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Title: S. Griffiths, manufacturer of wrought iron tubes and fittings for gas, steam and water. Works in Vine st: betw: Schuylkill 2d and 3d Streets. A constant supply at warerooms no. 15 Nth. Del. 7th St, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the "Spring Garden Tube Works" on Vine Street above Twentieth Street. Signage reading "S. Griffith's Manufacturer of Wrought Iron, Welded Tubes, For Gas, Steam, Water" adorns a doorway that is flanked by spiral tubings. Employees work in the windows of the two-story factory, exit the doorways with tubes, and load horse-drawn carts parked in front of the building. Also shows a side-alley on which a horse-drawn cart loaded with coal is guided to the furnace at the rear of the works. Griffiths was listed at a Vine Street address from 1845 to 1854 and circa 1860-circa 1868., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 669, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 35 G 855
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 35 G 855

Title: Rialto House, Christopher Dusch, proprietor. Fairmount Park
Description: Advertisement for the Rialto House tavern and restaurant north of the Fairmount Waterworks on the east bank of the Schuylkill River. Shows several activities occurring around and at the three-story tavern with cupola. Tavern patrons stand on the porch, balconies, and cupola as horse-drawn street cars travel past the establishment. In the foreground, visitors wait at a boat landing under an elegant shelter and in front of a ferry boat about to dock. Also shows scullers and men in rowboats, including one fishing, on the river. A boat house, probably Quaker City, is visible in the left distant background. The tavern served lager beer, fried catfish, and mint juleps., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 647, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 32 R 235
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 32 R 235

Title: The City Hotel, No. 41 North Third St. near Market St. Philadelphia Is one of the most extensive establishments in the city, having in addition to its numerous double and single bedded chambers, for gentlemen. Parlors, with chambers attached, fitted up expressly for families. This house is in the centre of business and convenient to the post office, banks, and other public institutions of the city. R. W. Dunlap. Proprietor
Description: Advertisement showing the very busy four-and-a-half story hotel opened in 1807 on Third Street below Arch Street. Includes partial views of adjacent buildings. Several male guests lounge on the porch as a gentleman enters the hotel. Also shows pedestrians and a valet hauling luggage with a hand cart. Contains a N.B. about "charges moderate" for a "ladies' dining room, for the accommodation of families, that do not wish a private parlor." The hotel closed soon before the Civil War., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 133, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 32 B 813
Creator: Brown, Mannevillette Elihu Dearing, 1810-1896
Date: [ca. 1832]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 32 B 813

Title: View of the Fountain in Franklin Square, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the working central marble fountain in the public square, originally known as the Northeast Square, laid out between Race, Vine, North Sixth, and North Franklin streets. Depicts several well-dressed park visitors, including a fashionable couple on promenade and men seated on park benches encircling the fountain. Also shows trees lining the plaza, a guard house, lamp posts, and partial views of buildings in the background. Built in 1837, the fountain was one of several improvements to the square following the relinquishment of the grounds by the German Reformed Church circa 1836. Square renamed in 1825., Publication of print referenced in Saturday Courier, June 29, 1839., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 800, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 824 B 675
Creator: Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?
Date: [1839]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 824 B 675

Title: [Bird's eye view of the Centennial Exhibition grounds, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia]
Description: Trimmed detail of a bird's eye view looking toward the city showing the exhibition grounds. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows several of the exhibition buildings, including the Main Hall, Machinery Hall, Memorial Hall, Horticultural Hall, U.S. Government Building, and Agricultural Hall. Several exhibition attendees walk and use carriages on the landscaped grounds between the buildings. In the foreground, park visitors view the vista from a tree-lined cliff and small observation deck. Some converse and make sketches. In the background, the New York Connecting Railway Bridge and Girard Avenue Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River are visible in addition to cityscape. Trains approach and depart from the bridges and steamboats traverse the river. View surrounded by an ornamental border. Many of the buildings designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 48, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 8 Z 99
Date: [1876]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 8 Z 99

Title: In park at Philadelphia
Description: Print containing 4 titled views of landscapes in Fairmount Park. Includes "Near Fountain Green"; "Near Columbia Bridge" (2 views); and "On Wissahickon." All the images include trees and rock formations. Three include one or more park visitors. Fountain Green, built around 1781, was the estate near the Schuylkill River (East Fairmount Park) originally settled by John Mifflin around 1679. It became a tavern and picnic site for Engel and Wolf Brewery around 1849. The mansion was torn down in 1871. "Near Columbia Bridge" views do not contain the Columbia Railroad Bridge, one of the oldest railroad bridges in the United States, completed in 1834., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 373, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 18 K 81, Includes registration mark., Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 18 K 81

Title: [Rose of the Centennial Exhibition]
Description: Souvenir shaped as a rose when opened and containing 30 vignette views of prominent buildings, landmarks, and iconography associated with the Centennial Exhibition printed on the recto and verso. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Vignettes captioned in English and German. Includes the "Facsimile" of the seal of the Centennial and the "Centennial Medal" containing allegorical female figures; Old Time Cabin; United States Government Building; Women's Pavilion; Judge's Hall; House of Public Comfort; the German, English, and French Commission buildings; Spanish Building; The Old Time Windmill; Independence Hall; Machinery Hall; Art Gallery; Agricultural Building; Horticultural Building; Japanese Dwelling; Brazilian Commissioners Building; Centennial Newspaper Building; Main Building; The Corliss Engine; Centennial Waterworks; The Lake Fountaine [sic]; Main Building Western Entrance; Photographic Association; Cook's World's Ticket Office; Swedish School House; Fountain in the Horticultural Hall; and United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Several of the views include park visitors. Also contains rose details. Many of the buildings designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 660, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 8 C 395
Date: c1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 8 C 395 recto, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 8 C 395 verso

