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Title: [Detail from circular of views of the interior of a concert hall and saloon, probably F. & L. Ladner's Military Hall, 528-532 North Third St. Philadelphia]
Description: Clipped out detail of two views showing several male patrons gathered at tables in the central hall with a baby grand piano in the rear, and a side room decorated with a fountain adorned with a sculpture and fence. Most of the men look toward the viewer as they sit with their drinks, read newspapers, or are attended by waiters with trays of refreshments. One man has his hat and coat lying on his table. Other decorations include hanging plants, caged trees, lamps, and molding. The saloon and concert hall built 1857, was operated by the Ladners 1857-1881., Not in Wainwright., Artist's initials in lower right corner of one of the views., Attributed to Stein & Jones., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 180, See related advertisement print **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.9008]
Creator: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153j]

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

Title: [Dickson & Co.] Watches, fine cutlery, jewellery
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story storefront for "Dickson and Co. Importers of Watches Clocks Jewellery & Plated Ware" at 14 North Fifth Street (between Market and Arch streets). Signage adorns the building, including over a side doorway. Building also contains large display windows where merchandise is visible, particularly plated ware and tea kettles. Merchandise is also visible on shelves, inside of the store, near an open doorway. In the street, a horse-drawn dray passes near crates piled at the street corner. Dickson & Co. was renamed from Dickson & Harper in 1840 and the import business operated from 5th and Commerce under the new name until 1841., Poulson inscription on recto: No. 14 n. Fifth Street. N.W. cor. of "Commerce" St. late "South Alley.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 182, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W95 [P.2035]

Title: Diploma awarded by the Farmers & Mechanics Institute of Northampton County Pa. [blank] annual fair at Easton, [blank]. [Blank], Secy. [Blank] Prest
Description: Fair certificate containing an ornate border with seven vignettes related to agriculture and horticulture. Vignettes show a small herd of sheep; an iron worker with his assistant at a forge (resembling John Neagle's "Pat Lyon at his Forge"); a group of cattle; the Easton fairgrounds in front of a municipal building; a pair of horses; a locomotive travelling across a bridge away from a complex of manufactories; and a gathering of barn animals. Animals include a pig, chickens, ducks, geese, and a turkey. Border also includes farm produce such as squashes, cherries, grape vines, herbs, and plants in addition to agricultural and farm implements, including a butter churn, rake, hoe, basket, pitcher, pail, sickle, shovel, and an ax. Also contains a vignette showing the coat of arms of Pennsylvania including the banner "Virtue, Liberty and Independence." The Farmers & Mechanics Institute of Northampton County Pa. formed in 1855 to create a committee to buy land in Easton suitable for fair grounds following the Northampton County Agricultural Society choosing neighboring Nazareth for its permanent fair grounds., Not in Wainwright., Completed in manuscript on September 26, 1856 to Leonard Frankenfield, Bethlehem Twp., Penna. for Best Horse Raker. Signed Geo. W. Yates, Secy. and Sam Yohe, Prest., Caption: From a photograph by Reuben Knecht, Easton, Pa., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 296, Pasted on foam core.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia Certificates - Agriculture [P.2019.24.3]

Title: Diploma of the Montgomery County Agricultural Society of the state of Pennsylvania [certificate]
Description: Diploma containing an ornate architectural border with graphic elements related to agriculture surmounted by a vignette of two horses near a stream. Foliage, filigree, wheatsheafs, scythes and rakes, adorn the border and flank the society's seal at the bottom. Two rural scenes flank the upper image of horses, including a view of two men loading hay onto a horse-drawn wagon (left), and a country homestead (right)., Not in Wainwright., Awarded to Christian Meeh for his display of cakes, etc. at their annual exhibition held October 6th & 7th. Signed J. Henry Owen, Rec'd Secretary, and G. Blight Browne, President in Springtown on Oct. 7th 1852., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 55, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Dreser, William, b. ca. 1820, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Agriculture [P.9909]

Title: The dishonest boy To take and keep what we know belongs to another without their consent is to steal. The lady dropped her handkerchief and an honest boy would have picked it up, not to keep it, but to return it to the owner
Description: Plate from a children's moral instruction book showing a young boy standing on a street corner near the storefront of a tailor. He hides a hankerchief behind his back. Behind the boy, the woman who dropped the hankerchief searches the ground for the item with help from a young girl. Two girls stand opposite the young thief and point their fingers in an accusatory manner., Not in Wainwright., Imprint unsigned., Date assigned by cataloger., Issued as plate in Picture lessons, illustrating moral truth. For the use of infant-schools, nurseries, Sunday-schools & family circles (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, between 1847 and 1853)., Originally accompanied by text titled "Honest boys make honest men" moralizing that obedience is learned at a young age, and that "wicked men" begin their lying and thievery in boyhood, "led astray by falling into the company of young thieves"., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 57, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Unsigned.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Morality [7822.F.6]

