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- Title
- Art Gallery. Main Building. Centennial International Exhibition. 1876. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
- Description
- Bird's eye views of two of the exhibition buildings - the Art Gallery or Memorial Hall designed by Herman Schwartzmann and the Main building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Views include heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and omnibus in the foreground. Also contains the dimensions of the buildings in the lower left corner. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Copyrighted by the Centennial Board of Finance., Gift of David Doret., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 26
- Creator
- Aubrun, Louis, artist
- Date
- c1874
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.2006.28.7]
- Title
- Residence & property of James Holgate, n. w. cor. Lehigh Ave. & Eleventh St. Philadelphia, Pa
- Description
- View, probably from an atlas, showing the Victorian-style house and substantial property of the state legislator at 1109 Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia. The property, surrounded by a fence, contains a carriage house and large landscaped garden, including a wall of trellises, a green house, and a dog house. A gardener works near the trellises. Neighboring buildings, including row houses and W.C. Gill, apothecary, are visible in the background. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages; a lamppost with mailbox at the corner; and the names of the streets inscribed on the sidewalks., Contains inset of a view showing three elegant row houses. Includes pedestrian traffic., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 194, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 16 H 716
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Residences [7810.F]
- 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
- Reliques of William Penn in Philadelphia in 1864 The carriers of The Press to their patrons. January 1st. 1864
- Description
- Carriers' address containing six titled vignettes showing residences, scenes, and objects associated with William Penn. Vignettes surrounded by a decorative border. Border includes a male and female Native American, smoking and holding a peace pipe, respectively, and the seal of Philadelphia designed by Penn. Central vignette shows William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, 1682. Other vignettes show contemporary depictions of "William Penn's House in Letitia St."; William Penn House in Second St.; the dilapidated "Brew House at Penn's Manor [i.e., Pennsbury Manor] Built by William Penn"; "Monument at Treaty Ground"; and "Penn's Manor with Cherry Tree Planted by William Penn." Many of the views include pedestrian traffic and site visitors. Treaty Ground view includes a shed adorned with signage marked "Painter.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 637, Library Company of Philadelphia: *W307 [1883.F.183], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 18 R 815, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 18 B 786
- Creator
- Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
- Date
- [1864]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 18 R 815
- Title
- Chestnut Street, East of Fifth
- Description
- Panoramic view showing businesses marked with pre-consolidation addresses on the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street (134-140, i.e., 420-428). Signage and ornaments adorn the buildings. Includes L. J. Levy & Co., dry goods store (420); Bailey & Kitchen, jeweler, and Broadbent & Co. daguerreotype rooms (422); W. F. Warburton late W.H. Beebe & Co., hatter and C. Stinger, dressmaker(424); James E. Caldwell & Co., jeweler (426); Root Gallery of Daguerreotypes, Wriggens & Warden, jeweler, and S. Marot, engraver (428). Also shows heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages and an omnibus. Part of the old City Hall at Fifth and Chestnuts is also visible. A crowd of people stands at the tree-lined street corner near the building., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 541.1, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 856 Sc 57, HSP copy inscribed on recto: Prest by J. C. Browne., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street - 4th-5th (2 copies), Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PRM071, Gift of David Doret.
- Creator
- Collins & Autenrieth, artist
- Date
- c1856
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W263 [P.2007.21.18]
- Title
- Breuker & Kessler lithographers, engravers & printers. S. W. corner 7th & Chestnut sts. Philadelphia. Particular attention paid to all kinds of commercial engraving
- Description
- Book advertisement containing landscape views, allegorical figures, and artist and printer's tools. Shows the allegorical figure Art as she leans on a pedestal that is covered in vines and displays a vase of flowers. She stands on a moss covered rock marked "Labels" that is surrounded by a stone tablet, possibly a lithographer's stone, inscribed "Manufacturers of Transferable Pictures"; a press machine; and a paint palette resting on a book. In the background, trees, hills, and a bridge spanning a river near townscape are visible. Breuker & Kessler, a partnership between George W. Breuker & Harry C. Kessler, operated circa 1867-1880., Not in Wainwright., Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a hand-Book of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia, in 1867(Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867), opp. p. 134., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 7, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 39 B 750
- Creator
- Breuker & Kessler Co.
- Date
- [1867]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Free 55213.O.134a
- Title
- St. Mark's Church Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view of the Gothic-style Episcopal church built 1848-1851 after the designs of John Notman at 1607-1627 Locust Street., Church seal with motto "Sigillum Ecclesiae S. Marci Philada. 1848" printed below image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 711, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Upper left corner missing.
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W347 [(5)1322.F.3a]
- Title
- Die Katholische St. Peter's Kirche zu Philadelphia. An der Fünften und Franklin Strasse
- Description
- Exterior view of the Roman-style German Catholic church, St. Peter the Apostle, built 1842-1847 at 1015 North Fifth Street after the designs of Napoleon Le Brun. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including two children holding hands., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 183, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 131 S149.
