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Title: The Caspar Wistar House
Description: Depicts a row of elegant townhomes at the intersection of Fourth and Locust Streets, occupied by Caspar Winstar, John Cadwalader, and Louis Phillippe., Chiefly notable, in its vicinity among the old homes of historic families thereabout, is the residence of Dr. Caspar Wistar, at the southwest corner of Fourth and Locust Streets. This and the house adjoining, upon the south - long the residence of the Hon. John Cadwalader - are now owned by the Mutual Assurance Company and are occupied as offices. The site of these houses was, with other land adjoining, granted by the Penns to Joseph and William Shippen. Dr. Wistar bought the ground and built in 1798, living here to the end of his life, in 1818. Dr. Caspar Wistar was eminent as a scientist and a scholar. He succeeded Thomas Jefferson as president of the American Philosophical Society, the members of which formed the coterie, famous as the "Wistar parties," which met here. Subsequent to the death of Dr. Wistar the house was sold to Job R. Tyson, Esq., and later became the office of James Dundas and of the Pratt estate. The royal exile, Louis Phillippe, lived, for a time, in the house shown upon the right of the picture. This dwelling was removed about 1898., Taylor Catalog Number: 139
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Keene Mansion and Franklin Market
Description: Depicts a three-story brick residence on the corner of Eleventh and Chestnut Streets. Adjacent is a busy market building with people and horse-drawn carriages in front., A Scotch carpenter, John Fimeton, began the rearing of this fine residence at the northwest corner of Tenth and Chestnut Streets in 1790. His widow, a daughter of John Hart, one of the signers of the "Declaration," sold the partly built structure to Colonel Peter L. Berry, who in turn sold it to David Lenox in 1815. The greater part of the estate of the widow, Lucy Lenox, was willed to her niece, Sallie Lukens Keene, daughter of Genral Lawrence Keene, who served in the Revolution. Succeeding members of the family, including the wife of Coloner S.B. Wylie Mitchell, sold the property to the Mutual Life Insurance Company, who built here in 1874, the first modern office structure in the city. The Franklin Market, upon Tenth Street, was built in 1860. The enterprise was not profitable and the building was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in 1867. Two years later the Mercantile Library Company purchased and altered the structure to suit its purpose. The statue of Franklin, which long adorned the front, now occupies a similar place at the Ledger Building., Taylor Catalog Number: 34
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Another Passing Rialto
Description: View of a row of commercial buildings on a busy street displaying advertisements., This last group of once well-kept residential properties forms all that is left of the cordon of homes, long ago the domiciles of many of our "best families," which once surrounded the centre squares. These old timers, gaudy with the lure of signboards, are awaiting the inevitable. Since old John Barleycorn went out of business all hope has flown. No doubt somewhere somebody is, even now, putting another "skyscraper" on paper which, in the fulness of time, will rise triumphant on this spot and even the name of Harry Edwards will become a fading memory., Taylor Catalog Number: 206
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1919

Title: Where Robert Morris Closed His Eventful Life
Description: Depicts a row of townhomes on South Twelfth Street, one of which was the house where Robert Morris died., The residence, No. 32 South Twelfth Street, was located upon the site now covered, in part, by the building of the Commonwealth Title and Trust Company. It was the home of Henry Nixon, a son of Col. John Nixon, second President of the Bank of North America, and who first read in public, on July 8th, 1776, the Declaration of Independence. Henry Nixon married Maria, youngest daughter of Robert Morris, and it was here, in her home, that the aged financier found refuge after his long imprisonment for debt, and here he died, on May 7th, 1806., Taylor Catalog Number: 32
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The "Monastery"
Description: Shows a three-story stone residence with a wraparound porch surrounded by trees. It is identified as having been built by Joseph Gorgas., A well-preserved residence known to local history by the above title is located upon Kitchens' Lane near the Wissahickon stream. It is said to have been built about 1745 by Joseph Gorgas, upon the site of an older structure occupied by a sect of German pietists - led by Johan Kelpius. After the death of this recluse, at the age of 38 years, his followers became scattered., Taylor Catalog Number: 265
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Some Spring Street Homes