Title: [Donnelly's steam patent match manufactory, Linden Street near the Stone Bridge, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the manufactory of John Donnelly below Front Street near the Delaware River. Signage covers the three-story building that contains several windows. Male and female workers are visible at many. Workers also hoist a crate from a horse-drawn cart parked along the building, load a horse-drawn wagon, and enter the factory. Also shows two men in a rowboat gliding past and partial views of surrounding buildings. The Donnelly factory operated from the address in 1847., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 186, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W97 [P.2031]

Title: Dr. George Stuart's botanical syrup and vegetable pills, the greatest family medicine in the world Laboratory no. 254, Race St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing an exterior view of the three-and-one-half story storefront on the 700 block of Race Street bordered by paragraphs of advertising text, including notice of prices that ranged from 25 cents to one dollar per box or bottle. Signage above the large central showcase window lists several diseases and ailments cured by "Dr. G. Stuart's Syrup and Vegetable Pills." Infirmities include consumption, dysentery, chills and fevers, piles, colds, coughs, bronchitis, "tumours," "erysipelas," neuralgia, and "general and nervous debility &c. &c." Shadowy views of branches, leaves, and decanters are visible in the window. Several male character types, of different ages, class, and ethnicity, holding banners inscribed with testimonials, gather around laborers loading a "Botanical [Syr]up" crate onto a horse-drawn wagon in front of the store. Figures include a dandy, Quaker, father and son, and a Native American, many of whom also hold bottles. The testimonials cite the customer's supplying of certificates of cure and their attesting to Dr. Stuart's syrup and pills as cures for cancer, dyspepsia, scrofula, and colds. Paragraphs of advertising text promote "Vegetable Pills, composed entirely of herbs" that were "intended to operate....on the whole system"; "Rheumatic Liniment," which has been used by the medical Faculty in cases of small pox..."; "Vermifuge for Worms, made with particular reference to children"; "Botanical Syrup composed entirely of herb & free minerals," that "in no instance ever failed to do what it was intended to accomplish"; and "Pile & Cancer Salve" that are the "best remedies that were ever in use..." Advertisement also includes two large-scale details showing bottles inscribed with product advertisements for "Dr. Stuart's Rheumatic Liniment," "Cancer salve," "Salve Sure Cure for Piles Price $1 per Box," "Botanical Syrup" and "Dr. Stuart's Vegetable Pills.", Paragraphs of advertising text promote "Vegetable Pills, composed entirely of herbs" that were "intended to operate....on the whole system"; "Rheumatic Liniment," which has been used by the medical Faculty in cases of small pox..."; "Vermifuge for Worms, made with particular reference to children"; "Botanical Syrup composed entirely of herb & free minerals," that "in no instance ever failed to do what it was intended to accomplish"; and "Pile & Cancer Salve" that are the "best remedies that were ever in use..." Advertisement also includes two large-scale details showing bottles inscribed with product advertisements for "Dr. Stuart's Rheumatic Liniment," "Cancer salve," "Salve Sure Cure for Piles Price $1 per Box," "Botanical Syrup" and "Dr. Stuart's Vegetable Pills.", Date from Poulson inscription on recto., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 187, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [April 1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W98 [P.2147]

Title: Dr. Hoofland's celebrated German bitters and balsamic cordial. Prepared by Dr. C. M. Jackson, 418 Arch St., Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement containing a decorative border surrounding an exterior view of the patent medicine shop operated by C. M. Jackson. The four-story building, adjacent a walled courtyard, contains an "1855" date marker; lettering on the roof spelling "C.M. Jackson;" and advertising text on the side of the building reading "Dr. Hoofland's German Bitters and Balsamic Cordial." Pedestrians walk and converse on the sidewalk and a horse-drawn carriage passes in the street. Arch shaped border contains filigree, architectural elements, bust sculptures, and advertising text. Text reads "German Bitters For The Cure Of Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia & c." and "Balsamic Cordial For The Cure Of Coughs Colds & c." Jackson began marketing the bitters, named after the German physician Christoph Wilhem Hoofland (Hufeland), in the United States about 1848. Jackson operated from 418 Arch Street 1858-1859., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Jany 1859, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 188, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [January 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W99 [P.2144]

Title: Drawbridge & Blue Anchor Inn
Description: Book illustration showing the Blue Anchor Tavern built circa 1682 and purchased by Thomas Budd in 1690 at the northwest corner of Front Street and Dock Creek (i.e., Dock Street). To the right of the image, the drawbridge over the creek is visible. Individuals walk along the banks of the waterway on which rowboats, one manned, are visible. Also shows neighboring buildings, including Budd's Long Row to which the tavern, painted with an anchor, is attached. The creek was covered 1767-1784 and the tavern was demolished in 1828., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 283., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 189, Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hotels [9245.Q.25]

