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Title: Western Exchange Hotel, Market Street, west of Penn Square, Philadelphia Joseph Waterman, proprietor. The proprietor of this hotel, respectfully announces to the public, that he has refitted his hotel and is now prepared to receive his friends and patrons in a manner which he flatters himself they will find that attention to their comforts which will give entire satisfaction. -- This hotel embraces many advantages to the travelling public being contiguous to the great Central and Pennsylvania Rail Road Depot, and in immediate vicinity of the depots of the Baltimore, Wilmington, Pottsville and Reading Rail Roads. The Westchester cars leave the hotel morning and afternoon. -- Terms, one dollar per day
Description: Advertisement showing Joseph Waterman's stately six-story hotel building and adjacent properties on the north side of the 1500 block of Market Street. Gentlemen mingle on the second-story, arcaded balcony overlooking the street. A large cupola and weathervane surmount the penthouse. Horse-drawn carriages and carts labeled "Exchange Wagon," "Waterman's Hotel," and "Western Exchange," congest the street and transport patrons to and from nearby railroad depots. The hotel was patronized by farmers and used as the western terminus of several omnibus lines. Hotel removed circa 1860., Artist probably Frederick J. Pilliner who worked as a lithographer first in Boston in 1853-54 and in Philadelphia between 1856 and 1860., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 56.25.7, Pilliner worked from the address of the Lithographic Institute, which included lithographers Maurice H. Traubel, Theodore Leonhardt, Edward Schnabel, John F. Finkeldey, and William Demme in 1856 and 1857.
Creator: Pilliner, E, artist
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 56.25.7

Title: West view of St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia. April 1_1842
Description: Exterior view of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1758-1761 after the designs of Robert Smith at 300-340 Pine Street. Building includes the church tower and spire built in 1842 after the designs of William Strickland. Also shows the church burial ground in the foreground., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 829, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 132 Sa 25b, Inscribed on verso: Presented by Mrs. John C. Browne, Oct. 10, 1918.
Creator: Smith, R. S. (Richard Somers), 1813-1877, artist
Date: [1842]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 132 Sa 25b

Title: West view of Schuylkill Falls Laboratory. Powers & Weightman, manufacturing chemists, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the laboratory complex established in 1848 on Ridge Avenue near a covered bridge in Schuylkill Falls (i.e., East Falls). Within the complex, laborers haul goods by horse among the several stone buildings, smoke stacks, and trees. Near the Schuylkill River in the foreground, other laborers move crates by a pulley on a pier. Also shows a man on foot and a wagon entering the bridge, a steamboat traversing the water, and a train traveling past the complex and several adjacent lots of pasture land in the background. In 1847, Powers & Weightman succeeded Farr & Kunzi (established in 1818), and became internationally renown for their manufacture of medicinal and other fine chemicals. The company was the first to introduce quinine to the United States. A second factory complex operated between 9th, Parrish, Brown, and Darien Streets. The East Falls operation included housing for employees., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 828, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 Sch 89, Trimmed.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 Sch 89

Title: West view. Looking up Chestnut St. towards West Philadelphia
Description: Panoramic view showing cityscape in Center City Philadelphia. Includes residential buildings, storefronts, factories, Chestnut Street Theatre (603-609 Chestnut), the flag-adorned roof of "Barnum Museum" (628-632 Chestnut) and the top of Alfred M. Herkness Philadelphia Horse & Carriage Bazaar (800 block Sansom). Also shows partial view of the Philadelphia Arcade (615-619 Chestnut), trees in Independence Square, and pedestrian and street traffic in the foreground. Traffic includes a horse-drawn carriage and man on horseback., Copyrighted by E. Whitefield., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 544d, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892, artist
Date: c1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Views [P.2120]

Title: West Philadelphia Sadiron Works, M.L. Keen & Brother, Proprietors
Description: Advertisement for the small fenced factory complex with courtyard of the busy "M.L. Keen & Bror." sadiron works on Washington Avenue in West Philadelphia. Complex includes the single story "Iron foundry" and "Grinding Shop" to the right of the two-story warehouse adorned with signage reading "West Phila. Sad Iron Works." Laborers lead horse-drawn carts into and out of the complex. One entry is marked "No admittance." Within the complex, workers move large wheels by hand, push a handcart, and drive a cart. They also enter and exit doorways of the warehouse where men also hoist barrels. Also shows piles of wood planks and other material lined in front of the works around a worker being harrassed by a dog as he eats his lunch on a log., Not in Wainwright., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Sept. 1848., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 827, Trimmed., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [September 1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Industry [2526.F.86a]

Title: West Philadelphia Manufacturing Cos. Starch & Farina Works. Chestnut & Bridgewater Streets, Philadelphia. Refined pearl starch & corn farina
Description: Shows the bustling industrial starch and farina works at the corner of Chestnut and Bridgewater Streets (ie. Chestnut and Thirtieth Streets) looking northeast toward the Schuylkill River. Laborers direct horse-drawn drays and wagons to and from factory buildings and railroad cars. Scene includes a man on horseback riding toward the factory buildings, a laborer standing in the foreground near the tracks, smoke rising from several chimneys in the complex, the Market Street Bridge crossing the Schuylkill River in the distance, and the outline of Philadelphia Gas Works gasholders immediately east of the bridge., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 826.1, Library of Congress: PGA - Queen (J.) -- West Philadelphia Manufactoring (B size)
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Queen (J.) -- West Philadelphia Manufactoring (B size) [P&P]