Title: [Rose of the Centennial Exhibition]
Description: Souvenir shaped as a rose when opened and containing 30 vignette views of prominent buildings, landmarks, and iconography associated with the Centennial Exhibition printed on the recto and verso. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Vignettes captioned in English and German. Includes the "Facsimile" of the seal of the Centennial and the "Centennial Medal" containing allegorical female figures; Old Time Cabin; United States Government Building; Women's Pavilion; Judge's Hall; House of Public Comfort; the German, English, and French Commission buildings; Spanish Building; The Old Time Windmill; Independence Hall; Machinery Hall; Art Gallery; Agricultural Building; Horticultural Building; Japanese Dwelling; Brazilian Commissioners Building; Centennial Newspaper Building; Main Building; The Corliss Engine; Centennial Waterworks; The Lake Fountaine [sic]; Main Building Western Entrance; Photographic Association; Cook's World's Ticket Office; Swedish School House; Fountain in the Horticultural Hall; and United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Several of the views include park visitors. Also contains rose details. Many of the buildings designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 660, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 8 C 395
Date: c1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 8 C 395 recto, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 8 C 395 verso

Title: Fairmount Park Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Uncut sheet containing 2 views of landscapes in Fairmount Park titled "In Robert's Hollow oppst. Laurel Hill" and "Ravine below Laurel Hill, Philada." Views include waterfalls, brooks, rocky cliffs, spectators, trees, and animal life. Spectators include young men and a boy., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 234, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 81 L 372, Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 81 L 372 Roberts Hollow, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 81 L 372 Ravine

Title: Fairmount Park Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Uncut sheet containing 2 views of landscapes in Fairmount Park titled "In Robert's Hollow oppst. Laurel Hill" and "Ravine below Laurel Hill, Philada." Views include waterfalls, brooks, rocky cliffs, spectators, trees, and animal life. Spectators include young men and a boy., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 234, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 81 L 372, Kollner advertised in 1878 four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 81 L 372 Roberts Hollow, Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 81 L 372 Ravine

Title: Explosion and burning of the cartridge factory, cor. Tenth and Read [sic], March 2[9]th 1862
Description: Disaster scene showing the aftermath of the explosion of the factory of Professor Samuel Jackson located in South Philadelphia. Shows people fleeing, trapped, and engulfed in flames at the ruins of the burning factory. In the foreground, a man rushes to cover a man's body that has had its head and arm amputated; men throw buckets of water and blankets on women on fire; individuals carry the wounded; comfort the survivors; rush in with buckets; and hose the fire. Also shows a man looking in horror from a train car in the left of the image and debris flying in the air and lying on the ground. Over 15 people, including the son of the proprietor, perished in the explosion of the factory that was contracted to produce one and a half million experimental "solid water proof patent cartridges" during the Civil War. Jackson, a Philadelphia pyrotechnist and inventor, began the manufacture of fireworks in Philadelphia in 1837. He continued in pyrotechnics until 1887, when he began to manufacture danger signals for railroads. During his pyrotechnic career, a number of his establishments were destroyed through explosions., Name of artist supplied by Wainwright., The numeral "9" printed in the reverse in the date in the title., Inscribed on recto: North of Moyamensing Prison. Philada., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 215, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 83 C 328
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: [1862]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 83 C 328

Title: The great conflagration in Philadelphia on Tuesday July 9th 1850 Terrific explosion of saltpetre [sic] in Water Street. Houses destroyed by the fire 500 _ Killed 57_Wounded 115_ Loss of property over one million of dollars
Description: Disaster scene showing the commotion in front of the partially destroyed stores of John Brock & Co., and Gordon and Berger at 39 (i.e., 100 block) North Water Street. People hold a crowd back as fire fighters attend to the collapsing building spewing a cloud of smoke. A family, including a mother and child, flee past fire fighters rushing to a fallen comrade as debris falls down upon them. Also shows a man kneeling near the Vine Street Wharf as another stands in the center of the view with his arms up in the air. The explosion emanated from a fire started by the friction of a hoisting-machine igniting a large store of gunpowder and saltpeter in the Brock, and Gordon and Berger building. The blaze that spread about one square mile between Front and Callowhill streets destroyed actually about 367 houses and stores. Several people were blown into the Delaware River and residents evacuated as a result of the explosion., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 329, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 83 P 544, Rosenberg, a landscape, portrait, and figures painter, worked in New York and Philadelphia during the 1850s and 1860s.
Creator: Rosenberg, Charles G., artist
Date: c1850
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 83 P 544

Title: Diligent Fire Engine. Instituted July 4, 1791. Incorporated April 1, 1831 Heights reached by the streams of the engine at a trial of power over Dr. D. Jayne's Building May 22, 1852. Single stream to height of 196 feet 6 in. thro. in nozzle. 2 side stream to height of 155 feet thro 3/4 inch nozzle. 4 streams 2 side and 2 gallery 134 feet, thro 1/2 nozzle. Built by Patrick Lyon, 1820. Rebuilt by Jno. Agnew, 1836. Committee appointed by the co. to decide. P.C. Ellmaker, Phonix House Co. S. A. Battiers Empire. H. & L. E. Stratton, Harmony Fire Co
Description: View of the hand-powered Philadelphia-style fire engine that performed a pumping demonstration at the Jayne office building at Chestnut Street below Third Street. Contains double decker end-stroke hand pumpers. A trumpet hangs from one of the pumper levers. Also adorned with a panel decorated with an allegorical figure representing "Diligence.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 52, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 832 D 576, Inscribed on verso: From Mrs. H. L. Carson, May 20, 1891.
Creator: Heiss, George G., artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 832 D 576

Title: Old house, 4820 [sic] Germantown Ave
Description: View of the residence of Christian Lehman (1714-1774), a surveyor and cartographer, who also was a proprietor of a nursery, at 4818 Germantown Avenue. Shows the stone house, set back from the cobblestone street, and with a yard, fence, and gate. Two additions are attached to the rear of the dwelling. Trees and shrubs line the property., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 525, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 84 R 511, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 39:25, Inscribed on verso: Presented by Mrs. John C. Browne, Oct. 10, 1918., Hart originally issued a series of prints of Germantown between 1863 and 1888, several of which were published as John Richards' Quaint old Germantown in Pennsylvania. A series of sixty former landmarks of Germantown and vicinity... Collated, arranged and annotated by Julius Friedrich Sachse (Philadelphia, 1913).
Creator: Richards, John, d. 1889, artist
Date: [ca. 1863-ca. 1888]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 84 R 511