Title: The dreadful accident on the North Pennsylvania Rail-road About 14 miles above Philadelphia, on Thursday, July 17, 1856 at about 6 A.M. which resulted in the death of over sixty, and terribly wounding about one hundred persons, excursionists of St. Michael's R.C. Church, Kensington. The collision took place at Camp Hill Station, destroying both locomotives and burning up several cars, in which a number of people were consumed
Description: Chaotic disaster scene showing the "Picnic Train Tragedy", the worst rail disaster at that time. Shows the burning wreck near Ambler, Pa. from the collision of North Pennsylvania excursion trains "Shakamoxon," departed from the Cohocksink depot, and "Aramingo" departed from the Wissahickon station. Burning tangled engines and train cars pile up on the single track line in the middle of farmland. People are propelled and jump from the burning railcars. In the foreground, bodies lay within the wreckage as rescuers rush in buckets of water. Others attempt to catch individuals jumping from a burning train car in the rear, carry children's bodies on a gurney, and comfort the grieving. In the lower left, a man wipes his face with a handkerchief as he stands over a legless body on a mattress. Nearby another man holds a body in his arms. Also contains the names of "The Killed" and "The Wounded" printed below the image as well as notice that "Many of the wounded are in a very precarious condition, and the death of several is hourly looked for." One train carried hundreds of children from St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church Sunday School in Philadelphia. The crash occurred due to an attempt by the "Shakamoxon" engineer to make up time for its late departure. It collided with the regularly scheduled Aramingo, before arriving at a siding pass. The boilers of the trains collided and caused an explosion that decimated the front cars, but left the rear cars intact. Around 60 persons died and 100 were injured from the crash., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 191, Duplicate of 7663.Fa., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Magee, John L.
Date: c1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Disasters [P.8970.8]

Title: Dreer's garden calendar 1899 ; Dreer's seeds, plants, bulbs, etc. [cover proof] Henry A. Dreer 714 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Description: Proof of the illustrated front and back covers of the seed trade catalogue. Depicts the flowering plants "Dreer's Superb Nasturtiums" and "Montbretias" (i.e., red crocus). Also contains the company trademark adorned with a four-leaf clover labeled "Dreer's Fresh & Reliable Seeds." Dreer established the business in 1838. The firm was incorporated 1892 under his son, William F. Dreer, who assumed the business operations following his father's death in 1873., Contains register marks., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 60, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements - Dreer [P.2006.28.8]

Title: Dunlaps'[sic] Phoenix Coach Works, corner of Fifth & Buttonwood Streets, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the industrial complex for the "Phoenix Coach Works" on the 400 block of Buttonwood Street. Complex includes a four-story main building, adorned with street signs, connected to additions and the "General Coach Furnishing Store." Several smokestacks and a tower decorated with the model of a carriage adorn the roof. Signage reading "Phoenix Coach Works" adorns one of the additions, which contains a rooftop crossover to the main building in addition to an entry, adorned with the figures of lions, to a courtyard. A man drives a horse-drawn carriage through the entryway, as above, carriages are displayed on the crossover. Four unhitched carriages, including an ornately decorated one, line the street in front of the main building as a single-seat carriage and a fancy coach with driver and passenger travel in the street. On the sidewalk, a woman, holding a parasol, promenades with a child; a man accompanied by a dog strolls; and two boys pull and push a wheelbarrow. Neighboring buildings (adjacent and rear), including a drugstore, are visible in the left of the image. The shop is adorned with signage "Drugs [sic] & Medecines Wholesale & Retail," an American flag, and a display window lined with jars, bottles, and canisters. Also shows a woman exiting one of the rear neighboring buildings. Circa 1845, Dunlap began operating from the factory which was later used as a hospital, prison, and barracks during the Civil War., Inscribed on recto: Wood Oct 10 56., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1850., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 192, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W100 [P.2084]

Title: E. Ketterlinus' lithographic and letter press printing house cor. of Arch & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia Bill heads, cards, circulars, &c. lithographed at nearly the same cost as letter press in a superior style. Illuminated show cards in great variety
Description: Tradecard, probably issued during the Civil War, containing an exterior view of the lithographic establishment of Ketterlinus at the northwest corner of Fourth and Arch streets. Other pictorial details include an American flag flying from a flag pole beside the building, a banner, and scrolls., Not in Wainwright., Variant reproduced in Jay Last's The color explosion: Nineteenth century American lithography (Santa Ana, Ca.: Hillcrest Press, 2005), p. 108., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 21, Ketterlinus established his own firm in 1842 and relocated to Fourth and Arch streets in 1856.
Creator: Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.142f]

Title: E. Ketterlinus steam power letter press and lithographic printer, Arch and Fourth street, Philadelphia
Description: City directory advertisement containing gilt shading and a patriotic vignette for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Vignette depicts a female figure, Columbia, attired in a breast plate, crown, and cape leaning over a globe and standing on a block of stone. She holds a map which reads "North America," and an American flag, over the globe. In the background, locomotives travel over the landscape that also includes a railroad bridge spanning a river. Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 23/24, Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son Manufacturers of Solid Silverware and Importers of Plate Ware s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia" on verso.
Creator: Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date: [1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1870 (75) 16994.0.854b