Title: West Philadelphia Manufacturing Cos. starch & farina works Corner of Chestnut & Bridgewater Sts
Description: Advertisement showing the bustling industrial starch and farina works at the corner of Chestnut and Bridgewater Streets (ie. Chestnut and Thirtieth Streets) looking northeast toward the Schuylkill River. Laborers direct horse-drawn drays and wagons to and from factory buildings and railroad cars. Scene includes a man on horseback riding toward the factory buildings, a laborer standing in the foreground near the tracks, smoke rising from several chimneys in the complex, the Market Street Bridge crossing the Schuylkill River in the distance, and the outline of Philadelphia Gas Works gasholders immediately east of the bridge., Published in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a handbook exhibiting the development, variety, and statistics of the manufacturing industry in Philadelphia in 1857 (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 333 Walnut Street, 1859 [c1858]), opposite page 460., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 826.2, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.74, Free Library of Philadelphia: 917.481 F87, Artist's study for print held in the collections of the Library of Congress. [DLC-PP-1997-105-Prints-StarchWorks]
Date: 1859
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 88.98.74

Title: West Philadelphia Hose Cos. steam fire engine no. 3
Description: View of the steam engine of the hose company instituted in 1856 that operated from Park Street above Market Street. Engine contains the makers' plate for Reaney, Neafie & Co. and the name plate of the fire company. Plates obscured by mechanisms on the engines. Engine includes compressor gauges, handles, and lanterns. Also contains a border with geometric details., Not in Wainwright., Printed below title: Scale 1 inch to the Foot., Label pasted lower right corner: 263., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 274, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 832 W 537
Creator: Heiss, George G.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 832 W 537

Title: West Philada. Institute
Description: View showing the proposed building for the mechanic's institute that was erected in 1853 on Williams, i.e. N. 39th, Street above Market Street. In a bucolic setting, two men walk up a path to the small Georgian and Florentine-style two-story building with several windows. The building contained a library, lecture hall, and classrooms for the young men to educate themselves and avoid vice during their free time. The building was purchased in 1871 by the Board of the Presbyterian Hospital and the institute relocated to 40th and Ludlow streets, Frontispiece to An Appeal in behalf of the West Philadelphia Institute, organized January 2, 1853 with the charter and constitution (Philadelphia: Printed by Isaac Ashmead, 1853)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 825, LCP copy trimmed and lacking imprint., LCP AR [Annual Report] 2000, pg. 54-56., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: In *Wn 892, Gift of Jay Snider.
Date: [1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W444 [P.9830.1]

Title: West Chester Public School. Sanford Culver, principal
Description: Winter view showing heavy street and pedestrian traffic in front of the school house. On the sidewalk, men shovel snow, boys play, a man tethers his horse, and a cluster of girls walks to school. In the street, two boys with a sled try to hitch a ride at the rear of a moving horse-drawn sleigh and a man on horseback and another in a sleigh stop to talk to a boy and man interrupted from shoveling and sweeping snow. Sheds and smaller buildings, including one with a marker dated "1848" surround the main school building., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 273, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 46 W 522
Creator: Taylor, Charles C., artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 46 W 522

Title: West Arch Street Presbyterian Church, corner of Eighteenth & Arch streets, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view showing the church also known as Arch Street Presbyterian Church built by Joseph DeNegre in 1855 after the designs of Joseph C. Hoxie at 1726-1732 Arch Street. Also shows parishioners, men, women, and children, leaving the church, walking past it, and convening in couples and groups on the sidewalk around the building. Also shows a horse-drawn carriage galloping in the street., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of partnership of M.H. Traubel & Co., Length of House 150 feet, Width " " 87 ", Height of Front Tower 115 feet, " " Centre " 170 "., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 882, Gift of David Doret., Print received after original dates of project.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection - Prints [P.2020.39.13]

Title: Weccacoe Fire Compy. Instituted 1800, incorporated 1833
Description: View of the hand-powered Philadelphia-style fire engine of the fire company that operated from the 100 block of Queen Street in Southwark. A firefighter, attired in his uniform, rests his hand on the harness of the horse-drawn engine. His hat is marked "Weccacoe 1800" and he wears a cape adorned with an "F" and an "A." Engine contains double decker end-stroke hand pumpers and the compressor, with ornate detailing, is adorned with a plate depicting a mermaid kissing a barely-clad man. A trumpet hangs from the harness of the engine. Also contains a border with geometric details and a vignette below the image depicting a Native American figure., Not in Wainwright., Date of publication written on stone lower left corner., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 272, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 832 W 41, Removed from Stauffer Collection, vol. 22, p. 1686.
Creator: Heiss, George G.
Date: 1855
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 832 W 41

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

Title: Wayne Artillery of Philadelphia Capt. S. Murdock
Description: Military portrait showing Murdock, attired in his blue uniform, standing near a river, his head turned to a profile, holding his hat at his hip in one hand, and his sword, point to the ground, in the other. Another militia man, leans on a jagged rock nearby, with his back to Murdock. In the background, other members of the militia ready a cannon near the riverbank, possibly that of the Schuylkill River. A large number of volunteer militias formed by the 1840s influencing Philadelphia lithographers Huddy & Duval to publish the "U.S. Military Magazine" from 1839 to 1842. The magazine featured prints illustrating the military fashion of the era., Possibly by Huddy & Duval., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 271, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 643 W 367
Date: [ca. 1843]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 643 W 367

Title: Waverly bowling saloon. No. 169 & 171 Chestnut Street, above Fifth, Philadelphia. Nine splendid alleys on one floor N. B. The bar is stocked with the finest quality of brandies, wines, liqueurs and segars._ Oysters and all the other delicacies in season, served up at the shortest notice. J. J. Galusha & Co
Description: Advertisement showing the interior of the saloon and bowling alley operated on the 400 block of Chestnut Street by Galusha circa 1854. Several men, many in top hats, sit, drink, read, and are served at four tables in front of the bowling lanes, two of which are in use. Also shows two men, standing and engaged in conversation in the center of the room. In the left of the image, two men drink at the bar that is manned by a bartender. Large framed pictures adorn the wall and pin boys sit at the backs of the lanes. Also includes a decorative border containing a trellis covered in a grapevine; a banner labeled Waverly Saloon; and bowling pins., Trimmed., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 823, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 07 B 787, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America, entry #74
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 07 B 787

