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Title: Baeder, Delany & Adamson, manufacturers of glue curled, cow hide whips, sand & emery paper, neatsfoot, oil, bone, dust, plastering hair Stores: Philada. No. 14 S. 4th St. New York No. 225, Pearl Street; N.B. The highest price in cash given for glue pieces, damaged hides, cattle tails, ceroons, horns, bones &c. &c
Description: Tradecard showing a view of the glue and animal product manufacturing complex for partners Charles Baeder, Charles Delany, and William Adamson at 1006 North Sixth Street. Complex contains several buildings and two courtyards. The two largest buildings contain several stories, receiving entrances, and cupolas. Laborers holding tools with handles work on the roof of a shed-like building in the center of the complex. Horse-drawn carts are visible in the yard. Also includes street traffic in the foreground. A horse-drawn omnibus, wagon, and men on horseback travel in front of the fenced manufactory. The firm, established in 1828 by Baeder, became the premier manufacturer of its kind in the United States. The manufactory, of the firm later renamed Baeder, Adamson & Co., relocated to Richmond Street, Allegheny Avenue, and Westmoreland Street circa 1866., Not in Wainwright, pdcc00010, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 26:12b, POS 33
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Castner 26:12b

Title: Be kind to the needy
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a young girl leading a blind woman across a foot bridge over a creek. The woman wears a bonnet and shawl and carries a basket. In the background, a building resembling a mill is visible and ducks wade in the water., Not in Wainwright., Issued as plate in series Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "Leading the blind" moralizing that choosing kindness and self-sacrifice for the sake of helping others is imitating Jesus Christ, who "was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we, through poverty, might be rich. We imitate him when we deny ourselves, that we may do good to others.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 13, Gift of David Doret., Trimmed.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department GC - Morality [P.2007.28.18]

Title: The belt of wampum delivered by the Indians to William Penn at the "Great Treaty" under the Elm Tree at Shackamoxon in 1682. "Not Sworn to and never Broken." Presented by Granville John Penn Esq of England
Description: Near life-size depiction of the belt made from oyster-shell beads and leather that purportedly the Delaware Indians gave to William Penn at the signing of the treaty. The belt was given by Penn's great-grandson to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1857., Not in Wainwright., Two of the prints are varnished., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 14, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 69 L 567
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 69 L 567

Title: [Benjamin H. Shoemaker, French Plate Glass Depot, 205-211 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Frontispiece showing the five-story storefront of the window and plate glass dealer at 205-211 North Front Street. Signage adorns the building and reads "French Plate Glass Depot"; "French, English and American Window Glass"; "Plate Glass"; and "Window Glass." A patron enters one of the entryways near a couple with their child walking on the sidewalk. Two men, possibly the proprietor and a clerk, stand in adjacent entries and watch drayman unload large boxed sheets of glass from a horse-drawn cart in the street. Shoemaker established his glass depot in 1855 when he left the druggist business of his brother Robert Shoemaker. Shoemaker served as president of the Pennsylvania Hospital for several years., Date inferred from publication date of catalog in which print is included., Frontispiece to Benjamin H. Shoemaker, importer, dealer, and sole agent in Philadelphia for the sale of French thick white plate glass (Philadelphia, 1875). [Am 1875 Benja, 117681.D]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 879
Date: [1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Am 1875 Benja 117681.D. frontspiece

Title: [Bennet's Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar, 518]
Description: Quirky advertisement showing heavy street traffic in front of the clothing store, designed as a medieval tower, at 518 Market Street. Patrons and pedestrians gather near the entrance of the store across from a saddled horse and a dray loaded with crates parked in front of the building. Other street traffic includes a stopped "Hestonville, Market Street, Cambridge Ferry" omnibus from which a lady departs from the rear while a chariot-like horse-drawn vehicle advertising "Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar Market Street" passes her. The unique vehicle is followed by an ornately painted "West Philadelphia" street car crowded with passengers, including men seated on the roof beside the driver. Also shows neighboring buildings. Joseph M. Bennett opened his clothier establishment in 1849, which he named Tower Hall in 1853., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.393/2, Trimmed. Varnished.
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 88.98.393/2

Title: Bennett & Co. Tower Hall, clothing bazaar No. 182 Market St, between Fifth & Sixth. Philadelphia Wholesale & retail. J.M. Bennett. J. C. Umberger
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story, tower-shaped clothing store adorned with signage at 182, i.e., 518 Market Street. Statuary and a flag reading "Tower Hall" embellish the building and signs advertise "Quick Sales" and "Small Profits." A store clerk consults with a patron near one of the four open entryways to the establishment. Clothing adorns the entries and hangs from racks inside the store in which another clerk assists a patron at a display table. Coats and other piles of clothing are visible in the upper floor windows. In front of the store, several crates line the sidewalk. A laborer nails one shut as other workers load a horse-drawn dray. A few of the crates are marked with addresses, including Independence, Mo., Nashville, Tenn., and Augusta, Ga. The three-and-one-half story "Clothing Ware Rooms" stands adjacent to the "Tower Hall." Signage advertising "Shirts, Collars, Bosoms, Cravats, Wrappers, Hosiery, Handkerchiefs &c. &c. &c. and [Edward] "Allman Hatter" and [Robert] "Winchester Grocer" adorns the facade. Patrons exit and enter the doorways of the building in front of which a laborer loads a "Bennet & Co. Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar" wagon. On the sidewalk, near the delivery worker, a woman strolls near two boys in conversation and a man carrying a large package. Partial views of the outerlying, neighboring businesses complete the scene. Signage reading "...T Toland," (i.e., George Toland, accountant, 180 Market), and "Robert..." adorn the buildings. Also contains a trompe l'oeil wood frame border around the image., Col. Joseph M. Bennett (1816-1898) established his business, which he named Tower Hall in 1853, at the address in 1849. He was a successful businessman who used his wealth for philanthropic pursuits including the establishment of a Methodist orphanage and the bequest of West Philadelphia properties to the University of Pennsylvania in support of women's education., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 35, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W23 [P.2016]