Title: E. Ketterlinus, steam power letter-press and lithographic printing house, n.w. cor. Arch & 4th sts. Philadelphia Gilt, embossed and illuminated labels, for manufacturers, liquor dealers and perfumers. Show cards, filled up & blank for the trade. Ball tickets, programmes, &c. Banks furnished with lithographed check with government stamps
Description: City directory advertisement printed with gilt lettering for the studio established by Eugene Ketterlinus in 1842. Also contains an ornamental border around the text. Ketterlinus was one of the earliest Philadelphia lithographers to produce stock cards, and embossed and colored mercantile labels. The firm remained in business until the 1970s., Not in Wainwright., Published in Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1870... (Philadelphia: Published by James Gopsill, 1870), opp. p. 854 (verso)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 23, Advertisement for "Wm. Wilson & Son s.w. cor. 5th & Cherry Sts. Philadelphia,...." on verso.
Creator: Ketterlinus, Eugene, d. 1886
Date: [1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1870 (82) 10840.O.854b

Title: E. White's res. at Bustleton 23d ward Phila. Dealer in coal, lumber, &c
Description: Atlas illustration showing the three-story house with roofed porch in Northeast Philadelphia of the businessman. A fence surrounds the property that neighbors a residence with attached barn. A woman stands on the porch and a man walks on the lawn. A couple in a horse-drawn carriage passes in the street., Published in the Combination atlas map of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Compiled, drawn and published from personal examinations and surveys (Philadelphia: J. D. Scott, 1876), p. 59., Not in Wainwright., Label pasted on verso: (Bucks county [sic], Pa.) Published by James D. Scott Philadelphia, Pa., 1876, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 195
Creator: Scott, J.D
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Residences [P.9207]

Title: Eagle Hotel, No. 139 North 3rd. Street Philadelphia Allmond & Stem. Proprietors
Description: Advertisement showing the multi-storied hotel at 139, i.e., 227-229 North Third Street. Guests sit, stand, and converse on the second floor balcony protected by an awning printed with the names of the owners. Others stand under the balcony and near the "Private Entrance" to which a lady approaches. Dogs walk near an omnibus parked in front of the hotel. Also shows the adjacent businesses of Worman & Ely, merchants, and Eckel & Robinson, "Brooms, Cedar & Willow Ware" (137 North Third Street). Merchandise, including a hobby horse, brooms, pram, basin, and baskets, lines the sidewalk and is visible in the windows and doorways of Eckel & Robinson. Two men also converse near one of that store's entrances. The hotel's post-consolidation address became 227 North Third Street in 1857., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 196, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W102 [P.2040]

Title: The early settlement & progress of Philadelphia & Pennsylvania Philadelphia T. Holden Chesnut St. 1833
Description: Small vignette on the added title page depicting the site of the Treaty Tree, the legendary location of William Penn's treaty with the Delaware Indians in 1682. Shows boats and figures near the river. The Treaty Tree or Great Elm Tree blew down in 1810., Added title page in John F. Watson's Historic tales of olden time : concerning the early settlement and progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania ; for the use of families and schools ; illustrated with plates (Philadelphia : E. Littell : Thomas Holden, 1833)., William L. Breton and Kennedy & Lucas created many of the lithographic plates for Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, so it is probable that they also created the plates in Historic tales of olden time., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 197
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Am 1833 Wat [Log 2794.D.title page]

Title: East view of Philadelphia, Pennsylva. and part of Camden, New Jersey
Description: Bird's eye view looking from Camden toward the east side of the city. Tree-lined blocks of residential and commercial buildings in Camden predominate the foreground. The tower of the Philadelphia-Camden Ferry House and light traffic on Market Street comprises the townscape as well. Several types of vessels, including ferries, steamboats, and sailing ships traverse the Delaware River. In the distance, the cityscape of Philadelphia between Port Richmond and Southwark to West Philadelphia is visible. Includes Fairmount, Girard College, the Navy Yard, Blockley Almshouse, and the steeple of Christ Church. View also shows Smith and Windmill islands, and several ships docked along the piers lining the Delaware riverfront., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 200, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc864 K81.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: c1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W104 [P.2083]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2206 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.4 [P.2206]

Title: Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. Near Philadelphia
Description: View looking past farmland showing the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two boys sit in a fenced pasture in which cows graze near sheds and an enclosed pond. Ducks swim on the pond. In the background, a farm is visible in front of the prison at which a carriage is parked and a man rides on horseback., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 202, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 26 L 528.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: c1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W106 [P.2042]

