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Title: The little homeless one or "no one to kiss me good night"
Description: Sheet music cover containing a view looking down an alley of wooden buildings, probably in Philadelphia. Shows a male figure leaning on a lamppost in front of a girl seated on the sidewalk and leaning on a shed on a street lined with debilitated colonial-style small wooden dwellings., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: P&P Sheet Music Little Homeless One
Date: c1867
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC P&P Sheet Music Little Homeless One

Title: Jacob Haehnlen's lithographic & steam powered letter press printing rooms
Description: Proof print of advertisement containing an ornate border surrounding a central view of the exterior of the six-story brownstone and print shop owned by lithographer Haehnlen at 420 Library Street. Signage advertising the "lithographic establishment" adorns the doorway, front, and side of "Goldsmith’s Hall." Building also adorned with large display windows and an eagle above the entranceway. View includes street and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, stand in doorways, and enter the shop. In the street, horse-drawn wagons and drays, including one hauling crates marked "J.H.," pass in the street near a man pushing a hand-cart loaded with crates. Shop included salesrooms and offices, a machine shop, a drying room, lithographic presses, and card, handbill, and pamphlet printing presses. Border composed of cards containing ornate letters spelling Haehnlen's name and examples of his genres of work, including portraiture, industrial views, and machine imagery. Haehnlen established his own studio at Goldsmith’s Hall in 1866 and operated his business from all but the first floor. He sold his shop to the firm Lehman & Bolton in 1870. Building destroyed by fire on December 20, 1882., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 46
Creator: Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Haehnlen--Jacob (A size) [P&P]

Title: Hoopes & Townsend. Manufacturers. Buttonwood Street, below Broad Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Advertisement utilizing a trompe l'oeil motif to promote the bolt works manufactory at 1330 Buttonwood Street. Shows, from the perspective of looking down, a variety of several types of nuts and bolts, including a "bridge bolt" laid out on a flat surface. Hoopes & Townsend was founded by Barton and Edward Hoopes and S. Sharpless Townsend in 1849 in Wilmington, Delaware. The factory relocated to the Philadelphia address in 1852., Date from manuscript note on recto: No 1097. Filed Nov. 30 1868. Hoopes & Townsend., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 111, Library of Congress: PGA - Easton--Hoopes & Townsend, manufacturers... (C size) [P&P], Easton was a Philadelphia civil engineer and printer of lithographs.
Date: [1868]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Easton--Hoopes & Townsend, manufacturers...

Title: [Philadelphia Brewery]
Description: Advertisment showing the brewery marked as established "1861" and adjacent residences. Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels from the brewery depart the fence-lined, landscaped property from under an archway reading "Philadelphia Brewery" and travel in the street in the foreground. Also shows a couple walking on the sidewalk in front of one of the residences., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, Trimmed, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]

Title: Family record
Description: Family chart containing floral, sentimental, allegorical, and landscape vignettes within twelve framed oval insets for portrait photographs. Vignettes include views of country homes, trees in full foliage, vases of flowers, allegorical female figures for spring and fall, and children at play. Ovals bordered by notations that read age, stature, weight, complexion, eyes, hair, form, and education. Vignettes separated by floral and vine details. Also contains tables for "Births"; "Marriages"; and death captioned "Oh Grave Where is Thy Victory. Oh Death Where is Thy Sting" and angels, a cherubic figure, and scenes of mourning., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by Roberts & Wheeler in New Jersey., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 67, Library of Congress: PGA - Haehnlen--Family record (D size) [P&P]
Creator: Sharp, A.C, artist
Date: c1870
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Haehnlen--Family record (D size) [P&P]

Title: F. Moras’ Lithographic Establishment, Philadelphia. 610 Jayne Street
Description: Trade card for Moras, a German-born lithographer who established his own firm in 1853 from which he retired in 1890. The firm continued to operate until the late 1890s. Contains two vignettes separated and bordered by Gothic details, vinery, and scrolls. Vignettes show a lithographer and a lithograph printing room. Lithographic artist uses a hand rest and draws on stone from a sketch displayed on his sketch table. Printing room scene shows printers at work, including rolling ink on stones on hand-presses, checking proof prints, and moving stones. Also shows lithographic stones resting against a support column and the rooms adorned with wall lamps., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 29, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen Prints - 23 (AA size) F. Moras
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen Prints - 23 (AA size) F. Moras