Title: Bennett's Tower Hall, clothing bazaar, no. 518 Market Street, bet[ween] 5th & 6th, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement with a street scene showing "Bennett's Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar." Signage and a flag adorn the tower-shaped storefront in front of which two men converse and ladies approach. Also shows heavy street activity. Two horse-drawn omnibuses travel near an unusually-designed "Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar 518 Market St." wagon and a drayman stopping his dray of goods in front of the store. The "West Philadelphia" omnibus is filled with passengers and a lady departs from the rear of the "Hestonville Market Street Camden Ferry" vehicle. Also shows adjacent buildings. Established at this address in 1849, named Tower Hall in 1853, renumbered as 518 Market Street in 1856 (formerly 182 Market Street)., Not in Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1858., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 37, Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Business [P.2017]

Title: The Bergner & Engel Brewing Co., Philadelphia
Description: Album containing 37 lithographic illustrations documenting the Philadelphia brewing complex on Thirty-second Street between Jefferson, Master and Thompson Streets, including exterior and interior views of individual buildings within the complex and detailed scenes of laborers operating equipment, transporting the finished product to and from railroad stations, and loading it onto ships. Shows exterior and interior views of the office building on Master Street; exterior views of the brew house and milling department, machine repair shop and fermenting houses; interior views of refrigerating machines, the first and second floors of the brew house, fermenting room, beer storage, cooper shops, racking room, wash house, shipping department, boiler house, pump room, electric light machines, machine repair shop, the ale and porter brewery and bottling house; and modes of transport including a refrigerating car, delivery wagon and locomotive. Other plates depict out-of-state depots and offices in Washington D.C.; Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia; Jacksonville, Florida; and Trenton, Sea Isle City, and Atlantic City, New Jersey and commemorative illustrations of the company's first-place winnings at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and Paris Exposition in 1878., The partnership of Bergner & Engel was formed in 1870 at the brewery of Bergner (erected 1857-1858) following the dissolution of the partnership of brewers Wolf & Engel. Construction of new buildings and additions and the purchase of new equipment for the Brewerytown complex took place in the 1870s. At this time, Bergner & Engel was one of the largest breweries in the country and had an international reputation. Bergner & Engel ceased operations during prohibition., Title from cover., Bound in a fine diagonal-ribbed maroon cloth, black and gilt stamped, with the company's trademark phoenix on the front board., Plates signed A.M.J. Mueller., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 15
Creator: Mueller, A. M. J., artist
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [67310.D]

Title: The Bergner & Engel Brewing Company, Philadelphia, Pa. [fire insurance survey]
Description: Site plan and perspective drawing of the brewery complex at 32nd and Thompson Streets detailing fire insurance characteristics. Includes ale and porter brewery; refrigerating houses; bottling establishment; shipping house; barrel shed; office building; and stables and carriage houses. Site plan includes adjoining businesses J & P Baltz Brewing Co.; H. Rothacker & Sons' Lager Beer Brewery; Henzler & Flach's Brewery; and F.A. Poth's Malt House., Survey no. 2247-2248., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 16, Gift of Manuel Kean.
Creator: E. Hexamer & Son
Date: c1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Industries [P.8737]

Title: Bergner & Engel's Brewery. Office, 412 Library Street. Brewery, 32d and Thompson Sts. Philadelphia Gustavus Bergner. Charles Engel
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the hectic brewery complex in Northwest Philadelphia, i.e. Brewerytown. Complex includes an office building and dwelling (right), two ice houses (built 1865 and 1871, left), brewery plant, sheds, and courtyard. Outside of the plant, several Bergner & Engel horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels travel in the street. The vehicles pass carriages, a man on horseback, two unoccupied drivers consulting each other, and a man, probably a brewery worker, seated on barrels talking with a man, possibly a job seeker, who has a carpetbag and a dog at his side. On the sidewalk, women, children, and gentlemen stroll, as brewery laborers work around them. Men load a wagon with barrels from one of the ice houses, as others coordinate the wagons (two excited dogs at his sides), carry barrels, and calm a horse at the courtyard entrance. Near the entrance, Mr. Bergner stands outside his office by his parked carriage and listens to an employee. Barrels line the wall of the courtyard. Within the space, loaded company wagons arrive, idle wagons and crate beds are stored, and laborers move barrels, including one from a huge pile on the terrace of the keg washing room attached to the second ice house. A grove of trees borders the complex in the left of the image. The partnership of Bergner & Engel was formed in 1870 at the brewery of Bergner (erected 1857-1858) following the dissolution of the partnership of brewers Wolf & Engel. Bergner & Engle ceased operations during prohibition., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 38
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW-Industries [P.8970.30]

Title: Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philada Founded in 1794 by the Revd. Richard Allen, Bishop of the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Rebuilt in 1805
Description: Exterior view of the rough cast second edifice of the African American church at 125 South 6th Street. Pedestrians and church attendees, predominately women, stroll the sidewalk and enter the house of worship adorned with a simple stone tablet inscribed, "Bethel Church." Known as "Mother Bethel," the church was formed from African American congregants discriminated against by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The 1805 building, the site of the first convention of the Unified African Methodist Episcopal Church, stood until 1841 when a third building was erected on the site., Title from item., Kennedy and Lucas, operated by David Kennedy and William B. Lucas, printed the city's first commercial lithographs, a series of church subjects drawn by W.L. Breton, probably including "Mother Bethel.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 39, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Description revised 2021., Accessioned 1965., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: July 1829
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W26 [7500.F]