Title: Water works of Philadelphia on the Schuylkill
Description: Book illustration of a view looking south showing the Fairmount Water Works and the Lancaster-Schuylkill Bridge. The water works include the engine house and mill house originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. The single span bridge, also known as the Upper Ferry Bridge, was erected 1809-1812 with Robert Mills serving as architect, and Lewis Wernwag as engineer. The bridge burned 1838 and was replaced by the Wire Bridge at Fairmount (built 1841-1842)., Manuscript note below title: From "DeRoos 'Personal Narrative and travels in U.S." London, 1827!!!, Published in F.F. De Roos's Personal narrative of travels in the United States and Canada in 1826 ....(London: W.H. Ainsworth, 1827), opp. p. 44. [Am 1827 DeRo 6310.O]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 822, Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of "Illustrations of Philadelphia."
Date: [1827]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilities [(1)1525.F.59e]

Title: Washington Steam Mills, Gloucester N.J. near Philadelphia
Description: Packing label for Washington Mills, the Gloucester, New Jersey textile factory, established by David S. Brown in 1844, which specialized in imprinted textiles. Contains a border with a mosaic pattern in red, blue, and green., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 270, Gift of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements - W [P.2002.67.75]

Title: Washington Mills, Gloucester, N.J. near Philadelphia David S. Brown & Co. Nos. 38 and 40 South Front Street, and No. 29 Letitia Street, Philadelphia, selling agents for the following American cotton and woolen goods
Description: Advertisement for David S. Brown & Co. textile merchants containing a view of the several factory buildings of the Washington Manufacturing Company's cotton mills on the Delaware River. Shows heavy maritime traffic, including a steamboat, sailboats, schooners, and a long boat with a crew transporting a bale of cotton. Also shows a church on the property in the far right of the image. Advertising text printed below the image lists the variety of the "Brown Cottons - Woolens - Prints - Pantaloonery &c. - and Bleached Cottons" available at Brown's as selling agents for other suppliers. Suppliers include Bates Mills, Essex Mills, Lion Mills, Whittenton Mills, Climax Mills, and Hale Mills. Products include sheetlings, shirtlings, jeans, flannels, shawls, zephyr coating, and corset jeans. Brown served as both senior partner in Brown & Co., and president and manager of Washington Mills., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America...Commercial edition with business cards of the prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 76. (HSP O 458), Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 269, Gift of George S. Macmanus Co., HSP copy BC 35 W 317., FLP copy Castner 20:21. Trimmed and folded.
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.8694]

Title: Washington. [label] Full madder colors. No. Yds
Description: Packing label, probably for Washington Mills, the Gloucester, New Jersey textile factory, established by David S. Brown in 1844, which specialized in imprinted textiles. Contains a full-length portrait of George Washington, leaning on his horse and holding a piece of correspondence inscribed "Washington victory is ours. Paul James.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 268, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 61 T 693b, LCP holds copy in John Serz Scrapbook [P.9773.49d].
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 61 T 693b

Title: Washington Hose Company of Philadelphia [certificate]
Description: Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters arriving at a fire at J.F. [i.e. J.E.] Caldwell & Company's store at 902 Chestnut Street (burned January 14, 1869); the company fire station on Lombard Street, east of 11th Street; and fire fighters pulling a fire engine past University of Pennsylvania buildings on 9th Street. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hose, a ladder, an axe, a bullhorn and other tools are drawn bundled together to form decorative elements on both sides. A small oval photographic portrait of a fireman is pasted above the text., Not in Wainwright., Issued to William H. Taylor on January 6, 1871. Signed by David B. Baker, president, and Joseph J. Ryan, secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 820/821, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval's son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval's retirement in 1869 until 1874., Gift of Maxwell Whiteman.
Creator: Bosch, A. H., lithographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelpia certificates - Fires and fire fighting [6530.F]

Title: Washington Hose Company of Philadelphia
Description: Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters arriving at a fire at J.F. [i.e. J.E.] Caldwell & Company's store at 902 Chestnut Street (burned January 14, 1869); the company fire station on Lombard Street, east of 11th Street; and fire fighters pulling a fire engine past University of Pennsylvania buildings on 9th Street. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hose, a ladder, an axe, a bullhorn and other tools are drawn bundled together to form decorative elements on both sides. A small oval portrait of George Washington adorns the top., Not in Wainwright., Issued to William G. Myers on April 6, 1871. Signed by David B. Baker, president, and [Joseph J. Ryan], secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 820/821, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval's son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval's retirement in 1869 until 1874.
Creator: Bosch, A. H., lithographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Certificates - Fires and fire fighting [P.9303.11]

Title: Washington Fire Company of Frankford
Description: Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters surrounded by spectators, battling the July 12, 1866 fire at the "Tackawana" (i.e., Tacony) Print Works in Frankford; a steam engine parked in the company fire station on Frankford Avenue between Sellers and Oxford streets; and fire fighters rushing a horse-drawn steam engine past a church. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hose, a ladder, an axe, a trumpet and other tools are drawn bundled together to form decorative elements on both sides. A small oval portrait of George Washington adorns an arch at the top. An American eagle rests on top of the portrait and clutches an American flag that is intertwined over the arch that is printed "First in War. First in Peace. First in the Hearts of His Country Men." Also contains the company institution date - 1793. Company was incorporated in 1846 (date visible on the station house)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 819, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Fire Companies - Washington, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval’s son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval’s retirement in 1869 until 1874.
Creator: Bosch, A. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Fire Companies - Washington

Title: Washington and Lafayette Benefical Society Incorporated April 12th 1825
Description: Membership certificate containing a scene showing the December 31, 1777 meeting between Marquis De Lafayette and General Washington during the American Revolution. On the banks of the Delaware River, under the watch of guards, Washington attended by his officers extends his hand to the young Franch Major General who is accompanied by his two officers. The men stand in front of a row of tents beside which a band of uniformed militia stand near an armed frontiersman and Native American witnessing the event. In the background, militia troops drill and ships sail on the Delaware. Also contains a vignette showing a society member in his sick bed attended by his wife and fellow members. The seated men talk and sit at a table playing cards as the ailing man's son, holds a hoop, and cries at the foot of the bed. Vignette bordered by two posted schedules of the month, day, and hour of "Stated Meetings" for the year that is also printed with the notice that "The Roll shall be called precisely 30 Minutes after the time above specified. Also includes the American eagle holding a shield marked with the incorporation date of the society., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 983 Q 3
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 983 Q 3