Description: Depicts a row of small townhouses on a cobblestone street slated for demolition in 1923 to build the Benjamin Franklin Bridge., The tripods of the Delaware River bridge engineers have been set up in Spring Street, a little home thoroughfare leading west from Front Street and this group of old-time homes is marked for removal. Just beyond them in an angle are two other relics of colonial days also awaiting, in 1923, early destruction. One of these, according to tradition, is the house which was the first home, in Philadelphia, of the Boston boy, Benjamin Franklin., Taylor Catalog Number: 307
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: A Peep at Humble Homes
Description: Depicts a narrow cobblestone alley of homes slated for demolition in 1922 for the construction of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge., One of almost countless hid-away nooks of the city, squalid, perhaps, but yet "sweet home" to somebody, is this brief court, opening upon Florist Street, to the northward. It had, when snap-shotted, in 1922, just before it was swept out of the way of the bridge approach, that saving-grace of the picturesque which is so well worth depiction; so appropriate for preservation in any scrapbook scenes in gone or passing Philadelphia., Taylor Catalog Number: 256
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Two Walnut Street Homes Now Gone
Description: Contains two sketches of residences on Walnut Street. The top sketch depicts a residence at the corner of Sixteenth and Walnut Streets, which has since been replaced by the Medical Arts Building. The lower sketch shows a residence at the corner of Eighteenth and Walnut Streets that was the former home of Alexander J. Drexel and later William Warren Gibbs., These spacious homes, not long ago notable features of a seemingly well-entrenched and exclusive residential section, are no longer. The upper residence, at the northwest corner of Walnut and Sixteenth streets, was, in turn, the home of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, Dr. De Forrest Willard and George Albert Huhn. The site is now covered by the Medical Arts Building, erected in 1917. The lower sketch depicts the former residence of Alexander J. Drexel. For some years it was occupied by William Warren Gibbs, the site at the northeast corner of Walnut and Eighteenth streets is now that of a lofty but nameless apartment structure., Taylor Catalog Number: 118
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: A Garden of Climbing Wistaria
Description: Shows a back view of the Wistar and Cadwalader mansions where a garden of Wistaria grows., This rear view of the locally noted Wistar and Cadwalader mansions, at 238 and 240 South Fourth Street, is of interest, especially, as it portrays the original creeping vine, shown, at the left, which was presented, early in the last century, to Dr. Caspar Wistar, by his guest, the French naturalist Michaux, who named it the Wistaria in honor of his host and friend. This is the parent vine of its species of all those now so plentiful in America., Taylor Catalog Number: 240
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Home of Joshua Humphreys
Description: Depicts the busy intersection near 11th and Chestnut surrounded by residences and tall commercial buildings. The street is filled with pedestrians, as well as an early automobile and a horse-drawn carriage., This once stately mansion was yet existant, in 1923, when this sketch was made. It was the home for many years of Joshua Humphreys who is known to history as the designer and builder of naval and other ships of his time. The house is located in Montgomery County near Haverford. Humphreys was a native of Delaware County. He was born in 1751 and lived eighty-seven years. He built many noted vessels of our early navy. Among them the Chesapeake, Constellation, Constitution, President, Congress, and United States. The latter was the only one built by him in Philadelphia. He is spoken as the "father of the American Navy.", Taylor Catalog Number: 310
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: A Birthplace of Notables
Description: Shows a residence on the corner of Sixth and Spruce Streets where Joseph Jefferson and E.T. Stotesbury were born., This drawing, made from a photo taken in 1923, by Mr. John C. Trautwine, Jr., depicts the dwelling, now somewhat changed, located at the Southwest corner of Sixth and Spruce Streets, which was the birthplace of Joseph Jefferson and also of Mr. E.T. Stotesbury., Taylor Catalog Number: 306
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: The Twaddell Homestead
Description: View of a large residence surrounded by trees. The image is labeled, "The Twaddell Homestead, Forty Sixth Street and Baltimore Ave.," in the bottom left corner., Baltimore Avenue's most interesting home seems destined to pass from existence soon before the inroads of the operative builders. This fine example of colonial architecture occupies the centre of the block between Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Streets northwest from Baltimore Avenue. Old-time gardens grace the frontage of the house, shaded by the century-old trees. The rear portion of the house used as a kitchen was orignially the home of a Swedish settler and is counted as one of the first five habitations built west of the Schuylkill River., Taylor Catalog Number: 185
