View showing the estate of the Philadelphia industrialist, Matthias W. Baldwin, located at Comly and State roads in the Wissinoming section of Philadelphia. Trees surround a three story Italianate-style residence with an open verandah extending along the entire front facade. The estate was originally built as a country residence for Baldwinin the 1850s. After his death, the building served as a mental hospital and later as a residential institution for elderly women. The building was destroyed in a 1954 fire., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 874
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences [P.2010.6.24]

Title: Bowling Green
Description: Street level view of fenced-in park containing trees and large fountain surrounded by streets lined with rowhouses. In the center is a building labeled, Washington. Also includes heavy street with men on horseback, horse-drawn carts, and a horse-drawn omnibus. Men, women, and children pedestrians crowd the sidewalks and streets. Bowling Green Park in lower Manhattan is New York City's oldest park., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Magnus, Charles, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. -New York [P.2010.6.25]

Title: Joy
Description: View of the statue "Joy," designed by Raimondo Pereda, on display in the Italian section of the Art Gallery Annex. Depicts a young child grasping a small animal in its hand. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of David Doret., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.2010.6.4]

Title: The Water Babies
Description: View of the statue "The Water Babies," designed by M.S. Gould, on display in the Art Gallery Annex. Depicts two nude young children, cuddling together inside an oversized seashell. One child sits awake with its arm around a smaller child with its eyes closed. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title on negative., Photographer's imprint printed on mount and on verso. Imprint on verso contains initials "CPC" in decorative border surmounted by date range 1776-1876., White curved mount with rounded corners., Gift of David Doret., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co.
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Centennial Photographic Co. [P.2010.6.5]

Title: Woman's mission
Description: Genre print showing Union women volunteers, in plain clothes, aiding soldiers within a tent. In the central foreground, a seated volunteer comforts a soldier, lying in a cot, his head bandaged, and a pen and paper resting on his blanket. The aid worker pats him with one hand and holds a book in the other. Across from the soldier's knapsack, rifle, and tin cup, a dog watches nearby, his head resting on the soldiers blanketed legs. In the right, another young woman volunteer stands with a basket over her arm. In the left, an older volunteer offers a bowl of food to another soldier, still in uniform, and also lying on a cot under a window flap. Also shows crates of supplies of the "Ladies Aid Mission" piled and open. In the left background, male aid workers assisting soldiers on the grounds are visible through the tent opening., Title from item., Date from copyright statement., Artist's signature lower left., To the patriotic and benevolent ladies of the Union who by their devoted services aided their country in its trying hour and comforted its brave defenders this print is respectfully dedicated., Passage from Sir Walter Scott's "Marimon Canto vi. Stanza 30" printed below the image: Oh woman in our hours of ease, uncertain, coy and hard to please, and variable as the shade. By the light quivering aspen made, when pain and anguish wring the brow, a ministering angel thou., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Walter, Adam B., 1820-1875, engraver
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadephia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Hospitals - W [P.2009.17.7]

Title: Elisabeth Grace and Rachel Martin (South Carolina) : Elisabeth Grace (Caroline Du Sud)
Description: Genre print illustrating an account from Elizabeth F. Ellet's 1848 book that honored the Revolutionary wartime experiences of 150 women. Depicts the tale of southern sister-in-laws Elizabeth Grace and Rachel Martin and their successful interception of a British dispatch while disguised in their husband's clothing. On a rugged dirt path, the Martin women hold pistols and the reigns of two of the three agitated horses that carry the soldiers and the plain-clothed messenger. The messenger clutches the dispatch to his chest and the soldiers look in disdain and surprise. Also contains several lines of text in English and French below the image explicating the scene as well as citing the source "(Mrs. Ellet, the Women of American Revolution, vol. 1. P. 274.)"., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1853 by M. Knoedler, in the clerk's office of the district court of the United States for the souther district of New York., Printed above the image: Annals of the United States illustrated. The Women of the Revolution. Pl. 1., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Régnier, Claude, 19th cent, lithographer
Date: 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - American Revolution [P.2005.14.2]