- Creator
- Herline & Hensel
- Date
- [ca. 1857]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W96 [(5)1322.F.48a & 71a]
- Title
- Savournin’s Celebrated Snow White Diamond for beautifying the complexion
- Description
- Diamond-shaped advertisement with ornamental border containing a vignette-size, waist-length portrait of a young lady stroking her hands through her long tresses., Leonhardt operated from 114 So. 3rd Street circa 1868-1871., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 202, Gift of Margaret Robinson.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.46]
- Title
- Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia East window of Chapel
- Description
- Depicts the pointed arched east window, with Gothic tracery, in the funerary chapel at Laurel Hill Cemetery. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Added title page in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 335, Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PR327.
- Creator
- Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
- Date
- 1844
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.title page], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.title page]
- Title
- Old Mortality
- Description
- View showing the Laurel Hill Cemetery sculpture completed by sculptor James Thom circa 1836. The sculpture, inspired by Sir Walter Scott's novel "Old Mortality," depicts Scott conversing with the main character of his novel, an elderly itinerant Scotsman who re-carved names on gravestones, seated on a tombstone near his horse. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Plate opposite p. 67 in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 526, Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PRM (MTD) 15 - 73.
- Creator
- Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
- Date
- 1844
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.67a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.67a]
- Title
- 3' o'clock in the morning 3 uhr morgens
- Description
- Amusing genre scene depicting three drunk men stumbling arm-in-arm down a city block in front of fenced, wooden scaffolding. The man on the left skips, raises his hat and supports the unconscious man in the middle, who wears a lady's bonnet on his head. The man on the right also supports the bonnet-wearing man while he clings his arm around a lamp post as he holds a long pipe. Playbills and advertisements adorn the wooden fence in front of the scaffolding. The postings promote the National Police Gazette, Wheatley's Arch Street Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, John Drew's National Theatre, the Academy of Music, and steam boat Edwin Forrest of Trenton Capt. McMakin. An African American coach driver, with a whip in hand, watches the frivolity in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 4, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.8.1, Copy with variant title and imprint ["Three in the Morning," Childs, 63 North 2nd St.] held in the collections of the American Antiquarian Society. AAS copy dated ca. 1863, probably 1860.
- Date
- c1857
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum AKM 54.8.1
- Title
- Western Exchange Hotel, Market Street, west of Penn Square, Philadelphia Joseph Waterman, proprietor. The proprietor of this hotel, respectfully announces to the public, that he has refitted his hotel and is now prepared to receive his friends and patrons in a manner which he flatters himself they will find that attention to their comforts which will give entire satisfaction. -- This hotel embraces many advantages to the travelling public being contiguous to the great Central and Pennsylvania Rail Road Depot, and in immediate vicinity of the depots of the Baltimore, Wilmington, Pottsville and Reading Rail Roads. The Westchester cars leave the hotel morning and afternoon. -- Terms, one dollar per day
- Description
- Advertisement showing Joseph Waterman's stately six-story hotel building and adjacent properties on the north side of the 1500 block of Market Street. Gentlemen mingle on the second-story, arcaded balcony overlooking the street. A large cupola and weathervane surmount the penthouse. Horse-drawn carriages and carts labeled "Exchange Wagon," "Waterman's Hotel," and "Western Exchange," congest the street and transport patrons to and from nearby railroad depots. The hotel was patronized by farmers and used as the western terminus of several omnibus lines. Hotel removed circa 1860., Artist probably Frederick J. Pilliner who worked as a lithographer first in Boston in 1853-54 and in Philadelphia between 1856 and 1860., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 56.25.7, Pilliner worked from the address of the Lithographic Institute, which included lithographers Maurice H. Traubel, Theodore Leonhardt, Edward Schnabel, John F. Finkeldey, and William Demme in 1856 and 1857.