Title: Bicycle glide
Description: Sheet music cover containing a genre scene, circa the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, showing bicyclists on East River Drive, i.e. Kelly Drive in East Fairmount Park. In the foreground, a man in checkered coat, striped bicycle pants, and a "Deerstalker" cap rides a "High Wheeler" in front of an arch of the New York Connecting Railway Bridge (built 1866-1867) spanning the Schuylkill River. Behind him, two other bicyclists follow and pass a startled horse pulling a buggy being approached by a park guard from across the road. A locomotive travels over the bridge. In the background, the Promontory Rock Tunnel (bored in 1871), the Girard Avenue Bridge (built 1872-1874), and the Centennial Exhibition observation tower, "Iron Tower," on George's Hill in West Fairmount Park are visible. Scullers row near a steamboat under the distantly-seen bridge on which a locomotive crosses. Also shows horse-drawn carriages traveling on the drive and on the Girard Avenue Bridge. The Iron Tower was removed to Coney Island following the close of the exhibition., Dedication: Respectfully dedicated to "The Philadelphia Bicycle Club.", Not in Wainwright., Price printed on recto: 5., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 282, Johns Hopkins University: Levy Collection Box 061, Item 006, Free Library of Philadelphia Music Department holds copy.
Date: c1880
Location: Johns Hopkins University | Special Collections at the Sheridan Libraries. JHU Levy Collection Box 061, Item 006, http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/catalog/levy:061.006

Title: Billiards. J. Jeater's subscription room. No. 40, South 5th Street
Description: Advertisement showing the interior of the billiard hall operated by probably Joseph Jeater. At the corner of the table, a gentleman in shirt-sleeves lines up his cue stick to the billiard ball as his opponent watches on. Four gentlemen, two just arrived, watch the match. One stands and another sits beneath three framed pictures hanging on the wall. A gas lamp chandelier hangs over the billiard table., Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Inscribed on verso: Presented by Mrs. John C. Broome. Oct. 10, 1918., Artist possibly E. W. Clay., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 40, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 04 C 436, Trimmed.
Date: [1830]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 04 C 436

Title: Bird's eye view, Centennial buildings. 1876. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view looking west from the Schuylkill River toward the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. Includes the Reading Railroad depot (in the foreground), the Main Building, Machinery Hall, the Art Gallery (Memorial Hall), Judges Hall, Ladies Pavilion, U.S. Government Buildings, Horticultural Hall, Agricultural Hall, the observatory on George's Hill, the 24th Ward reservoir, the Globe Hotel, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot. Also shows a train approaching the Reading Railroad station, the bridge over Lansdown Valley, and smaller exhibition venues, including the Photograph Gallery, City Pavilion, Vienna Bakery and Coffee House, restaurants, state buildings, fountains and monuments. The grounds are lined with trees, bushes, and landscaped paths. Contains the names and dimensions of the major buildings, and a miniature diagram of the view and corresponding key below the image. Key identifies 51 depicted sites. Several of the 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 42, Gift of David Doret.
Date: c1875, c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.2002.49.2]

Title: Bird's eye view, Centennial buildings. 1876. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view looking west from the Schuylkill River toward the proposed buildings on the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. Includes the Main Building, Machinery Hall, the Art Gallery (Memorial Hall), Judges Hall, Ladies Pavilion, U.S. Government Buildings, Horticultural Hall, and Agricultural Hall. The grounds are lined with trees, bushes, and landscaped paths. Also shows the 24th Ward reservoir and buildings surrounding the exhibition grounds. A train travels in the background. Also contains the dimensions in the lower right corner for six of the buildings . The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the anniversary of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 41
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.9192.4]

Title: Bird's eye view, Centennial buildings. 1876. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Description: First state of a bird's eye view issued as a promotion by the publisher for "The Illustrated History of the Centennial Exhibition" (1876). View looks south from Belmont Plateau showing the proposed buildings on the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. Includes Horticultural Hall, Main Exhibition Building, Memorial Hall, Agricultural Hall, Judges Hall, Ladies Pavilion, Machinery Hall, and U.S. Government Building. The grounds are lined with trees, bushes, and landscaped paths. Includes several fair visitors traveling by foot and carriage on the paths. Clusters of tree tops are visible in the foreground. Also contains the names and dimensions of the main buildings printed below the image. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the anniversary of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 51, Gift of David Doret, See James Dabney McCabe's The illustrated history of the Centennial Exhibition: ... (Philadelphia: Published by the National Publishing Company, 1876). [Am 1876 McCabe 78340.O], Trimmed.
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.2003.41.3]

Title: Bird's eye view, Centennial buildings. 1876. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view looking west from the Schuylkill River toward the proposed buildings on the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. Includes the Main Building, Machinery Hall, Memorial Hall, Horticultural Hall, and Agricultural Hall. The grounds are lined with trees, bushes, and landscaped paths. Also shows the 24th ward reservoir and buildings surrounding the exhibition grounds. A train travels in the background. Also contains the names and dimension of the main buildings s printed below the image. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the anniversary of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Gift of David Doret., POS 43, Philadelphia on Stone
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.2002.49.1]

Title: Bird's eye view, Centennial Exhibition buildings & grounds, Philada
Description: Bird's eye view looking east showing the exhibition grounds and surrounding area. Grounds are landscaped with trees, bushes, and pathways. Key to 39 depicted buildings and sites printed below the image. Includes the Main Building, Machinery Hall, Memorial Hall & Art Gallery, Agricultural Building, and Horticultural Hall. Also shows the several bridges over the Schuylkill River, including Falls, Columbia, Girard Avenue, and New York Connecting, in addition to "New Bridges over Penna. R.R." south of the grounds. Major roadways include Elm, Belmont, and Girard avenues. Other sites depicted include the 24th Ward reservoir, George's Hill, Sawyer's Elevator, Belmont Mansion, and Globe and Trans Continental hotels. East Fairmount Park is visible in the background., Copyrighted by Sydney Smirke, Distributor's stamp pasted on recto: From J. L. Smith's Map Establishment, 37 S. Sixth St., Philada., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 44, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [5225.F.7]