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1919

Title: The Randolph House on North Second Street in 1923
Description: Depicts a small corner home on North Second Street, marked for removal due to the construction of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge., An interesting survival of the old days is the building at 212 North Second Street which was the home of Edward Randolph, and which, being within the area of the Delaware river bridge approach, will soon be removed. Mr. Richard P. Tatum has directed attention to this sturdy old mansion which, in 1786, was bought by Mr. Randolph from Charles Julian De Longchamps together with an addition owned by Benjamin Mershon., Taylor Catalog Number: 385
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Rock House
Description: View of two modest wooden houses in Germantown, Pa. Laundry hangs out to dry and a child and dog stand in the yard., Historians of Germantown describe, at some length, this yet well-preserved relic of the early days. It is located, upon the remnants of its rock, on Penn Street, formerly Shoemaker's Lane, near Wingohocking Station. The drawing has been made from a photo taken in 1924 by Mr. John C. Trautwine, Jr., Taylor Catalog Number: 332
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: The Garrick House, a Colonial Relic
Description: Shows a three-story colonial residence with a yard bordered by hedges. Pedestrians stand outside while an early automobile is parked in the street., The "Yellow Mansion," at Paschall Avenue and Sixty-ninth Streets, is one of the best preserved among the colonial homes of the city. It was formerly known as the Garrick house. In the course of the Revolution it was used as a place of storage for weapons and equipments intended for American troops. General Howe made his deadquarters here prior to the capture of Philadelphia. The owner, in 1923, is Mr. A.E. Kerschner., Taylor Catalog Number: 331
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: Swanwick Street
Description: Depicts a narrow residential alleyway with a man pushing a cart in the foreground and other pedestrians walking in the street., Taylor Catalog Number: 19
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1908

Title: In Library Street
Description: Depicts the busy intersection near 11th and Chestnut surrounded by residences and tall commercial buildings. The street is filled with pedestrians, as well as an early automobile and a horse-drawn carriage., This brief highway, extending eastward from Independence Square, below Chestnut Stret, derived its name from the Mercantile and that other most venerable of libraries the "Philadelphia," which occupied its Fifth Street corners. The sketch shows a glimpse of the old United States Custom House building and, in the centre, of the venerable structure, ascribed to Nicholas Biddle, which at the period of this writing, in 1924, is marked for removal to make space for something more modern and profitable., Taylor Catalog Number: 333
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: At the Foot of South Street
Description: Shows a busy pier near South Street bustling with the activity of carriages and locomotives. A schooner rests in the water., Old-timers of the river wards yet recall the days when the Delaware River front was fringed with a forest of loft spars and intricate cordage; when the jib-booms and bow hamper of ships-of-sail projected far inshore from every wharf. This scene, drawn at the foot of South Street, hints of the survival, in the battle with steam, of the hardy schooner type of sea-going craft, a fine example of which has poked its nose in among iron treighters, demanding a share of the business with which fussy locomotives, drays and motors constantly clutter piers., Taylor Catalog Number: 35
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Two Old Timers in Juniper Street
Description: Shows two sketches. The top sketch depicts a residence on Juniper Street, which is a remaining dwelling from a previous suburban community depicted in the bottom sketch., The two neatly-kept little dwellings in Juniper Street, north from Locust Street and in the rear of the Philadelphia Library, are surviving reminders of "the village," an early suburban settlement, mainly of wooden construction, which once covered this square, and which included a tavern, at the corner of Broad and Locust Streets, and a police station adjoining, behind which a fire-bell tower rose above the trees. The general view of the village has been made from a small but interesting contemporary sketch painted by the father of Mr. Newman F. McGirr, the book dealer. It may be seen at the above named library., Taylor Catalog Number: 257
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1921

Title: In Little Quince Street
