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Title: The Little Home Street Called Cuthbert
Description: Depicts a narrow cobblestone redidential street with a few people standing in the street. A cart is being unloaded in the background., Taylor Catalog Number: 312
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1914

Title: Busy Sansom Street
Description: Shows a busy commercial street lined with businesses. The street holds pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, a trolly, and an early automobile., Taylor Catalog Number: 21
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1914

Title: At Sixth and Walnut Streets
Description: Street view of the corner of Sixth and Walnut Streets. Pedestrians, a trolley, and an early automobile populate the street, while the corner building reads, "Union Casualty Insurance Company.", Taylor Catalog Number: 17
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1914

Title: South Broad Street in 1915
Description: Aerial view of South Broad Street. A parade with men on horseback and a marching band fills the street while onlookers line the sidewalk., Taylor Catalog Number: 11
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1914

Title: A Vista of Old Front 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 sketch, from a contemporary photograph, depicts a central section of old Front Street in the period when a once popular residential district had been invaded by business and those then living were crowded into the upper floors. Behind many of these dingy fronts yet remain the cluttered apartments - once ornate parlors and banquet halls wherein vanished generations of the socially elect held carnival, youth made love and portly merchants talked of growling trade and fruitful ventures in far lands. Front Street, in these modern days is crowded with the clutter of such a business as those old timers never visioned., Taylor Catalog Number: 149
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: At Seventh and Chestnut Streets in 1853
Description: Balcony view of Barnum's Museum from across Chestnut Street filled with horse-drawn carriages. A woman in the foreground wearing a ruffled dress looks down on the busy street from the balcony, while a dog rests in the chair next to her., The Waln mansion, one of the city's most pretentious residences, was built in 1807 by William Waln, a son of the more widely known Nicholas Waln, at the southeastern corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets. The owner, having fallen upon evil days, sold the property to William Swaim, whose medical laboratory was located adjoining upon the south. Dr. Swaim's son removed the Waln house in 1848 and built upon the site the structure here depicted. The upper floors were devoted to a large concert hall and exhibition rooms, which were opened in the winter of 1848 as "Silsbee's Atheneum and Museum." A few years later Phineas T. Barnum leased the establishment and conducted it to the delight and instruction of Philadelphia, until it was destroyed by fire on the night of December 30, 1859. The drawing is made from a lithograph printed in 1853., Taylor Catalog Number: 76
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: A Busy Corner of Old Down Town
Description: Intersection of Second and Chestnut Streets lined with commercial buildings. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalk while a horse-drawn carriage moves down the street., The story of every old landmark round about Second and Chestnut Streets should antedate the Revolution. The original structure at the northeast corner was very time worn when Billy Wigglesworth had his toy store there in 1790. Since then this and the adjoining property have been repeatedly built over. This corner was always a poptular center of the boot-making industry. Here was gathered, in long-ago times, a variety of retailers, profiting by location at the intersection of the city's two busiest highways. The drawing herewith portrays the buildings as seen in 1857. The Corn Exchange Bank had its first home here, and the successor of that institution, the Corn Exchange National Bank, occupies the handsome modern building which covers the same site., Taylor Catalog Number: 55
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Sixty Years Ago at Fourth and Walnut Streets
Description: View of residences on the corner of Sixth and Walnut Streets in 1854, which were replaced by the Fire Association in 1910., This glimpse of by-gone Philadelphia dwellings has been sketched from a painting made in 1854, which is treasured by the Fire Association, whose splendid modern building at the northwest corner of Fourth and Walnut streets now covers the site. At the period when the original picture was made these houses were still residential, finding room, however, for some of the then numerous, but now long forgotten, railway, canal and mining companies, then active. The brownstone building which was subsequently built here was replaced by the Fire Association in 1910., Taylor Catalog Number: 59
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Gray's Ferry and Gardens; A Bartram House on Woodland Avenue