- Creator
- Pilliner, E, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1857]
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 56.25.7
- Title
- View of the city of Philadelphia, and its principal buildings
- Description
- Print containing a central panoramic view of Philadelphia surrounded by vignettes of prominent Philadelphia institutions. View looks west from Camden, New Jersey, showing islands and vessels in the Delaware River. Vignettes include the Almshouse, Fairmount, Girard College, Merchants' Exchange, Moyamensing Prison, Chestnut Street Theatre, U.S. Naval Asylum, State House, U.S. Mint, and the University of Pennsylvania. Most vignettes include small details like carriages, horses and pedestrians on foot., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 40.14.19
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
- Date
- 1842
- Location
- Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 40.14.19
- Title
- Green's August Flower and Boschee's German Syrup. Portfolio of views in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Presented by R.D. Pulford, druggist, Mineral Point, Wis
- Description
- Eight-page foldout advertisement for George Gill Green's "August Flower" and "Boschee's German Syrup" containing advertising text pages and five views of Fairmount Park including the Fairmount Water Works and Resevoir, originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Also shows horse-drawn carriages pulling men and women racing north on East River Drive under the New York Connecting Railway Bridge, built 1866-67 after designs by Joseph A. Wilson for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Promontory Rock Tunnel, bored in 1871, is visible in the background. Other images include people leisurely rowing on a creek under the bridge to Lansdown Island; park visitors standing on a pathway that overlooks the Schuylkill River from the Fairmount Water Works; and men and women strolling, sitting, and traveling in horse-drawn carriages along Wissahickon Drive. Paragraphs of advertising text promote George Gill Green's "August Flower" as a "natural cathartic" that "corrects the acidity of the stomach," and "it is established fact in every town and village on this continent, that [Boschee's] German Syrup is the only remedy that has given satisfaction in severe cases of Lung Disease." Green was a patent medicine entrepreneur who purchased the rights of these two medicines from his father, Lewis M. Green., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 330
- Date
- [ca. 1876]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Helfand Trade Cards - Patent Medicine - G [P.9828.1686a]
- Title
- Centennial music
- Description
- Centennial music cover page paired with six different songs. Cover page is bound with the song Grand Centennial march by E. Mack with this copy [11479.F (Zinman)]., Cover page copyrighted by J.E. Ditson & Co., Song copyrighted by Lee & Walker., Publisher's advertisement on last page for Oliver Ditson & Company., Cover illustration is a lithograph depicting an exterior view of the Main Building of the exhibition celebrating the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Visitor traffic, on foot, and by carriage and omnibus, traverse the paths of the grounds around the building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Landscaping includes clusters of bushes and trees., Printer: J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., 141 Franklin St. Boston., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 94, Stamped on the cover page: Schaefer Bros. music dealers, Steubenville, O.
- Creator
- Mack, Edward, 1826-1882, cmp
- Date
- c1876, c1875
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Sheet Music Cent 11479.F (Zinman)
- Title
- Bridesburg Manufacturing Company
- Description
- Frontispiece illustration depicting the square, industrial complex of the textile machinery manufacturing company on Richmond Street between Walnut and Locust Streets from the Delaware River. View includes a steamboat traveling north on the Delaware River, a docked sailboat, and laborers and horse-drawn carts and drays near the entrance of the complex. Company originally established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks as Bridesburg Macine Works. Facility was enlarged in 1853, manufactured arms during the Civil War, and returned to manufacturing textile machinery after the Civil War., Not in Wainwright., Published in Bridesburg Manufacturing Company's Descriptive catalogue of machines built by the Bridesburg Manufacturing Company (Bridesburg, Pa., 1867), frontispiece., Catalogue includes fifty-eight lithographs by W. Boell depicting machinery manufactured by the company "to convey to them [patrons] an idea of the innumerable improvements we have made within a few years past, upon the machinery used for carding, spinning, and weaving Cotton and Wool.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 62
- Creator
- Boell, William
- Date
- 1867
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Brides 106980.D.frontispiece
- Title
- Monument to Genl. Mercer. ; Monument to W.Y. Birch
- Description
- View of two monuments in Laurel Hill Cemetery designed by architect J.M. Hamilton. The square pillar surmounted by an urn (left) is for General Hugh Mercer, a physician, and brigadier general in the Continental Army. The column and urn on the right is for William Young Birch, a native of Manchester, England, who moved to the states in 1793 and established himself as a bookseller and stationer in Philadelphia. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Plate opposite p. 25 in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 481
- Creator
- Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
- Date
- 1844
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.25a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.25a]
- Title
- Monument to Oscar Douglass ; Mausoleum E.W. Robinson Esq
- Description
- View of two monuments in Laurel Hill Cemetery including a square pillar monument designed by J.M. Hamilton for Oscar Douglass, a Philadelphia fireman. The mausoleum on the right, adorned by Doric columns, pilasters, and a memorial wreath in the entablature, is for Edward William Robinson. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Plate opposite p. 27 in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 484
- Creator
- Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
- Date
- 1844
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.27a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.27a]
- Title
- Monument to Commodore Hull
- Description