Title: Protest against the British government; [Portrait of a young woman]
Description: Political print designed by Joseph H. Brightly protesting the British government's policies toward Ireland containing a half-length portrait in left profile of Robert Emmett above text protesting for the equal rights of the Irish. Portrait surrounded by border captioned "Martyred Emmett. 'Let no man write my epitaph till Ireland is free.'" Text surrounded by a border shaped as a lyre and adorned with a heart marked "Liberty," vines of clover, and two bare-breasted angels holding scrolls. Scrolls inscribed with the names of eighteen Irish nationalists including John Mitchel; T.F. (Thomas Francis) Meagher; P. O'Donohue; and Rich. O'Gorman. Text references the infringement of franchise, a free press, and the separation of church and state; the American Revolution; the epitaph of Emmett; and the 'High court of Heaven.", Portrait showing a young woman holding a bouquet of roses. Roses adorn her hair., Two-sided lithograph containing a political print on recto and portrait on verso., One title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., First line of text: Time is the arbiter of all things; slow in its progress, but wonderful in its results., Gift of Davd Doret.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *political cartoons - [1858] Pro [P.2005.36.19a&b]

Title: [Portrait of a woman at her toilet]
Description: Half-length portrait of a young woman after Titian's masterpiece "Woman with a Mirror." Shows the woman holding her long hair off of her shoulder. One of the first two lithographs printed by Peale., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from artist signature and date in the lower left recto: Rem Peale 1826., Gift of David Doret., Created postfreeze., Library Company of Philadelphia, Annual Report, p.68-69., Described in Sarah J. Weatherwax's "A Newly-Discovered Rembrandt Peale Lithograph" in Imprint: Journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Society (Spring 2006), p. 29-32.
Creator: Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1826]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - unidentified [P.2004.24]

Title: Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate for the relief society, later the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, organized in Philadelphia in 1771. A large central oval contains an allegorical scene showing the classical figures of Hope, Columbia, and Concordia near a column marked "Hibernian Society." The women welcome immigrants disembarking from a sailing ship on long boats. Hope leans on an anchor; bare-breasted Columbia (i.e., United States) holds a shield; and Concordia, a bag of money in her hand and an Irish harp resting behind her, reaches out to an allegorical female arrival. An American eagle with a shield, and tools and symbols of agriculture and industry border the oval., Illustrated seal of the society blindstamped on recto., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from active dates of the artist and engraver., Signed by Hugh Holmes, president., Holmes, a founder of the society, served as its president 1800-1817., Gift of David Doret., Houston worked as a engraver in Philadelphia in the late 1790s.
Creator: Houston, H. H., engraver
Date: [ca. 1797]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Organizations [P.2006.28.12]

Title: [Bunch, the horse, pulling William W. Cutair's West Philadelphia express wagon]
Description: Shows Bunch the horse harnessed to a wagon on a dirt road. A young man, attired in a collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up, suspenders, tie, pants, and boots, is seated in the driver's seat and holds the reins. Three children sit in the vehicle and look at the viewer. Another man, attired in a collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up, suspenders, pants, and boots, stands next to the wagon with his left hand holding the side of the vehicle., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note written on verso: Taken Sept. 1908 on 66th St. north of Haverford Av. Bunch (horse) bought Jan. 4, 1907, the day Frances was born., Photographer's imprint stamped in lower right corner., Gift of David Doret.
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - DiFazio [P.2010.6.20]

Title: Traveling teams of Mr. J. Campbell Harris,- starting from his "White Mountains" stables, to return to Philadelphia. (his mountain buggy-team on the left.)
Description: View showing three horse-teams each harnessed to the three carriages waiting in the yard of a clapboard house and stable. In the left, a white man driver sits in one carriage and holds the reins. In the center, a man stands beside the horse hitched to another carriage. In the right, the third carriage is empty. Two woman sitting on the porch and a boy in the yard watch the carriages. An unhitched carriage sits below the wide roof of the stable's verandah. Harris, son-in-law of Thomas Powers of Powers & Weightman, was a Philadelphia businessman involved in real estate development., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Merrow, Edward L., ca. 1861-1922, photographer
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Merrow [P.2010.6.21]