Description: Contains two panels depicting homesteads on the Schuylkill River. The top image shows a three-story building with a two-story porch on the front. The bottom panel shows a two-story residence with a horse-drawn carriage waiting outside., Gray's Ferry and Gardens: A map of 1750 indicates two Gray homesteads upon the east side of the Schuylkill River, where the Gray family had long served wayfarers by ferry across the stream, at first by the batteaux and later by means of a floating bridge of logs, which connected the odl Gray's Gerry Road with the Southern Post Road, now known as Woodland Avenue. This bridge was rebuilt by the engineers of the British Army in October, 1777. Forts were placed to defend it and armies crossed to and fro. After the Revolution G. and R. Gray environed their tavern upon the Kingsessing shore with spacious gardens. On April 20th, 1789, Washington, on his way to assume the Presidency of the Republic, crossed the bridge beneath triumphal arches, and in the following year he was twice the chief figure of distinguished gatherings attending splendid fete's at Gray's Gardens. The decline of Gray's resort began with the opening, in 1803, of the permanent bridge at Market Street, and after the completion of the famous plowed railway sidings, fell from its high estate, lapsing into the ruin depicted in this print, drawn from a Newell photo. A Bartram House on Woodland Avenue: This sturdy house, located upon the east side of Woodland Avenue just north of Fifty-fourth Street, formerly stood well back from the road in the shade of large trees. It was built by William, a son of John Bartram, in 1807. The frame work is of heavy hewn timbers. When Bartram's lane gave way to Fifty-fourth Street the house stood in the road and was moved to its present site. The porch was built by the father of Councilman H.D. Beaston, who lived here for many years., Taylor Catalog Number: 161
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1913

Title: "The Oldest House in Philadelphia"
Description: Shows the building on the corner of two narrow cobblestone streets. A horse-drawn carriage waits outside., For the accuracy of the above title the "Founders' Week Committee," charged with the duty of marking historical places within the city, made itself responsible when it so marked the ancient house hidden away within the block east from Third Street and south from Chestnut Street; to be more exact, at the southwest corner of Carter's Alley (now Ionic Street) and Exchange Place. For many years past a saloon has occupied the structure, upon the northern wall of which there is a marble Keystone bearing the date of its erection in 1692. There are external evidences that the original front faced southward, probably upon a garden space sloping downward to Dock Creek. The heavy timbering of the house is well preserved. No research among early historical works of local limitations has uncovered any credible traditions concerning its builder or those who, in the course of its two and a quarter centuries of existence, lived within its walls. Here is a tempting nut for later delvers to crack., Taylor Catalog Number: 164
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1918

Title: Stephen Girard's Farm House
Description: Shows an ivy-covered farmhouse, identified as having been owned by Stephen Girard., Possibly as a diversion from his thronging business cares, Stephen Girard bought seventy-five acres of ground in Passyunk in the year 1797, and there established a model farm. The location was "three miles from Philadelphia upon the Fort Mifflin road." The residence he there erected is still preserved as is the property of the city. The drawing has been made from photos taken before modern changes were made. Doubtless the financier and merchant lived here at times, finding delight in his choice cattle and sheep and in his productive fields up to the period of his death, at the end of the year 1830., Taylor Catalog Number: 153
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Continental Hotel
Description: Image of a large hotel on a busy street corner., This long and notable hotel was displaced in 1924 to make room for a modern business structure. It catered to the travelling public through more than sixty years of service. When opened it ranked as one of the four most notable hotels of the nation. The first proprietors were the Kingsleys. The house contained 450 rooms and was conducted upon the "American plan" of a definite daily charge. Its location was due to the burning of the "circus," which had long occupied the site; an event which changed the plans of the Butler Hotel Company, which had intended to build upon the nortwest corner of Chestnut and Eighth Streets. The Continental had the largest bar in the United States., Taylor Catalog Number: 351
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Historic Mansions Become Green's Hotel