Title: Bird's eye view. Centennial International Exhibition. Fairmount Park. Philadelphia. 1876
Description: Bird's eye view looking toward East Fairmount Park showing the proposed buildings on the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows the English Commissioners Building, U.S. Government Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, Ladies' Pavilion, Judge's Hall, Horticultural Hall, offices, Photographic Hall, Art Gallery, and the Main Building. Also shows fountains, the Total Catholic Abstinence Fountain, and the Columbia Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. Figures representing fair visitors populate the view. Also contains the dimensions (length, width, and area in feet and acres) of the buildings in the lower left corner. Key to buildings printed below the image. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 45, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Medium Society Prints - Centennial - Bird's Eye Views - Bird's eye view
Creator: Aubrun, Louis, artist
Date: c1875
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Medium Society Prints - Centennial - Bird's Eye Views - Bird's eye view

Title: Bird's eye view of Centennial buildings Centennial Station of Philada. & Reading R.R
Description: Tradecard for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad showing a view looking west toward the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. Includes the Centennial station (in the foreground), the Main Building, Machinery Hall, the Art Gallery (Memorial Hall), Judges Hall, Ladies Pavilion, U.S. Government Buildings, Horticultural Hall, Agricultural Hall, George's Hill, and the 24th Ward reservoir. Also shows a train approaching the station. Contains train schedule and ticketing information on the verso. 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 47, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 8 C 3924.3
Date: c1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 8 C 3924.3

Title: Bird's eye view of International Exhibition buildings
Description: Prospective view showing the main buildings on the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. Includes Machinery Hall, Main Building, Memorial Hall, Horticultural Hall, and Agricultural Hall. Shows fair visitors on the grounds landscaped with paths, fountains, a pond, and foot bridges. George's Hill and the 24th Ward reservoir are visible in the background. In the lower right foreground, a paddleboat and ladies on a rowboat excursion on the Schuylkill river are visible. Key to buildings and building dimensions printed below the image. Several of the main exhibition 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., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1875 by Breuker & Kessler in the Office of teh Librarian of Congress at Wash DC., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 53
Creator: Breuker & Kessler
Date: 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW -Centennial [P.9991.2]

Title: Bird's eye view of Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye 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, grounds for the Agricultural Society Fair of 1856, 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 and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Pedestrian and street traffic is also visible on the city road ways. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border the built city to the North and South. Upper corners of image rounded., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 49.1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 865 B 124a, Second state republished in 1868 by John Weik held in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia (POS 49.2)., Copyright statement torn.
Creator: Bachmann, John, artist
Date: [c[1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bc 865 B 124a

Title: Birds eye view of Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view looking west from the Delaware River predominately showing the built city to the Schuylkill River between Center City and South Philadelphia. Market Street runs down the center, right of the view. Shows the residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying area south of Center City. Also shows parts of Windmill Island in the foreground and West Philadelphia in the background. Includes the Navy Yard, Spark's Shot Tower, Moyamensing Prison, Independence Hall, Market sheds lining several blocks of Market Street, Christ Church, and Fairmount. Also shows the five major squares (as well as Independence Square). Docked ships line the piers along the Delaware and vessels sail on the river., RBD Birds Eye View of Philadelphia, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 49a, Free Library of Philadelphia: Rare Book Collection, Reproduced in John W. Reps's Bird's eye views: Historic lithographs of North American cities (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998), p. 36.
Creator: Bachmann, John, artist
Date: c1850
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Rare Book Collection. Rare Book Collection

Title: Birds-eye view of property on Alleghany Avenue Philadelphia 25th Ward formerly 19th looking S.E. from Frankford Road
Description: Bird's eye view designed as a grid plan looking southeast from Frankford Road (Northeast Philadelphia) toward the Delaware River showing the city between Westmoreland Street and a few blocks south of Columbia Street. Predominately depicts the open land surrounding the Aramingo Canal, Reading Railroad Depot between Lehigh Avenue and Somerset Street, and the Philadelphia, Trenton, and New York Railroad line. A few dwellings, churches, and other structures comprise the landscape with clusters and heavier congestion of buildings visible near Columbia Street. In the foreground, dwellings, most with plots of ground, a church, and the "Second & Third Street Passenger Railway Depot" line Frankford Road. Two street cars, one marked "Second & Third St.," travel in the street. In the background, congested blocks of buildings forms the majority of the cityscape. View also includes the Port Richmond railroad terminus; a train traveling on the Philadelphia, Trenton and New York Railroad line; locomotives pulling coal cars on the Reading Railroad line; industrial buildings; a small number of trees; and street names. The 25th Ward comprised of parts of the 19th and 23rd wards was formed in 1861. View possibly related to the Junction project, a project commissioned by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, the Pennsylvania, and the Reading Railroad to create a non-stop route between New York and Washington. By 1863, a stop gap all-rail passenger service through Philadelphia had been initiated., Copyrighted by R. Weir., Publication information supplied by duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 54, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Boell, William
Date: [c1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W29 [P.2013]

Title: [Bird's eye view of the Centennial Exhibition grounds, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia]
Description: Trimmed detail of a bird's eye view looking toward the city showing the exhibition grounds. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows several of the exhibition buildings, including the Main Hall, Machinery Hall, Memorial Hall, Horticultural Hall, U.S. Government Building, and Agricultural Hall. Several exhibition attendees walk and use carriages on the landscaped grounds between the buildings. In the foreground, park visitors view the vista from a tree-lined cliff and small observation deck. Some converse and make sketches. In the background, the New York Connecting Railway Bridge and Girard Avenue Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River are visible in addition to cityscape. Trains approach and depart from the bridges and steamboats traverse the river. View surrounded by an ornamental border. Many of the buildings designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 48, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 8 Z 99
Date: [1876]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 8 Z 99