Title: Warnick & Leibrandt's Philadelphia stove works and hollow-ware foundry. First wharf above Noble St. Philadelphia Gunners Run & Franklin Avenue. Noble St. Wharf
Description: Advertisement containing two views of the stove works and hollow-ware foundries owned and operated by Charles W. Warnick and Frederick Leibrandt. The upper scene depicts the stove works at Gunners Run (ie. Aramingo Canal) and Franklin Avenue (ie. Girard Avenue). Viewed from the opposite bank of Gunner's Run, the scene shows laborers working with horse-drawn carts and drays on the bank of the canal, in front of a complex of industrial buildings labeled "Foundry" (left) and "Warnick & Leibrandt's Stove Works" (right). In the foreground, four laborers lift a large plank of wood, and men in groups of three move materials across the canal in row boats. Includes a docked sailing vessel (left) and smaller vessels in the canal. The bottom winter scene depicts the stove works looking northeast at the Noble Street Wharf (ie. northeast corner of Beach and Noble Streets) showing horse-drawn traffic in the snow-covered street outside of the company's wide, four-story brick building surmounted by a large cupola and weathervane. Includes drivers pulling horse-drawn sleds (left), speeding horse-drawn sleighs carrying a family of four (right), Warnick & Leibrandt covered wagons (center), and children playing with dogs and sleds on North Beach Street in the foreground. A group of bare masts is visible on the Delaware River behind the company's building. The Noble Street Wharf site later became home to the Philadelphia Sugar House., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 818, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W442 [P.2267]

Title: Wakefield – The “Hunt,"
Description: Montage of five scenes from a "Hound and Hare Club of Germantown" meet at Wakefield Meadow, part of the estate of Thomas and Sarah Fisher near Germantown. Large central scene shows elegantly attired men, women, and children, a few astride horses, milling on the grounds near the old residence, pond and creek. Surrounding scenes show horsemen galloping on the grounds, over fences, and in front of distant crowds of on-lookers standing in front of the dwelling. Dwelling built circa 1795. The meet involved horsemen acting as "hounds" and "hares" through horns and pieces of paper. The riders were tracked by their fellow mounted clubmen. The club started meets at Wakefield circa 1871., Not in Wainwright., Printed above image: Germantown, December 1876. Vol. I, No. V. $1 Per Annum in Advance This December No., 5 CTS., Manuscript note on recto: Fishers Lane., pdcc00032, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 38:32
Creator: Cooper, Colin Campbell, Jr.
Date: December 1876
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 38:32

Title: Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County
Description: Pastoral view depicting children playing on the hillside surrounding the Wakefield mills, established by William Logan Fisher circa 1815 at Eighteenth Street and Fisher's Lane. Six children play, one with a basket over his head, in the foreground (center), while a man drives a horse-drawn cart loaded with boxes marked "hosiery" (left). Mill buildings are visible in the distance, behind which more people are frolicking on the green. A large residence is partially visible through the woods on the hill in the far distance (center). Owned by the Fisher family of Wakefield, the mills stopped operating in the 1880s., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 816b, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Creator: Smith, B. F., Jr., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W441 [P.2265]

Title: Wakefield Manufacturing Company. Hosiery. Germantown, Philada. County
Description: Pastoral view depicting children playing on the hillside surrounding the Wakefield mills, established by William Logan Fisher circa 1815 at Eighteenth Street and Fisher's Lane. Six children play, one with a basket over his head, in the foreground (center), while a man drives a horse-drawn cart loaded with boxes marked "hosiery" (left). Mill buildings are visible in the distance, behind which more people are frolicking on the green. A large residence is partially visible through the woods on the hill in the far distance (center). Owned by the Fisher family of Wakefield, the mills stopped operating in the 1880s., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 816a, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 W149.
Creator: Smith, B. F., Jr., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W441 [P.2266]

Title: The Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia. [membership certificate] Incorporated March 9th 1855
Description: Life membership certificate containing a montage of plants, animals, minerals and fossils to represent different fields of the natural sciences, i.e., natural history, taught at the institute. Iconography encircles an oval containing the certificate text. Includes a bat for "Mammalia"; a human skull for "Anatomy"; an eagle for "Ornithology" perched on a slab with rocks and minerals for "Mineralogy"; a butterfly for "Entomology"; stems of flowers and plants for "Botany"; a thorny fish for "Ichtheology"; pre-historic crustaceans for "Palaeonotolgy"; the skeleton of an elephant for "Comparative Anatomy"; a shell for "Conchology"; a rattlesnake for "Herpetology"; a horseshoe crab for "Crustacea"; and Fossils - "Botany," Entomology," "Crustacea," and "Zoology" showing a fossilized plant, fish, dragon fly and lobster. Filigree adorns the corners. Wagner Free Institute was founded in 1855 by philanthropist and professor William Wagner to provide free public education in the sciences. Wagner donated his large collection of specimens and his science library in addition to monetary support to establish the institution., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 266, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Wagner Free, P. S. Duval & Co. operated as a firm 1851-1857., Inscription lower left corner torn: Est. C. J. [ ?].
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Certificates - Wagner Free