Title: The best wines, liquors, & lager beer, we are selling here = Die besten weine, liquors, ale and lager bier, gind in haben hier
Description: Advertisement showing a table enticingly lined with food and alcoholic beverages. Refreshments include a glass of spirits filled with ice cubes and adorned with a swizzle stick; a stein and mug of beer; jugs, decanters, and bottles of wine and liquor; a bottle and glass of champagne; glass of hard liquor; small potatoes; oysters on the half shell; a plate of bread and cheese; and a pretzel and mustard. Table also includes a box of cigars, a cut lemon, and silverware., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 17, Library of Congress: PGA - Rosenthal--The best wines, liquors ... (D size) [P&P]
Date: c1871
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Rosenthal--The best wines, liquors ... (D size) [P&P]

Title: Knights of Pythias [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate containing vignettes of scenes representing the tenets of the order (i.e., friendship, benevolence, and charity) composed within a border designed as a monument. Scenes include figures attired in Roman costume during acts of intervention from persecution and imprisonment. Also contains bust-length portraits of Roman soldiers, allegorical female figures, and emblems of the order, including a sword laid on an open Bible; crossed swords; a sprig of myrtle; and spikes. Knight of Pythias was an international, non sectarian, fraternal order established in 1864 on the principles of "toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government.", Text printed with green ink., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by S.S. Davis Supreme Chancellor., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 129, Library of Congress: PAGA 7, no. 2005e (E size) Knights of Pythias
Date: c1873
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA 7, no. 2005e (E size) Knights of Pythias

Title: Knights of Pythias [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate containing vignettes of scenes representing the tenets of the order (i.e., friendship, benevolence, and charity) composed within a border designed as a monument. Scenes include figures attired in Roman costume during acts of intervention from persecution and imprisonment. Also contains bust-length portraits of Roman soldiers, allegorical female figures, and emblems of the order, including a sword laid on an open Bible; crossed swords; a sprig of myrtle; and spikes. Knight of Pythias was an international, non sectarian, fraternal order established in 1864 on the principles of "toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government.", Text printed with green ink., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by S.S. Davis Supreme Chancellor., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 132, Library of Congress: PAGA 7, no. 1108e (E size) Knights of Pythias
Date: c1873
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA 7, no. 1108e (E size) Knights of Pythias

Title: Knights of Pythias [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate containing vignettes of scenes representing the tenets of the order (i.e., friendship, benevolence, and charity) composed within a border designed as a monument. Scenes include figures attired in Roman costume during military acts of an ambush and onthe march and acts of intervention from persecution and imprisonment. Also contains a vignette with and details of emblems of the order, including a sword laid on an open Bible; crossed swords; a sprig of myrtle; and spikes. Knight of Pythias was an international, non sectarian, fraternal order established in 1864 on the principles of "toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government.", Text printed with blue ink., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by S.S. Davis Supreme Chancellor., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 131, Library of Congress: LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Knights of Pythias
Date: c1873
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Knights of Pythias

Title: Knights of Pythias [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate containing vignettes of scenes representing the tenets of the order (i.e., friendship, benevolence, and charity) composed within a border designed as a monument. Scenes include figures attired in Roman costume during acts of intervention from persecution and imprisonment. Also contains bust-length portraits of Roman soldiers, allegorical female figures, and emblems of the order, including a sword laid on an open Bible; crossed swords; a sprig of myrtle; and spikes. Knight of Pythias was an international, non sectarian, fraternal order established in 1864 on the principles of "toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government.", Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by S.S. Davis Supreme Chancellor., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 133, Library of Congress: PGA - Hunter, T.--Knights of... (D size) [P&P]
Date: c1873
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Hunter, T.--Knights of... (D size) [P&P]