Title: [First Reformed Presbyterian Church, Broad Street between Spruce and Pine streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view showing the building of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church (i.e. Wylie Memorial Church) erected in 1854 on the 300 block of Broad Street after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. Pedestrian traffic, including a couple on promenade, walk in front and in the courtyard beside the church. Congregation organized in 1798. Church renamed in the early 1890s for long-term pastors T.W.J. Wylie and Samuel Wylie., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 262, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 136 C 445, Library Company of Philadelphia copy, gift of David Doret, and acquired after completion of Philadelphia on Stone project. Digital image is copy at Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Trimmed.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 136 C 445, Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.6]

Title: Penn Steam Engine & Boiler Works foot of Palmer Street Kensington Philadelphia Neafie & Levy, engineers, machinists, boiler makers, black smiths & founders. Manufacturers of high & low pressure marine & stationery engines, boilers of all descriptions, propellers, iron boats, water tanks, heavy & light forgings, iron & brass castings, coppersmithing, pattern making, & an extensive assortment of all patterns of all kinds on hand. Having extensive wharf & dockroom are always prepared to build and repair engines & steamers at the shortest notice. Every facility offered for lifting heavy & light weights. Jacob G. Neafie. John P. Levy
Description: Advertisement showing several marine vessels docked in front of the engine & boiler works complex at the busy river front. Complex contains several buildings, including a "boiler works," "steam works," an "office," "ship house," and "smith shop." One of the buildings contains a weather vane adorned by the figure of William Penn. Teams of several horses haul materials on trucks past the boiler and steam works. Laborers, including men attending to a massive pipe in a yard lined with steam engines and other machinery, work on the docks, piers, and boats at the complex. Docked vessels include the tug boat "Columbia," paddleboats, barges, a sailboat, and other tugs. Also contains a vignette of a paddleboat and a sailing ship on each side of the title. The firm established as Reaney, Neafie & Levy in 1844, specialized in iron boats and engines, and later steam fire engines. Reaney left the partnership to start his own shipyard in 1859. Neafie & Levy remained in operation until 1907., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 41.31.1/2
Creator: Rease, W.H
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 41.31.1/2

Title: Raising the stand pipe for the Germantown Water Works. Birkinbine & Trotter, engineers
Description: View showing the engineering crew using a windlass to raise the standpipe in a large field at the corner of Tulpehocken Street and Wayne Avenue on August 13, 1851. Several men work large cranks, in the foreground and background, as others guide the lifting, including a man elevated on a section of the hoisting apparatus. In the right, the foreman talks to two men in white coats, probably the engineers, while another group of well-dressed men converse to the left near a small crowd of spectators. Two workers carry pulley ropes while they walk toward the lass. Another laborer grabs a bucket with one hand as he holds the unwinding rope of one of the cranks with the other. Pasture land is visible in the background. The Germantown Water Company delivered water from the location 1851-1872. The standpipe was sold in 1873 and demolished., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 54.64.3, Trotter was a cousin of Edward H. Trotter, one of the partners of Birkinbine & Trotter.
Creator: Rease & Schell, lithographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 54.64.3

Title: Charles Oakford United States steam leuring model hat manufactory Hats, caps, & furs wholesale and retail. 104, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the interior of the wholesale and finishing department (est. 1850) of the manufactory for the hat business established in 1827. Oakford stands with a business client in the center of the room across from his steam powered leuring lathe and several male employees at work. The laborers stand and form hats at their stations, which line two-thirds of the room. The stations include a drawer as well as a cubby for pieces under construction. Toward the back of the room, another employee stacks hats on a table across from shelves lined with them. In the foreground, a boy packs the merchandise into a box marked "From C. Oakford 104 Chestnut St. Phila." View also includes a wall clock and a shovel lying near the oven of the steam lathe. Leuring lathes turn hats to impart a sheen to the fur fibers and create a polished look., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 46.57.5.2
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 46.57.5.2

Title: Philadelphie
Description: Bird's eye view after the John Bachmann print published by J. Weik in 1857. Predominately shows the built city from the Schuylkill to the Delaware rivers and Port Richmond to South Philadelphia. Market Street runs down the center of the view. Shows the residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying areas of Center City. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia, Windmill Island, and Camden, NJ. and public utilities, bridges, railroad depots, and reservoirs. Includes from west to east, grounds for the Agricultural Society Fair of 1856, the Woodlands, Blockley Almshouse, the Upper Ferry Bridge, Market Street Bridge, the two Gas Works, Fairmount Water Works, Girard College, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Naval Asylum, Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mark's Church, Christ Church, Independence Hall, Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Peter's Church, and Spark's Shot Tower. Also shows the five major squares (as well as Independence Square) and adjacent landmarks, including the P.R.R. Freight Depot, U.S. Mint, First Independent Church, Pennsylvania Asylum for the Blind, and Will's Eye Hospital. Masts of docked ships line the piers along the Delaware and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Pedestrian and street traffic is also visible on the city road ways. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border the built city to the North and South., Printed upper right corner: 90., Philadelphia on Stone, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 865 A 844
Creator: Asselineau, Léon-Auguste, 1808-1889, artist
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bc 865 A 844

Title: The city of Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view looking east from West Philadelphia showing the city between West Philadelphia, the Schuylkill River, East Falls/Germantown, and Southwark/Grey's Ferry. Shows the residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying areas of Center City. Also shows the Schuylkill River, grounds of the Centennial Exhibition (West Fairmount Park); Treaty, Smith, and Windmill islands; Camden, NJ. and public utilities, bridges, railroad depots, and reservoirs. Includes from north to south, Glenwood and Oddfellows Cemetery, Columbia Bridge, Centennial buildings (Art Gallery, Memorial Hall, Main Hall), Connecting R.R. Bridge, Reading R.R. coal wharves (Port Richmond), Germantown, Girard Avenue Bridge, Fairmount Park, Kensington Depot, House of Refuge, Eastern Penitentiary, Fairmount Water Works, Wire Bridge, Reading Depot, Penn. R.R. Depots & Car Works (West Philadelphia), Franklin Square, Cathedral of Saints Peter & Paul, Logan Square, Market Street Bridge, New York Depot, New Post Office, Masonic Temple, future City Hall, Chestnut Street Bridge, Independence Hall, Public Ledger Building, Continental Hotel, La Pierre House, Washington Square, Academy of Music, Rittenhouse Square, Pennsylvania General Hospital, Philadelphia and Baltimore R.R., South Street Bridge, Navy Yard, Jefferson Square, Moyamensing Prison, Baltimore Depot, and U. S. Arsenal and Naval Asylum Building. Masts of docked ships line the piers along the Delaware and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Train, pedestrian, and street traffic is also visible on the city road ways and railroads. Key to major landmarks and streets printed below the image. Streets include Girard Avenue, Westminster Avenue, Aspen Street, Fadline Street, Haverford Street, Bridge Street, Powelton Street, Lancaster Avenue, Market Street, Chestnut Street, Walnut Street, and South Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 137, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 865 P 267
Creator: Parsons & Atwater, artist
Date: c1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bc 865 P 267