Description: Depicts the busy intersection near 11th and Chestnut surrounded by residences and tall commercial buildings. The street is filled with pedestrians, as well as an early automobile and a horse-drawn carriage., The factory and warehouse builders have tumbled the aged walls of much that bordered the eastern side of Quince Street, in that section of the little thorofare south of Walnut Street, but his quaint well cared-for trio of houses still hold their place as does, also, the neat little home of Mrs. J.M. Mays and her daughter, at 208, opposide. The group here sketched has come into the possession of Dr. Eugene Pettit who has expended upon them the artistic care of an enthusiast and found space, within, for a wealth of rare furnishings thus providing an interesting example of what may be done, by way of intelligent restoration, in other like hid-away by-ways of this long neglected section of old Philadelphia., Taylor Catalog Number: 249
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Along Lower Chestnut Street - 1845
Description: Cobblestone street lined with stores and residences. Horse-drawn carriages and pedestrians populate the street., A sixty-year-old daguerreotype was the basis of this drawing portraying the quaint jumble of buildings facing southward upon Chestnut street eastward from Second street. Note how the determined, yes, indignant little houses of an earlier era are being elbowed by heartless warehouses. Note, also, the then typical wooden awning posts and the quaint street lamp of the time. When Mason, with his camera, saved this bit of old Philadelphia for us he did a good day's work., Taylor Catalog Number: 404
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Old Resorts in Library Street
Description: Depicts men outside Military Hall and Isaih Bryan's Our House on Library Street., Military Hall and "Our House: were features of Library (now Sansom) Street, west of Fourth Street, for many years. The first-named faced the rear of the U.S. Custom House. In the early months of the Civil War several regiments of the Pennsylvania Volunteers were recruited and had headquarters here. The structure was composed of a group of remodeled residences of the colonial era which commanded a view of the noted gardens of the Norris homestead, a portion of which was afterward covered by the United States Bank building, know, since 1845, as the Cutom house. The site of Military Hall and the adjoiing tap-house above mentioned is now occupied by the building of the American Bank Note Company., Taylor Catalog Number: 193
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Southward from Ninth and Market Streets in 1870
Description: View of Ninth and Market Streets in the 1870s lined with trees and filled with pedestrians. Two businesses display signs saying, "Cooper and Conard" and "John E. Burke Gents' Furnishing Goods.", This drawing portrays the appearance of Ninth Street prior to 1874 when the old college buildings, vacated by the University of Pennsylvania two years before, were removed and work on the present Federal building was commenced. In the early days of the Republic (1798) the State of Pennsylvania caused the erection, on this site, of a spacious residence for the President, but it was not so occupied. The structure was replaced in 1829 by the U. of P. The Gimbel store now includes the site of Cooper & Conard store at the left., Taylor Catalog Number: 189
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Lawyers' Row Upon Walnut Street West from Sixth Street
Description: Tree-lined street containing well-kept homes and lawyers' offices., These structures, orignially built for residential purposes, housed, in later times, many noted attorneys. The Loganian Library was established upon the site in 1790, in which was deposited the valuable collection of rare books bequeathed to the Library Company of Philadelphia by Chief Justice James Logan, of Stenton. The small street extending northward to George or Sansom Street, was named in honor of George Swanwick, who bought the tract from the Gilpin and Fisher families in 1794. The small arched structure in the drawing gave access to the Ludwich Institute, and beneficence for the education of the boys established by Christopher Ludwich, a German cake baker, of Letitia Street, a friend of Washington and baker-general of the Revolutionary Army. It is worthy of mention that one of the journeymen employed in Ludwick's bakery was Frederick Fraley. Ludwick's home was in Germantown. He gave much of his savings to the Revolutionary cause. His legacy of $8000.00 was carefully fostered by the trustees, and some part of it is still administered. All of these buildings, as well as the substantial residences to the westward, in the same block, among them the homes of three of our mayors, were razed to be replaced by the great structure of the Curtis Publishing Company., Taylor Catalog Number: 143
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Where Sky-Scrapers Now Rise