- View of the tomb of Isaac Hull, Commodore in the United States Navy. Hull's tomb was constructed and designed similarly to the tomb of Roman consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, except for the eagle that rests on the decorative scroll work of the lid. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Plate opposite p. 30 in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 480
- Creator
- Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
- Date
- 1844
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.30a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.30a]
- Title
- Monument to J.S. Lewis, Esq
- Description
- View showing two men working with a slab of stone in front of the tomb of Joseph S. Lewis, president of the Schuylkill Navigation Company and chairman of the Watering Committee of the Philadelphia Councils. A carving on the side of the tomb shows the Fairmount Waterworks and dam. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Plate opposite p. 33 in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 482
- Creator
- Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
- Date
- 1844
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.33a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.33a]
- Title
- Family monuments of J.A. Brown Esqr
- Description
- View of the Gothic monument adorned by shafted pillars, arches with cinque and trefoiled interarches, rosettes, and buttresses surmounted by pinacles, built in honor of John A. Brown's three daughters in Laurel Hill Cemetery. The rural cemetery was built 1836-1839 after the designs of John Notman at 3822 Ridge Avenue., Plate opposite p. 35 in Guide to Laurel Hill Cemetery, near Philadelphia: with numerous illustrations (Philadelphia: For sale at the Cemetery, and by the Treasurer; C. Sherman, printer, 1844)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 242
- Creator
- Notman, John, 1810-1865, artist
- Date
- 1844
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(1)11129.O.35a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Am 1844 Phi Lau Hill Cem [(2)11129.O.35a]
- Title
- Police. = Polizeibeamter. ; Bill-Carrier. = Placat Träger
- Description
- Depicts two men standing on the corner on the city street, a policeman in uniform dressed in a blue jacket and top hat (left), the other a bill carrier (right) who wears a sandwich-board for "Dr. Jayne's Sarsaparilla, Philadelphia". Out of sight of the policeman, a man climbs into the window of a property while a gentleman watches in the background. View also includes a horse-drawn carriage., Published in Pittoresque scenes of American life (Philadelphia: John Weik, publisher and importer, ca. 1850)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 612
- Date
- [ca. 1850]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1855 Pit [13493.Q.12]
- Title
- Grand United States Centennial Exhibition 1876. Main Building. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Length, 1880 feet, width, 464 ; Area: ground floor 20.02 acres, upper floors, 1.45
- Description
- View showing the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. View includes flags adorning the building and heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and streetcars in the foreground. Couples stroll the landscaped grounds, enter the hall, converse, and are transported by carriage. Landscaping includes clusters of bushes. Also contains the dimensions (length, width, and area in feet and acres), in the lower corners, for the buildings. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 325
- Date
- 1876
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Centennial [P.9210.12]
- Title
- Cooking ranges Five different kinds of cooking ranges may be seen at the store
- Description
- Advertisement depicting three styles of cooking ranges and furnaces for an unidentified business, including a closed grate cooking range (left)., Title supplied by cataloger., Print trimmed. Originally part of a larger advertisement., Not in Wainwright., Originally part of Charles A. Poulson's scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 44
- Date
- [ca. 1855]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [(1)1525.F.92a]
- Title
- Lehman & Bolton, printers, publishers, [and] lithographers, 418, 420, 422 Library St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertising calendar for 1882 for Lehman & Bolton, a partnership between William H. Lehman and Mahlon Bolton, Jr. formed in 1871. Surrounded by a gilt border, the image shows an ornate stage setting containing classical figures and symbols of the arts, spring, and prosperity, including children surrounded by flowers, fruit, gold coins, a lyre, a marble bust, a tragedy mask, and an art palette. Text describes various kinds of job printing undertaken by the firm., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 53
- Creator
- Lehman & Bolton, lithographers
- Date
- [1881]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Advertisements [1975.F.4 (Phillips)]
- Title
- Plan for the permanent improvement of Independence Square Designed by George F. Gordon
- Description
- Circular illustration showing an oblique elevation looking southwest at Independence Square, situated between Fifth and Sixth Streets, and Chestnut and Walnut Streets, modified with George F. Gordon's proposed changes. Includes old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut); Independence Hall, built 1732-1748 after designs by Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley (520 Chestnut Street); and Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). Eight equidistant walkways, "to be thirty feet wide, to be laid with variegated tile," radiate from the center to the corners of the square and are connected by a circular walk. Also shows the unexecuted Independence Monument (center), slated to be erected by the Thirteen Original States. Two fountains near Walnut Street demonstrate the creator's desire to beautify the square with "fountains, vases, statuary, and flower beds of all varieties"; and bronze statues on pedestals of the fifty-six signers of "The Declaration of Independence" lining the periphery of the square, which on three sides is completely open and accessible to pedestrians via granite steps. Statues of George Washington, William Penn, a group of Native Americans, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay would face Chestnut Street near Independence Hall., Contains passages of explicative text printed on verso. Text describes how to achieve this plan for the square. The old brick wall surrounding the square would be removed, along with the court house on Sixth Street, and the building occuppied by the Philosophical Society on Fifth Street. Gordon submitted his plan and description in January of 1875 "in the hope, that now, at last, in the Centennial hour of our nation, something may be done, worthy of the sacred place in our midst.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 605