Title: Wagner & M'Guigan's lithographic drawing, engraving, and printing establishment Wagner & McGuigan, respectfully call the attention of the public to the superior facilities to be found at their extensive establishment, employing upwards of forty presses, together with the most efficient artistical skill in the various branches of the art, enables them to produce all work equal to an establishment in the country. Transferring from steel and copper plates, wood cuts, stone and manuscript. We particularly recommend this branch of our business to the notice of those having plates of this description, as millions of impressions may be printed with but little wear to the original plate, and at a far greater speed than from the copperplate press, at very moderate cost. Business men can be supplied with thousands of circulars in their own handwriting, at a few hours' notice. Surveyors, draughtsmen, and others, desiring to execute their own plans, circulars, price currents, &c, for transferring, will be furnished with suitable paper and ink, free of charge
Description: Advertisement containing an "Interior view of Wagner & M'Guigan's forty press room, Athenian Building, Franklin Place, Philadelphia." Shows a couple attired in elegant winter clothing strolling down the aisle between the several presses. Men perform various duties at the machines, including rolling ink and pressing paper on the printing stones. Behind the couple, boy apprentices carry stones by hand and pull them by dolly near a man in a cape. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Not in Wainwright., Published in Catalogue of the twenty-fourth exhibition of American manufactures ...(Philadelphia, 1854), p. 39., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 112, Variant of advertisement published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [15], front ad section and McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), p. 10, front ad section.
Creator: Scattergood, David, engraver
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1854 Exhib 13701.O.2.39

Title: Wagner & M'Guigan, respectfully invite the attention of the public to their extensive lithographic establishment no. 4 Athenian Building, Franklin Place, north of no. 111 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Lithography in all its branches, portraits, landscape, anatomy, geology, botany, architecture, machinery, store views, title pages, certificates, steamboats, pattern books, country and town maps, plans circulars, commercial blanks, &c. Transferring from steel and copper-plate, wood cuts &c. This branch of the business is under their own immediate supervision, and having the assistance of the ablest work men enables them to produce work of a superior order in this line. Illuminated color printing unique and magnificent illustrations for books, title pages, certificates, show cards, labels, stores, hotels, manufactories, printed in various colors, bronzes, &c. All orders promptly attended to
Description: Directory advertisement containing an "Interior view of Printing Room containing upwards of forty presses." Shows a couple attired in elegant winter clothing strolling down the aisle between the several presses. Men perform various duties at the machines, including rolling ink and pressing paper on the printing stones. Behind the couple, boy apprentices carry stones by hand and pull them by dolly near a man in a cape. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [15], front ad section., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 111, Variant of advertisement published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), p. 10, ad section and Catalogue of the twenty-fourth exhibition of American manufactures ...(Philadelphia, 1854), p. 39.
Creator: Scattergood, David, engraver
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 10578.Q.15 (front ad section)

Title: Wagner & M'Guigan, call the attention of the public to the superior facilities at their extensive lithographic establishment, no. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place, (north of no, 111 Chestnut Street.) Where the most efficient artistical skill is employed in the various branches of the art, enabling them to produce the most elaborate drawings on stone, anatomy, geology, botany, portraits, landscapes, title pages, book illustrations, machinery, show cards, maps, plans &c. . Transferring from steel and copper plates, wood cuts &c. This branch of the business is under their own immediate supervision, and having the assistance of the ablest work men enables them to produce work equal if not superior to any other establishment in the country, in color printing, they produce the most chaste, unique and magnificent illustrations for books, title pages, certificates, music titles, show cards &c. Also, a beautiful style in colors of stores, hotels, manufactories, and landscape views. Businessmen can be supplied with thousands of circulars, in their own hand-writing after a few hours notice
Description: Directory advertisement containing an "Interior view of Printing Room containing upwards of forty presses." Shows a couple attired in elegant winter clothing strolling down the aisle between the several presses. Men perform various duties at the machines, including rolling ink and pressing paper on the printing stones. Behind the couple, boy apprentices carry stones by hand and pull them by dolly near a man in a cape. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), p. 10, front ad section., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 110, Variant of advertisement published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [15], front ad section and Catalogue of the twenty-fourth exhibition of American manufactures ...(Philadelphia, 1854), p. 39.
Creator: Scattergood, David, engraver
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 (58) 10840.O.10 (front ad section)

Title: Wagner & McGuigan's steam lithographic printing establishment no. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing a montage of vignettes related to lithography to promote partners Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan, who jointly operated a lithographic studio jointly 1846-1858. Vignettes show the exterior of the printing establishment; lithographic artists working on stones propped flat and on an angle; pressmen operating two different types of lithographic presses (one modified with a cylinder that served as a paper feeding device); and the large steam engine that powered the presses. Also shows symbols of patriotism and the trade propped against the base of the steam engine. Includes lithographic stones, an ink roller, a brush, a large stoppered bottle probably representing gum arabic, and American flag and shield., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 115.1, Library of Congress: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:105 Wagner & McGuigan, Reproduced and described in Jennifer Ambrose's "Nineteenth Century Advertising Prints," Magazine Antiques (August 2006), pp. 96 & 98., LOC also holds variant state, tinted with one stone under same call number. Variant includes text in tint color: Drawings of Every Description Executed on Stone. Also, Maps, Plans, Certificates, Circulars, &c. Transferring from Steel, Copper & Stone. (POSA 115.2)
Creator: Wagner & M'Guigan
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:105 Wagner & McGuigan

Title: Wagner & McGuigan's lithographic establishment for drawing lettering & printing no. 116 Chesnut [sic] St. Philadelphia Portraits, landscapes, anatomical & architectural drawings, views of stores, fancy prints, show cards, maps, plans, certificates, circulars, all kinds of fancy labels, cards, &c., printing in illuminated colours & gold, transferring from steel, copper & stone. Wagner & McGuigan have received the highest award [a silver medal] for their lithography from the Franklin Institute of the state of Penna. Orders done with neatness and despatch
Description: Advertisement containing an interior view of the shop at 116 Chestnut Street (ie. 320 Chestnut Street) after a daguerreotype depicting a long row of presses lined along the perimeter of the room near tall windows for natural light. Pressmen work on stones propped flat and on an angle. The man at the first press rolls ink onto a stone, as another man, probably an apprentice, carries a stone from the reserve of fresh stones arranged and stacked on the shelves on the opposite wall. Bottles and other supplies line the shelves between each window, and several packaged stones are piled on the floor in the foreground awaiting shipment. View includes a standing press. A foreman, possibly Wagner or McGuigan, attired in a suit observes the printers. Includes views of the recto and verso of the silver medal awarded to Wagner & M'Guigan for "skill and ingenuity" in lithography by the Franklin Institute in 1844 below the image and flanking the advertising text. Advertisement shows text printed in various fonts and shades to demonstrate the range and ability of the recently established lithographic firm of Wagner & M'Guigan (fl. 1846-1858)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 113, T.B. Shaw, possibly Trueman Shaw, operated from the same address as Wagner & McGuigan (116 Chestnut) between 1846 and 1849., Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3081]
Creator: Aub, Jacob, artist
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Smithsonian Institution, NMAH, Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3081]