Description: View of a four-story hotel on a cobblestone street a horseback rider goes down the street while a horse-drawn carriage waits in front of the building., Much is preserved in the architecture of the Green's Hotel which identifies it with the notable residences which once occupied the site. The front walls, some of the original apartments with their heavy chandeliers and a fine colonial stairway still exist. Just where the hotel office is placed was the portal, considerably more than a century ago, of the home of Edward Burd, whose son, Edward Shippen Burd, bought and lived in the large and elaborate residence at Ninth and Chestnut streets. The Burd home was occupied subsequently by Mr. Burd's son-in-law, Daniel W. Coxe, and after his death by several descendants. This house was leased in 1798 to Robert Morris, and it was here, just opposite the unfinished mansion of his hopes called the "Folly," that ruin enveloped him. From here he fled to aviod importunate creditors to the mansion at Lemon Hill. The house at the corner of Eighth street was built by Gen. Philemon Dickinson, of New Jersey. In 1837 it was altered into a four-story structure, which was called the Union Building, and was popular for many years as a meeting place for societies. The quaint old assumbly hall, now a feature of the hotel, remains almost unchanged. The Franklin Library Association, Pennsylvania Literary Institute and Artillery Corps of Philadelphia Grays were among the tenants. The two buildings were adapted to restaurant purposes by Peter A. Dooner in 187-. The two buildings were reconstructed and became Green's Hotel. Mr. Green conducted the house in 1893 when it was taken over by Mr. Newton, who organized the Green's Hotel Company. Mr. Robert J. Diamond, who is still active in its management had been identified with the hotel from 1883., Taylor Catalog Number: 80
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Historic Mansions Become Green's Hotel
Description: View of a row of three residences, one of which has been converted into a hotel. Pedestrians stand on the sidewalk and a horse-drawn carriage waits in the street., Much is preserved in the architecture of Green's Hotel which identifies it with the notable residences which once occupied the site. The front walls, some of the orignal apartments with their heavy chandeliers and a fine colonial stairway still exist. Just where the hotel office is placed was the portal, considerably more than a century ago, of the home of Edward Burd, whose son, Edward Shippen Burd, bought and lived in the large and elaborate residence at Ninth and Chestnut streets. The Burd home was occupied subsequently by Mr. Burd's son-in-law, Daniel W. Coxe, and after his death by several descendants. This house was leased in 1798 to Robert Morris, and it was here, just opposite the unfinished mansion of his hopes called the "Folly," that ruin enveloped him. From here he fled to avoid importunate creditors to the mansion at Lemon Hill. The house at the corner of Eighth street was built by Gen . Philemon Dickinson, of New Jersey. In 1837 it was altered into a four-story structure, which was called the Union Building, and was popular for many years as a meeting place for societies. The quaint old assembly hall, now a feature of the hotel, remains for societies. The quaint old assembly hall, now a feature of the hotel, remains almost unchanged. The Franklin Library Association, Pennsylvania Literary Institute and Artillery Corps of Philadelphia Grays were among the tenants. The two buildings were adapted to restaurant purposes by Peter A. Dooner in 1875. In 1883 the buildings were reconstructed and became Green's Hotel. Mr. Green conducted the house to 1893 when it was taken over by Mr. Newton, who organized the Green's Hotel Company. Mr. Robert J. Diamond, who is still active in its management had been identified with the hotel from 1883., Taylor Catalog Number: 80
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The "Sorrel Horse" and the "Rising Sun"
Description: Image of an old three-story building surrounded by a picket fence. A caption in the bottom left corner reads, "Sorrel Horse Hotel, Fifty First St. and Woodland Ave. The upper floor is of modern construction. Original part was built in 1800.", Just southwestward of the old Darby Road Toll-gate at Forty-ninth Street there yet remain two time-worn structures once popular with speeders on their way to or returning from Suffolk Driving Park. The first, known as the "Sorrel Horse," is at Greenway lane, just beyond Fifty-first Street. It bears the date of 1800. Some owner, in the time of its decadence, has removed its dornered roof and built above the old walls a third floor as a place of teh storage of odds and ends of many sorts. The other, famed as the "Rising Sun," probably dates from colonial days. Not since the era when "two-forty on the plank road" was the nation-wide synonym of speed records have these old-timers known the prosperity of the crowded stable yards and equally crowded tap rooms. They linger as reminders of days and ways long gone of interest chiefly to the passing artist and the oldest inhabitant., Taylor Catalog Number: 183
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1919

Title: The "Sorrel Horse" and the "Rising Sun"
Description: View of a stone and lumber building with a sign that labels it "David F. Ferguson Storage." A caption in the bottom left corner of the image reads, " Rising Sun Hotel, Woodland Ave. below 54th St.", Just southwestward of the old Darby Road toll-gate at Forty-ninth Street there yet remain two time-worn structures once popular with speeders on their way to or returning from Suffolk Driving Park. The first, known as the "Sorrel Horse," is at Greenway lane, just beyond Fifty-first Street. It bears the date of 1800. Some owner, in the time of its decadence, has removed its dormed roof and built above the old walls a third floor as a place of the storage of odds and ends of many sorts. The other, famed as the "Rising Sun," probably dates from colonial days. Not since the ears when "two-forty on the plank road" was the nation-wide synonym of speed records have these old-timers known the prosperity of crowded stable yards and equally crowded tap rooms. They linger as reminders of days and ways long gone of interest chiefly to the passing artist and the oldest inhabitant., Taylor Catalog Number: 181