Title: Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsylvania. Near Philadelphia
Description: View looking past farmland showing the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two boys sit in a fenced pasture in which cows graze near sheds and an enclosed pond. Ducks swim on the pond. In the background, a farm is visible in front of the prison at which a carriage is parked and a man rides on horseback., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 202, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb26 L528., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 19:22
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: c1833
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W106 [P.2041]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier. Loose print lacking copyright statement., Issued as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume containing twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2204 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.1 [P.2204]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch. Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume containing twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2205 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.2 [P.2205]

Title: The Eastern Penitentiary. Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view from the south east showing the front facade, including the entrance gate, of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue.In the foreground, two children watch a man, seated across from a small farm located in front of the prison, sketch.Cows graze in the pasture., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 6 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 201.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W373.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: E.C. Stotsenburg's iron, brass & bell foundry, Wilmington, Delaware, Front & Washington Streets Manufacturer of all kinds of spur & bevel wheel gearing for rolling, grist & saw mills, steam engines &c." Shafting, pullies of all sized, steam pipes for warming factories &c. Water wheel shafts of any length cast on end. Rail road car wheels made to order
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the busy foundry in a trompe l'oeil frame. Shows a gentleman, possibly the proprietor, leaving the door of the office connected to the large workshop in which laborers toil on machine parts. A boy carrying a small part walks toward the gentleman. He passes two men talking at the corner of the small office building near the side of the workshop lined by factory debris. On the sidewalk, laborers finish a large gear propped up on a platform. The men are surrounded by machine parts that lie on the ground and line the outside of another factory building. Nearby, two workers with crowbars and a piece of cylinder await a horse-drawn cart being backed up to the curb by a driver. Also shows a driver leading a horse and ox-drawn wagon hauling a large steam pipe in the street, a locomotive passing between the rear of the factory and fenced pastureland, and a steamboat docked near a hoist on the riverbank in the background. Stotsenburg established his own foundry in 1849 after leaving the partnerhip of Betts & Stotsenburg that began in 1837., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 61
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.8970.18]

Title: Edward Banister carpet warehouse. Stephen Foulk's cheap carpet & floor oil cloth warehouse. Carpetings
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story storefront of the carpet warehouse, covered in signage, at 269 Market, i.e., Seventh and Market streets. Patrons enter the doorways past rolled carpets on display. In front of the store, more rolled carpets rest on crates, a boy leans on a street lamp at the corner, and a partially visible horse-drawn wagon is parked. Pedestrians walk on Seventh Street past the side of the store and under awnings printed with illegible text. Also includes a dog and partial views of the adjacent business and a horse-drawn carriage traveling in the street. Banister operated from 269 Market Street 1845-1852., Date from Poulson inscription lower left corner: April 1847., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., "Edward Banister" signage text depicted in image inked with pen on print., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 203, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [April 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W107 [P.2043]

Title: Edward L. Waller, lithographic printer. Portraits, landscapes, buildings, animals, charts, maps. Circulars, bill heads, music titles, checks, cards, labels, transfers from copper or steel, lithographed in a superior manner, no. 17 Minor Street, third story, Philadelphia
Description: Directory advertisement containing lettering in various styles. Waller operated a studio in Philadelphia 1856-1858., Published in The Philadelphia merchants' & manufacturers' business directory for 1856-57 (Philadelphia: Prepared & published by Griswold & Co., [1856]), p. [6], back ad section., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 25
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Dir Phila 1856 10578.Q.6 (back ad section)

Title: [The Eighth Beatitude]
Description: Calligraphic text of the beatitude, which reads "Blessed Are They Which Are Persecuted For Righteousness Sake: For Theirs Is The Kingdom Of Heaven.", Title supplied by cataloguer., Printed in upper right corner: Plate 8., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 64
Creator: Probst, John, b. ca. 1805, lithographer
Date: [ca. 1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Religion [P.2004.13.3]

Title: Elevation plan of Granite St. buildings and those connecting with Walnut, Dock and Front Streets
Description: Depicts three rows of elevations showing the basic architectural stylings of the twenty-three distinct Granite Street properties constructed by John Rice for Jesse Godley between 1849 and 1853. The first two rows show the front elevations of the north and south sides of Granite Street extending from Front to Dock Streets (100-127 Granite Street). The third row shows the east and west side elevations of Granite Street, including the underground storage vaults below the street and the front elevations of properties facing Front, Dock and Walnut Streets (200 block of South Front Street; 137-143 Dock Street; 100 block of Walnut Street). The plans include pre-consolidation property numbers; notes about properties that extend, and are accessible, from both Granite Street and Front, Walnut and Dock Streets; and pedestrian traffic, including laborers rolling barrels on the sidewalk, horse-drawn carts, and men and women walking on the sidewalks. Godley financed the "Granite Street Improvements" in anticipation of an increase in trade that the Central Railroad would bring to the area. Builders include John Rice, stone masons Lukens & Hutchinson, brick workers George R. Creely, and granite workers S.K. Hoxie, John C. Leiper, and William Keys. The innovative granite-covered storage vaults, twenty-four feet wide by three-hundred twenty-five feet long, were built under the street with a brick-arch arcade and for the joint use of tenants. The properties and vault were demolished in 1960., Scale: 1/8 of an inch to the foot., Accompanied by the "Ground plan of Granite St. buildings, with the vault underneath the street" [P.8970.20]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 204, Construction described in North American, December 12, 1850., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***W108 [P.2065]