Description: Shows the corner of Broad and Chestnut Streets. Pedestrians and vehicles are in the street., Not so long ago the space upon which the Real Estate Trust Building and the North American Building now rise held the structures here portrayed. At the corner of Chestnut and Broad streets there yet remained the large mansion wherein Harmer served good dinners to particular people, where the Pennsylvania Railroad Company sold tickets and where Benjamin Franklin (not the philosopher, mind you!) kept his sleuths where they were not on the track of evil-doers. Just below, on neighborly terms with other residences. Hallowell & Son sold choice fruits, and, at the corner of George street, the old Independent Church still recalled the eloquence of Dr. Chambers., Taylor Catalog Number: 43
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Where Sky-Scrapers Now Rise
Description: Shows the corner of Broad and Chestnut Streets. Signs are visible on buildings for B. Franklin's Detective Agency, Pennsylvania Railroad, and Henry M. Hallowell & Son Fruits., Not so long ago the space upon which the Real Estate Trust Building and the North American Building now rise held the structures here portrayed. At the corner of Chestnut and Broad streets there yet remained the large mansion wherein Harmer served good dinners to particular people, where the Pennsylvania Railroad Company sold tickets and where Benjamin Franklin (not the philospher, mind you!) kept his sleuths when they were not on the track of evil-doers. Just below, on neighborly terms with other residences. Hallowell & Son sold choice fruits, and, at the corner of George street, the old Independent Church still recalled the eloquence of Dr. Chambers., Taylor Catalog Number: 44
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: On Front Street Below Chestnut Street
Description: Depicts a residential street of townhomes. A horse and carriage wait outside of one home while a trolley rides by., As late as the Civil War perios the scions of some of the old families continued to occupy the spacious residences along Front Street, which, in earlier times, was distinctly a home section. Those sturdy houses, such as one shown in this drawing, have long since been converted into warehouses or altogether replaced. There is a tradition that in the middle building of this group the first "stove coal" was burned successfully in a grate, at a time when few people were convinced that anthracite would ever replace wood as domestice fuel., Taylor Catalog Number: 149
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Little House of Clubs
Description: Narrow street with trees and few pedestrians., That much-abused term, "Bohemia," finds is sanest expression, among the art and litereary elements of Philadelphia, here in modest South Camac Street. First to come was the time-honored, yet ever virile, Sketch Club. Then followed the literati, who housed, hard-by, the Franklin Inn Club. Then the "Ad" men came with their "Poor Richard Club," closely followed by a coterie of lady art devotees with the "Plastic." Lastly, lest any should go hungry, came the cheerful Coin d'Or. Clever architectural contriving has changed a once dingy, unconsidered row of old houses into snug and joyous oases in local clubdom, full of real Philadelphia comfort and, therefore, different, in their homely outsides and their inside doings, from anything elsewhere vaunted, all assertions to the contrary notwithstanding. There are several other clubs round about, upon the borders of Bohemia, each providing to its membership something of that element of good-fellowship which the favored guest is sure to find in this quiet by-way of old downtown., Taylor Catalog Number: 27
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1915

Title: Northwest Corner of Third and Chestnut Streets
Description: Depicts the building on the northwest corner of Third and Chestnut Streets. People walk in and out of the businesses on the first floor., The earliest structure at this corner was a two-story frame building, which was respectable aged when, in the year 1790, it was occupied as a "department store" by Joseph and Jesse Sharpless, who also manufactured boots and shoes. Five years late the latter merchant had built a four-story brick building on Second street, just above the corner, which the contemporary wiseacres promptly dubbed "Jesse's folly." A drawing made in 1829 indicates that the old Sharpless store was then occupied by "Russell's hat shop." Another four-story structure was erected on the corner in 1833. This still remains. In 1839 the publishing office of the "Spirit of the Times" was located here, under the management of John S. Du Solle. L. Pelouze established a type foundry on the upper floor in 1848. A notable tenant was Volney B. Palmer, the pioneer advertising agent of America, who was located here ten years from 1846., Taylor Catalog Number: 84
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1916

Title: New Market House, Second and Pine Street
Description: View of a busy street corner with fruit stands, pedestrians, and horse-drawn carriages., Taylor Catalog Number: 201
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: On the Edge of Society Hill
