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Title: The Corn Exchange National Bank
Description: Depicts the Corn Exchange National Bank building on the corner of Second and Chestnut Streets., This prominent financial institution was organized in August, 1858, as the Corn Exchange Bank. Its first location was upon Second Street near Walnut Street. The orginal capital was $130,000. It became a national bank in 1864, at which time it occupied the building at the northeast corner of Second and Chestnut Streets, later replaced by the present attractive structure, which yet remains the home of the bank, with central city branch at 1510-12 Chestnut Street., Taylor Catalog Number: 357
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Merchants' Exchange
Description: Shows a corner of a classical-style bank with pedestrains standing outside., This venerated structure, one of the City's most notable relics of bygone business activites, has been sadly mutilated in the present year, 1923. It was erected in 1834 upon a design adapted by the architect, Wm. Strickland, from the Lantern of Demosthenes at Athens. Although yet occupied it has, long since, been forsaken for another and more modern centres of finance and trade., Taylor Catalog Number: 294
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Amateur Drawing Room
Description: Depicts a building on a street corner identified by a sign that reads, "Frank P. Mellen: Hay Straw and Oats." A horse and cart wait outside., If the gift of eloquence "runs in your family" mayhap it should be attributed to that Philadelphia grandfather who, in his aspiring youth, was a shining light in some one of the once-numerous dramatic coteries of the old town. This building, depicted in its day of humiliation as a storehouse of trade, was known to society as the Amateur Drawing Room. Its site is now occupied by the branch post office upon Seventeenth street, above Chestnut street. It was originally an Episcopal church structure. The Wheatley Dramatic Association, which had long held forth at Fifth and Gaskill streets, removed here in 1865, a period when the stress of war had put an end to other organizations of the kind, and this cosey little theatre was occupied by the "Wheatleys" until they, too, disappeared from the stage in 1881. The "Drawing Room" was much in favor, for a long time, for general entertainment., Taylor Catalog Number: 120
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The First United States Mint
Description: Depicts the three brick buildings formerly occupied by the United States Mint., The great historical interest relating to the group of old structures upon North Seventh Street (Numbers 37 and 39), which were the first buildings ever erected under authority of Congress for a national purpose and which were used forty years as the first United States Mint, was, fortunately, fully realized by Mr. Frank H. Stewart, who bought them in 1907 and removed them to make room for a modern business edifice in 1911. The Frank H. Stewart Electric Company thus became the third title-holder of the site from the orignial sale by William Penn. This drawing has been made from a painting by Edwin Lamasure, based upon careful research for all exterior details of construction. The middle building, first of the group erected, housed the coinage department. During the incumbency of his friend, David Rittenhouse, 1792-95, the first Director, George Washington was a frequent and enthusiastic visitor. Practically every rare coin bearing the United States stamp was made in this building, including the silver-centre cent of 1792 and the silver dollar of 1804. Steam power was introduced into the Mint in 1816 for heavy work. The treasure vaults were located beneath the front building. The coinage building also contained bullion vaults. The rear building contained the smelting and refining department. In 1832 the Government removed its Mint to the handsome and spacious building then just completed for the purpose at Chestnut and Juniper streets. Thereafter the old buildings were occupied by industrial concerns until secured by the present owner of the site., Taylor Catalog Number: 60
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Mint on Chestnut Street
Description: Sketch of the former United States Mint building. The silhouette of City Hall can be seen in the background., All visitors to Philadelphia a generation ago made special point to visit the United States Mint, conveniently located in the heart of the city, upon Chestnut Street, east from Broad Street. The structure, of white marble, in classic mould, fronted for 150 feet upon Chestnut Street and extended rearward, 204 feet, to South Penn Square. It was first occupied in 1832 and was only abandoned at the beginning of the present century, when the new and splendid Mint structure was completed at Spring Garden and Seventeenth streets. Prior to 1873 this Mint contained the office of the Director of the Mints. All coinage dies were made here; the official Troy pound, standard unit of all weights, was preserved in this building, in which, also, a comprehensive museum of rare and curious coins was on permanent exhibition. The site of the long familiar Mint building is now covered by a recently completed office building., Taylor Catalog Number: 68
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Home of the "Contributionship"
Description: Depicts a four-story residence with columns on the front porch. Three men stand on the sidewalk., This building, a pleasing example of the typical architecture of the old-time Philadelphia, was designed by Thomas Y. Walter and built in 1837 for the Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Losses by Fire, the oldest corporation of the kind in the United States, dating from 1752. It is located at 212 South Fourth Street, upon the site of the residence of Charles A. Poulson. At the period of its construction it was customary for the treasures of financial institutions to live in the building containing the corporate office, there being no safe repositories elsewhere. The Contributionship building was, therefore, a residence, notable in a section once distinguished for the quiet elegance and wealth., Taylor Catalog Number: 138