Title: The Emmanuel Episcopal Church. [Marlboro' Str. Kensington, Phila.]
Description: Interior view of the Episcopal church, consecrated in 1838, on Marlborough Street above Girard Avenue in Kensington. Shows Rev. J. Gordon Maxwell, at the pulpit, giving a sermon to a full congregation. Includes congregants turned to each other and a female congregant turned toward two men conversing a few pews over. Simple chandeliers hang from the ceiling near Gothic-style windows., Manuscript note on recto: J. Gordon Maxwell in the pulpit., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 206, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 132 E 549., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reaccessioned as P.2207.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W374 [P.2207]

Title: The Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Marlboro' Str. Kensington, Phila
Description: Interior view of the Episcopal church, consecrated in 1838, on Marlborough Street above Girard Avenue in Kensington. Shows Rev. J. Gordon Maxwell, at the pulpit, giving a sermon to a full congregation. Includes congregants turned to each other and a female congregant turned toward two men conversing a few pews over. Simple chandeliers hang from the ceiling near Gothic-style windows., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 206, Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 132 E 549., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reaccessioned as P.2208.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W374 [P.2208]

Title: Emmanuel Episcopal Mission Church. Marlboro Street Kn. Published to assist in liquidating the debt upon the church, by the wardens
Description: Exterior view of the Episcopal church, consecrated in 1838, on Marlborough Street above Girard Avenue in Kensington. Shows pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk and a woman and child entering the side entrance of the church., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 207, See 374 for interior view., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Accession number amended by cataloger., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc132 E54., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W110 [Log 1322.F.a]

Title: Emmanuel Episcopal Mission Church. Marlboro Street Kn. Published to assist in liquidating the debt upon the church, by the wardens
Description: Exterior view of the Episcopal church, consecrated in 1838, on Marlborough Street above Girard Avenue in Kensington. Shows pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk and a woman and child entering the side entrance of the church., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 207, See 374 for interior view., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Accession number amended by cataloger., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc132 E54., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), lithographer
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W110 [Log 1322.F.a]

Title: Engel & Wolf's brewery & vaults at Fountain Green. Office No. 26 & 28 Dillwyn St. between Vine & Callowhill & Third & Fourth Sts. Philadelphia Including five large vaults containing 50,352 cubic feet cut out of the solid rock and about 45 feet below ground, where they keep their well known lager beer. Temperature of the vaults in midsummer 40 degrees of Fahrenheit. They are situated on the Columbia Rail Road, about one mile above the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia Co
Description: Advertisement showing the facility at Fountain Green (Fairmount Park) for the brewery established in 1844 by Charles Engel & Charles Wolf. Includes the wash house and entrance to the vault on the lowest level of the hill, the office (middle level), fermenting and brewing building, and storage house with fermenting cellar (upper level). Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels exit from different level entries to the buildings and a laborer working on a barrel toils within the brewery. Two gentlemen stand on the porch to the office and a woman with children uses the property for recreation. In the foreground, a Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad locomotive pulls a train car full of passengers, a double-decker horse-drawn omnibus travels, men ride on horseback, and individuals (woman with child and two men) stroll and descend the river embankment to greet a man arriving by rowboat. A weather vane designed as a beer barrel adorns the storage house. Engel & Wolf purchased Fountain Green in 1849 to dig lager beer vaults to ferment and age the beer brewed at Dillwyn Street. A third-story was added to the storage house after 1855 and the plant was remodeled in 1859. The brewery ceased operations in 1870 when Fountain Green, the former estate of Samuel Meeker, was seized by the city for the park., Title annotated in hand-written script: Die erste Lagerbier-Brauerei in Amerika., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 210, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1980, pg. 54.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W112.2 [P.8434]

Title: Entered apprentice. Fellow-craft. Master mason
Description: Print containing masonic iconography to depict the three degrees of Freemasonry. Shows emblems and vignettes representing the benevolent fraternal organization, including the "Three Graces" of Faith, Hope, and Charity; the "Three Pillars," i.e., Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian columns of ancient Greek architecture, representing wisdom, strength, and beauty; allegorical figures and symbols of time, justice, and truth; the theological ladder; mosaic pavement; the masonic charter, by laws, constitution, apron, plumb, square, level, and compass; the Holy Scripture and eye of God; the high hill and low vale; symbols of industriousness; and tools of masonry. Also includes a lamb (i.e., innocence), the three steps of life, a coffin, and pot of incense (i.e., pure heart)., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 65, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), lithographer
Date: c1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Organizations [P.2006.31.12]