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1919

Title: The William Penn Hotel
Description: View of the four-story William Penn Hotel and adjacent horse market., This ancient hostelry has been a cheery feature of Market Street beyond the Schuylkill River from the days when that busy highway was a country road and Thirty-ninth Street just west of it, was "William" Street. It is closed at last. It was a favorite resort of generations of horse-dealers, a vocation now passing out. From this old tavern stages departed via the "permanent" bridge for the city, and westward out the West Chester pike. One day, some twenty years ago, the last stage ever leaving Philadelphia made its final trip from here to Newton Square., Taylor Catalog Number: 196
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1919

Title: The Franklin House, Later the St. Louis Hotel
Description: Image of a large five-story hotel with a second-floor balcony on a busy street. There is a sign above the porch that says, "Franklin House.", Franklin Court was opened through to Chestnut street in 1825. At that period a three-story house stood at the northeast corner of Chestnut street and the Court, in which the Post Office was located. The Franklin House was built upon the ground now covered by the First National Bank, in 1842, by David Winebrenner. It was opened by Joseph M. Sanderson & Son, who formerly managed the Merchants' Coffee House and the City Tavern. It was conducted upon the European plan. The restaurant and an elaborate bar were here in the forwarding letters at 6 1/4 cents postage until suppressed by the Government as illegal. In 1853 the first meeting of citizens was held in the parlor of the hotel for the object of the consolidation of the city. The property was bought in 1860 by Charles Petry, famous among "good livers" of the time, who renamed the house the St. Louis Hotel. Two years later he sold to Henry Neill and James Devoe. The St. Louis Hotel surrendered to finance in 1866, when it was displaced by the modern structure of the First National Bank., Taylor Catalog Number: 123
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Once a Fashionable Hotel
Description: Depicts a row of residences on the corner of Seventh and Walnut Streets. People stand on the corner, and a horse-drawn carriage waits in the street., The fine, typical old residence here depicted was built about he year 1807 at the southwest corner of Walnut and Seventh Streets (once known as Columbian Avenue). It was erected by Captain John Meany, and in the sixty years of its existence housed a numhber of notable families, and was also famed as a fashionable restaurant and hotel. Some of those who lived here were Mr. Parish, merchant and importer; Lonard Keocker; Dr. John Syng Dorsey (who died here); Dr. George McClellan, father of Gen. George B. McClellan, who was born in this house. Joseph Head opened the residence in 1824 as a "gentlemen's restaurant and club house." It was in fact, a predecessor of Mr. Boldt's "Bellevue" of recent memory. In the same year of the "First Troop" tendered a dinner of historic renown at "Head's" to Gen. Lafayette. A later occupant was Josiah Randall, Esq., who was resident here when D.J. Kennedy and E.H. Klemroth made the drawings from which this present picture had been painted. The site is now covered by the building of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society., Taylor Catalog Number: 57
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Bull's Head Hotel and First American Rail Track
Description: Contains two panels of locations where the first railway experiments took place. The top image shows front view of a three-story building labeled the Bull's Head Hotel. The bottom image shows a rear view of the same building where workers take care of horses and other animals in the courtyard., In the year 1809, the staid citizens of Philadelphia were agog with curiosity over a strange and mysterious thing upon a vacant tract beside the Bull's Head Tavern upon Second street, near Poplar street, just where there yet remained some remnants of the old line of defenses against teh rebel colonists, which were erected by British troops in 1777. Here a civil engineer named John Thompson, from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and a Scotch millwright named SOmmerville were busy, during September, constructing a track of wooden rails resting upon sleepers eight feet apart, and having a grade of one and a half inches to the yard. When completed, it extended a hundred and eighty feet. This undertaking was upon the order of Thomas Leiper, a Scotchman, who had come to Philadelphia from Virginia many years before, and was best known as a tobacconist. He was also one of the survivors of those soldiers of the First Troop Philadelphia Cavalry, who had met the British at Princeton. At the time of this experiment, he was sixty-three years