Title: Main Exhibition Building & Horticultural Hall, International Exhibition. Fairmount Park. Philadelphia. 1876
Description: Print containing views of two of the main buildings to be erected at the Centennial Exhibition. Views include heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, horseback, and omnibus in the foreground. Also contains the dimensions (length, width, and area in feet and acres) of the buildings in the lower corners. The buildings were built after the designs of Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the anniversary of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by the Centennial Board of Finance., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 450, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Medium Society Prints - Centennial - Misc. - Folder 12
Date: c1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Medium Society Prints - Centennial - Misc. - Folder 12

Title: View of the grounds and buildings International Exhibition. Fairmount Park. Philadelphia. 1876
Description: Bird's eye view looking toward Fairmount Park showing the exhibition grounds. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Shows several of the exhibition buildings, including the Main Hall, Machinery Hall, Memorial Hall, Horticultural Hall, Judges Hall, Ladies Pavilion, U.S. Government Building, Agricultural Hall, and state buildings, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. In the foreground, across from the Transcontinental Hotel, people arrive on Elm Avenue by foot and omnibus and crowd the entrances to the fair. Several exhibition attendees walk and use carriages on the landscaped grounds between the buildings. In the right, pedestrians and carriages traverse the major roadway on the outskirts of the grounds near the Columbia Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. Also shows the fountain near the Pennsylvania Building, the observatory tower on Belmont Hill, and the 24th Ward Reservoir on George's Hill. Key to 24 depicted buildings printed below the image. Many of the buildings designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 802, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Medium Society Prints - Centennial - Bird's Eye Views - View of the grounds
Date: c1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Medium Society Prints - Centennial- Bird's Eye Views - View of the grounds

Title: Bird's eye view. Centennial International Exhibition. Fairmount Park. Philadelphia. 1876
Description: Bird's eye view looking toward East Fairmount Park showing the proposed buildings on 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, the Total Catholic Abstinence Fountain, and the Columbia Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. Figures representing fair visitors populate the view. Also contains the dimensions (length, width, and area in feet and acres) of the buildings in the lower left corner. Key to buildings printed below the image. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, and Joseph M. Wilson., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 45, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Medium Society Prints - Centennial - Bird's Eye Views - Bird's eye view
Creator: Aubrun, Louis, artist
Date: c1875
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Medium Society Prints - Centennial - Bird's Eye Views - Bird's eye view

Title: Eastwick & Harrison's improved locomotive engine
Description: Shows the 4-4-0 steam locomotive, Gowan & Marx, built 1839 by the firm after the designs of Joseph Harrison, Jr. The locomotive, for its weight, was the most efficent for freight purposes at the time. The firm established as Garrett, Eastwick & Co. was renamed Eastwick & Harrison in 1839 after the retirement of Garrett, when Harrison, a junior partner became a full partner., Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note on recto and mount: This locomotive engine "Gowan & Marx" hauled the freight train over the Philadelphia & Reading R. Road from Pottsville to Philada. D. J. Kennedy., Attached to sheet containing two photographic reproductions of Philadelphia and Reading Railroad broadsides dated 1839 and 1840., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 63, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: K VII 46
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: [ca. 1839]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP K VII 46

Title: Shoe & Leather Building. International Exhibition, 1876. Fairmount Park Philadelphia
Description: View of the exhibition building built after the designs of Alexander B. Barry that displayed all the mechanical processes of making shoes and boots. Includes several fair visitors on the grounds in front of the building. Individuals walk, converse, admire a fountain, enter the hall, and sit on a bench in a small landscaped area. The grounds are lined by a tree and bushes. Also shows part of Machinery Hall in the right of the image. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by William H. Huntington., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 695, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Medium Society Prints - Centennial - Misc. - Shoe & Leather
Date: c1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Medium Society Prints - Centennial - Misc. - Shoe & Leather

Title: View of the Wire Bridge at Fairmount, Philadelphia Erected in 1842
Description: View looking northeast from below the Wire Bridge of Fairmount, the first suspension bridge in the United States, built over the Schuylkill River from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. Show pedestrians, men on horseback, wagons and carriages approaching, crossing, and departing the bridge near the Fairmount Waterworks. Waterworks include the engine house, mill house, and pavilions on the mound dam and Reservoir Hill. Also shows people fishing on the river, a man carrying a fishing pole over a foot bridge to the canal lock, men seated on the incline to the bridge, and a hotel building. The bridge was removed in 1874., Copyrighted by George Lehman., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 809, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 7 W 798
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: c1843
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 7 W 798

Title: From the Paris mantilla cloak and fur emporium. 920 Chestnut Street, Philada J. W. Proctor & Co
Description: Advertisement label showing an exterior view of the clothing store. Several cloaks are displayed in the storefront windows. A female clerk helps a customer at the entrance. Pedestrian traffic, predominately women wearing cloaks, pass on the sidewalk. Proctor relocated his store from 708 to 902 Chestnut Street in 1862., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 287, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 7, LCP holds engraved copy of advertisement. [Ph Pr - 8x10 - Businesses (7)1322.F.453i].
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 7

Title: J. M. Hafleigh & Co. Retail dry goods. No. 1012 & 1014 Chestnut St
Description: Advertisement showing an exterior view of the dry goods store built by contractor John Ketcham. Patrons enter and several pedestrians, including women with parasols, walk in front of the store. Large draped mounds are visible in the display windows. Also shows the proprietors name and address etched in the frieze above the entryway as well as an "H" on an arched tablet adorning the roof., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 398, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 5, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 10th-11th
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 5