Description: Depicts the corner of a well-kept residential street. The building on the corner is identified as St. Peter's House, an Episcopal charity., Standing here at the intersection of Pine and Front Streets we are upon the border of a once exclusive residential section. St. Peter's House, a beneficent outpost of the Episcopal Church, is one of comparatively modern build, dating from the centennial period. On this corner formerly stood the home of Bishop White. The houses beyond were, in the time of the Revolution, popular quarters for discriminating British officers of high degree, and more than one of them have been heard and seen even near to the present time, clad in brilliant uniforms, stalking in upper rooms and clanking down dark stairways to the affright of children and servants. This is, however, a matter to be whispered and not asserted when skeptics are near., Taylor Catalog Number: 41
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1915

Title: Colonnade Row
Description: View of the Colonnade Hotel on Chestnut Street. Pedestrians are on the sidewalk and ornate carriages pass on the street., Colonnade Row was built upon the south side of Chestnut street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, in the year 1830. The Epiphany Church, opposite, was erected four years later. The present Colonnade Hotel covers part of the site and derives its name from this group of once modern houses, which were novel in design and one of the earliest residential operations west of Broad Street. They were removed in 1868., Taylor Catalog Number: 107
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: In the Path of the Parkway
Description: View of a grassy area with benches and people sitting with residences and skyscrapers in the background., The foreground of this vista, sketched from a window of the U.G.I. building, was once covered by the Arch Street Prison. In later days there stood here the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, razed some years ago. The picturesque huddle of rear-buildings, in process of removal in the spring of 1917, reveal all that was then left of the former dignified homes of families once of businesses and social prominence, but which the present generation will recall only as an unregretted succession of saloons, restaurants and shops more bizarre than attractive., Taylor Catalog Number: 91
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: South of Rittenhouse Square
Description: View of Rittenhouse Square and apartment buildings surrounding it., These notable residences of South Rittenhouse Square are now, in 1923, marked for removal to make space for another lofty apartment building. Their history is well recorded in an excellent book of the old square prepared by Mr. Charles J. Cohen to which those who are interested in the identity of their successive occupants are referred. The buildings date from the decade following 1850., Taylor Catalog Number: 303
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Westward of Centre Square
Description: Busy intersection lined with both commercial and residential buildings. Horse-drawn carriages and trolleys are in the street and pedestrians move down the sidewalk., Taylor Catalog Number: 3
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: At the Four Corners
Description: Depicts the busy intersection between Broad and Chestnut Streets surrounded by tall commercial buildings. The street is filled with pedestrians, as well as an early automobile and a horse-drawn carriage. A part of City Hall can be seen on the far right of the image., Taylor Catalog Number: 7
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Rittenhouse Square
Description: View of Rittenhouse Square near the fountain where people partake in leisure activities. A church tower can be seen over the trees in the background., Taylor Catalog Number: 8
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Southwest from Washington Square
Description: View of a rainy street where pedestrians walk by with umbrellas. Carriages are also present., Taylor Catalog Number: 18
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Southeast from Logan Square
Description: View of a shady park path with buildings in the background. A woman and small girl stand in the foreground on the path., Taylor Catalog Number: 15
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1914

Title: Francisville
Description: Shows five panels of houses in Francisville, the area bordered by Ridge Ave., Fairmount Avenue, and Nineteenth Street. The house in the center panel is identified as having been owned by Rev. Samuel B. Wylie., The old name "Francisville" is still used to designate a diagonal space extending athwart the triangle bordered by Ridge and Fairmont avenues and Nineteenth street. This tract was planned by Tench Francis, whose father, of the same name, was one of William Penn's associates. The younger Francis had married Ann Willing. The enterprise was inteded to provide a select suburb, beyond the encroachments of the city. The lots were placed on sale in 1770. One of the early houses upon the tract, that of Tench Francis, was burned by the British soldiery in the fall in 1777. Tench Francis was for some years the cashier of the Bank of North America, of which his father-in-law Thomas Willing, was president. The Property called "Bellevue" was built by the Rev. Samuel B. Wylie, in 1825. It remained the family homestead to the end of the century, when it was replaced by the Bellevue Apartments, destroyed by fire some years ago. The site is now within the new Francisville Recreation ground., Taylor Catalog Number: 98