Title: Exchange
Description: Exterior view from the southeast. Constructed 1832-33 for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. Designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland., Brechemin & Camp was a brief partnership between Lewis Brechemin and John Henry Camp in 1848., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 213
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, lithographer
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Banks [(2)1525.F.21f]

Title: Exchange
Description: Exterior view from the southeast. Constructed 1832-33 for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. Designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland., Brechemin & Camp was a brief partnership between Lewis Brechemin and John Henry Camp in 1848., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 213
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, lithographer
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Banks [P.9843]

Title: Exhibit at the Centennial Exposition 1876
Description: View showing the "Chemicals, Powers & Weightman, Philadelphia" exhibit booth at the Centennial Exhibition that celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Exhibit contains numerous bell jars, glass canisters, and display cases of minerals including alum, blue vitriol, acetate, and opium. Booth adorned with Victorian ornamental details, the name of the exhibitor, and the firm's establishment date of 1818. Also shows exhibition visitors entering, admiring, walking past, and leaning on the booth. 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., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 214, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 8 B 638, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, artist
Date: [1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Centennial [P.2008.35.19]

Title: Exterior view; Interior view of the temporary Hedding M. E. Church. Situated on the S.E. corner of Coates and Sixteenth Sts. Philadelphia In this locality it was deemed important by the church, that our borders should be enlarged, and in order to accomplish this object, a large respectable church must be erected, Rev. Andrew Manship was on the 9th of August 1853 by the proper authorities of the M.E. Church appointed pastor, he and his people thinking it inexpedient to wait until the regular church could be ready for occupancy, resolved to erect this building, which is 100 ft. by near 40, and accommodates about twelve hundred persons. the building committee [A. Manship, M. Morris, John Miller, and A.F. Old] aided by the people, energetically proceeded with the work, and in ten days, the house was ready and on the 16th of October was dedicated to the worship of Almighty God. Since which time meetings have been held without much intermission and to the present date Feb. 10 1854, at least 300 persons have professed the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Clearly showing that God does not "Despise the day of small things". [sic]
Description: Exterior view showing a throng of men, women, and child parishioners arriving at the wood-plank temporary church building on the 1500 block of Coates, i.e., Fairmount Avenue. A tall picket fence with gate surrounds the church. The well-dressed church members file past the fence and through the open gate. Two stove pipes project out from the side of the building and a few trees provide landscape. The building served as the church for a year during the erection of the permanent building completed in the fall of 1854., Interior view showing the church packed with parishioners who fill the pews surrounding the minister's pulpit and stand in the aisle and rear of the building. Four stoves and overhanging lit gas pipes furnish the space. Men's hats hang on hooks on one of the walls. The minister stands and six church elders sit on the stage of the pulpit. Also shows one man sitting in the rear of the church., Engraved variant of "Exterior View" published in Rev. Andrew Manship's Thirteen year's experience in the itinerancy. Second edition. (Philadelphia, 1856). Copyrighted by Manship in 1855. [LCP Am 1857 Man 51198.D (Dick)], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 217, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1980 pg. 52.
Date: [1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W116 [P.8538]

Title: F. & L. Ladner's Military Hall. No. 532 North Third St. Philadelphia Free concerts nightly
Description: Tradecard containing an exterior view of the saloon and concert hall built 1857 on the 500 block of North Third Street. Male patrons convene at and near the entry as pedestrians, including women, walk past the three-and one-half-story twin building with showcase windows. In the street, a horse-drawn carriage is parked and a "Richmond & Navy Yard/Second & Third St." street car travels. Also shows partial views of adjacent businesses, including a tobacconist. The Ladners operated the hall 1857-1881., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 221, See related advertisement print **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.9008], Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.153o]

Title: F. & L. Ladner's Northern Military Hall, nos. 528, 530 & 532 North Third Street, Philadelphia Concert saloon
Description: Advertisement showing the busy interior of the saloon and concert hall built 1857 on the 500 block of North Third Street. Men, women, and children patrons sit, drink, read, approach, and are served at several tables in front of a stage. In the foreground, men gather near two bars on each side of the saloon. The bar in the right of the image contains a soda fountain. Each is manned by bartenders and is stocked with bottles of liquor. A framed painting, a wall clock, and a large mirror decorate the areas. Several hanging and plotted plants adorn the balconies that are lined with windows. In the background, an actor and two actresses perform on the stage that is flanked by statuary and has a painted backdrop. Also contains a vignette, bordered by filigree, showing the exterior of the hall. View includes crowds of patrons entering the two entrances of the establishment. The Ladners operated the hall 1857-1881., Artist possibly Max or Morris Rosenthal., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 222, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Hotels, Inns & Taverns [P.9008]