Title: [Specimen sheets for Theodore Leonhardt & Son, High Grade Lithographers 922 Locust Street Philadelphia.]
Description: Includes nine specimens of ornamented bank and commercial stationery border designs, including two with variant borders, vignette illustrations, and the text, "Theodore Leonhardt & Son, High Grade Lithographers 922 Locust Street Philadelphia. Bonds, Certificates of Stock, Diplomas, Bank and Commercial Stationery Our Specialty." Illustrations depict an exterior view of "Independence Hall. A.D. 1776" including street and pedestrian traffic and an eagle standing upon a clutch of arrows and greenery. Borders are composed of scalloped edges, and/or rosettes, and/or geometrical patterns. Leonhardt & Son was a partnership established circa 1874 between Theodore Leonhardt and his son Arno. The firm continued to operate into the early 20th century., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Includes registration marks in upper and lower edges., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 124 & 124a, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Theo. Leonhardt & Son
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - L [P.2019.64.41&42]

Title: [Architectural drawing of the front elevation of Strawbridge & Clothier, 8th and Market Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows the five-story, multi-section front facade of the department store (established in 1868) at the northwest corner of 8th and Market Streets. Sign at the top reads, "Strawbridge & Clothier." The expanded Strawbridge & Clothier building was completed circa 1897 after the designs of Philadelphia architect Addison Hutton. Justus Clayton Strawbridge (1838–1911) and Isaac Hallowell Clothier (1837–1921) founded Strawbridge & CLothier in Philadelphia in 1868., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from manuscript note on related print. See related print **Architectural Drawings - unid. - Strawbridge [P.2010.35.9], Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **architectural drawings - unidentified - Strawbridge [P.2010.35.8]

Title: Alterations & additions to Messrs. Strawbridge & Clothiers store on 8th & Market Sts
Description: Architectural drawing for renovations to the Strawbridge & Clothier department store (established 1868) on the 800 block of Market Street. Shows "Elevation on Market St." (building section at corner of Eighth & Market) and details of "Elevation of Cornice on Eighth St."; "Part Elevation of Cornice"; and "Increased Projection of 3 [in.] at Pediments." Details show close-ups of the roof of the building section, including cornices, windows, and pediments. Sections of the drawing are annotated in watercolor or with printed notes indicating dividing partitions between buildings; structural elements; and their spacing. The expanded Strawbridge & Clothier building was completed circa 1897 after the designs of Philadelphia architect Addison Hutton. Builders Stacy Reeves & Sons worked on additions and alterations to the building through the early 1900s. Justus Clayton Strawbridge (1838–1911) and Isaac Hallowell Clothier (1837–1921) founded Strawbridge & CLothier in Philadelphia in 1868., Title from item., Date inferred from manuscript note: This drawing belongs to Stacy Reeves & Sons and was [used?] from them Aug. 26, 1891., Includes: Scale 1/8 [in.] = 1 foot, Includes: Scale for details 3/4 [in.] = 1 foot, Includes printed notes: Equal Space; Bracket over [?]; Dotted lines show outline of large end brackets; Party Line; Center Line; and Large Bracket terminating cornice., Includes annotations in red ink for dimensions of sections of the "Elevation on Market Street" view., Includes pencil annotations: 11-9 Floor Co. joints; B of J., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **architectural drawings - unidentified - Strawbridge [P.2010.35.9]