old, and had above $100,000 invested in turnpikes and canals in the state. He was also a contractor for stone just north of Chester, by sloops sailing up the Delaware River. When the experimental track was ready, a car with grooved wheels was placed upon it, and it was found that one horse could pull a heavy load upon the rails with more ease than several horses used upon an ordinary road. Thereupon, John Thompson secured a contract to build a similar track from the Leiper quarry to the landing upon Ridley Creek, ten miles down the river, a distance of one mile. This tramway was finished early in the following year. The son of the contracting engineer, John Edgar Thompson, afterward had an important part in the building of the early railroad lines now a part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, and became the President of that great corporation, a position which he held for twenty-seven years. The Leiper quarry tramway upon which horses were the motive power was in use nineteen years, and was teh first practical rail line built in the United States. In 1829, the son of Gen. Leiper completed a canal to the quarry, and the tram line was abandoned. The old Bull's Head Tavern where Leiper's seemingly absurd and costly experiment took place, no longer exists., Taylor Catalog Number: 83
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Falstaff Hotel
Description: Image of the hotel on the corner of Sixth and Jayne Streets and the adjacent brewery., This quaint hostelry stood, until comparatively recent times, at No. 26 South Sixth Street, at the upper corner of Carpenter Street (now Jayne Street). It was built prior to 1817 and was originally called the "Washington Tavern." It was probably renamed the "Falstaff" in recognition of its popularity among the actors from the Chestnut Street Theatre, long located at Sixth and Chestnut Streets, these Thespians and their friends finding refreshment here after the close of the drama of the evening. Gray's brewery, adjoining upon the north, was, with the exception of the Morris brewery, the oldest in the city. William Gray bought the property in 1772. The main structure was back from the street. The two-story building shown in the drawing was built in front of the brewery about 1820., Taylor Catalog Number: 177
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Merchants' Hotel on Fourth Street
Description: View of the busy Merchants' Hotel on Fourth Street. People walk in and out of the entrance while horse-drawn carriages wait outside., The Merchants' Hotel, upon the west side of Fourth street, between Market and Arch streets, was built in 1837 by a company of business men who felt the need of providing up-to-date quarters in the jobbing district for visiting customers. The hotel had rooms for 500 guests. For a long period it was considered one of the best houses of its class in the country. With the shifting of trade centres and the erection of the Girard, Continental and other more elaborate hostelries the old "Merchants" lost its vogue. It ceased to be profitable and was finally reconstructed for manufacturing and mercantile purposes. This drawing was made from the grounds of the Friends' Meeting opposite., Taylor Catalog Number: 122
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Blue Anchor Tavern and Dock Creek
Description: View of the Blue Anchor Tavern and the adjacent creek, as well as a wooden bridge, and small boats., The basis of this drawing is the familiar wood-cut in Watson's Annals, made probably from a description. Minor details are, of course, due to artistic license. The "Blue Anchor," Philadelphia's first public house, was built, wholly or in part in 1862 [sic, i.e., 1682], the site being at the Dock Creek, on the west side of Front street. Beyond it upon the higher ground were scattered some eighty houses. When William Penn arrived Landlord Guests' house was still in the carpenter's hands. It was here, arriving at the public dock, which gave the creek its name, he came ashore with his associates, very likely the first travelers to "register" at a Philadelphia hotel. Guest and his successors as managers of the "Blue Anchor" were all Quakers. They were Reese Price, Peter Howard and Benjamin Humphries. At one period the tavern was named the "Boatswain and Call." The drawbridge superseded a ferry. Seagoing vessels entered the creek to obtain fresh water from excellent springs upon the shores. When the old stream was closed about 1875 an arched causeway was built at Front street., Taylor Catalog Number: 119
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Red Lion Inn
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., Travelers in the era of stage-coaches knew the good fare of the Red Lion Inn, in the valley of Poquessing Creek, near Torresdale. It was, from 1730, a noted stopping point on the Old York Road route. In that year a license was granted to Philip Amos. Seventeen years later it was conducted by his widow. A tablet in the wall records that in 1774 the Massachusetts delegates to the first Continental Congress dined here. Indeed, the list of notables of our colonial and national history who sat at its tables would make an impressive showing. Generations of artists have found this ancient hostelry a favority subject. In 1919, when this drawing was made, it still ministered to the wants of "man and beast.", Taylor Catalog Number: 178