Title: Ficken & Williams, steam sugar refiners, Crown, Willow and Fifth streets
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the refinery complex in Northern Liberties. View surrounded by an ornamental border. Includes the office building adorned with signage. Horse-drawn wagons travel and are parked in front of the buildings. A man on horseback passes coal bins lining the side of the multi-storied processing plant of the complex. Also shows smokestacks and a tank. Advertising text flanking the view promotes "Double Loaf," two types of "A Crushed" "Patent Cut Loaf," "Chip Crushed," "Pulverized," "Lozenge do." and "Granulated" in addition to "A" "B" and "C" coffee and "X Yellow" and "Yellows.", Not in Wainwright, Published in Edwin T. Freedley’s Philadelphia and its manufactures : a handbook of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia in 1867 (Philadelphia: E. Young, 1867), opp. p. 472., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 246, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories, Box 57, Folder 6
Date: [1867]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories, Box 57, Folder 6

Title: Jacob Haehnlen's steam power lithographic & letter press printing rooms Goldsmith's Hall, opposite rear of Post Office, Library St. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the exterior of the six-story brownstone and print shop owned by lithographer Haehnlen at 420 Library Street. Signage advertising the "lithographic establishment" adorns the doorway, front, and side of "Goldsmith's Hall." Building also adorned with large display windows and an eagle above the entranceway. View includes street and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians walk on the sidewalk, stand in doorways, and enter the shop. In the street, horse-drawn wagons and drays, including one hauling crates marked "J.H.," pass in the street near a man pushing a hand-cart loaded with crates. Shop included salesrooms and offices, a machine shop, a drying room, lithographic presses, and card, handbill, and pamphlet printing presses. Haehnlen established his own studio at Goldsmith's Hall in 1866 and operated his business from all but the first floor. He sold his shop to the firm Lehman & Bolton in 1870. Building destroyed by fire on December 20, 1882., Not in Wainwright., Published in Philadelphia southern steamship manufacturers and mercantile register (Philadelphia: M'Laughlin Brothers, 1866) [LCP Am 1866 Phi Sou Mai, 62062.O]. Accompanying page of text references the relocation of the shop and advertises "Orders received for Furniture Labels for Druggists, on Glass; also, Show Cards of all descriptions, on Glass executed to order., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 48, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Prints - Stores & Factories - Box 57, Folder 2, Accompanying page of text
Creator: Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824
Date: [1866]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Prints - Stores & Factories - Box 57, Folder 2

Title: E. O. Thompson, merchant tailor, no. 908 Walnut St. Philadelphia Ready for the season. Please accept with the compliments of the proprietor this circular as a cordial invitation to visit his establishment
Description: Circular advertisement containing an "Interior view of E.O. Thompson's Merchant Tailoring Establishment, no. 908 Walnut Street, Philadelphia." Shows the elegantly furnished interior of the shop designed with a fresco ceiling and crown moldings. In the foreground, a display table lined with bolts of cloths stands in the center of the room. Surrounding furnishings include armoires, display dressers covered with bolts of cloth, large mirrors, and an ornate mantelpiece. Objet d'arts, books, and framed fashion plates adorn the mantel that is flanked by two wood chairs. A samovar on a small table stands in front of the mantelpiece. Framed fashion plates also adorn the walls in addition to chandeliers. In the background, four shop tailors trace patterns, and cut and measure cloth in a middle room that leads to another room with tables of cloth on display. Interior also includes an umbrella stand and wall clock. Covers of the circular show two full-length portraits of a younger and older man attired in suits. The younger wears a plaid suit and stands in front of a bureau displaying bolts of cloth. The older man wears a suit with a long coat and an overcoat. Both of the men hold hats. Cover and interior image also contain advertising text about the business hours, original and patented systems of cutting, and "nothing omitted essential to the business" and "everything and every effort to please." Thompson, a New York tailor, established his Philadelphia branch of his business in 1860, which expanded to include a ready-made clothing house in 1886. Thompson's sons Benjamin and E. O. Thompson, Jr. assumed the business in 1897., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 194, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Prints - Stores & Factories - Box 57, Folder 9, Inscribed: Mifflin Fund. October 31, 1955.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Prints - Stores & Factories - Box 57, Folder 9

Title: Adam & Co.'s express "polka" Composed expressly for Adams & Co., and respectfully dedicated to E. S. Sanford Esq. by Francis Weiland
Description: Sheet music cover containing an exterior view of the Philadelphia-branch office situated next to Carpenter's Hall court at 116, i.e., 320 Chestnut Street. Signage listing the name and services of the company, and manager Edward S. Sanford, adorns the five-story building. Shows laborers loading an "Adams & Co" horse-drawn express wagon as in the street a dog runs between it and a departing "California Express" wagon hauling crates. A man holding a valise sits on the crates. Two men, including possibly Sanford, watch the scene from the building doorway. Pedestrians bear witness from the sidewalk. Company clerks are visible in the second floor windows of the building. Also contains partial views of the neighboring storefronts, including shadowy display windows of merchandise. Shows perfumer Edward Roussel (114, i.e., 318) and Montgomery Hart & Co. paper hangings (118, i.e., 322). A bear adorns the building of Roussel. The express service company established by Alvin Adams of Boston in 1840, began a Philadelphia branch circa 1843, and was incorporated in 1854., Copyrighted by J. Paul Diver., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 10, Atwater Kent Museum: 53.32.2. Includes music., Francis Weiland was a Philadelphia music teacher.
Date: [c1852]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 53.32.2

Title: Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Print containing an exterior view and three titled interior views of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Exterior view shows heavy street activity. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train stops on the grounds in front of a cheering crowd of spectators. Hundreds of soldiers line up to enter and depart the "Hot Coffee and Refreshment" and "Water" stand and "Dining Saloon Free for Volunteers"; officers direct foot traffic onto the train; and other soldiers enter the adjacent "Post Office" and are greeted by women in front of a row of adjoining row homes. Also shows the O.K. House in the background, the fence of "W. Thorn Lehigh & Schuylkill Coal Yard, and an American flag marked "Union for Ever" adorning the saloon. Interior views, framed by filigree, shows a line of soldiers at, and others waiting for a row of wash basins at the "Washing Department"; the "Interior of the Dining Saloon Free for Union Volunteers" where soldiers wait in line for food, eat standing up at tables, and are served by female volunteers; and civilian spectators watching the men volunteers of the "Cooking Department" attend cauldrons atop ovens and carry baskets of food and large coffee pots. and freedmen., Also contains facsimile signatures of saloon supporters and a vignette portrait of General Winfield Scott below the image. Portrait framed by a laurel wreath held in the beak of an eagle surrounded by American flags, a fasces, cannons, and a banner reading "Respectfully dedicated by the Committee to Winfield Scott General in Chief of the U.S.A." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing., First state., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 V 58c
Creator: Boell, William
Date: c1861
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P]