Title: Agriculture and domestic manufactures Be it known that [blank] of the [blank] of [blank] was on the [blank] day of [blank] 18 [blank] admitted a member of the [blank] Society for promoting Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures and is entitled to all the rights and privileges appertaining thereunto. Witness our hands and the seat of the institution
Description: Blank membership certificate containing an allegorical scene bordered by graphic elements representing agriculture and industry. Scene depicts two women allegorical figures, with upswept hair, and in Roman garb, as well as a nude, cherubic figure attired in a cape covering his shoulders and swept over his waist in a a bucolic setting. The central female figure, stands, her right arm bent and with her right hand above her head. She holds a long staff with a flame in in her left hand. To her right is the cherubic figure who holds up a sheaf of wheat in her direction with his left hand. A bundle of wheat lies near his feet. To her left is the other allegorical female figure who is seated in a gazebo. She holds up a swath of cloth in her extended left hand. She holds the other end of it with her right hand as it drapes across her lap. A spindle sits to her left. The top of the gazebo is covered in vinery. In the background are groves of bushes, a bee hive, the peering head of a horned cow, trees, and a small building. Pictorial elements to the right symbolize industry and depict an eagle, crates, a barrel, anchor, and ships sailing on the ocean. Pictorial elements to the left symbolize agriculture and depict a sickle, parts of a plow, a cornucopia, a tree, and bushes. In 1819 the New York legislature appropriated $20,000 over two years for the promotion of agriculture and family domestic manufactures to the county agricultural societies of the state., Signed [E. Gillet], Secrety. and [M. Vling?] Presidt., Title from item., Date inferred from New York 1819 funding initiatives for state agricultural societies., Gift of David Doret., Ralph Rawdon, an engraver, located to Albany, N.Y. in 1816. In 1817 his partnership with engraver Asaph Willard dissolved. He later partnered in the bank note companies Balch, Rawdon & Co. in the 1820s and Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Co. in 1832.
Creator: Rawdon, Ralph, 1793-
Date: [ca. 1820]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Certificates - Agriculture [P.2009.24.7]

Title: The Monument of Major Andre
Description: Print depicting a monument to Major John André. Shows a sarcophagus with Britannia weeping as she holds a shield with the Union Jack. In the left is a lion. Below is a tableau depicting the capture of Major André, who is led away by two men as he points to a woman and child in the right. In the left, a messenger hands General George Washington, surrounded by soldiers, an envelope. Soldiers march in the background. The sarcophagus rests on a pedestral that reads, "Sacred to the Memory, Major John Andre", Title from item., Date from periodical publication it was illustrated in: The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure . London : Published [...] according to Act of Parliament, for John Hinton, 1782 December, p. 329., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1782]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Monuments and Statues - André [P.2010.6.29]

Title: [Bust-length portrait of Horace Greeley]
Description: Proof of a bust-length portrait of the New York abolitionist, newspaper editor, and politician. Greeley wears a chin beard and is attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a black waistcoat with a gold pocket watch chain, and a black jacket., Title supplied by cataloger., Date and publication information supplied from duplicate in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret Collection – Prints [P.2022.62.3.46]

Title: Girard Avenue Bridge, Philadelphia
Description: View of the Girard Avenue Bridge, completed in 1872 to 1874 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. Shows shrubs and trees growing on boths sides of the shoreline., Title from text printed on mount., Date inferred from content., Text on negative: No. 89. Girard Avenue Bridge., Gift of David Doret, 2011., Image is mounted on the verso of: photo - unidentified - government buildings [P.2011.45.14].
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- unidentified - government buildings [P.2011.45.15]

Title: Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia
Description: View of the Fairmount Water Works and depicting the Engine House, Pavilion and Entrance Houses, and the Old Mill House. Also shows the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount in the right background. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Philadelphia engineers, Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederic Graff, Jr., Title from text printed on mount., Date inferred from content., Text on negative: No. 90. Fairmount Water Works., Gift of David Doret, 2011., Image of Independence Hall is mounted on the verso: photo - unidentified - public utilities [P.2011.45.17]., Frederick Graff, Jr. (1817-1890) was chief engineer of Philadelphia's Water Department from 1847 to 1856 and 1866 to 1872. His father Frederick Graff (1774-1847) was superintendent of the Philadelphia Water Works in 1805 and recommended their relocation to Fairmount in 1811. He designed the Fairmount Water Works, which was constructed between 1812 and 1822.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- unidentified - public utilities [P.2011.45.16]

Title: Independence Hall, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of Independence Hall built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. In the foreground, shows the walkway leading towards Independence Hall lined with trees and lampposts., Title from text printed on mount., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret, 2011., Image is mounted on the verso of: photo - unidentified - public utilities [P.2011.45.16].
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo- unidentified - public utilities [P.2011.45.17]