Title: Wagner & McGuigan's lithographic & steam power printing establishment Athenian Building, Franklin Place
Description: Directory advertisement containing an allegorical, patriotic scene. Shows the figure of Columbia, attired in a toga, American flag, and laurel wreath, with a broken shackle under her foot as she stands on a pedestal. She holds a sword in one hand beside an American eagle perched on a shield and a laurel wreath in the other in front of a sculpted bust of George Washington. The bust rests on a pedestal adorned with a fasces. A paint palette and brushes, compass, rolls of paper, and a banner reading "Encourage American Arts" rests at the feet of Columbia. Floral details frame the sides of the image. Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan operated a lithographic studio as partners 1846-1858., Published in McElroy's Philadelphia directory, for 1856 (Philadelphia: Edward C. & John Biddle, 1856), frontispiece., Not in Wainwright., Names of artists from variant duplicate in Poulson's scrapbooks, Illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. 1., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 114
Creator: Wagner & M'Guigan
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 (58) 10840.O.frontispiece

Title: W. P. Hacker, importer and wholesale dealer in china, glass, queensware & fancy goods, No. 60, North Second Street, Philadelphia Queensware and glass in original package, or repacked to order
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story, three-bay building tenanted by the china, glass and queensware business of Wm. P. Hacker at 60 (ie. 108) North Second Street. Pitchers, vases and bowls in various shapes and sizes are stacked on shelves lining the walls of the shop interior, and are also displayed in the storefront window, which is flanked by two wide doors on the ground level. In the left doorway, a man lifts a barrel using a pulley system running all the way to the top floor of the building. Another worker loads hampers onto a horse-drawn dray. Barrels and hampers line the sidewalk and cobblestone street in front of the shop. Signboards marked "china, glass" and "queens-ware" cover the front facade of Hacker's shop. Also shows bits of the interior of adjacent properties, including the stairway in 58 North Second Street (left) and casks (presumably of wine) in 62 North Second Street (right). A man and woman stroll by arm in arm on the sidewalk. William P. Hacker moved his business to several nearby properties on North Second Street, starting out at 64, moving to 62 and then inhabiting 60 in 1851. Hacker was president of the Philadelphia Common Council from 1855 to 1856., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1848., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1851., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 814, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W439 [P.2264]

Title: W. F. Geddes' Sons steam power printers and lithographers 724 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Pa 12 designs, in gold and tints
Description: Tradecards depicting impish figures resembling a harlequin and pixie representing spring. The harlequin blows bubbles and the pixie is accompanied by doves., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 108, Smithsonian Institution: NMAH Archives Center – Warshaw Collection - Printers & Printing - Box 1 - Geddes
Creator: W. F. Geddes' Sons
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Smithsonian Institution | Archives Center Warshaw Collection SI NMAH Archives Center – Warshaw Collection - Printers & Printing - Box 1 - Geddes

Title: W. Boell, practical lithographer and engraver, 311 Walnut Street Philadelphia Lithographic drawing, engraving & printing. Orders in all branches of the lithographic art executed in the best style
Description: Tradecard illustrated with two female allegorical figures representing Prosperity (left) and Art (right). Figure of Abundance wears a Roman-style gown, with one breast exposed, and rests one hand on a cornucopia filled with fruits and grains. She leans toward the direction of Art who wears netting in her hair and a draped gown. She holds a paint brush in one hand and a palette in the other. She looks toward Abundance. Grass, twigs, and bushes surround the figures. Boell, a French-born lithographer, worked in New York 1854-1858 before relocating to Philadelphia, where he was active until the 1880s. He operated from 311 Walnut Street circa 1859-circa 1865., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 107, Forms part of Specimens Album [P.9349].
Creator: Boell, William
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.151s]

Title: Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Print containing an exterior view and three titled interior views of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Exterior view shows heavy street activity. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train stops on the grounds in front of a cheering crowd of spectators. Hundreds of soldiers line up to enter and depart the "Hot Coffee and Refreshment" and "Water" stand and "Dining Saloon Free for Volunteers"; officers direct foot traffic onto the train; and other soldiers enter the adjacent "Post Office" and are greeted by women in front of a row of adjoining row homes. Also shows the O.K. House in the background, the fence of "W. Thorn Lehigh & Schuylkill Coal Yard," and an American flag marked "Union for Ever" adorning the saloon. Interior views, framed by scroll ornaments, shows a line of soldiers at, and others waiting for a row of wash basins at the "Washing Department"; the "Interior of the Dining Saloon Free for Union Volunteers" where soldiers wait in line for food, eat standing up at tables, and are served by female volunteers; and civilian spectators watching the men volunteers of the "Cooking Department" attend cauldrons atop ovens, and carry baskets of food and large coffee pots. Also contains facsimile signatures of saloon supporters and a vignette portrait of General Winfield Scott below the image. Portrait framed by a laurel wreath held in the beak of an eagle surrounded by American flags, a fasces, cannons, and a banner reading "Respectfully dedicated by the Committee to Winfield Scott General in Chief of the U.S.A." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing., Second state., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 813.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 U 58b (3 copies). Two of HSP copies contain blind stamp of B.S. Brown.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: c1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W438.2 [P.9001.2]