Title: Birdseye view of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, with the buildings of the International Exhibition 1876
Description: Lovely bird's eye view looking east toward the city from Belmont Mansion, the former estate of Judge Richard Peters. In the foreground, visitors to the property partake of the grounds that are landscaped with trees and small gardens. Elegantly-attired men, women, and children stroll; appreciate the vista from benches and chairs; and enjoy refreshments at tables. Other patrons depart in horse-drawn carriages down a path that winds past the Belmont Water Works and Columbia Railroad Bridge. A train approaches the bridge. In the right background, the proposed Centennial Exhibition buildings, and grounds congested with visitors, are visible in West Fairmount Park. The Main Hall and Memorial Hall predominate. In the left background, the expansive cityscape dominates the view and includes Girard College, the Fairmount Water Works, Gas Works, Rodeph Shalom Synagogue, the Cathedral of S.S. Peter and Paul, Masonic Temple, and the future City Hall. Church steeples, industrial smokestacks, blocks of brick buildings, and the distant Delaware River comprise the vista as well. Also visible are the several bridges that span the Schuylkill River. The bridges include the Columbia, New York Connecting Railway, Girard Avenue, Spring Garden Street, Market Street, and Chestnut Street bridges. Several vessels travel the river. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Image arched at top center., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 55, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Inger, Christian
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Views [P.9324]

Title: [Bird’s eye view looking west on Chestnut from above Sixth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View predominately shows the businesses (with pre-consolidation addresses) on the 600 block of Chestnut Street. Includes a three-quarter view of William S. Mariten, publisher & bookseller (144, i.e., 608) in addition to full views of the American Sunday School Union tenanted by Howell, Finn & Co. Paper Hangings (146, i.e., 610); the Jones Hotel (148-152, i.e., 616-620); and the William Waln residence, partially obscured by trees, at the corner of 7th and Chestnut streets. A man stands in the doorway of the wallpaper store as nearby a man reads the posted, encased bulletins of the American Sunday School Union. A woman enters the ASSU building that also bears a “Penna. Bible Society” sign. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk and a man greets a woman in front of one of the entrances of the hotel at which carriages and a wagon are parked. On the block and at the distant intersection a man rides horseback and a horse-drawn carriage, wagon, and omnibus travel. Also shows blocks of buildings above Seventh Street as part of the vista. William S. Martien printed as an individual in Philadelphia between 1835 and 1854. American Sunday School Union tenanted 146 Chestnut Street 1827-1853. Jones Hotel was originally built circa 1800 by Jacob Vogdes as the residence of Benjamin Say., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on recto: SS Chestnut 6-7 . 144. 146., pdcp00008, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 46, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 6th-7th
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 6th-7th

Title: Bits of nature and some art products
Description: Landscape views showing "At South Laurel Hill"; "East of Columbia Bridge"; and "West of Wire Bridge (1842)" in Fairmount Park. Includes a mule driver in front of a hotel, possibly the Upper Ferry Tavern, near the bridge; park visitors; vessels on the Schuylkill River; rock formations; trees; and a cascading brook. The Wire Bridge at Fairmount, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 56a, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 61 K 8346.85, Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [1878]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 61 K 8346.85

Title: Bits of nature and some art products in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Uncut sheet of landscape views showing "Below Girard Bridge, East"; "East of Columbia Bridge"; "Above Columbia Bridge"; "Ravine near Reservoir East"; "At South Laurel Hill"; "Belmont Prospect (1848)"; "East of Girard Bridge (1857)";"West of Wire Bridge (1842)"and "Above Girard Bridge East." Includes a man on horseback approaching the residence, on the plateau, at Belmont, the former estate of Judge Richard Peters; a distant view of the Columbia Bridge (completed 1834) across the Schuylkill River; a horse-drawn wagon and man on horseback crossing the Old Girard Avenue Bridge; a mule driver in front of a hotel, possibly the Upper Ferry Tavern, near the Wire Bridge; park visitors, including children; vessels on the Schuylkill River; cliffs; a cascading brook; rock formations; and trees. Belmont was the country seat of Peters until his death in 1828. The old Girard Avenue Bridge was built in 1855 and razed in 1871. The Wire Bridge at Fairmount, the first suspension bridge in the United States, was built from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. It was removed in 1874., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 56, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 81 Z 99, Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 81 Z 99

Title: Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list G. & H. Barnett No. 39, 41 & 43 Richmond Street Philadelphia Pa
Description: Illustrated title page showing an exterior view of the factory complex for the file Works "established in 1863" in Richmond. Shows clerks and laborers moving and loading crates on to a company horse-drawn wagon parked in front of the office building. Individuals stand in the doorway of the building that is adorned with signage containing the name of the company and proprietors. In the rear of the office, the "File Factory" with several operating smokestacks, one adorned with a model of the company trademark, stands. Figures are seen in a window and door of sections of the edifice. At a two-story building, adjacent to the office, a worker carries planks of wood through the door. Also shows a "Richmond & Exchange" horse-drawn omnibus filled with passengers passing in the street., Not in Wainwright., Published as title page in Black Diamond File Works illustrated price list. ([Philadelphia, 1874])., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 57, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare **Am 1874 G.& H. Barnett 10069.F.title page

Title: Blake's cabinet of music Grand march as performed by the Philadelphia Band, composed and respectfully dedicated to the Philadelphia fire-men by John M. Clemens
Description: Sheet music cover showing a woman playing a mandolin on the race bridge of the Fairmount Waterworks. Includes the engine house, mill house, and Reservoir Hill in the background. A couple strolls near the mill house and individuals ascend a foot path to a pavilion on the reservoir. The waterworks were originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff., Includes the sheet music., Inscribed on recto: Oct. 18, 1959 Penrose fund., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 58, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 88 K 35
Date: c1832
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 88 K 35