Title: Jay Rial's ideal Uncle Tom's Cabin L.H. Stockwell as lawyer Marks & his trained donkey Jerry
Description: Trade card for Jay Rial's touring stage company's production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Shows actor L.H. Stockwell in character as Marks from the play standing on the sidewalk. He is attired in a top hat, a white collared shirt, a white bowtie, a black jacket with tails, yellow-and-black striped pants, and black shoes and holds a red umbrella. In the left, a donkey stands in the street. In the background is a block of buildings. Jay Rial, a New York theatrical manager, began tours of his production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" circa 1881. The production was associated with novel features of live dogs and donkeys and props, such as floating cakes of ice, and was purported to have earned $1,000,000 by the end of its run., Title from item., Date inferred from dates of the theatrical production., Advertising text printed on verso: Academy of Music! Week commencing September 12. Matinees Wednesday & Saturday. The survival of the fittest. Sixth season. The Jay Rial Uncle Tom's Cabin Co. This Great Company is the only one considered worthy of metropolitan recognition. The only Company that has stood the test of all the important Academies and Theatres in the great capitals of the country. All the old favorites. New scenery. Trained donkey. Beautiful music. The magnolia jubilee band. Camp meeting shouters. And the only genuine trained bloodhounds in the world. The enormous success of the enterprise has prompted imitation in many ways. The matter of the show bills has been widely copied, and especially have efforts been made to give the appearance of presenting Bloohounds; but imitation is ever entirely successful. Excellence is only obtatined by time and labor. The people's prices: 25, 35 & 50 cents. No higher. No extra. Sale of Tickets will commence, Thursday, Sept. 8, at 9 a.m., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP Trade Cards - Academy [P.2011.45.24]

Title: Miders & Telfs. Stubbag Thal Tyrol
Description: View of two villages, Miders and Telfs, in the Stubbag Thal Telfs valley in Austria. Shows buildings along the tree-lined road that leads to the villages. Numerous buildings, including the Franciscan Hospital, are visible in the center between two mountains., Title from text printed on verso: 40. Miders & Telfs. Stubbag Thal Tyrol. These two Villages lie on the left bank of the Jun, in that charming valley called the Stubbag Thal Telfs, has a Franciscan Hospital, which is remarkable for its neatness and the skill of the attendants, who are all brethren of the Order of St. Francis de Assis., Date inferred from active dates of the photographer., Buff mount with square corners., Label pasted on verso: American Stereoscopic Co. Langenheim, Loyd & Co. Philadelphia., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Langenheim, Loyd & Co, photographers
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Stereo - Langenheim, Loyd & Co - Views [P.2011.45.13]

Title: Masonic memorial
Description: Commemorative, fictionalized group portrait print depicting “seventy-seven Masonic Brethren, Signers of the Declaration of American Independence and other Distinguished Members of the “Masonic Fraternity” in the Assembly Room of Independence Hall. Shows three rows of Brethren (“Distinguished Dead” and “immortal”) within the paneled wall room of the historic site being used as an exhibit gallery. At the center of the first row stands “Father of his Country” George Washington, his left hand on his hip, and wearing a masonic apron adorned with Masonic symbols. Nearest him to the left, also in masonic, but undecorated, aprons, stand Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Other figures in undecorated aprons in the front row include (left to right) James Buchanan; Marquise de Lafayette; Bishop William White; Andrew Jackson; and Henry Clay. Some of the men hold hats or scrolls, while others hold their hands together, or cross their arms. Other figures in the further rows include Stephen Girard, Stephen A. Douglas, and John C. Breckenridge. In the background, framed artwork, predominately from the Charles Willson Peale portrait collection; Henry Inman's portrait painting of William Penn (left); Thomas Sully's portrait painting of Lafayette (right) line the walls. Background also includes in the far right, the Liberty Bell upon which a stuffed bald eagle sits (installed 1852) and, in the center, a bronze eagle elevated above the partially visible wood statue of George Washington (carved 1815 by William Rush, installed 1824)., Title from from promotional pamphlet held in collections [Am 1860 Pheni 54390.O.13]. Pamphlet also lists the names of many of the sitters in image., Publication information from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by Thomas Phenix in the Clerk's Office of the Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Inger, Christian, artist
Date: 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **group portrait prints - Masons [P.2011.45.10]