Title: Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Print containing an exterior view and three titled interior views of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Exterior view shows heavy street activity. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train stops on the grounds in front of a cheering crowd of spectators. Hundreds of soldiers line up to enter and depart the "Hot Coffee and Refreshment" and "Water" stand and "Dining Saloon Free for Volunteers"; officers direct foot traffic onto the train; and other soldiers enter the adjacent "Post Office" and are greeted by women in front of a row of adjoining row homes. Also shows the O.K. House in the background, the fence of "W. Thorn Lehigh & Schuylkill Coal Yard, and an American flag marked "Union for Ever" adorning the saloon. Interior views, framed by filigree, shows a line of soldiers at, and others waiting for a row of wash basins at the "Washing Department"; the "Interior of the Dining Saloon Free for Union Volunteers" where soldiers wait in line for food, eat standing up at tables, and are served by female volunteers; and civilian spectators watching the men volunteers of the "Cooking Department" attend cauldrons atop ovens and carry baskets of food and large coffee pots. and freedmen., Also contains facsimile signatures of saloon supporters and a vignette portrait of General Winfield Scott below the image. Portrait framed by a laurel wreath held in the beak of an eagle surrounded by American flags, a fasces, cannons, and a banner reading "Respectfully dedicated by the Committee to Winfield Scott General in Chief of the U.S.A." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing., First state., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 V 58c
Creator: Boell, William
Date: c1861
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P]

Title: The Vigilant. Instituted Jany 2, 1760
Description: View of the hand-powered Philadelphia-style fire engine of the Vigilant Engine Company that operated from Race Street below Second Street. A firefighter, in uniform, and holding a trumpet stands next to the engine. His hat is adorned with the all-seeing eye and he wears a belt buckle labeled "Vigilant." Engine contains double decker end-stroke hand pumpers and is adorned with all-seeing eyes, ornamental details, and an ornate compressor. Print also contains a border with geometric details., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 265, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 832 V 683
Creator: Heiss, George G.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Fires and Firefighting [P.9944]

Title: [Views of four prominent buildings at the Centennial Exhibition, Fairmount Park, 1876]
Description: Proof containing four uncut views of prominent buildings built after the designs of Henry Petit, Hermann Schwarzmann, and Joseph Wilson at the Centennial Exhibition. Shows the Main Building, the Art Gallery (Memorial Hall), Agricultural Hall, and Horticultural Hall. Views include pedestrian and street traffic. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the anniversary of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park., Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 812
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Centennial [P.9558.2]

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: [Views of Centennial Exhibition buildings]
Description: Series of views, possibly issued as loose souvenir prints, of prominent buildings at the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Buildings include the Art Gallery; Main Building; Horticultural Hall; Machinery Hall; Agricultural Hall; U.S. Government Building; Women's Pavilion; and Judge's Hall. Views include heavy pedestrian traffic as well as visitors traveling the grounds by carriage. The Centennial celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Title supplied by cataloguer., Variants of plates issued as Centennial Portfolio. 1st Series. Eight Views of Centennial Buildings ([Philadelphia]: Published by Thos. Hunter, No. 716 Filbert Street, [1876]). Also issued as Thompson Westcott's Centennial Portfolio. Thomas Hunter published several variant views, including folio-size prints commissioned in 1874 by the Centennial Board of Finance, of the Centennial Buildings after the official plans of the structures., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Centennial and Columbian Exposition views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 810a-h. POS 810a: Agricultural Hall. POS 810b:Art Gallery. POS 810c: Horticultural Hall. POS 810d: Judges Hall. POS 810e: Machinery Hall. POS 810f: Main Building. POS 810g: U.S. Government Building. POS 810h: Womens Pavilion.
Creator: Aubrun, Louis, artist
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Centennial [5758.F.25c&d; 26e&f; 27c&d; 28b&c]

Title: Views of a cemetery
Description: Shows funeral processions passing a man reclining on a hilltop adorned with mausoleums, possibly in Laurel Hill Cemetery, and arriving at a plot enclosed by a circular fence at an unidentified cemetery. Views include a minister; an open grave; grave diggers; mourners; horse-drawn carriages; and a distant view of a body of water. One view also contains an ornate border including a crucifix, sepulchral monuments, and vaults. Vaults inscribed "Anderson"; "Sylancliff"; and "Holmes.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 264, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Cemeteries [(7)1322.F.458b; P.2277.27]

Title: View of the Wire Bridge at Fairmount, Philadelphia Erected in 1842
Description: View looking northeast from below the Wire Bridge of Fairmount, the first suspension bridge in the United States, built over the Schuylkill River from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. Show pedestrians, men on horseback, wagons and carriages approaching, crossing, and departing the bridge near the Fairmount Waterworks. Waterworks include the engine house, mill house, and pavilions on the mound dam and Reservoir Hill. Also shows people fishing on the river, a man carrying a fishing pole over a foot bridge to the canal lock, men seated on the incline to the bridge, and a hotel building. The bridge was removed in 1874., Copyrighted by George Lehman., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 809, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 7 W 798
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: c1843
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 7 W 798