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Old Newspaper Centre at Third and Chestnut Streets
Description: Scene at the corner of Third and Chestnut Streets depicting telegraph and newpaper office buildings where a mass of people is gathered., In the Civil War years nearly all of the newspaper establishements were located in the immediate vicinity of Third and Chestnut Streets, where also were the telegraph offices. Upon every occasion of fast-spreading rumor of victory or defeat at "the front" multitudes gathered here to read the bulletin boards and secure copies of successive "extras" put forth by the Inquirer, Ledger, Evening Bulletin, Evening Telegraph and, as well by the Press, at that time around the corner in Fourth Street. Few other such scenes of intense excitement in the city have equalled those incident to the news of Lee's defeat at Gettysburg; his surrender at Appomattox and the tidings of the murder of President Lincoln., Taylor Catalog Number: 174
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Roberts' Mill, Germantown
Description: Sketch of a mill next to a creek where a horse-drawn cart is being loaded and a woman stands nearby with a dog., Roberts' Mill, the second grist mill built within Philadelphia County, was erected in 1683 by Richard Townsend, one of the passengers who came upon the ship "Welcome" with William Penn. It stood near the point where Mill Street (now Church Lane) crossed the Wingohocking Creek beyond the intersection of Stenton Avenue. Townsend sold his mill to the Lucan (or Lukens) family and its is so called upon the maps of the Revolutionary period. Early in the Nineteenth Century it was acquired by Hugh Roberts. It figures in the story of the battle of Germantown as marking the point, upon the Mill Road, of the British right wing. The mill remained as an interesting landmark until about 1873., Taylor Catalog Number: 173
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Mill Bank Mill
Description: Depicts a building with a horse and cart waiting at the side entrance and a mill stone propped on the wall next to the front door., This picturesque grist mill, somewhat better known as "Marshall's," was located in Delaware County, on Naylor's Run, near the village of Cardington, in Upper Darby. It was built, as indicated by a date stone embedded in its wall, in the year 1799. It was owned by John Sellers. whose son, Nathan, and the latter's son, of the same name, operated it to 1833, when it was bought by Louis Watkins. Other owners or tenants identified with the mill were John Lampkin, Van Lear Bond, Joseph Powell and John H. Lewis. The greater part of the mill was removed many years ago in order to straighten the roadway., Taylor Catalog Number: 176
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Athenian Buildings
Description: Depicts a four-story publishing building with signs advertising the company and the books it sells., This structure, once the hive of a group of printing and publishing concerns, was located on the west side of Franklin Court, now South Orianna Street. The rear of the banking building of E.W. Clark & Co. occupies a part of the site, which also covers at least a part of the "mansion house" built under the direction of Madame Franklin in 1756 while Benjamin Franklin was in Europe, a spacious house, fully described in Watson's Annals. It is said that James Wilson, grandfather of President Wilson, edited the "Aurora" here, and it was in this building also that an aggressive young Scotchman, James Gordon Bennett, published the "Daily Courier," which, afterward, purchased by Jasper Harding, became the "Inquirer." "Godey's Lady's Book" was another once popular publication put forth here., Taylor Catalog Number: 136
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Old Morris Brew House
Description: View of a large brick brew house on a street corner. A wagon on the street is being loaded with kegs., The original Morris brewery in Philadelphia was built by Anthony Morris, 2nd, the son of an English sea captain. He came to Philadelphia, in 1682, from Barbadoes, and, in 1687, erected his malt house and brewery on Front Street below Walnut Street. The business remained in the family and in 1745 Anthony Morris, 4th, built the structure here depicted. It was located at Dock and Pear Streets, where a good spring provided water which made the Morris beer the finest in town. The building was removed in 1900. The several generations of the Morris family figure honorably in the civil and military history of the city. The union of the Morris and the Perot families accurred through the marriage of Elizabeth M. Morris to Francis Perot in 1823. The malting concern continued by the descendants of this union is said to be the "oldest business house in America.", Taylor Catalog Number: 70
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Old Grist Mill, Holmesburg
Description: Depicts a stone mill and outbuilding. A wagon rests in the foreground and two children and a man stand in front of the buildings., The ruin of the Lewis Pennock' or "Old Swedes" mill has stood upon the margin of Pennypack Creek, near Holmesburg, for many years. It was built in 1697. It was eighty years old when it ground its grists for the soldiers of Washington and of the British forces alternately. The drawing here presented was made from a photograph taken prior to its destruction by fire in 1885. The site is now included in the Pennypack Park., Taylor Catalog Number: 172
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Academy in Locust Street