Title: Franklin Fire Co. of the city of Philadelphia [membership certificate]
Description: Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters racing down a street on a horse-drawn steam fire engine during the day; firefighters, two with trumpets, drawing a hand-pump fire engine out of the station during the night; and an exterior view of the Franklin Fire station. Fire fighting equipment including a trumpet, ax, and belt are drawn bundled together to form a decorative element below the vignettes. Images are bordered by hoses, including two squirting water into the air, and two entwined around the company number "12." Also contains a vignette showing a firefighter shielding a family from flames as a fellow volunteer is at the ready with an ax. Vignette captioned with the company motto "Assist the Needy.", Name of artist supplied by Wainwright., Signed by Thomas H. Clarke, president., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 275, Atwater Kent Museum: 44.91.2
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 44.91.2

Title: Chemical laboratory of Crew, Rogers & Crew Philadelphia Penna
Description: Advertisement with heavy street activity showing the manufactory at 1601 North Sixth Street for the firm founded by Benjamin J. and J. Lewis Crew and Stephen R. Rogers in 1860. Shop laborers load barrels onto a horse-drawn cart parked in front of the laboratory and unstack and shift crates and barrels that line the sidewalks. A company horse-drawn wagon passes in the street. Other traffic includes horse-drawn drays, a "Frankford & Southwark" street car, and elegantly-attired women and men crossing from and to street corners. Also shows a company wagon entering a bay and a dray entering a storage yard at the factory. Surrounding buildings, including probably the warehouse at the lumber yard of Jacob and George A. Binder (6th & Oxford), are visible in the background., Inscribed on recto: About 1854. Used during Civil War 1863-1865 as U.S. laboratory under charge of Prof. John M. Maisch. Maisch was a professor at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and secretary of the American Pharmaceutical Association., Philadelphia on Stone, Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.423/90
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 88.98.423/90

Title: Diocesan Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Pennsylvania. [membership certificate]
Description: Life membership certificate containing an allegorical scene. Shows a boy, in a field, spreading seeds from a sling around his chest. A farmer and plow follow behind him and an angel holding the Holy Bible floats on a cloud above him. In the background, parishioners arrive at a church at which the boy directs his gaze. The missionary society, approved in 1854, sought the "extension of missionary effort under the direction of ecclesiastical authority in said diocese and better support of clergyman, the education of persons for ministry, and such objectives incidental to above, as may tend to the extension of said church.", Not in Wainwright., Issued to John R. Whitney on December 19, 1854. Signed D.S. Miller, Cor[respondence] Sec[retar]y, Alonzo Potter, President, and Edwd. Biddle, Treasurer., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 53, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Diocesan Missionary
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Certificates - Diocesan Missionary

Title: Harrison's Handkerchief Extracts Apollos W. Harrison No. 10 South 7th Street Philadelphia
Description: Beautiful, elaborate advertisement for the Philadelphia perfumer and ink manufacturer showing a ballroom scene set within a monument designed as a stage surrounded by floral ornaments. Shows couples attired in evening wear introducing themselves, conversing, and dancing in the ballroom. Two women hold fans. Chandelier lampposts and red drapery frame the scene. Two archways showing vistas to outdoor sceneries of trees and urns of greenery flank the monument. Loose, bundled, and cornucopias of flowers, encase the monument. Also contains two poles entwined with banners on the outer sides. Banners are inscribed with the names of scented flowers, including camellia, lilac, magnolia, tea rose, sweet clover, patchouli, and musk. Harrison began operating his perfumery circa 1853 and by the late 1850s employed over 80 employees, including 25 traveling agents., Copyrighted by A. W. Harrison., Not in Wainwright., Printed above title: Upper Ten., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 107, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 641 H 245
Creator: Bigot, Alphonse, ca. 1828-1872 or 3, artist
Date: c1854
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 641 H 245

Title: [Fashion plate for Samuel A. & Asahel F. Ward]
Description: Fashion advertisement containing two panelled scenes of 11 elegantly attired men, women, and children in a parlor and outdoor setting. Upper panel shows the parlor scene. Four men and three women socialize. Three of the men wear suits and one, dressed in evening attire, sits in a chair. Two of the men hold top hats and all have chin beards. One woman wears an evening dress and the other two women are attired in day dresses and bonnets. One of the latter pair wears a shawl and the other holds a handkerchief. Also includes framed pictures, mosaic carpeting, a window with drapery, and a pedestal displaying a vase of flowers. Lower panel shows the outdoor scene. In the center, "Genl. David R. Porter, Govr. Of Penna. Copied by permission of Huddy & Duval" wears his uniform and is mounted on his horse. To the left, two men in overcoats stand near a hitching post. To the right, two men attired in top hats (one white), vests, jackets, pants, and holding canes, stand. In the background, a militia troop drills, including two separated members on horseback. All the men are clean shaven. Key numbered 1-7 and 8-11 printed above and below the image., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by HSP., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 68, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 642 W 363d, Trimmed.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [ca. 1842]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 642 W 363d

Title: Philadelphia Alms House [certificate]
Description: Certification certificate from the "Guardians, Physicians and Surgeons of the Pennsylvania Hospital" containing an exterior view of the Blockley Almshouse and Philadelphia General Hospital in West Philadelphia. The Board of Guardians, the governing board of the Guardians of the Poor, established in 1782 and abolished in 1877, oversaw the operations of the almshouse, including admissions, accounts, and employment of the poor. The almshouse was completed in 1833 after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland., Not in Wainwright., Issued to W. Penn Buck M.D. for fifteen months as resident physician in 1871. Signed John M. Whitall, President of the Board of Guardians, Alfred Stille, M.D., President of the Medical Board, Charles ?, Secretary Board of Guardians, and John S. [Penn?] Atty. account., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 571, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Philadelphia Alms House
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Philadelphia Alms House