Title: Ancient chart copied from the original brought from "Jerusalem" now in the possession of Brother Colonel Wilkins Philadelphia
Description: Print depicting ruins and an open grave. In the left, shows a human skull and bones beside an open grave. Tools lie near a square stone, including a shovel, a spade, and a triangle. A snake slithers away. In the right, a man, attired in a robe leans on a broken column. A dog stands among stones and pieces of columns. Plants grow on top of part of the building left standing. In the background, a group of men holding sticks, walks down a path toward the sea. One man, holding a stick, climbs up a hill towards a circular, columned building, possibly a temple. Palm trees grow., Title from image., Date inferred from active dates of the printer., Copyright statement on recto: Entered for the Proprietor according to act of Congress by Brother W.H. Holbrooke, New York., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | PRINT **GC - Allegories [P.2011.45.5]

Title: Views of Johnstown Flood 1889
Description: Album containing images of Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1881 and after the great flood of May 31, 1889. Across the first two leaves is "View of Johnstown after the flood of May 31st 1889" showing the devastation of the destroyed buildings and including the “Railroad Bridge, Millville,” “Johnstown,” and “Conemaugh Borough with Woodvale in the distance.” Images depicting the destruction include of the South Fork Dam, Main Street, Clinton Street, St. John’s Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, Cambria Iron Company Club House, B. &. O Depot, debris above the P.R.R. Bridge, Gautier Wire Mill and Cutlery Works, and the wreck of the Day Express train at East Conemaugh. Illustrations show people gathered around the ruins and finding bodies of the deceased including “The finding of the bodies of James Murther, wife and three children, and Maggie Ripple, corner Main and Clinton Streets.”, Title from album cover., Date inferred from content., Text printed on the first leaf: "Published & Copyrighted by S.W. Fleming, Harrisburg Pa. From Views of LeRue Lemer, Harrisburg Pa.", Text printed on the final leaf: "Manufactured by Chisholm Bros-Portland Me. Manufacturers of Chas. Frey's Original Souvenir Albums of all American & Canadian Cities & Sceneries.", Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.2011.45.27]

Title: Birds-eye view of Andersonville Prison from the south-east
Description: Birds-eye view of Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war-camp in Georgia, with the vast prison area surrounded by stockade fences. In the center are numerous prisoners and their hand-made housing, consisting of various fabrics and mounds of dirt. Guard towers surround the fence and guards, on foot, horseback, and in horse-drawn carts patrol. In the right, men, many of whom use canes or crutches and have amputated legs sit, lie down, or walk in a separate fenced area that has tents. Two cannon emplacements with soldiers are visible in the foreground. Several buildings and a train traveling down the railroad tracks are visible in the background. The prison operated from February 1864 until April 1865. It housed up to 45,000 Union prisoners in overcrowded conditions and had the highest death rate of all the Civil War prisons., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright, 1890 by J.W. Morton, Jr., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Morton, J. W, Jr.
Date: 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **GC - Civil War - Prisons [P.2011.45.4]

Title: State Asylum for the Insane, Morristown, New Jersey
Description: Print depicting an exterior view of the State Asylum for the Insane built in 1876 after the designs of architect Samuel Sloan in Morristown, New Jersey. Shows the sprawling 673,700 square foot building with three water fountains in the front. People walk around the grounds, which has walkways and trees. In the right background, a train travels down the railroad tracks. The institution's name has changed over the years: State Asylum for the Insane at Morristown (1876-1893); New Jersey State Hospital at Morris Plains (1894 - 1924); and New Jersey State Hospital at Greystone Park (1925 - 2008). It was also known as Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright, 1875, by Samuel Sloan., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Hunter, Thomas, approximately 1828-approximately 1894, lithographer
Date: 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ** GC - Hospitals [P.2011.45.2]