Description: Depicts a very large four-story brick building on Locust Street, home of the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church., The Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church was founded in 1785 through the efforts of the Rev. William White D.D., first bishop of Pennsylvania. Its early trustees included many distinguished citizens. The Academy first occupied the dwelling which had been the home, in Franklin Court, of Benjamin Franklin. The institution was chartered in 1787. After several removals it established its home, in 1849, here upon Locust Street east of Broad Street. The original structure at this site was subsequently enlarged and a gymnasium was built in the rear. The Academy abandoned its historic location in 1921 for a more spacious home in Merion beyond the City line., Taylor Catalog Number: 258
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Academy of Fine Arts on Chestnut Street
Description: Busy street scene in front of the Academy of Fine Arts on Chestnut Street., When the artists and other interested citizens who were the fathers of the first American art institution built their structure, in 1805, upon the north side of Chestnut Street, west of Tenth Street, it was environed by a pleasant garden space. The original structure was burned in 1845. It was rebuilt and, as the encroachments of business forced economics of space, stores were erected in front. The old academy was the alma mater of many artists of note and the repository of a valuable collection of art works. The building was vacated in 1870 and later became "Fox's Varieties," destroyed by fire in 1877. The site is now covered by the Chestnut Street Opera House., Taylor Catalog Number: 40
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Franklin Institute
Description: View of a former home of the Franklin Institute on Seventh Street., This time-honored society is a practical example of local tenacity. Ever since its organization, in 1824, it has held to its original home in Seventh Street, although its removal, at no distant time, is now expected. The activities of the Institute include the encouragement of inventions and the preservation, in a great library collection, of records of scientific research and progress. In 1824 the Institute held, in Carpenters Hall, the first exhibition of American manufacturers. Its semi-centennial exhibition was held, in 1874, upon the site of the present Wanamaker store as a prelude to the Centennial., Taylor Catalog Number: 334
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Original Occupant of the Union League Site
Description: View of a building on a cobblestone street corner. The building has signs that read, "Plumbing & Gas Fitting, Furnaces, Cooking Ranges," and frieght train cars wait on the track in the foreground., Round about this structure, lined up boldly beside the solemn old home of the Academy of Natural Sciences, soldiery camped, barracked and drilled in Civil War days. Broad street, in front, was but little more than a cobble strewn freight yard where, also, market wagons were parked at nightfall. Then, in 1864, the Union League cleared the ground for its new building, which was completed and occupied in may, 1865, just in time to fittingly celebrate the triumphant close of the great war which led to the formation, in 1863, of this patriotic body of citizens., Taylor Catalog Number: 47
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Old Academy Doorway
Description: View of a doorway at the end of a narrow alleyway. Two men converse near a horse-drawn cart., This quaint doorway faces a brief alley at 60 North Fourth Street. It affords access to a manufacturing building, the walls of which were, at least in part, those of the Whitworth Chapel, built long prior to the Revolution, as a free church, but occupied, at the period by the "Academy," out of which the University of Pennsylvania has developed. The latter institution removed from this building, in 1801, to the large residence erected as a Presidential "White House," at Ninth and High Streets. The First Unitarian Church was organized here. The property is still owned by the University., Taylor Catalog Number: 134
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1918

Title: The Colosseum and Offenbach Auditorium
Description: Image with two panels. The left half contains a view of the Centennial building "The Colosseum" on a busy street corner. The right half shows a market building with a sign that reads, "D.P.S. Nichols' Broad St. Horse & Carriage Bazaar.", These structures were features of Broad Street in the Centennial period. The Colosseum building was located upon the site now covered by the Hotel Walton. It was built by Nixon & Zimmerman, who exhibited a cyclorama of "Paris by Night" within it through 1876. The building on the right was erected at the southeast corner of Broad and Cherry Streets in 1876, as a concert hall for Offenbach's famous French orchestra and comedy company. It stood upon the site of an old market building used, during the Civil War, as an United States Military hospital. Following the close of the Centennial it was utilized as a sales bazaar for vehicles and horses. It was finally removed when, in 1893, work was commenced upon the modern building still generally spoken of as the "Odd Fellows' Temple.", Taylor Catalog Number: 175
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: St. John's English Lutheran Church