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1917

Title: Swept from the Parkway Vista
Description: Panoramic view of the Ben Franklin Parkway in 1917. Factories can be seen in the middle ground and buildings in Center City in the background, including a silhouette of City Hall on the left side of the drawing., The view south-eastward from Fairmount, in the fall of 1917, stirkingly resembles war scenes in Belgium. A long-busy manufacturing section is being swept from the path of the Parkway. The important structures thus removed include one public school, located at Twenty-third and Shamokin streets, and the plants of Charles N. Harder, Erben Harding, the Jones box factory and the large mill of S.B. & B.W. Fleisher, beside scores of lesser industries and numerous houses., Taylor Catalog Number: 110
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1917

Title: At the Corner of Pewter Platter Alley
Description: Depicts a narrow street corner with residences and pedestrians., Local historians disagree concerning the location of the early tavern which gave its name to Pewter Platter alley, which was, still earlier, called Jones alley, in deference to the property holdings of Griffith Jones, once Mayor (and an unwilling one) of Philadelphia. This narrow throroughfare is found immediately opposite Christ Church, extending eastward to Front Street. It is now designated, much to the regret of historic delvers, "Church street." Several ancient houses in this artery of traffic still remain. The home of the Parrish family, at the northeastern corner of Second street and the alley, is most interesting. Here lived Isaac Parrish, merchant, and Sarah his wife, daughter of Abraham Mitchell, through sixty-six years. Of their eight children born here two sons died in the yellow fever plague of 1793. It was doubtless as a result of the distress of that sad time that Ann Parrish and other formed the "Female Society for the Employment of the Poor," the first organization of the kind in the city. Dr. Joseph Parrish placed his "shingle" upon the house, as a physician, in 1806. He became noted among the medical leaders of his time., Taylor Catalog Number: 95
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1917

Title: A Benton Street Group
Description: Depicts a street corner of townhomes, businesses, and an office building that dominates the background. People converse on the sidewalk., In the heart of the square West from Fifteenth Street and South from Market Street, these time-worn little homes and shops yet remain (in 1923) to afford a striking contrast with the lofty office structure rising behind them. The drawing aptly typifies the Philadelphia of the past and of the era of the "sky-scraper.", Taylor Catalog Number: 305
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: In Mascher Street
Description: Shows a three-story residence where two people stand on the stoop and a carriage sits in the adjacent alleyway. An inset depicts a similar residence where children play outside in the street., Here, in the little byways to the south of Race Street and east from Second Street, are to be found many neatly kept little homes, which are interesting survivals of our local past and pleasing subjects for the pencil and camera., Taylor Catalog Number: 323
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: Front Street North from Pine Street
Description: Depicts a busy street with people selling goods. One building has a sign that reads, "Trumbauer & Son," which was once the home of several important Philadelphia residents., This array of once dignified homes upon Front Street north from Pine Street is now crowded with the activities of poultry and egg dealers. The structure is chiefly of interest to the historian is the building bearing the signs of Trumbauer & Son, which was the home, successively, of several distinguished citizens. It was built by Captain William Dawson. Pratt, the artist, once lived here. About 1807, it was occupied by Commadore Bainbridge, commander of the U.S.S. Constitution, during our second war with Great Britain. Thomas Birch lived here in 1843. In the spring of 1919, when this sketch was made, the old residence was in the process of demolition., Taylor Catalog Number: 179
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Along Old Pear Street
Description: Depicts a commercial street with pedestrians and two horse-drawn carriages. The buildings, from left to right, are identified as "Bushnell & Tull: Manufacturers of velocipedes, propellers, children's gigs, cabs, coaches, hobby-borses, etc.," "Lager Beer Hall," and "Steam Saw Mill & Mahogany Yard.", This drawing, from a photograph made in 1861, portrays a bit of old Pear Street, now called "Chancellor," which extends westward from Dock to Third Street. The central feature shows the historic Anthony Morris brew-house, built in 1867, a part of which was occupied in more modern times by the Eisenbrey saw mill and mahogany business. The first of the long-popular Atlantic City rolling-chairs were made in the toy vehicle factory shown at the left. The old Upton tavern was famed among our grandfathers for its brew of Rodman ales. A part, at least, of the residence at the right was long tenanted by John King, a gold-beater., Taylor Catalog Number: 127