Title: The Young Men's Christian Association [certificate]
Description: Life membership certificate containing an exterior view of the YMCA building building erected 1875-1877 after the designs of Addison Hutton at the southeast corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut streets for the branch of the Christian voluntary organization founded in 1854. View contains street and pedestrian traffic. Also contains a border shaped like a frame with ornamented cornices, and banners inscribed with Bible quotations referring to young men, wisdom, and love. Quotes include I John 2:14; Prov. 11.30; Zech. 2.4; and John 13:35., Not in Wainwright., Issued to John R. Whitney on October 23, 1878. Signed Frances W. Kennedy, Treas. and John Wanamaker, Prest., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 869, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Young
Date: [ca. 1877]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Certificates - Young

Title: The Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia. [membership certificate] Incorporated March 9th 1855
Description: Life membership certificate containing a montage of plants, animals, minerals and fossils to represent different fields of the natural sciences, i.e., natural history, taught at the institute. Iconography encircles an oval containing the certificate text. Includes a bat for "Mammalia"; a human skull for "Anatomy"; an eagle for "Ornithology" perched on a slab with rocks and minerals for "Mineralogy"; a butterfly for "Entomology"; stems of flowers and plants for "Botany"; a thorny fish for "Ichtheology"; pre-historic crustaceans for "Palaeonotolgy"; the skeleton of an elephant for "Comparative Anatomy"; a shell for "Conchology"; a rattlesnake for "Herpetology"; a horseshoe crab for "Crustacea"; and Fossils - "Botany," Entomology," "Crustacea," and "Zoology" showing a fossilized plant, fish, dragon fly and lobster. Filigree adorns the corners. Wagner Free Institute was founded in 1855 by philanthropist and professor William Wagner to provide free public education in the sciences. Wagner donated his large collection of specimens and his science library in addition to monetary support to establish the institution., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 266, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Wagner Free, P. S. Duval & Co. operated as a firm 1851-1857., Inscription lower left corner torn: Est. C. J. [ ?].
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Certificates - Wagner Free

Title: Philadelphia Fire Department Relief Association. [membership certificate]
Description: Certificate containing four vignettes depicting a variety of horse-drawn fire engines and fire fighting vehicles. Vignettes include a steam engine, hook and ladder truck, and ambulance. Bundles of firefighting equipment, including a hose, ladder, fire hydrant, hooks, and ax, flank each side of the text. The seal of the city of Philadelphia bordered by fire helmets and lanterns and the seal of the Fire Department appears at the top and bottom, respectively. A twisting fire hose divides pictorial elements. Each lower corner contains a fire fighter at work. Lower left figure rescues a bare-chested person and the lower right figure uses a hose. The association was established on June 14, 1873., Not in Wainwright., Contains seal of association pasted on recto., Issued to Thomas Colton on April 7, 1884. Signed Daniel Bennet, Secy. and Sam[ue]l Collins, Prest., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 180, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Philadelphia Fire, Poor condition. Torn in half.
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Certificates - Philadelphia Fire

Title: Sherman Black Hawk. Appeared at the U.S. Agricultural Fair, held at West Phila. Octr. 8th 1856 and took the first premium, of $200.00 competing with horses from all parts of the United States Sherman Black Hawk foaled May 30, 1845 the property of B.J. Myrick, Bridgport Vt. Pedigree. Sire, Vermont Black Hawk, dam by Young Hamiltonian, he by Bishop's Hamiltonian, by imported Messenger, Grand Dam by imported Matchum. Sherman Black Hawk is now owned by D. A. Bennitt, Birdport, Vt. and Dura Warren, Worcester, Mass
Description: Racing print showing the black Morgan trotting horse racing around the track at the grounds of the fourth national exhibition of the U.S.A.S held October 7-11, 1856. The driver wears a derby and plaid vest. In the background, several spectators watch the event from stands or standing within the center of the track. The judges' stand, the tents for the President and Marshall of the fair, and a tree adorned with the flag of the U.S. Agricultural Society are also visible inside the track. The United States Agricultural Society, formed in 1852 at a convention called by 12 state agricultural societies, strove "to embody in one central Association, the valuable information already obtained by various local Societies, and to establish a more intimate connection between them; to correspond with foreign Societies, and to diffuse a knowledge of their most important Agricultural improvements and discoveries; and, in various other ways, to aid the promotion of this noble art.", Not in Wainwright., Duplicate prints with variant hand-coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 693, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 655 H 787a & Bc 655 H 787b
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 655 H 787a

Title: The belt of wampum delivered by the Indians to William Penn at the "Great Treaty" under the Elm Tree at Shackamoxon in 1682. "Not Sworn to and never Broken." Presented by Granville John Penn Esq of England
Description: Near life-size depiction of the belt made from oyster-shell beads and leather that purportedly the Delaware Indians gave to William Penn at the signing of the treaty. The belt was given by Penn's great-grandson to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1857., Not in Wainwright., Two of the prints are varnished., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 14, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 69 L 567
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 69 L 567

Title: Centennial International Exhibition. 1876. Fairmount Park Philadelphia
Description: Commemorative print containing views of the main buildings to be erected at the exhibition. Includes the Art Gallery, Main Building, Agricultural Hall, Machinery Hall, and Horticultural Hall. Views include heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and omnibus in the foreground. Also contains the dimensions (length, width, and area in feet and acres) of the buildings in the lower left corner. Majority of the buildings were built after the designs of Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. The centennial of the United States was celebrated through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted by the Centennial Board of Finance., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 93, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 8 Ce 333, Hunter published several variant views, including folio-size prints commissioned in 1874 by the Centennial Board of Finance, of the Centennial Buildings after the official plans of the structures., Variant held in Large Society Prints - Centennial. Printed in lower right corner: Compliments of E. Morris & Co., Manufacturers of Silk, Nett, and Cassimere Hats, No. 30 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia.
Creator: Aubrun, Louis, artist
Date: c1874
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bc 8 Ce 333