Title: Grand Centennial depot, at the main entrance to the exhibition grounds
Description: View of the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot located opposite of the Centennial Exhibition grounds in Philadelphia in 1876. Shows trains arriving on the railroad tracks in front of the depot. In the right, depicts the Globe Hotel and the Trans-Continental Hotel, which were built to accommodate visitors to the Centennial Exhibition. Large crowds of pedestrians walk, and horse-drawn carriages and omnibuses travel down the street. The Globe Hotel was operated by John A. Rice and contained 1,000 rooms to house 3,000 to 5,000 guests for $5 a day., Title from item., Date from content., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ** Phila Prints - Events - Centennial [P.2011.45.1]

Title: Falls of the Genesee
Description: View depicting the large waterfall of the Genesee River at Rochester, New York. In the center, shows the water rushing down the hill and towards the viewer. Cliffs jut out in the left and in the right. In the background, several buildings are visible., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the lithographer., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Bufford’s Lith
Date: [ca. 1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. - New York - Genesee [P.2010.6.28]

Title: The bloomer schottisch. Dedicated to Mrs. Bloomer and the ladies in favor of the Bloomer costume
Description: Sheet music cover depicting a white woman attired in bloomers. In the center, the woman stands, wearing her hair parted in the middle and attired in a bonnet, a long-sleeved white shirt, a purple dress with blue tiers, and white bloomers. She holds her hands together and juts her left foot out. Image is surrounded by an ornamental scroll border, labeled "Autumn dress" at the bottom., Title from item., Text printed on recto: 25 cts. Nett., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1851 by W. Hall & Son in the Clerk's Office of the Disct Court of Southern Dist of N.Y., Library Company copy has front cover only., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Dressler, William, composer
Date: 1851
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Fashion - U.S. [P.2011.45.18]

Title: [Religious Cross]
Description: Religious print of a cross made from two cut logs with vines of autumnal leaves in yellow, orange, and brown growing on it. Green grass or foliage grows around the base. The image is in a black frame with decorative gold flowers and leaves at the corners., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Religion [P.2011.45.11]

Title: Northumberland am Susquehannah (verein staaten v. nordamerica
Description: View of the Susquehanna River near Northumberland, Pa. Shows the Susquehanna River flowing with several bridges crossing over it. Buildings and houses of Northumberland are visible along the shoreline. Mountains rise in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed beneath image: Aus. d. Kunstanst, d. Bibli. Instit. in Hildbh.; Eigenthum d. Verleger., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Rottmann, A, engraver
Date: [ca. 1835.]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Views - U.S. - Pennsylvania - Northumberland [P.2010.6.31]

Title: Offenbach
Description: Bust-length portrait of composer Jacques Offenbach wearing a mustache and long side burns and attired in pince-nez spectacles, a white collared shirt, a bowtie, and a jacket. He faces slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from content., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - O - [P.2011.45.21]

Title: Handel
Description: Bust-length portrait of the composer Handel, wearing a long, curly wig and attired in a neckerchief and a jacket with lace, facing slightly right., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from content., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - H - [P.2011.45.19]

Title: Schubert
Description: Bust-length portrait of composer Franz Schubert, attired in spectacles, a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a waistcoat, and jacket, and facing slightly left., Title from printed signature of sitter below image., Date from content., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Portrait prints - S - [P.2011.45.20]

Title: Gettysburg, Pa. July 3rd 1863
Description: Print containing series of vignettes of the Battle of Gettysburg. In the left, depicts two Confederate soldiers holding rifles, labeled "C.S.A."; a bust-length portrait of General Robert Lee; and Confederate soldiers with cannons, labeled, "Artillery Duel Confederate." In the center, shows Confederate soldiers holding rifles and marching forward during "Pickett's Charge." In the right, depicts two Union soldiers holding rifles labeled, "U.S.A."; a bust-length portrait of General George Meade; and Union soldiers with cannons labeled, "Artillery Duel Union." In the lower center, shows an eagle with outstretched wings and an American flag crest with a swords, a rifle, and a cannon., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Manuscript written in the lower left: Artist proof., Artist signature written in the lower right., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Creator: M. Krause, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Battles -Gettysburg [P.2011.45.7]

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