Description: Front view of a church with stained-glass windows and wrought iron fence. People walk out of the entrance and wait outside of the gate., The beautiful portal of old St. John's, which still dignifies the block upon Race Street east of Sixth Street, quite justified the popular opinion of old residents that it was the finest in the city. St. John's was built in 1808 by the English-speaking element of the older Zion and St. Michael's Churches in which the German language was used. It is surrounded by the graves of many who worshipped here. Immediately in front of the doorway is a tomb wherein rest the bodies of Bohl Bohlen and his distinguished son, Gen. W. Henry C. Bohlen. The former coming from Germany became a prominent mercant of the city and the founder of the Philadelphia branch of the Bohlens. Gen. Henry Bohlen, as he preferred to be called, was the ideal soldier among his local compatriots. Having served in the Crimean and Mexican Wars, he became the logical colonel of the Seventy-fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Vols. in 1862, which was composed of German citizens. Soon after attaining the rank of Brig. General, he was kiled, on August 22nd, 1862, at Freeman's Ford, Va. His widow was a member of the Borie family. Their grandson, Dr. Gustave von Bohlen and Halbach, is the husband of Bertha Krupp, of Essen, Germany., Taylor Catalog Number: 159
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Old "Redemption" Now Removed
Description: Street view of a corner church and the adjacent row of houses. The congregation walks from the building and horse-drawn carriages wait outside., One of the most notable structures removed in the course of the Parkway operation was that of the Church of the Redemption (Protestant Episcopal). This building, located at the northwestern corner of Twenty-second and Callowhill streets, was erected for this congregation in 1847 and was, with its enlargements, occupied by them sixty-five years. The congregation removed in 1912 to Fifty-sixth and Market streets, merging the St. Anna's Mission, previously located there. Dating from 1845, when this church was founded, the rectors have been the Reverends George A. Durborow, John P. DuHanel, Thomas R. List and Albert E. Clay. Rev. Dr. List, who was a veteran soldier of the Civil War, became Rector Emeritus in 1912, after thrity-seven years of ministrations., Taylor Catalog Number: 63
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Epiphany Protestant Episcopal Church
Description: View of a neo-classical style church on the busy corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages populate the area., Built in 1834, this church continued to be a popular place of worship through more than sixty years. When established, upon the northwest corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets, it was environed by the substantial homes of prominent families, nearly all of which have long been displaced or converted to the uses of business. THe old church building was bought, in 1901, from the congregation by Mr. John Wanamaker, who eventually resold it. The larger portion is now covered by the lofty Pennsylvania Building., Taylor Catalog Number: 25
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: A Patriotic Shrine
Description: View of a large church on a cobblestone street corner, built in 1796., Zion Church, built by the second congregation of the German Lutherans in Philadelphia in the year 1766, was located at the southeastern corner of Fourth and Cherry Streets. The original structure was burned in 1794 and rebuilt, two years later, as shown in the drawing. It was considered to have been the largest and finest church in America. Like a number of other of the city churches, Zion was occupied in 1777-8, as a hospital, by the British Army. At the close of the Revolution, Congress met here in a service of thanksgiving for the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and, in the restored building, Congress again assembled to mourn the death of Washington. It was upon this occation that General Henry Lee gave the nation the immortal tribute to the father of his counry in the words, "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen!" Zion congregation removed to their new church on Franklin Street above Race Street in 1870., Taylor Catalog Number: 75
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: A Famous Church and Noted Tavern
Description: View of a large, neo-classical building and the adjacent small, brick tavern. Pedestrians on the sidewalk wear 18th century-style clothing., White Horse alley, now Bank street, at its conjunction with High street, was flanken, a century ago, by the Frist Presbyterian Church and the Indian King tavern. The former upon the east, a beautiful edifice, was built in 1795 upon the site of the old "Buttonwood Church." The congregation abandoned it in 1822 because of the encroachements of the market traffic, removing to Seventh and Locust streets. The tavern on the western side is much older. It was, in 1735, the meeting-place of the Grand Lodge, F. and A.M., of Pennsylvania, of which, at the time, Benjamin Franklin was the Grand Master. Here also met the brethren of St. John's Lodge, of which Franklin was a member, and who were active in the erection of Independence Hall., Taylor Catalog Number: 87
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Historic St. Paul's
Description: Depicts a large Episcopal Church on Third Street with a wrought iron gate and pedestrians in the front., It should be a matter of satisfaction to survivors of time-honored St. Paul's Church, which adorns Third Street opposite Willing's Alley, to know that it has been repaired as is to remain in use as the home of the Protestant Episcopal CIty Mission, which has been located in part of the building since 1904., Taylor Catalog Number: 354
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: St. Joseph's Historic Church
Description: Shows a Catholic church and attached school, featuring large panels of stained-glass windows., Known to few others than the devout old St. Joseph's Catholic Church is accessible only by way of Jesuits coming from Maryland. The present building dates from 1838. It is recorded that the dominant Quakers of the period were tolerant of these strangers, who, in time, also built St. Mary's Church upon Fourth Street. They also contributed to the building of St. Augustine's Church. A tablet set in the wall of St. Joseph's preserves the memory of Rev. Joseph Greaton. A school is connected with this institution., Taylor Catalog Number: 355