Title: Blake’s collection of popular marches composed and arranged for the piano forte
Description: Sheet music cover containing a scene showing the volunteer militia company of Light Artillery Corps Washington Gray's marching down the 400 block of Chestnut Street. The four lines of men follow their officer who follows the military band. The men pass the Philadelphia Bank building (400-408, built 1836), the United States Bank (420, built 1819-1824 as Second Bank of the U.S.), and neighboring buildings, including the business with partially visible signage for Henry Por.... Also shows a street lamp, a man walking on the sidewalk in front of the United States Banks, and two figures on the top of the stairs to that financial institution. The Washington Grays established an armory at 8th and Chestnut 1837-1838., Inside cover title: The Washington Gray's new grand march & quick step : arranged for the piano forte by Charles Jarvis, Includes sheet music., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 59, Free Library of Philadelphia: Sheet Music 11707
Date: c1839
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Music Collection. FLP Sheet Music 11707

Title: Blanchard & Rock, manufacturers & importers of paper hangings. No. 227 Chestnut Street, North side below 8th [billhead]
Description: Contains view of the storefront of “H.R. Blanchard & Co. Upholstery * Blanchard & Rock Wallpaper at 227 Chestnut St. Lettering on the large storefront windows read “H.B. Blanchard & Co. Curtains Bedding” and “Blanchard & Rock, Manufacturers of Paper Hangings.” Large display cabinets line the walls of the store and near the entrance at which patrons (a couple and a man) enter, a wallpaper sample is on view on a tall standing rack. Other patrons are visible within the establishment as well., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00007, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 60, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 7th-8th
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 7th-8th

Title: Blasius & Sons, dealers in pianos & organs When you buy a musical instrument, get the best. Pianos tuned, moved, packed, stored. Pianos repaired, rebuilt, revarnished. Send to us for catalogue and prices. Instruments exchanged, pianos to rent
Description: Tradecard containing an interior view of one of the showrooms of the manufactory at 1101-1103 and 1119 Chestnut Street. Shows upright pianos lining the walls and baby grand pianos displayed down the center of the room. Patrons mill the aisles created by the display of the pianos. A woman, possibly a clerk, sits at a baby grand at the end of the row of instruments and talks with a couple standing next to her. Framed signage is displayed on the wall, including one reading “Steinway & Sons. Grand Squares Upright Pianos.” In the right of the image, the "Office" booth is visible lining the wall adjacent to the flight of stairs marked "Organ Department Upstairs." A couple descends the stairs. Business established in 1855., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00002, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 18, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 11th-12th, One of three prints mounted on one sheet.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 11th-12th

Title: Bowlby & Weaver's hardware store No.77 Market Street Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story, three-bay storefront tenanted by the hardware store of Richard Bowlby and William Weaver (77, i.e., south side of the 200 block of Market Street). Bowlby & Weaver relocated to this site in 1831 from 101 High Street, where they had operated since 1820. The business was managed under the name Bowlby & Weaver until 1835 when it was renamed to William Weaver & Co. In the image, the names of the partners are painted on a saw that hangs above the front door. Visible through the open doorway are two men, who stand face to face, one on each side of a table displaying the store's wares., 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 113 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 113., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 61, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and in Am 1831 Mease 20876.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Stores & Shops
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W32 [Am 1831 Mease 68582.D], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W32 [Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W32 [Am 1831 Mease 20876.D]

Title: Brandywine Springs Hotel near Wilmington Del
Description: View showing the elegant four-story hotel completed in 1826 after the designs of Thomas U. Walter in Brandywine Springs, Delaware. Elegantly attired guests crowd the first floor porch, are visible in some upper floor windows, and walk and lounge on the grounds. A man on horseback, and a horse-drawn carriage arrive at the hotel near two dogs chasing each other in the driveway. The hotel served as a summer retreat for the well-to-do of the region. The building was razed by fire in 1853., Title from manuscript note in ink on recto., pdcc00012, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 19, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 11:54
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: 1830
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 11:54

Title: Breuker & Kessler lithographers, engravers & printers. S. W. corner 7th & Chestnut sts. Philadelphia. Particular attention paid to all kinds of commercial engraving
Description: Book advertisement containing landscape views, allegorical figures, and artist and printer's tools. Shows the allegorical figure Art as she leans on a pedestal that is covered in vines and displays a vase of flowers. She stands on a moss covered rock marked "Labels" that is surrounded by a stone tablet, possibly a lithographer's stone, inscribed "Manufacturers of Transferable Pictures"; a press machine; and a paint palette resting on a book. In the background, trees, hills, and a bridge spanning a river near townscape are visible. Breuker & Kessler, a partnership between George W. Breuker & Harry C. Kessler, operated circa 1867-1880., Not in Wainwright., Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a hand-Book of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia, in 1867(Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867), opp. p. 134., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 7, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 39 B 750
Creator: Breuker & Kessler Co.
Date: [1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Free 55213.O.134a