Title: Knights of Pythias [membership certificate]
Description: Membership certificate containing vignettes of scenes representing the tenets of the order (i.e., friendship, benevolence, and charity) composed within a border designed as a monument. Scenes include figures attired in Roman costume during acts of intervention from persecution and imprisonment. Also contains bust-length portraits of Roman soldiers, allegorical female figures, and emblems of the order, including a sword laid on an open Bible; crossed swords; a sprig of myrtle; and spikes. Knight of Pythias was an international, non sectarian, fraternal order established in 1864 on the principles of "toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government.", Text printed with blue ink., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by S.S. Davis Supreme Chancellor., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 130, Library of Congress: PAGA 7, no. 2006e (E size) Knights of Pythias
Date: c1873
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA 7, no. 2006e (E size) Knights of Pythias

Title: S. D. Sollers & Co. manufacturers of children's fine shoes, Philadelphia Buy the celebrated shoes stamped Sollers & Co., Phila
Description: Advertisement showing a garishly well-attired boy and girl creating a pyramid display of large model shoes in a parlor with a mosaic rug. The shoes rest atop a gargantuan "Sollers" shoe box on a platform draped in a rug. In the right, a garishly, well-attired boy and girl admire the display from near the open door to the room adorned with framed pictures. In the left, a kneeling boy places a shoe on the foot of a seated girl, who are both less dramatically attired and whose visages resemble photographic portraits. A box of shoes with a cover marked "S.D. Sollers. J.C. Austin. J.S. Outcalt." lies in front of them., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 198, Library of Congress: PGA - Duval--S.D. Sollers & Co. (B size) [P&P]
Date: 1874
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Duval--S.D. Sollers & Co. (B size) [P&P]

Title: Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition buildings. Philadelphia, Pa Length, 1880 feet, width, 464 ; Area: ground floor 20.02 acres, upper floors, 1.45
Description: Birds eye view looking south toward the city showing the Art Gallery or Memorial Hall designed by Herman Schwartzmann and the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. View includes flags adorning the building and heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and streetcars in the foreground. Wooded areas enclose the buildings and cityscape is visible in the background. Also contains the dimensions (length, width, and area in feet and acres) for the buildings below the image. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 52, Library of Congress: PGA - Currier & Ives--Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition ... (A size) [P&P]
Date: c1875
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition ... (A size) [P&P]

Title: Franklin's experiment, June 1752 Demonstrating the identity of lightning and electricty, from which he invented the lightning rod
Description: Depicts Benjamin Franklin during his kite experiment in a meadow near a dwelling in Philadelphia in 1752. Shows Franklin holding the string of the kite on which a key is tied. His twenty-one year old son, William, anachronistically shown as a boy, assists him. A lightening bolt crosses the sky., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 278, Library of Congress: PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P]. LOC holds two copies, one tinted.
Date: c1876
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P], Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Franklin's experiment ... (A size) [P&P] Tinted

Title: Bird's eye view, Philadelphia Lith. by H. J. Toudy & Co. 621 & 623 Commerce St. Philadelphia Pa
Description: Bird's eye view print containing a border designed with nine vignettes showing Centennial Exhibition buildings at Fairmount Park. View predominately showing the built city from the Schuylkill to the Delaware rivers and Port Richmond to South Philadelphia. Market Street runs down the center of the view. Shows the residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying areas of Center City. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia, Windmill Island, and Camden, NJ. and public utilities, bridges, railroad depots, and reservoirs. Includes from west to east, the Woodlands, Blockley Almshouse, the Upper Ferry Bridge, Market Street Bridge, the two Gas Works, Fairmount Water Works, Girard College, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Naval Asylum, Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mark’s Church, Christ Church, Independence Hall, Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Peter’s Church, and Spark’s Shot Tower. Also shows the five major squares (as well as Independence Square) and adjacent landmarks, including the P.R.R. Freight Depot, U.S. Mint, First Independent Church, Pennsylvania Asylum for the Blind, and Will’s Eye Hospital. Masts of docked ships line the piers along the Delaware, mills line the Schuykilll above Market Street, and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border the built city to the North and South., Captioned vignettes show Main Building, Memorial Hall, Horticultural Hall, Machinery Hall, Independence Hall 1876, Women's Pavilion, Agricultural Hall, Independence Hall 1776. Also contains vignette showing bird's eye view of the exhibition grounds. Captioned vignettes include the size of the buildings. Several of the depicted buildings were built after the designs of Henry Petit, Hermann Schwarzmann, and Joseph Wilson. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the anniversary of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 50, Library of Congress: PGA - Toudy & Co.--Bird's eye view, Philadelphia (E size) [P&P]
Date: c1876
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Toudy & Co.--Bird's eye view, Philadelphia (E size) [P&P]