- Creator
- Billings, H.B, artist
- Date
- 1874
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Parks & Squares [21095.O.7]
- Title
- The Bergner & Engel Brewing Co., Philadelphia
- Description
- Album containing 37 lithographic illustrations documenting the Philadelphia brewing complex on Thirty-second Street between Jefferson, Master and Thompson Streets, including exterior and interior views of individual buildings within the complex and detailed scenes of laborers operating equipment, transporting the finished product to and from railroad stations, and loading it onto ships. Shows exterior and interior views of the office building on Master Street; exterior views of the brew house and milling department, machine repair shop and fermenting houses; interior views of refrigerating machines, the first and second floors of the brew house, fermenting room, beer storage, cooper shops, racking room, wash house, shipping department, boiler house, pump room, electric light machines, machine repair shop, the ale and porter brewery and bottling house; and modes of transport including a refrigerating car, delivery wagon and locomotive. Other plates depict out-of-state depots and offices in Washington D.C.; Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia; Jacksonville, Florida; and Trenton, Sea Isle City, and Atlantic City, New Jersey and commemorative illustrations of the company's first-place winnings at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and Paris Exposition in 1878., The partnership of Bergner & Engel was formed in 1870 at the brewery of Bergner (erected 1857-1858) following the dissolution of the partnership of brewers Wolf & Engel. Construction of new buildings and additions and the purchase of new equipment for the Brewerytown complex took place in the 1870s. At this time, Bergner & Engel was one of the largest breweries in the country and had an international reputation. Bergner & Engel ceased operations during prohibition., Title from cover., Bound in a fine diagonal-ribbed maroon cloth, black and gilt stamped, with the company's trademark phoenix on the front board., Plates signed A.M.J. Mueller., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 15
- Creator
- Mueller, A. M. J., artist
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [67310.D]
- Title
- Lithographic and letter press printing. Lehman & Bolton, Goldsmiths Hall, Library Street, opposite post office
- Description
- Advertising card containing ornamental lettering and filligree border for Lehman & Bolton, a partnership between William H. Lehman and Mahlon Bolton, Jr. formed in 1873., Date assigned by cataloger., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 57
- Creator
- Lehman & Bolton, lithographers
- Date
- [ca. 1873]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Letterheads - L [P.9349.409]
- Title
- Geo. S. Harris & Sons, printers, engravers, lithographers, 718, 720, 722 & 724 Arch Street, Philadelphia Branch House, 53 State St., Chicago
- Description
- Advertisement containing a montage of images depicting the business and evoking the decorative arts. Includes an exterior view of the firm's building; an interior view showing artisans at work on and around printing presses; object d'art and works of art; an artist's palette; a seascape; printed wallpaper; draperies; and flowers. Exterior view includes street and pedestrian traffic. Harris' firm moved to this address circa 1882 and later relocated to 1033 Chestnut Street circa 1898., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 33
- Creator
- Geo. S. Harris & Sons
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Advertisements [P.9349.406]
- Title
- Geo. S. Harris & Sons cigar box labels and trimmings
- Description
- Trade cards depicting specimens for cigar box labels and trimmings of George S. Harris & Sons. Shows No. 2151 "City cousin," No. 2126 "Mirth and beauty," and No. 2155 "First mate.""City cousin," depicts a young woman reclining against a bale of hay in a field. Above this scene are toiletries, perfumes, and a book of "Happy hour poems" wrapped in a ribbon. "Mirth and beauty" depicts a waist-length portrait of a young girl wearing a large plumed hat. "First mate" shows a sailor in his blue uniform at sea, gripping his straw hat in his right hand, and telescope in his left., George S. Harris opened his lithography business ca. 1847 at 119 North Fourth Street. In 1872, George Harris & Sons moved into a seven-story, "iron front" building erected for the company at 718-724 Arch Street, where they operated the largest lithographic firm in the city, with about 600 employees producing lithographic trade cards, labels for cans and cigar boxes, circulars, calendars and stamped envelopes for patrons worldwide., Not in Wainwright., Advertising text stamped on verso: Geo. S. Harris & Sons, manufacturers of cigar box labels and trimmings, 718, 720, 722 & 724 Arch St., Philadelphia. $15.00 per 1000. $1.60 per 100. Also furnished blank., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 31
- Creator
- Geo. S. Harris & Sons
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade cards - Harris [P.2002.67.2-4]
- Title
- Routes of the two parades by the soldiers and sailors, Friday, October 2d, 1868
- Description
- Trade card by Blood & Chew with text describing the divisions and the route for a soldiers' and sailors' parade on Friday, October 2d, 1868. Includes two woodcuts, one depicting a Civil War soldier with a bayonet, and the other a sailor, both attired in uniforms., Not in Wainwright., Advertising text running the length of the card on the right side reads "neat lithographing and wood engraving," and on the left, "all varieties of plain & ornamental printing.", Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 81
- Date
- 1868
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade cards - B [(1)1322.F.185]
- Title
- Compliments of Burk & M'Fetridge, printers & lithographers, 304 Chestnut, Philadelphia
- Description
- Trade card for lithographers Burk & M'Fetridge depicting a young boy and girl fishing in a body of water near a small cottage. They pull in a net, in which a cupid-like figure is caught with an arrow under his right arm. A sailboat, adorned with a wreath and a red cloth, is docked nearby. Fish from a previous catch lie in the sand next to a picnic basket., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 12, In 1877, William M. Burk and John R. M'Fetridge purchased the Inquirer Printing Office at 304 Chestnut Street from William W. Harding. The firm of Burk & McFetridge Co. succeeded Burk & McFetridge in 1893, when the company was chartered.