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: St. George's Methodist Church
Description: Depicts a large white building shaded by trees and identified as being the birthplace of Methodism., This venerated structure, upon Fourth Street above Race Street, narrowly escaped removal to make way for the approach of the Delaware River bridge. This is the birth place of Methodism, which dates from 1773. The first Missionary Society was organized here as well as the great Methodist Book Concern., Taylor Catalog Number: 316
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1921

Title: Oxford Trinity Church
Description: Depicts a church surrounded by a graveyard. Two people stand at the entrance., Once a remote outpost of the Protestant Episcopal Church, this "meeting house" of a congregation well beyond its second century remains devoted to its original service. It was built by Welsh settlers in Oxford Township "nine miles form Philadelphia," as a mission of the English CHurch. The present building replaced a former structure burned in 1762. The tower was built in 1839. Its field of graves holds the dust of very many of the once prominent people of the section., Taylor Catalog Number: 359
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: The Tabernacle, Broad and South Penn Square
Description: Depicts a Presbyterian church built in the style of a Classical temple., The congregation of the Seventh Presbyterian Church was organized in 1804 under the title of the Independent Tabernacle, having its place of worship in Ranstead Court, west of Fourth Street. For a short period, following 1816, it was identified with the reformed Dutch denomination. The Sixth Church was organized in 1814 in Independence Hall. The first-named church merged with the Sixth in 1819. The progressive element in this dual congregation built the much-admired Grecian temple here illustrated in 1842. It was usually known as the "Penn Square Church," and often as "Dr. McCook's Church." The Rev. Henry C. McCook was the last of a series of pastors who preached in the structure. He was installed in 1870. His final sermon here was delivered on June 30th, 1884. Soon afterward the building was removed and the Bets Building erected on the site. The congregation removed to its present location, at Thirty-seventh and Chestnut Streets, in October of that year., Taylor Catalog Number: 150
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Venerable Neighbors of Independence Hall
Description: View of the Philadelphia Library, Mercantile Library, and Philadelphia Dispensary near Independence Hall., The Philadelphia Library, the Mercantile Library, and Philadelphia Dispensary buildings formed a notable trio of dignified examples of the old-time architecture of the city. The first-named was removed to make room for the Drexel building about 1880. The others are still in situ. When the Library Company of Philadelphia was organized by Benjamin Franklin and some of his fellow bibliophiles in 1731, it was content with humble quarters but, at the age of fifty-nine years, it was able to erect the fine building here depicted. It became the custodian of the priceless Loganian Library. The system of loaning books without charge originated with this institution. The library is now located upon Locust Street east of Broad Street. The costly building and collection of rare books bequeathed by Dr. James Rush is administered as the Ridgway Branch. The Mercantile Library Company was founded in 1820. The building, in the centre of this group, was erected in 1845. The Library removed, in 1868, to the more spacious structure on Tenth Street below Market Street, which had been built some years before by the Franklin Market Company. The beneficent little Dispensary, built in 1801, still remains to minister freely to sick and injured applicants of the poor, the oldest and one of the most worthy charities of its kind in the United States., Taylor Catalog Number: 191
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Billy Wigglesworth's Toy Shop
Description: Depicts a corner shop with a sign displayed over the door that says, "Wigglesworth - Toys.", Here, along about the year 1790, was the home of Santa Claus. It stood at the northeast corner of Second and Chestnut Streets, a joy to the children, generations of them, from the near-by homes of our "first families" who lived in Front Street. The site is now covered by the modern building of the Corn Exchange National Bank. This drawing has been made from a contemporary sketch by an unidentified artist., Taylor Catalog Number: 356
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: "Matt" Baldwin's First Locomotive Shop
Description: View of a row of buildings on a cobblestone street, one of which has a bay where a horse-drawn carriage is parked., The above structure was occupied by Matthias W. Baldwin from 1831 to 1835. It stood upon the north side of Grand Lodge Alley (now Ranstead Street), west fo Seventh Street. Here Mr. Baldwin built five locomitives, beginning with "Old Ironsides," which was operated with success upon the Germantown and Norristown Railroad, starting from Ninth and Green Streets, on November 23, 1832. Mr. Baldwin began his business life as a jeweler, later he conducted a shop for engraving book-binders' dies. Early in 1831 he constructed a miniature locomotive for Mr. Franklin Peale, which was run upon a circular track in Peale's Philadelphia Museum, in the Arcade, on Chestnut Street, drawing cars with passengers. "Old Ironsides" was the fifth practical locomotive built in America and the first employed in regular service in Philadephia. The shop shown in this drawing had a frontage of 53 feet on Grand Lodge Alley and extended through to Market Street, with a frontage thereon of about 29 feet, at No. 714. In 1835 the requirements of the business induced Mr. Baldwin to remove to Broad and Hamilton Streets. His estate held the title to the old shop until 1907, when it was bought by William Steele & Sons Co., who have since erected a warehouse on the site., Taylor Catalog Number: 54