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1919

Title: The Passing of the Windmere
Description: View of a hotel slated for demolition near the intersection of Broad and Locust Streets. The building in the background, formerly the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, is currently the Hyatt at the Bellevue hotel on Broad Street., The Windmere Hotel, here depicted: a glimpse of the towering Bellevue-Stratford rising above; fairly typifies the old as compared witht hte modern, in our local hotels. At this writing, in 1922, it is marked for removal. Originally a group of private residences, the Windmere as long served as a quiet family hotel, of the sort much in favor with the many who care for central locations. Its site, at Broad and Locust Streets, will doubtless soon be covered by something in the shape of a hive of business offices., Taylor Catalog Number: 261
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Dooner's Hotel
Description: Sketch of a well-kept hotel on a street corner, which only served men., This hotel, one of the last of its type, in Philadelphia, was opened in 1883, by Thomas Dooner, who had previously conducted a hotel at Chestnut and Eighth Streets. "Dooners" catered to men only and had always a capacity patronage. It has now, at the beginning of 1924, been sold to the Federal Reserve Bank and will soon, it is understood, be replaced by a structure required by the business of that financial corporation. In recent years Dooner's has been conducted by Mr. Thomas F. Dooner, the son of its founder., Taylor Catalog Number: 338
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1924

Title: The Tiger Inn, Fourth Street and Old York Road
Description: Depicts the inn and surrounding buildings at the intersection of Fourth Street and York Road, including the flag pole., At the junction of a section of Old York road which remains and Fourth Street stood, until 1921, the picturesque remnant of the Tiger Inn. A century ago it was a station where the hurrying stages, en route to New York, took on uptown passengers. There is record that from the balcony of this little tavern, Lafayette addressed the people when last visiting America. The flag staff seen in this picture was originally raised in 1810 by James MItchell, a neary-by merchant. An effigy of the Indian, at its top, serves to keep alive the tradition that here the last council of the Indians was held prior to their removal from the town. This drawing was made in 1921., Taylor Catalog Number: 286
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Exit the Continental
Description: Streetview of a hotel slated for demolition. Pedestrians mill about on the sidewalk., After sixty-three years of service this noted hotel is, at this writing, early in 1923, being scrapped. When the sites of the old circus and the Peale museum were bought by the Butler hotel company and a million dollars devoted to the enterprise the public was amazed. Newspapers predicted disaster. But the big hotel, which was to be called the "Penn Manor," was an immediate success. When this sketch was made the workmen had already attacked the parlor-floor balcony where, upon February 21st, 1861, a tall westerner, Abraham Lincoln, President-elect, first appeared to a Philadelphia crowd and realized its loyalty. Here, in the passing years many another distinguished visitor has looked down upon busy Chestnut street and its surge of life as coming generations will, doubtless, view the scene from the greater hotel which is to replace this old landmark of changing Philadelphia., Taylor Catalog Number: 298
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Old Bellevue
Description: Busy street scene on a rainy night. Pedestrians walk with umbrellas and the street is filled with automobiles., Taylor Catalog Number: 6
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Germantown's King of Prussia Inn
Description: View of a brick inn with a sign advertising it as "King of Prussia.", This once-noted old hostelry, built in 1739, was removed in 1910. It was located upon Germantown Avenue above School Lane. It ceased to provide entertainment for man and beast about 80 years ago. The drawing, showing modern changes, has been made from a recent photograph. This tavern was long adorned by a sign depicting King Frederick upon a horse, a painting attributed to Gilbert Stuart. Mr. Charles F. Jenkins states in his entertaining history of old Germantown that Thomas Jefferson sojourned here during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. The inn and its outbuildings were used by the British after the Battle of Germantown for hospital purposes., Taylor Catalog Number: 141
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: "The Cherry Tree"
Description: View of a small wooden hotel on a cobblestone street with a wraparound porch. Men stand outside and a horse-drawn carriage waits in the street., One of the best known of the many small "inns" strewn along the old highways leading outward from the city was the "Cherry Tree Hotel," which swung its welcoming sign upon Baltimore Road at Forty-seventh Street, "holding the fort" there until the spread of modern residential operations engulfed it and it was replaced by a modern tavern, which preserves the old name, although the famous old tree no longer yields its luscious burden of fruit. This drawing has been made from a sketch providently pencilled by its neighbor, the present artist, when its destruction impended some fifteen years ago., Taylor Catalog Number: 28