- Creator
- Burk & McFetridge
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Trade cards - B [P.9111.15]
- Title
- Fashions by S.A. & A.F. Ward, spring & summer 1850, no. 62 Walnut St. Philad
- Description
- Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 15 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor and an outdoor setting. Scenes surrounded by a border designed as tree branches and tools of the design trade, including rulers, scissors and protractors. Upper panel shows the parlor scene. At the center of the panel, two men stand showing their backs as they peer at the countryside from the curtained window. They are flanked by two groups conversing in the parlor. On the left side, a woman attired in a bonnet, long pleated shirtwaist, and white gloves stands in the middle of two men attired in long jackets, vests, and neck ties. The men on the right side wear the same style, while the woman wears a dress with a low cut neckline, gloves, and a small hat. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. Furniture in the parlor includes a high back chair, wing chair and an ottoman. Lower panel shows a beach scene and a hunting scene. Dividing the two are a man and a woman mounted on horses. The woman sits sidesaddle in a long skirt, shirtwaist, and hat. Her male companion, and the men gathered in front of their horses, are attired in vests, jackets, cravats and top hats. A casually-dressed, barefoot man, wearing loose trousers and an unbuttoned white shirt, observes the scene from a distance. On the opposite side of the horses, two men gather their prey from a recent hunting expedition. One man stands with a rifle in his right hand and points at the dead hare and fowl at his feet as another man, more casually dressed, puts the kill in a sack. A dog is curled up, asleep at their feet., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 69, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3070]
- Date
- [1850]
- Location
- Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3070]
- Title
- [Interior and exterior of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon hospital, southwest corner of Washington and Swanson Avenues, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Proof print containing side by side views of the volunteer hospital situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South. Interior view (left) shows a hospital ward. Mainly empty beds line the walls, including a small draped off area, and a male and female volunteer (carrying a tray of medicine) attend to two patients, one seated, and the other in a bed. The ward also includes a stove, books resting on a draped table, and framed prints adorning the walls. Exterior view (right) shows a patient arriving by gurney outside of the small hospital building that is adorned with a flag pole and eagle ornament. A volunteer waits by the open door as children and female passers-by watch the scene. Also includes two boys playing on a wood gate, two dogs in the street, and the main building of the volunteer saloon in the background., Attributed to James Queen., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints and drawings (C size)-55 prints Saloon Hospital
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints and drawings (C size)-55 prints Saloon Hospital
- Title
- Fashions by S.A & A.F. Ward spring & summer No. 62 Walnut Philada. 1852
- Description
- Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 17 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor and an outdoor, country setting. Scenes surrounded by a border designed as foliage and filigree. Upper panel shows the parlor scene. Three men attired in suits, top hats and canes converse. One man leans against a writing desk, one shows his back, and the other man is seated in a wingback chair . At the center of the panel, a woman wearing a full dress with wide sleeves stands with a boy, a girl, and a puppy. A man wrapped in a lavish robe and fez hat sits on chaise lounge, looking right in the direction of two men who stand and converse. Lower panel shows a country scene. At the center of the scene two women attired in long-sleeve dresses and plumed hats are seated sidesaddle on horses. The men flanking the two women are attired in vests, jackets, cravats and top hats and some hold canes. One of the men rests his right hand on a rifle. A boy dressed in a vest, pants, boots and cap plays with a hoop and watches the horses. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. Key numbered 1-17 printed below the figures., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 71, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3067]
- Date
- 1852
- Location
- Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3067]
- Title
- Fashions for spring and summer 1853 by S.A. & A.F. Ward, No. 62 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pa
- Description
- Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 15 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor and a fair setting. Upper panel shows the parlor scene. Eight of the nine men are attired in jackets, vests, cravats, top hats and canes. Some wear plaid and striped pants. One man, seated with sheet music in his lap and a stringed instrument by his side, is attired in an elaborate silk robe. The remaining men, most standing, converse in groups and study framed images hanging on the wall. The left image is a landscape, and the right depicts a portrait of an older man. Lower panel shows the New York Crystal Palace, an exhibition building designed by Georg Carstensen and German architect Charles Gildemeister and constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City in 1853. View includes foot, carriage, and omnibus traffic. Couples, children and dogs stroll the grounds. In the foreground, flanking the view of the exhibition building, are six figures, including a gentleman standing with his back shown, looking at a woman on a horse and a boy holding a watering can. The man is attired in a jacket, top hat and cane, and the boy wears a ruffled cape-like jacket, knickers and a cap. The woman, sitting sidesaddle, wears a dress, jacket, gloves and a plumed hat. On the right side, two men stand with a boy. All of them wear jackets, vests, cravats, patterned pants, boots and hats. One man holds a rifle in his left hand. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. New York's 1853 exhibition was held on the site now home to Bryant Park. A fire destroyed the exhibition building in 1858., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 76, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3068]