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Those Troublesome Old Toll Houses
Description: Shows sketches of five different toll houses from the Philadelphia area, labeled according to their location., These several typical toll-houses will be remembered by every cyclist of days gone by. They were survivals of a system of highways leading outward from the city which were extended and maintained by private corporations which provided the capital State of local authorities were unable to do. Some of these "stand and deliver" stations are still doing business (in 1918), but they are gradually disappearing after a long time of prosperity by reason of the purchase of the turnpike franchises with public money., Taylor Catalog Number: 144
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Some Second Street Stores
Description: Row of shops on a cobblestone street, displaying goods and advertisements., Second Street was once accounted "the longest business street in the world." Its retail shops, of which this group are typical examples, extended for miles above and below Market Street. Its modern traffic, however, is dependent largely upon the city's foreign elements which now people this crowded river-front quarter of the old city., Taylor Catalog Number: 322
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Herkness Bazaar
Description: View of a rotunda-shaped building, identified as the Herkness Bazaar, and adjacent buildings. A sign on the building beside the rotunda advertises the Walnut Street Theatre., The interesting structure upon Ninth Street, adjoining the Walnut Street Theatre, known for generations as the Herkness Bazaar, has been removed in the present year (1915). This building was erected prior to 1847 for the exhibition of a Cyclorama of Jerusalem. In that year it was bought by Alfred M. Herkness as a sales mart for horses and vehicles, and the business was continued by a surviving son until 1913. This bazaar is supposed by many persons to have been the old Baptist building, erected in 1812 and long popular as "Dr. Stoughton's church," which was also a rotunda in form. There is conclusive evidence, however, to show that the latter stucture was situated in the middle of the block, upon Sansom Street below Ninth Street., Taylor Catalog Number: 37
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Hammer and Anvil
Description: Depicts a low, square building covered in ivy. Early automobiles are parked in front of the structure., The rhythmic clink of hammer on anvil echos softly to the ears of the inmates abiding within the beneficent Presbyterian Hospital. The old building, now given over to the repair for wagons and hapless autos, is a quaint feature at a corner fo Thirty-ninth and Flibert Streets. Within the memory of neighbors it was a stable of the nearby hotel, but tradition asserts its orignial state as a real roadside smithy, at its best in the days when the tavern yards hereabout were filled at night with the wagons of the Chester County farmers laden with produce for the early morning markets., Taylor Catalog Number: 197
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1919

Title: Where Thomas Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of American Independence
Description: Large four-story building where businesses are housed. Identified as being the place where Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence., For many years local historians were at odds concerning the location of the house in which he maintained his lodging in 1776 and where he penned the immortal document which is the basis of our national freedom from foreign control. Nearly half a century after the signing of this Declaration by those assembled at Philadelphia upon behalf of the thirteen States then existent, Jefferson wrote from his home at Monticello stating that his rooms, in 1776, were in a house owned by a young married man named Graff. This property, at the southwest corner of High and Seventh streets, was purchased in the following year by Jacob Hiltzheimer, the diarist, who kept store here until his death, of yellow fever, in 1801. The building was then bought by Simon Gratz. An examination of the records cleared the doubt and, although the old structure housed many small industries in later times, it stood high among the historical assets of the city and nation. The drawing herewith was made from a photograph, taken in 1859, just prior to the removal of the market houses. The old relic was torn down in 1882, being replaced by the present modern building of the Penn National Bank, upon the front of which a bronze tablet is affixed, testifying to the historical connection of the site with the genesis of our National Independence., Taylor Catalog Number: 61
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: At Six O'Clock
Description: View of the Philadelphia skyline at night in 1916. City Hall is clearly visible to the left of the image., The heart of the city presents, on a winter evening, a wonderful picture of towering office buildings aglow with lights from a thousand windows. This sketch, made from the roof of the new Bell Telephone Building, suggests the power and ambitions fo the new Philadelphia, which has, within a few years, so shut in a dwarfed our once dominant City Hall., Taylor Catalog Number: 52
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1916

Title: Two Historic Chestnut Street Houses and the Brown Building