Title: View of the United States Hose house & apparatus, Philadelphia To the Independent Fire Co. of Baltimore & the Franklin Fire Co. of Washington, this print is respectfully dedicated, (as a slight token of appreciation of their generous hospitality) by the United States Hose Co. of Philadelphia
Description: Keepsake print containing a rollicking view of members of the volunteer hose company racing their hose carriage around the corner from their firehouse at Tamany (i.e., Buttonwood) Street below York Avenue. Firefighters, most in gear, pull the carriage, run from behind the vehicle, and suit up in the entry to their firehouse. The house contains an iron-work verandah, and a tower from which a volunteer directs the company. Adjacent to the station house at the corner stands "Tamany Hall," an oyster house adorned in signage, including the name of proprietor "Jas. Griffiths" and street signs. The proprietor stands at his doorway, a server watches from outside, and a patron rushes out a rear entry. At the opposite corner, the grocery store of "Tunis O. Bancroft" stands. A female clerk stands in the doorway and merchandise displays, including brooms and buckets, line the storefront. The store owner, attired in an apron and top hat, stands out front, under an awning, and watches the commotion. Another hose carriage, ornately decorated, rests nearby in the street. A small toolbox, bucket, and sponge lie in the street next to the apparatus. View also shows the neighboring residential buildings on the block and around the corner. United States Hose Company was instituted on July 4, 1826 and incorporated on March 13, 1833. Baltimore held a Fireman's Celebration in cooperation with Washington D.C. in November 1851 that was attended by the United States Hose Company. The United States Hose Company hosted the Independent Fire Company of Baltimore during the 1852 Firemen's Parade in Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 808, LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #75., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Artist possibly James Queen., Trimmed. Lower edge containing title reattached., Firemen's Celebration
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W436 [P.2237]

Title: View of the reception of the 29th Regiment, P. V., at Philadelphia
Description: An innovatively designed view of the December 23, 1863 procession of the Pennsylvania Volunteer regiment in honor of their heroic service with the Army of the Potomac. Depicts the procession as a serpentine with the order of procession arranged from top to bottom, with a large eagle, holding an American shield, and patriotic flags by the "Ladies for the 29th" flanked by banners reading "Welcome Home" above the entire view. Soldiers on horseback lead the procession, followed by infantrymen transported in horse-drawn wagons, with one also pulling a cannon, which are followed by a small brass military band. After the musicians, the 29th Regiment marches on foot, some carrying flags, amongst which additional military bands and officers on horse-back also process. Horse-drawn volunteer fire company ambulances carrying soldiers follow the troops, including the vehicles of Northern Liberty Fire Co. no. 1, Vigilant Fire Co., Assistance Fire Co., Weccacoe, Southwark Hose Co., and Hope Hose Company. Along the route men, women, and children watch and join the procession, shake soldier's hands, and cheer. Also shows two boys in a scuffle among the spectators., Buildings line the route, most in shadowy, partial views except the Cooper Shop Soldiers Home at Race and Crown (opened December 1863) and the adjacent buildings near the top of the view. Women crowd the windows of the home and a large American flag marked "Cooper Shop Soldiers Home" stands in front of the building. Also contains the names by Field and Staff Officers, Non-Commissioned Staff, and by Company, of the "Veterans of the 29th," including the African American Company K in addition to the names of the "Board of Managers of the Cooper Shop Soldiers' Home." The procession commenced at about one o'clock from Market Street Bridge down Market Street to Twenty-First Street eventually arriving at the Cooper Shop Soldiers Home where the members of the 29th regiment had dinner before proceeding to the National Guards Hall (518-520 Race Street) to be welcomed by Colonel John Price Wetherill. The order of the procession was as follows the First City Troop; 27th New York Battery; Liberty Coronet Band; Henry Guards; four companies of invalids corps; Provost Guard; discharged members of the regiment; Birgfield's Band; former (Murphy) and present (Rickards) commander of the regiment; Lieut. Col. Zulick of the regiment; the regiment; female family members; First Regiment, Jefferson Coronet Band, Pennsylvania Military Institute cadets, City Council members, and other guards and regiments; and lastly the ambulances of the firemen. The veterans of the 29th Regiment home on furlough re-inlisted for additional service, which was announced at the procession., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 807, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc85 B347., Reception described in the Philadelphia Inquirer (December 24, 1863).
Date: c1863
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***W435 [P.2262 and (12) 1540.F]

Title: View of the Philadelphia volunteer refreshment saloons
Description: Civil War souvenir print containing six views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at the southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues and the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon at 1009 Ostego Street. Contains a large central view of the exterior of the Union Saloon with troops arriving, entering the dining saloon, and departing on a Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad car as crowds of people flock around them. Other views depict soldiers using the wash basins adjoining the Cooper Shop Saloon; pro-Union flags and Saloon banners; the Union Saloon's outside washing and cooking departments including an African American man carrying a pail of food; and interiors of both saloons where male and female volunteers attend to long tables of food and a large simmering vat on a hearth. Contains an eagle clutching large American flags and a pro-Union banner above the scenes. Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South, the relief organizations provided hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to over 1,000,000 military personnel, sailors, refugees, and freedmen during the war., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to An Act of Congress in the Year 1861 by Job T. Williams in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 806, Print trimmed., Gift of Isadore Lichstein, 1984., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen, a Philadelphia lithographer and pioneer chromolithographer known for his attention to detail, served in the Civil War militia from 1862 until 1863, and created several lithographs with Civil War subjects, including views of and contribution certificates for the city's relief institutions.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist
Date: 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W434 [P.9001.6]

Title: View of the Philadelphia alms house : Blockley Taken from Hyde Park, east side of Schuylkill
Description: View of the Blockley Almshouse on the west side of the Schuylkill River. Designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland and constructed 1833. View shows the riverbanks where two men fish and cows graze. A two-masted sailing ship passes on the river. Cityscape on the east bank of the river and the Market Street Bridge are visible in the right background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 805, Lehman & Duval was a partnership between George Lehman and P.S. Duval which lasted from 1835 until 1837.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [ca. 1835]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W433 [P.2236]

Title: View of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Fair, held at Powellton [sic], twenty-fourth ward, Philadelphia, late West Philadelphia, September 1854
Description: Shows the well-attended fair on grounds landscaped with dirt paths and a track, tenanted by tents and sheds adorned with American flags, and enclosed by a white fence. Visitors enter by foot, on horseback, and carriage through an arched opening near the "Ticket Office" as a lone carriage departs through the opposite exit way. Throngs of people spill out from the temporary shelters while individuals ride horseback, travel in carriages, and rest on a mound of dirt nearby. Also shows horses racing on the track and trees lining the back of the property in the background. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." Powelton was the estate of John Hare Powel, an experimental farmer and diplomat., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 49.34.25
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 49.34.25

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