Title: Breuker & Kessler, lithographers, South West Corner Seventh & Chestnut Sts "Know all men by these presents: that Breuker & Kessler of Philadelphia, possessing ample facilities are prepared to execute in the finest style of the art, all orders for lithographing, including bonds, certificates of stock and deposit, checks, drafts, notes, letter note and bill headings, bills of exchange, cards, insurance policies, blanks etc. also show cards and labels in colors. Having given special attention to the engraving and printing of bonds and by using a combination of geometrical lathe and rosette designs we are able to produce a class of work so intricate as to prevent counterfeiting, it being impossible to imitate the same with any degree of accuracy. In witness whereof we have caused to be printed this sample in the form of a bond and have hereto attached our signatures, this first day of January, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy four
Description: Advertisement for the lithographic establishment in the form of a $500 bond, with several small illustrations within the security designs. At top, within a scroll flanked by flags and military gear and overtopped by an eagle, a miner with pick and shovel and a farmer with pitchfork illustrate the motto "oro y plata." At left, a figure of liberty personified stands on a globe girdled by the motto "[e plu]ribus unum." At lower right, a reclining figure uses a pair of compasses. Bond Certificate" placed above 16 numbered rectangular "cards" marked "Breuker & Kessler, lithographers, Philadelphia." Verso covered with printed floral decoration. Numbers on bottom section correspond with numbers on recto., Not in Wainwright., Signed: Harry G. Kessler, J. Millard Kessler, Geo. W. Breuker., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 8, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithf Breu Breu, George W. Breuker, Sr. and Harry C. Kessler, Sr. formed their practical and commercial lithography business in January 1866. The firm produced drug, perfume, wine and liquor labels, trade cards, show cards and all forms of commercial engravings and was in operation until the 1930s.
Creator: Breuker & Kessler Co.
Date: [1874]
Location: American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithf Breu Breu

Title: Bridesburg Machine Works. Alfred Jenks & Son, manufacturers of cotton and wool carding spinning and weaving machinery, shafting and millgearing, Bridesburg post office Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the busy industrial complex established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks and enlarged in 1853 on the east side of Richmond Street between Franklin & Locust streets in Bridesburg. A horse-drawn flatbed truck enters the courtyard of the U-shaped complex containing several buildings that are surrounded by wood fencing. Within the yard, clusters of workers transport boxes and planks of wood by hand near an unhitched wagon surrounded by crates. A carriage with driver waits near a smaller building, landscaped with trees and attached to one of the large workshops. Outside the complex, a driver handles a four-horse team plodding to pull a truck loaded with two large machines as other factory workers transport planks, carry crates, mill about with their tools, drive a dray, and stand at a shed facing the street. Also shows two gentlemen talking to a worker in the middle of the roadway, a worker carrying a box near abandoned carts in an adjacent courtyard, and several working smokestacks on the roofs of the works. Six vignettes of different types of textile machinery illustrate the side borders. Includes a single breaker card, loom, cotton card, railway drawing head, and ring frame thostle., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 79. (HSP O 458)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 13.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 B851., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M)., Reduced variant printed in 1857 by Frederick Bourquin & Co. published in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufacturers ... in 1857 (Philadelphia, 1859), p. 301.
Creator: Beaulieu, Emile F., artist
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W33.1 [P.2020]

Title: Bridesburg Manufacturing Company
Description: Frontispiece illustration depicting the square, industrial complex of the textile machinery manufacturing company on Richmond Street between Walnut and Locust Streets from the Delaware River. View includes a steamboat traveling north on the Delaware River, a docked sailboat, and laborers and horse-drawn carts and drays near the entrance of the complex. Company originally established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks as Bridesburg Macine Works. Facility was enlarged in 1853, manufactured arms during the Civil War, and returned to manufacturing textile machinery after the Civil War., Not in Wainwright., Published in Bridesburg Manufacturing Company's Descriptive catalogue of machines built by the Bridesburg Manufacturing Company (Bridesburg, Pa., 1867), frontispiece., Catalogue includes fifty-eight lithographs by W. Boell depicting machinery manufactured by the company "to convey to them [patrons] an idea of the innumerable improvements we have made within a few years past, upon the machinery used for carding, spinning, and weaving Cotton and Wool.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 62
Creator: Boell, William
Date: 1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Brides 106980.D.frontispiece

Title: Broad St. Baptist Church. Philadelphia, Penna
Description: View showing the Baptist church at Broad and Brown streets for the congregation organized in 1844. Church surrounded by a wrought-iron fence and landscaped with trees. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a couple on promenade and a horse-drawn carriage. View surrounded by a border with ornamental details in the upper corners. Church sold in 1915., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 63, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 13 B 863, Accompanied by label printed: Broad Street Baptist Church. Built 1856., Landis, was a lithographer in Philadelphia, Newark, and New York who alone and in partnerships produced from the 1880s-1910s a number of views of cities in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
Creator: Landis, T. J. Shepherd
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 13 B 863

Title: Broad Street Independant [sic] Church, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the First Independent Church, later renamed Chambers Presbyterian Church, built 1831 at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets. Also shows a partial view of an adjacent building and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians include a couple with a child and two men greeting one another. Also contains amateur ink-drawn and hand-colored modifications. Retouches show fire hoses in front of the buildings leading to firefighters using a hand-pumper to fight a blaze in the background. Some pedestrian figures also altered with firefigher hats and capes. The church, altered in 1853 to include a front portico, housed the independent congregation of Rev. John Chambers. Congregation admitted to the Presbytery in 1873., Inscribed on recto: S.A. Jackson; see p. 81., Title annotated with a slash through the "a" in "Independant.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 64, Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 4, page 85. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.
Creator: Town, E.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and meetinghouses [(4)2526.F.85]