- Date
- 1853
- Location
- Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3068]
- Title
- Fashions, fall & winter, 1850-1, by S.A. & A.F. Ward, No. 62 Walnut St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 21 elegantly attired men, women, and children in outdoor settings. Scenes surrounded by a border designed as bare tree branches. Upper panel shows five men, three women, and two boys dressed in autumn clothing. All of the men wear jackets, vests, and cravats. Some wear, or hold, top hats, and one man sports a double-breasted coat. One woman is attired in a long-sleeve, high-collared dress, and wears a hat adorned with a feather. She is about to clasp the hand of a boy standing with her, who is dressed similarly to the men in the image, with a long waisted jacket and pants. The woman in the center is attired in pearls, bangles, and an elaborate, shoulder-bearing dress with a flounced skirt. The woman to her right shows only her profile, and is covered in a bonnet and ruffled shawl over her skirt. Another boy, dressed in a cropped jacket, pants, and a cap, stands nearby. Lower panel shows a winter snow scene in the country. Ten men and one boy stand conversing in their layered winter clothing, which includes jackets, capes, coats, vests, cravats, pants, boots and hats. Some wear gloves and hold canes. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. Snow, bare trees, fences, and a country house are visible in the background., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 71, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3074]
- Date
- 1850
- Location
- Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3074]
- Title
- Fashions for fall and winter 1848-9 by S.A. & A.F. Ward, no. 62 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa
- Description
- Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 20 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor and outdoor setting. Upper panel shows six men and two women conversing in a parlor decorated with fine furniture and carpet. All of the men wear long jackets, vests, pants, and cravats. Some hold top hats and canes and wear gloves. An older gentleman is seated in a wing back chair with a paper in his left hand. Attired in high collared, long-sleeve dresses, one of the women holds a hankerchief and the other wears a top hat with a veil. Lower panel shows a fall scene of eight men and four boys standing and conversing in a field near a body of water. They are dressed in layers of clothing, including coats, capes, vests, cravats, striped pants, plaid plants, boots, top hats, and gloves. Two men hold canes and another a rifle. Many of the depicted men have mustaches and or sideburns. The boys, similarly dressed in long jackets, pants, boots, and caps, hold canes and a hoop. Buildings, possibly country homes, are visible in the background., Not in Wainwright., Illegible signature in lower right corner., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 74, Smithsonian Institution NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3073]
- Date
- 1848
- Location
- Smithsonian Institution | NMAH Home and Community Life Collection SI NMAH H&CL - Harry T. Peters America on Stone Collection [DL *60.3073]
- Title
- The grounds and buildings of the United States Centennial International Exhibition, May 10th to November 10th 1876
- Description
- Bird’s eye view looking toward East Fairmount Park showing the entire expanse of the exhibition grounds in West Fairmount Park. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows the English Commissioners Building, U.S. Government Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, Ladies’ Pavilion, Judge’s Hall, Horticultural Hall, offices, Photographic Hall, Art Gallery, and the Main Building. Also shows fountains, hotels, and the Columbia, Girard and New York-Connecting Railroad bridges spanning the Schuylkill River. Cityscape is visible in the background. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Printed with red tint stone: The Only Complete View of the Centennial Exhibition officially recognized., Signatures of the Director General, Architects, and Engineers printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, American Antiquarian Society: Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 3, AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 2, untinted.
- Creator
- Smirke, Sydney, 1798-1877, artist
- Date
- c1876
- Location
- American Antiquarian Society AAS Graphic Arts Lithff Pran Smir Grou Copy 3
- Title
- [Philadelphia Brewery]
- Description
- Advertisment showing the brewery marked as established "1861" and adjacent residences. Horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels from the brewery depart the fence-lined, landscaped property from under an archway reading "Philadelphia Brewery" and travel in the street in the foreground. Also shows a couple walking on the sidewalk in front of one of the residences., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, Trimmed, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 [Philadelphia Brewery]
- Title
- Girard College for Orphans, at Philadelphia, Pa
- Description
- View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder’s Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. Shows several figures walking the grounds of the school in addition to street and pedestrian traffic including horse-drawn carriages and coaches, men on horseback, promenaders, and a laborer pushing a hand cart. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 307/308, Library of Congress: DLC PP 2001: 068 Girard College
- Creator
- Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1845]
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC PP 2001: 068 Girard College
- Title
- Knights of Pythias [membership certificate]
- Description
- Membership certificate containing vignettes of scenes representing the tenets of the order (i.e., friendship, benevolence, and charity) composed within a border designed as a monument. Scenes include figures attired in Roman costume during acts of intervention from persecution and imprisonment. Also contains bust-length portraits of Roman soldiers, allegorical female figures, and emblems of the order, including a sword laid on an open Bible; crossed swords; a sprig of myrtle; and spikes. Knight of Pythias was an international, non sectarian, fraternal order established in 1864 on the principles of "toleration in religion, obedience to law, and loyalty to government.", Text printed with green ink., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by S.S. Davis Supreme Chancellor., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 129, Library of Congress: PAGA 7, no. 2005e (E size) Knights of Pythias