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: In Pent Up Places
Description: The image is divided into three sections depicting residential streets. The left panel shows a man loading a cart in the street. The middle panel depicts people talking in the street with laundry lines overhead. Finally, the right panel shows a street with produce stand in front of one of the buildings., At this time, in 1923, when this sketch is made, the advance forces of the army of progress are busy with the wreckage of much that has both historic and artistic worth, but these little byways, bordered by humble homes, are being scrapped to make way for the great Delaware River bridge and for modern industrial enterprises that will soon replace them to the material advantage of all concerned., Taylor Catalog Number: 314
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: Westward Along Quiet Locust Street
Description: Shows buildings on the 1300 block of Locust Street looking westward. The present building for the Pennsylvania Historical Society can be seen on the left side of the image closest to the viewer., Only those who look upward take artistic note of the light that plays upon lofty casements above the shadows of lesser things. This glimpse, westward from Thirteenth Street, along Locust, "The Street of Libraries," is an instance in point. Vistas such as this embody the spirit of "ever-changing Philadelphia," telling the story, as they do, of a city rebuilding for a greater future, yet rich in the dignity of quiet byways where bookish men and women may stand and loiter and admire, impeding none who hurry., Taylor Catalog Number: 29
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1915

Title: In Lodge Street
Description: Street view with horse and carriage in the foreground. Resdiences and pedestrians are in the background, as well as a section of the old Pennsylvania Bank., Taylor Catalog Number: 73, There is a forgotten dingy little alley connecting Second and Dock Streets, south of Chestnut street, which was once a pleasant and flowery by-way in the centre of Philadelphia's most exclusive residential section. Until lately it was named "Lodge Street." It is now called "Sansom." It is sometimes confused by historians, delving in the old directories, with "Lodge Alley," which is now Jayne Street. In colonial times, upon the southern side of this little lane, at Second Street, was the Griscom residence, the first brick house built in Philadelphia, and which was vis-a-vis to the "slate-roof house." The Griscom garden extended to the grassy verge of Dock Creek. Adjoining it, on the south, stood the double house of Edward Shippen, first Mayor of the city. Midway, in Lodge Street, and on the south side, was built, in 1755, the first Masonic hall in America. During the Revolution it was used as a prison of rQuaker tories. These several structures were replaced in 1788 by the classic building of the Bank of Pennsylvania, which, after the financial storm of 1857, remained to become a Federal provost prison in the period of the Civil War. The view here presented depicts the western front of the band with its neat garden and the range of time-worn warehouses and shops which were originally the homes of some of our "first families." The site of the Pennsylvania Bank is now covered by the United States Appraisers' Warehouse, built in 1871, in preparation for which the work began with the removal of the massive columns in the sections as shown in the drawing.
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: At Sixth and Sansom Streets
Description: Cobblestone street view of the corner of Sansom and Sixth streets. Shows residential buildings as well as pedestrianas and horse-drawn carriages., Several survivals of the array of residential buildings which once fronted Independence Square, along Sixth Street. still remain (in 1916). These roomy structures were the homes, a century ago, of affluent families. That one at the corner of Sansom (formerly George) Street was the birthplace of John Welsh. a notable citizen, best remembered as the leader of the group of distinguished citizens who organized, financed and carried to the success the memorable Centennial Exhibition. The Wetherill House, on Sansom Street, shown in the drawing, was a favorite place for military meetings in the early months of the Civil War. The old Washington Grays organized here, the members of the First Regiment Gray Reserves and a part of the Seventeenth Regiment of the Three Months' Campaign. The building upon the southwestern corner was long occupied by the Board of Health. Later it was replaced by a structure of the Fire Department service., Taylor Catalog Number: 42
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

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