Description: Shows a row of buildings on the corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets with stores of various types on the first floor., A pair of fine old Colonial structures stood for the greater part of a century at Fifth and Chestnut streets. One of them, upon the northeast corner, held for a number of years, prior to 1800, the offices of the Secretary of War and of the Postmaster-General. In the house adjoining, upon the east, Joseph Hopkinson, who wrote the inspiring words of "Hail, Columbia!" had his law office. In later times the stores of Frederick Brown, druggist, and Pepper & Son, jewelers, were upon the street floor of the corner house, and the adjoining structure had become the Rubicam saloon (originally upon Sixth street, near Jayne street). This establishment was afterward locally noted as the Cafe Tortoni. In 1854 Mr. Brown covered these sites with his large five-story iron building, the upper floors of which contained the publishing business of Evans' Gift Emporium and suites of offices for many tennants. Two properties now covered by the Lafayette Building, were acquired by Stephen Girard in 1827 and 1828. They were situated on Fifth street, above Chestnut street, and were purchased from Joseph Hopkinson and Thomas Fletcher. In 1872 the city of Philadelphia, as Trustee of the Girard Estate, acquired from Mrs. Elzabeth Blake the Fifth street building, formerly containing Blake's music store. The Frederick Brown building was bought by the city upon account of the Girard Estate in 1903. The Lafayette Building was erected in 1907, when the Board of City Trusts established its offices here., Taylor Catalog Number: 82
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: A Bit of Old Philadelphia at Seventh and Filbert Streets
Description: Depicts a busy street corner with residences and businesses. The corner store displays a sign that reads, "Frank Melers' Grocery Store.", This quaint huddle of long-ago homes, now marked for removal, is yet existent (in 1916) at the Southwest corner of Seventh and Filbert Streets (which many school children of the sixties recall as Zane Street). Research has failed to discover anything beyond the fact that they were built when this neighborhood was a popular home section of the city. Hidden away behind them one who cares for such survivals may find a still older house which, doubtless, stood there, in its garden. When this was "out of town" and before the United States government bought across the street its first holding of real estate and built upon it the first national mint., Taylor Catalog Number: 56
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1916

Title: The Yellow Mansion
Description: Aerial view of a mansion featuring columns in the front and a large garden behind it. Pedestrians stand outside on the sidewalk near a busy, tree-lined intersection., Taylor Catalog Number:
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Roberts Mansion
Description: Depicts a three-story home on the corner of Walnut and Nineteenth Streets. It is identified as being built by Dr. Philip Syng Physick and later owned by Algernon Sidney Roberts., The fine old homestead at the northwest corner of Walnut and Nineteenth Streets was built, some eighty years ago, by Dr. Philip Syng Physick, of distinguished memory, whose descendants inter-married with several of our most exclusive families. The property was bought in 1864 by Algernon Sidney Roberts, whose daughters occupied it until recent years. At the date of this sketch (in 1918), the house has been loaned as headquarters of the French War Relief Committee in Pennsylvania, in charge of a group of patriotic ladies., Taylor Catalog Number: 155
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1918

Title: The Morris Residence
Description: View of a Georgian-style home on a snowy day., Taylor Catalog Number: 10
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1914

Title: The Jayne Residence
Description: Depicts a four-story upscale residence on the corner of Eleventh and Chestnut Streets, identified as having been owned by David Jayne., Notable among the many once admired and spacious mansions, in a section once exclusively residential, is this building, long the home of David Jayne, at the South East corner of Nineteenth and Chestnut Streets, which was, in 1922, removed to make was for a highly illuminated "movie" palace., Taylor Catalog Number: 289
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: A Noted Home of the Wistars
Description: Depicts the northeast corner of Third and Market Streets where a market is being held. The building on the corner is identified as being the former residence of Richard Wistar., This sketch, drawn in 1924 from a somewhat older photograph, portrays the greatly changed mansion at the northeast corner of Third and Market Streets. It was built, in 1795, by Richard Wistar, a brother of Dr. Casper Wistar, whose home yet remains in South Fourth Street. Richard Wistar was a merchant in iron. Having prospered he became a liberal supporter of the Philadelphia Library and other worthy undertakings. At one time, in 1814, Dr. Micheal Leib conducted the post office in the Wistar residence here., Taylor Catalog Number: 346
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Home of John Fries, Merchant
Description: View of the former residence of John Fries on the southwest corner of Third and Market Streets. It is depicted as a commercial building featuring signs and an awning., This venerable structure, which yet stands, in 1924, at the southwest corner of Third and Market Streets, after many changes, was built before 1790. It was the home of John Fries. It covers the site of the city's second prison, of tragic repute, which was erected there in 1732, the location being then at the western limit of the town. Prisoners of war were confined there by the British authorities during the War of the Revolution. Adjoining, upon the west, was the city residence of John Bartram, the noted botanist., Taylor Catalog Number: 347
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Cope Residence, Lancaster, Pa.