- Date
- c1873
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PAGA 7, no. 2005e (E size) Knights of Pythias
- Title
- Ansicht von Fairmount in Philadelphia
- Description
- View looking from the east bank of the Schuylkill River showing the Fairmount Water Works originally built between 1812 and 1822 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff. Shows the engine house; mill house; pavilion on the mound dam, stand pipe (built 1852) and Reservoir Hill. View also includes two men with a canvas and easle on the river bank across from a steam boat traveling on the water in the foregound and the Wire Bridge at Fairmount (built 1841-1842) in the background., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 22, Library of Congress: PR 13 CN 2001: 033
- Date
- [ca. 1852]
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PR 13 CN 2001: 033
- Title
- The little homeless one or "no one to kiss me good night"
- Description
- Sheet music cover containing a view looking down an alley of wooden buildings, probably in Philadelphia. Shows a male figure leaning on a lamppost in front of a girl seated on the sidewalk and leaning on a shed on a street lined with debilitated colonial-style small wooden dwellings., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: P&P Sheet Music Little Homeless One
- Date
- c1867
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC P&P Sheet Music Little Homeless One
- Title
- Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., office 2 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
- Description
- Exterior view of the terminal, factory complex and railyard adjacent to the piers and wharves at Greenwich Point along the Delaware River in South Philadelphia. Signage reading "Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co." adorns the storage warehouse on the pier in the foreground, and "Office Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co." is painted in large letters on a smaller building nearby. The on-deck rail carries cargo on tracks to and from docked ships into the second floor of a long building that sits behind Tygert-Allen's warehouse on the pier. Super phosphates storage, millroom, storeroom, engine house and boiler house are all located within the long building. Locomotives and carts full of freight travel along the railroad tracks that run parallel to the factory buildings. Workers and horse-drawn carts and coaches labor throughout the complex. A barge carrying railroad cars is docked in front of a slip labeled "P.R.R. Ferry". Several lines of elevated railroad tracks carrying carts and locomotives run next to the slip and into the distance. Steamboats with smoke billowing from the stacks and sailing vessels with men on deck approach the piers in the foreground. The Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Co., formed by J.E. Tygert, H.S. Tygert and Penrose Allen about 1889, also operated an office at 2 Chestnut Street. A fire in February 1892 destroyed most of the buildings within the factory complex, causing a loss of about $50,000., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 256
- Creator
- Packard, Herbert S., 1850-1912, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.2008.34.29]
- 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
- Commercial lithography. Theo. Leonhardt & Son, s.e. cor. 5th & Library sts. opposite Drexel Building, Philadelphia Bonds. Certificates of stock. Checks. Diplomas. Cards. Letterheads & Labels
- Description
- Copperplate of an advertisement for the firm used in the 1894-1897 editions of Gopsill's Philadelphia City Directory. Contains a view looking southeast of the multi-storied lithographic establishment and vignettes of the front and back of the "Silver Medal" awarded to the business by the Maryland Institute for "Lithographic Work" in 1878. View includes street traffic. Leonhardt & Son was a partnership established circa 1874 between Theodore Leonhardt and his son Arno. The firm operated from 123-125 South Fifth Street, i.e., s.e. cor. 5th and Library streets, beginning in 1890., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 11, See Gopsill's Philadelphia city directory for 1894 (Philadelphia: James Gopsills Sons, 1894), p. 1162.
- Creator
- Theo. Leonhardt & Son
- Date
- [ca. 1884]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department printing plates - Inventory #700
- Title
- The old court house & Friend's Meeting
- Description
- Book illustration showing the courthouse (built 1707 by carpenter Samuel Powell) and meeting house known as Market Street Meeting House (erected 1695, rebuilt 1775-1776) on North Second Street above Market Street. Also shows pedestrian traffic. Courthouse was utilized as the town hall, seat of the Legislature, market house, and the Pennsylvania statehouse until Independence Hall was opened in 1748. Building demolished in 1837., Plate opposite page 166 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 521/522
- Creator
- Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
- Date
- [1833]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Am 1833 Wat [Log 2794.D.opp166]
- Title
- Panorama of Philadelphia The Merchant's Exchange
- Description
- Derived from a print created by J.C. Wild in 1832, this view looks west from the intersection of Third, Walnut and Dock Streets and depicts the Merchant's Exchange constructed 1832-33 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland for the Philadelphia Exchange Company. Includes street and pedestrian traffic concentrated near the business center and the City Railroad tracks. Many horse-drawn omnibuses, including the Spruce Street, Navy Yard, West Philadelphia and Fifth Street lines, arrive and depart. Men and women stand and converse in the streets or on the steps of the exchange. Also shows buildings on the south side of Walnut Street and Gold Street., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856, by Schnabel, Finkeldey & Demme, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 543
- Creator
- Collins & Autenrieth, artist
- Date
- 1856
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW – Banks – Merchant’s Exchange [P.2008.34.19]