Title: Merrick & Sons iron founders, boiler makers & machinists. Washington Ave. & Fifth Street, Philadelphia Established 1836. Manufacturers of marine steam engines, light houses, sugar machinery & gas works, nasmyth & condie steam hammers. Machinery of all kinds. Aspinwall & Woolseys sugar draining centrifugals. See Agents for Rillieux Sugar Boiling Apparatus
Description: Civil war-era advertisement containing seven titled views promoting the manufactory (orginally established in 1836 as a foundry for castings) on the 400 block of Washington Avenue. Central view shows the "Front View" of the foundry. Soldiers march in front of the "Southwark Foundry" building that is adorned with signage advertising "Merrick & Sons Engineers & Machinests." An omnibus stops near the foundry to allow the passing of troops who are greeted by a small group of women. In the foreground, a six-horse team truck transports a large pipe, as behind it, a truck without a load follows. A family waits to cross the street because of the trucks. Also shows a rail truck loaded with barrels and large cylinders parked in front of the loading bay of the factory. Across the street men inspect large pipes on blocks in the left of the image. Scenes above the central view show "Steamer Keystone State at Reed St. Wharf"; a rowboat of men in the waters in front of the "U.S. Steamers Ironsides (Armored) Mississippi & Tuscaroroa off Fortress Monroe"; a man leading an 8-horse team pulling a "Bedplate for Monongahela" past a workshop., Views at the bottom of the print show the "Interior of the Boiler Shop" with laborers working around a large crane and elevated walkways as they hammer large metal forms; the "Steamer Quaker City off 'Sombrero Key.' Light House" tilting in rough waters; and the "Interior of the 'Old Foundry' " with workers at their tasks around a large crane and surrounded by machine parts. Merrick & Sons, a premier iron foundry, constructed almost all the machinery for U.S. Navy steamers during the war, as well as the New Ironsides, the first U.S. armor-clad war vessel. The firm was also the exclusive maker of the N. Rillieux patent sugar boiler apparatus and Nasmyth steam hammers., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 477, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 35 M 551, Lower right corner missing.
Creator: Rease, W. H.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 35 M 551

Title: Lithography P.S. Duval 7 Bank Alley, Philadelphia
Description: Clever advertisement in the style of trompe l'oeil containing examples of the lithographer's work interlayered on top of a black background. Includes billheads, bills of laden, checks, maps and plans, marine and landscape views, portraiture, animal portraiture, sheet music, professional cards and advertisements. Some of the corners of the prints curl up. Pictorial elements of note include a portrait of Aloys Senefelder, the inventor of lithography; the business card of lithographic artist "A. Newsam"; advertising prints showing Duval's "Lithographic Establishment," and the Merchant's Exchange; and sheets of advertisement text in script promoting Duval's ability to "execute orders at short notice," his types of prints, and the advantages of the "facility" and "cheapness" of "facsimiles" for businesses. Duval, an early and premier Philadelphia lithographer, operated alone from 7 Bank Alley 1840-1848., Probably drawn by Albert Newsam., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 60, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Albert Newsam Collection, V -100, Box 10, Folder 3
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, artist
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Albert Newsam Collection, V -100, Box 10, Folder 3

Title: William Norris manufacturer of locomotive steam engines Philadelphia F.D. Sanno, chief engineer
Description: Shows the 4-2-0 steam locomotive "Lafayette" built in 1837 by the company started by William Norris and Col. Stephen H. Long in 1836. An engineer operates the locomotive. The locomotive, built for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was the first 4-2-0 to contain a leading truck and became the model for steam engines. The premier steam locomotive manufactory of the 1830s-1860, the internationally recognized company produced several innovative designs, including the first locomotive to ascend a hill on its own power, a leading truck, and the first ten-wheel locomotive., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 277, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Albert Newsam Collection, V-100, Box 3, Folder 135
Creator: Newsam, Albert, 1809-1864, artist
Date: [ca. 1837]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Albert Newsam Collection, V-100, Box 3, Folder 135

Title: Good Will Hose and Steam Fire Engine Company of Philadelphia [membership certificate]
Description: Fire company certificate containing five vignettes bordered by patriotic and firefighting iconography. Vignettes depict the Fairmount Waterworks, including boys fishing on the canal lock; a circular industrial building, possibly the Spring Garden Water Works; company volunteers rushing hand pumps through Fairmount past Reservoir Hill; the station dog sleeping near the company steam engine in front of the firehouse on the 2200 block of Wood Street; and volunteers, surrounded by a crowd of spectators, fighting the fire at a large city building. Iconography includes helmets with the company number "25," fire hoses, trumpets, and belts as well as the American eagle holding the U.S. shield and flanked by flags over the company motto "Our Motto is Our Name, Always Ready for Public Good." Also contains the company institution and incorporation dates (1834 and 1851, respectively)., Signed Quintin Todd, Secy., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 320, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Fire Companies - Good Will Hose and Steam, P.S. Duval & Son was a core partnership between Peter S. Duval and his son Stephen that operated under various names and incarnations between 1857-1869. The firm name P.S. Duval, Son & Co. was cited in city directories 1868-1869.
Creator: Bosch, A. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Fire Companies - Good Will Hose and Steam

Title: Decatur Fire Company of Frankford
Description: Fire company certificate containing vignettes depicting fire fighters rushing a steam engine marked with the company motto down a city street past the Odd Fellows Hall, Frankford; a steam engine parked at the company fire station on Church Street; and fire fighters surrounded by spectators battling a fire of the Frogmore Mills cotton factory, Frankford. Fire fighting equipment including a fire hose, a ladder, an axe, a trumpet and other tools are drawn bundled together to form decorative elements on both sides. A small oval portrait of Commodore Stephen Decatur in a laurel wreath frame above intertwined American flags and the company motto "Ever Prompt to a Call" adorns the top. Also contains eagles, the company number "21," and the institution and incorporation dates (1803 and 1842, respectively). Company named after the Naval hero Decatur whose father purportedly resided in Frankford., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 177, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Fire Companies - Decatur, Duval and Hunter was a partnership between Stephen Orr Duval (P.S. Duval’s son) and Thomas Hunter that lasted from P.S. Duval’s retirement in 1869 until 1874.
Creator: Bosch, A. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Fire Companies - Decatur

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