Title: [Brown, Frederick & Kunkel, clothing warerooms, 41 North Third Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Unlettered proof of advertisement showing a North Third Street block of businesses (37-43) above Market Street. Includes (left to right) Sieger, Lamb & Co., dry goods (43); Brown, Frederick & Kunkel, men's and boys' wear and Irwin, Shultz & Peiper, merchants (41); S. Brock Jr., fancy dry goods and Iungerich & Smith, grocers (39); and Lloyd & Walmsley, trimmings (37). Storefronts are four to five stories and are built of stone. Gentlemen patrons enter and exit, including one descending an interior flight of stairs, most of the establishments. A crate rests outside and boxes are piled near the second-floor windows of Brown, Frederick, & Kunkel. Barrels crowd the first floor of Iungerich & Smith into which a laborer rolls a barrel as two line the sidewalk behind him. Outside of Lloyd & Walmsley, a gentleman inspects a large box and men sit on or address crates in front of Sieger, Lamb & Co. Drays, a wagon, and handcart, attended by their drivers, and loaded with goods, many with faint writing, are parked in front of, or depart, from each building. One drayman attempts to settle his horse. Also shows the storefront (without signage) at 45 North Third Street and partial views, with signage, of neighboring businesses, including J.W. Swain, umbrellas and parasols (35). Names of businesses spelled variantly on 41 North Third Street storefront., Title supplied by cataloger., Possibly by W.H. Rease., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 65, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W34 [P.2033]

Title: Buildings of the Great Central Fair, in aid of the U. S. Sanitary Commission Logan Square, Philadelphia, June 1864
Description: Bird's-eye view of the exhibition grounds at Logan Square that was printed and for sale daily by P.S. Duval's establishment at the fair. Shows the square and surrounding cityscape from the northwest, including the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. Trees are visible beside the buildings and line the outside of the square where throngs of people walk the sidewalk and crowd the fair entrances. Horse-drawn vehicles, including carriages and omnibuses travel the streets and park along the grounds. Also shows deer and a peacock grazing in a pasture near the tented rotunda of the Horticultural Department. American flags labeled "U.S.S.C." adorn all of the buildings. Wrigley designed the majority of the fair buildings except for the central thoroughfare, which was designed by Strickland Kneass. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 66, Accompanied by souvenir card (2)5781.F.53c., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook about the Sanitary Commission., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc8 D983., Free Library of Philadelphia - Oversize Philadelphiana - Fairs, festivals (4 copies)
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W35 [5781.F.1]

Title: Buildings of the Great Central Fair, in aid of the U. S. Sanitary Commission Logan Square, Philadelphia, June 1864
Description: Bird's-eye view of the exhibition grounds at Logan Square that was printed and for sale daily by P.S. Duval's establishment at the fair. Shows the square and surrounding cityscape from the northwest, including the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. Trees are visible beside the buildings and line the outside of the square where throngs of people walk the sidewalk and crowd the fair entrances. Horse-drawn vehicles, including carriages and omnibuses travel the streets and park along the grounds. Also shows deer and a peacock grazing in a pasture near the tented rotunda of the Horticultural Department. American flags labeled "U.S.S.C." adorn all of the buildings. Wrigley designed the majority of the fair buildings except for the central thoroughfare, which was designed by Strickland Kneass. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 66, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook about the Sanitary Commission., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc8 D983.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W35 [5781.F.2]

Title: Buildings of the Great Central Fair, in aid of the U. S. Sanitary Commission Logan Square, Philadelphia, June 1864
Description: Bird's-eye view of the exhibition grounds at Logan Square that was printed and for sale daily by P.S. Duval's establishment at the fair. Shows the square and surrounding cityscape from the northwest, including the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. Trees are visible beside the buildings and line the outside of the square where throngs of people walk the sidewalk and crowd the fair entrances. Horse-drawn vehicles, including carriages and omnibuses travel the streets and park along the grounds. Also shows deer and a peacock grazing in a pasture near the tented rotunda of the Horticultural Department. American flags labeled "U.S.S.C." adorn all of the buildings. Wrigley designed the majority of the fair buildings except for the central thoroughfare, which was designed by Strickland Kneass. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair of June 1864, displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the soldier relief organization, the U.S. Sanitary Commission., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 66, Gift of E. Perot Walker., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc8 D983.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W35 [P.8695]

Title: Buist’s garden seeds are the best
Description: Advertisement showing a socialite attired in a plunging lace lined bed gown, holding a handkerchief in one hand, and a feather fan in the other standing on her beautiful lawn in front of a mansion house, possibly in Germantown., pdcp00046, Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 20, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Tradesmen's Cards

Title: [Bulkley's hat store, 149 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the hat store operated by C & J. H. Bulkley on the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Hats are displayed in the windows. Includes the adjacent buildings, the United States Hotel (419-423) and R. H. Hobson, stationery and print store. Portrait prints and stationery adorn the display window of the print store. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including guests arriving at the hotel, an African American laborer transporting a valise on a hand-cart, a gentleman with an umbrella, and a lady and gentleman admiring the display at Hobson's. A dog stands on the sidewalk., Title and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Inscribed on verso: United States Hotel. Hotels., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 67, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 38 B 934, Trimmed.
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 38 B 934

Title: The Bull's Head, Drovers' Hotel, corner of Vine & 65th sts. 24th ward. West Philada. On the estate of the Butchers & Drovers Association
Description: View showing the front facade of the three-story hotel operated by Mr. Nelson Werntz. The hotel, opened in 1855 for the use of drovers who supplied the Pennsylvania market, includes a verandah and cupola. Cupola adorned with a flag decorated with a bull's head. Also shows red and blue drapery lining the windows. The Butcher's And Drover's Association purchased the West Philadelphia estate in 1855 and sold the hotel and property in 1866., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 68, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.8970.27]

Title: The Burd Orphan Asylum of St. Stephen's Church
Description: Exterior view of the orphanage (constructed 1861-1863). Founded by Eliza H. Burd as an orphanage for girls under the management of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church on Tenth Street in Philadelphia. Located near Cobbs Creek in Delaware County on the border of Philadelphia, the property is bounded by Walnut and Market Streets, and Powell and 63rd Streets., Published in George Smith's History of Delaware County (Philadelphia : Printed by Henry B. Ashmead, 1862) opp. 384., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 69
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898, artist
Date: 1862
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - education - Burd [P.9210.9]

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