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: A Revolutionary Shrine at Haddonfield
Description: Sketch of a three-story tavern shaded by trees with a large porch and produce stand in the front., The historic Indian King Tavern, at Haddonfield, N.J., is locally known as the "New Jersey Independence Hall." It was here that, upon March 18th, 1777, the Council of Safety for New Jersey met and where, also, in the following September, the Legislature formally created the state. The building was erected in 1750. In recent years the property was bought by the state and is now maintained, in charge of a commission, as a depository of Revolutionary relics and documents. This drawing was copied from a sketch made before the restorations were undertaken by the state authorities., Taylor Catalog Number: 50
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Tun Tavern
Description: Depicts the Tun Tavern and adjacent buildings. Men stand on the front porch and pedestrians stroll down the sidewalk in front of the building., This quaint inn of the Colonial days was situated in Water Street, its exact location being now a matter of some doubt. That it was a resort of good repute is proven by the fact that the Masonic Grand Lodge covened here between the years 1732 and 1735, and that Lodge No. 3, which gathered beneath its roof from 1749 to 1755, was known as the "Tun Lodge.", Taylor Catalog Number: 350
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: General Wayne Tavern
Description: View of a stone inn shaded by trees and surrounded by hedges., This house was one of the most popular of the many inns which were formerly scattered along the Lancaster turnpike. It is located at Frazer Station upon the Main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The present building was erected after the Revolution upon the site of an earlier tavern dating from about 1745. It was orignially called the Admiral Vernon. It is now a private country home. Such changes as its present owner has made have been effected without injury to the interesting original woodwork or the exterior design. It is located about twenty miles from Philadelphia., Taylor Catalog Number: 267
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The "Bell"
Description: View of a small, cramped tavern on a cobblestone alleyway. Two people stand at the entrance., This tavern, familiar to bibulous citizens as the "Bell," was long located at 48 South Eighth Street. It was built prior to 1828, at which time it was conducted by Hines Causland. In 1845, it was managed by James Boylen. The daguerreotype from which this drawing was taken was made at that period. It was always a favorite rendezvous for certain politicians. The original other half, at No. 26, was the home of Robert Bogle, a well-known negro caterer, who is said to have been the last tenant. Half buildings of this sort were once common in the city and a few examples still exist., Taylor Catalog Number: 67
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Fox Chase Tavern
Description: View of a hotel hotel with a wraparound porch and people standing in front, while a horseback rider and a horse-drawn carriage wait outside. A sign above the entrance reads, "Fox Chase Hotel.", This typical example of the once plentiful and profitable road houses of the suburbs was located at Rhawn Street when the northeastern section of the city was still open country and, as its name suggests, the sport of fox hunting was still in vogue. Such of these old hostels as yet remain, although no longer centres of convivial resort, at least provide interesting subjects for the pencil of the artist., Taylor Catalog Number: 329
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Inasmuch Mission
Description: Reproduction of a drawing of a busy street scene with the four-story "Inasmuch Mission Men's Hotel and Restaurant" at 1019 Locust Street, Philadelphia. Completed in 1913, the mission house, the exterior resembling a warehouse, rehabilitated "fallen" men through religious and social services. Scene includes views of the nearby markets adorned with awnings under which men and women shoppers peruse displays, converse, and stand idle. The African American man, attired in a bowler hat, a shirt, a jacket, pants, and shoes, stands leaning against the awning pole with his hands in his pockets. In the right, the Chinese man, wearing a queue and attired in a tunic, pants, and slip-on, cloth shoes, stands against a wall and looks down the street away from the viewer. A horse-drawn wagon and pedestrians traverse the street. In the left, a man organ grinder with a monkey entertains children standing on the sidewalk., Copyrighted., Drawn by artist in 1914., See accompanying pamphlet containing the artist's descriptions of the views, "Ever-Changing Philadelphia" (Philadelphia: Frank H. Taylor), p. 6., Accessioned circa 1916., RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, artist
Date: [drawn 1914, printed 1915]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Taylor - Case 11-6 [2717.F]

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