Title: [F. Fisher. Upholstery, No 31. Cheap bedding and feather warehouse.]
Description: Proof for an advertisement showing the two-and-a-half story warehouse with numerous windows at the northeast corner of Eight and Zane streets. Patrons enter the entrances, including one adorned with signage, of the building. Sign advertises "Beds Hair Mattresses Cushions Feathers Moss Ticking Cotts Cattail." Bedding and bed posts are visible in or hang out of most of the warehouse windows. A stuffed swan standing among pillows is also visible in one of the lower windows. Bags of "Feathers" and bed posts lean against the building and mattresses and bed cushions are displayed on racks on the sidewalk. View also includes a fire hydrant and a boy walking past the warehouse. Frederick Fisher operated an upholstery business 1839-1853 and from the Eighth and Zane location 1844-1848., Title supplied by Wainwright., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: August 1846. North east corner Eighth and Zane Streets., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 220, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [August 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W118 [P.2044]

Title: [F. Leaming & Co. hardware, nail, steel, hollow-ware & looking glass store. No. 215 Market Street]
Description: Crudely-printed advertisement showing the four-story storefront at 215 Market Street (i.e., 500 block Market). A patron approaches the glass-paned door of the business and a couple strolls on the sidewalk. Building contains partially visible cellar doors. Leaming operated at the location 1831-1833., Title supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 223, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Date: [ca. 1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W119 [P.9094]

Title: F. Moras, lithographer, 109 Sth Fourth St. Philadelphia
Description: Tradecard with ornamental lettering, floral details, and a banner. Moras operated from the address 1860-1866. Moras, a German-born lithographer established his own firm in 1853 from which he retired in 1890. The firm continued to operate until the late 1890s., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 28
Creator: Moras, Ferdinand, 1821-1908
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.151p]

Title: F.A. Poth Brewing Company, Philadelphia
Description: Album containing 26 lithographic illustrations documenting the Philadelphia brewing complex at the northwest corner of Thirty-first and Jefferson Streets, including exterior and interior views of individual buildings within the complex and detailed scenes of laborers operating equipment and transporting the finished product to and from railroad stations. Shows exterior and interior views of the office building, boiler house, stable, and malt house; exterior views only of pitching house, pitching yard, and shipping department; interior views of private offices, beer stube, refrigerating machines and engine room, brew house, fermenting room, beer storage, racking room, wash house, and kiln house; and modes of transport including a delivery wagon loaded with barrels of beer approaching the F.A. Poth depot at Trenton, New Jersey. Includes a "bottled by" list on the last page with names and addresses next to two F.A. Poth bottles of beer. Under the list: "100,836 barrels were sold between January 1, 1890 and January 1, 1891.", Established in 1865 by Frederick August Poth at the northeast corner of Third and Green Streets, and moved to Thirty-first and Jefferson Streets in 1871. Incorporated in 1877, and later renamed F.A. Poth & Sons, Incorporated., Title from cover., Bound in a fine diagonal-ribbed blue cloth, black and gilt stamped, with the company's logo on the front board., Plates signed A.M.J. Mueller., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 225
Creator: Mueller, A. M. J., artist
Date: [ca. 1891]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [67309.D]

Title: Fairmount
Description: View looking south from the east bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works built 1812-1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff. Shows the engine house; mill house; and the pavilions on the mound dam and on Reservoir Hill. Also shows the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount in the far right background., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 226, Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.10c]

Title: [Fairmount
Description: View showing a section of the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River. Depicts the terrace roof of the new mill house built on the mound dam from 1860-1862 after the designs of engineer Henry P.M. Birkinbine. Visitors, predominately women with parasols, stroll on the terrace and adjoining promenade roof of the old mill house. Also shows steamboats; boat landings; boathouses; Lemon Hill; the Twenty-Forth Ward Water Works, known as the West Philadelphia Water Works; mills near the Schuylkill Canal Lock; and small sailing vessels on the river., Title, artist, and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the American Philosophical Society., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 229, Gift of David Doret., Trimmed., Reproduced in "The Fairmount Waterworks," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 1988), vol. 84, no. 360, 361, p. 35., Sketchbook of Jacob Kiehn (1866-1867) with sketches of Fairmount Waterworks held in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (#47, Bd 81 K543).
Creator: Kiehn, Jacob, 1835-1869, artist
Date: [c1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Public utilities [P.2004.44.25]

Title: Fairmount
Description: Landscape view looking from the west bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the old engine house; old mill house; new mill house (completed 1862); and the observatory tower arch (built 1860), stand pipe (built 1852), and pavilion on Reservoir Hill. Also includes the Schuylkill Canal lock, the Wire Suspension Bridge at Fairmount, and the dome of the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. The waterworks, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Frederick Graff, were altered and expanded after the designs of Henry P.M. Birkinbine and Frederick Graff, Jr., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 228, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Bovell, Thomas W.
Date: c1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Views - Philadelphia [P.2006.31.14]

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