Title: Views of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Part 1st
Description: Series of 12 collecting cards depicting bucolic views of the park. Includes two different views, including one with a fountain, of a "Rustic Arbor" with a park pavilion; "Spring" showing a water fountain; "The "Dam" and "The Arch" and a "Fountain" near the race at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River; "Entrance to Lemon Hill" and the "Mansion House"; an ornate foot bridge over "The Brook"; the "Keeper's House"; the "Band House"; and "Iron Spring" pavilion. Many of the views include park visitors, gardens, and walkways and all include trees. Water work views also show the stand pipe and roof of the new mill house., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 811a-l. POS 811a: Rustic Arbor (fountain). 811b: Rustic Arbor. 811c: Spring. 811d: Spring. 811e: Dam. 811f: Mansion House. 811g: The Brok. 811h: The Arch. 811i: Entrance to Lemon hill. 811j: Fountain.811k: Keeper's house. 811k: Band House. 811l: Iron Spring., Library of Congress: LOT 11050 (F)
Date: c1879
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Title, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Rustic Arbor Willows, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Rustic Arbor Gazebo, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Spring, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) The Dam, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Mansion House, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) The Brook, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) The Arch, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Iron Spring, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Entrance to Lemon Hill, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Fountain, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Keeper's House, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Band House

Title: John Mundell & Co.'s Solar Tip Shoes. Made only by John Mundell & Co. Phila None genuine without our trademark. Look out for the trademark. At wholesale by A.P. Doe & Co., Davenport, Iowa
Description: Advertisement containing a scene showing a personified figure of the sun standing on a stage surrounded by children. A few sit on the floor trying on shoes or crying., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 124, Library of Congress: PAGA 7 - no. 166 (B size) Mundell
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA 7 - no. 166 (B size) Mundell

Title: "Autumn on the Wissahicon [sic]."
Description: Landscape view showing a man on the banks of the creek lined with trees covered in fall foliage., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP11, Library of Congress: PAGA 7, no. 2515e (E size) Wissahickon
Date: c1880
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA 7, no. 2515e (E size) Wissahickon

Title: M. H. Traubel, lithographer, 146 So. Eighth St., Philadelphia Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap
Description: Proofs of tradecards for the Philadelphia lithographer active ca. 1849-ca. 1880s. Shows cherubic figures sowing seeds and reaping sheaths of wheat. Also contains flying birds and vinery details. Prints contain variant script designs. Traubel operated from 146 South Eighth street beginning in 1881., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 119, Library of Congress: Papers of Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel, Family Papers, Box 22
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library of Congress | Manuscript Division LOC Papers of Horace and Anne Montgomerie Traubel, Family Papers, Box 22

Title: Grand result. Buying guns, ammunition, and fishing tackle from Paul Meyers, 625 South Second St., and 212 Vine St., Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Advertisement containing a scene with a hunter and fisherman greeting each other from across a stream. The fisherman carries a fishing rod, and baskets and a a string laden with fish. A net, hook, and pail of bait rests at his feet. The hunter holds a rifle and a strung duck and carries a large basket overflowing with more of the game bird. Dogs mill at his feet. Also contains advertising text that reads "Reparing of All Kinds Neatly and Promptly Done" and "Shells loaded with Care at Short Notice.", Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by C.A. Meyers., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 96, Library of Congress: PAGA, no. 161 (B size) Grand Result
Creator: Hallowell,W.R, artist
Date: c1882
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA, no. 161 (B size) Grand Result

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