Description: Depicts a two-story brick home in Lancaster, Pa. identified as having been owned by a Quaker family during the Revolutionary War., This typical Colonial homestead, which remained a notable local feature of Lancaster until June, 1904, was the house of Caleb Cope, a member of the Society of Friends, and prior to the Revolution a Burgess of the town. In the fall of 1775 a number of British officers who had been captured by the Americans in the Canadian operations were sent to Lancaster and placed on parole. Among them was Captain John Andre, then twenty-four years old. Having difficulty in securing lodgings, young Andre was invited by Caleb Cope to his home, despite the prejudice of the townspeople. Like a large proportion of the Quakers, the Copes were passively loyalists. Andre and another officer abode here some months, being then removed to Carlisle. Andre, talented and agreeable, gained many friends. He employed his leisure in instructing young Thomas P. Cope in drawing. Two bricks from the wall of the house have been preserved which bear the initals of Andre and his boy associate. After his exchange Andre became Adjutant General of the British force. His death, by execution as a spy, at Tappan on the Hudson, is a tragic memory. The Cope Homestead was bought in 1851 by the Hon. A. Herr Smith, and his daughter, Eliza D. Smith, resided there up to the time of its demolition., Taylor Catalog Number: 125
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Woodlands and Bartram's Mansion
Description: Contains two panels of country mansions. The top panel depicts a home with a neo-classical porch, identified as having been owned by Andrew Hamilton. The bottom panel depicts a home covered in ivy and surrounded by trees and identifired as having been built by John and Mary Bartram., There was a time when the unpolluted tide-water Schuylkill River was bordered by fine country seats and the embowered road leading from the town down the George Gray's ferry was a populat drive. The two well-preserved examples of COlonial homes here shown are the Woodlands and Bartram's Mansion. The first-named was established by Andrew Hamilton, an eminent jurist, in 1735, devised to his son, Andrew, designer of the State House, in 1741, and then passed to a grandson, William, in 1747. The latter erected the existing mansion about the time of the Revolution. The property covered 356 acres. It was devoted to cemetery purposes in 1835. Bartram's Mansion and garden are now city property. The interesting stone house was built by John and Mary Bartram in 1731, and, in time, the botanist and his rare garden became famous. The children of the worthy couple maintained the garden beyond a century. It then became the property of Andrew Eastwick, whose large residence formerly stood nearby. The Bartram Association of Descendants meet, here, annually., Taylor Catalog Number: 99
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: A Noted Spruce Street Residence
Description: Shows a large four-story townhome with an elaborate entrance. The sign above the door reads, "American Catholic Historical Society," and a woman sweeps the sidewalk in front of the building., The substantial house numbered 715, on Spruce Street, is a fine example of typical design in the old Quaker City. It was built in 1821 by Whitton Evens, a merchant trading with the West Indies. Having met with reverses, Mr. Evans died seven years later and the house became the home of Nicholas Biddle, then President of the Second Bank of the United Staets, who resided here until 1839. The property was purchased in 1853 by Dr. James Kitchen, who died here in 1894 at the age of 95 years. He was said to have been the oldest practitioner in the United States. Since 1895 the building has been occupied by the American Catholic Historical Society., Taylor Catalog Number: 109
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1917

Title: Farm house, Fifty-first Street and Springfield Avenue
Description: Depicts a farmhouse and barn with cows and people on the property. It is labled as, "The Jones Homestead, 51st St. west of Springfield Ave.," on the bottom right of the image., Taylor Catalog Number: 182
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1896

Title: Mount Pleasant, East Fairmount Park
Description: Depicts a large, elaborate home and two outbuildings, as well as people and early automobiles. The house had been owned by Cpt. John McPherson, Benedict Arnold, Baron von Steuben, and Gen. Jonathan Williams., Mount Pleasant Mansion in East Fiarmount Park was built by Captain John McPherson prior to the Revolution, with prize money gained in privateering during the French and English War. John Adams is said to have pronounced this the finest country seat in Pennsylvania. Its chief historic interest rests in its purchase by Benedict Arnold, military governor of Pennsylvania, upon his marriage with the beautiful Miss Shippen. It was here that the couple sojourned in brief happiness prior to the act of Arnold's treason. After the Revolution the Baron von Steuben lived here for a time. The property was purchased in 1796 by General Jonathan Williams, a member of Congress and the first commandant of West Point Military Academy. It was acquired by the city in 1867, when Fairmount Park was extended to include this suburban section., Taylor Catalog Number: 154
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

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