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Title: Order to pay George Justice and William Roberts for work done enclosing lot at north end of the library
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1794-11-06
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f05

Title: Order to pay Skerrett and Bonsall for lightning rod work and handle to chimney hood
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1794-08-07
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f04

Title: Accounts of Joseph Parker Norris, Treasurer
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1794-05-1795-05
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f03

Title: Order to pay Thomas Shoemaker for "work"
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1794-02-06
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f02

Title: Order to pay Jacob Eckfelt for stove pipe and stove setup
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1794-01-11
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f01

Title: Order to pay Zachariah Poulson, Jr. for printing blank receipts for treasurer and book plates
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1793-06-06
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f46

Title: Order to pay Robert Haydock & Co. for window repairs and materials
Description: These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-04-1798-01
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f18

Title: Order to pay Samuel West & Co. for wooden boards
Description: These materials are part of the Library Company Papers Project: Archiving and Preserving Early American History. For additional information on this project, visit librarycompany.org/lcppapersproject. Papers Project processing and digitization has been made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For additional information on NEH, visit www.neh.gov., All use must credit The Library Company of Philadelphia. For additional information on Rights & Reproductions, visit https://librarycompany.org/using-the-library/rightsrepro/#/.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-03-24
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f17

Title: Order to pay William Roberts for repairs and labor with receipt from N. and D. Sellers
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-02-1797-12
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f16

Title: Wrapper with note about building repairs completed in 1797
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f15

Title: Order to pay William Payne for building materials and repairs
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-1798
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f14

Title: Order to pay Prince Gray for 11 days labor at library
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f13

Title: Misc. invoices and receipts
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1881-10
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b09f61

Title: Order to pay David Stoneburner for building repairs
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-11-11
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f28

Title: Order to pay Jacob Souder for building fireplaces
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-08-14
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f27

Title: Order to pay John Barnat for 10 days labor at the library
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-07
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f26

Title: Account and receipt of Jacob Parke for building materials
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-07-1797-12
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f25

Title: Order to pay Wayne Sheppard for wood boards and receipt for payment
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-06-1797-12
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f24

Title: Order to pay Samuel Wetherill and Co. for lamp oil, rosin, and paint
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-06-1798-01
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f23

Title: Order to pay John Elliott for paint materials
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-06
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f22

Title: Accounts of Richard Hill Morris, Treasurer
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-05-1798-05
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f21

Title: Order to pay Richard Wistar for building materials
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-04-22
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f20

Title: Order to pay Skerrett and Bonsall for building materials
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1797-04-1797-12
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b05f19

Title: Order to pay Samuel Morris for curbstones
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1790-08
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f40

Title: Benjamin Franklin's epitaph by Jos. Morris
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: circa 1790
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f39

Title: Extract from will of Abram Claypoole regarding gift of 100 pounds to library
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1789-07-08
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f38

Title: Correspondence from committee of American Philosophical Society regarding joint application to Legislature
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1784-03-08
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f29

Title: Account book
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1784-1793
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f28

Title: Fragment of minutes of Executive Council of Pennsylvania
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1780-04-14
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f27

Title: Correspondence fragment from Samuel Burling
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1780-02-03
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f26

Title: Estimate of annual expenses
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1780
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f25

Title: Address to John Penn, Governor and Proprietor of Pennsylvania
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1763
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f24

Title: Acceptance of charter from Proprietaries of Pennsylvania
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: circa 1742
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f23

Title: Bylaws
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1742-05-03
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f22

Title: Wrappers found around Library Company papers from old trunk
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: circa 1785-1839
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f31

Title: Correspondence from Thomas Barry regarding his candicacy for position of librarian
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1785
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f30

Title: Order to pay William Allen
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1741-05-20
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f21

Title: Charter of the Library Company
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1741
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f20b

Title: Correspondence from S. N. Sydserfe
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia
Date: 1739-04-09
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia. | MSS MSS MSS00270b04f20a

Title: Geo. F. Woods, druggist and apothecary, dealer in fancy goods, Bellows Falls, Ct Soda and mineral waters on draught and in package
Description: Trade card promoting druggist George F. Woods and depicting a fan with a scene of a woman carrying a watering can and walking down a path. In the top left shows a fan with a ribbon tied around bamboo handle. On the fan is a vignette shows a woman, attired in a brimmed hat, necklace, and dress, walking down a path. She holds skirt in her left hand and carries a watering can in her right hand. Flanking the path are vases full of flowers. In the background is a pagoda and trees., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., See related: P.9828.7149-7150., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Woods [P.9828.7151]

Title: L.C. Smith, druggist, (successor to A.W. Rice), Rockville, Conn. Drugs, medicines, toilet requisites, etc., etc. prescriptions compounded day or night. Prices the lowest. Goods strictly pure
Description: Trade card promoting druggist Louis C. Smith and depicting racist caricatures of Chinese men being attacked by dogs. In the left foreground, shows a large dog chained to a doghouse. The Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle, a blue tunic and pants, and white, slip-on shoes, looks at the dog in fear. In the right, a Chinese man runs away with his queue flying behind him. In the background, a Chinese man, his back to the viewer, screams and raises both arms up as a white dog bites his bottom. Text written in pidgin English below the image: What d’yer soy? Ha! Ha! John Chinaman he eatie doggie., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Copyright statement printed on recto: Copyrighted, Bufford, Boston., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Smith [P.9828.6842]

Title: Laque de Chine
Description: Trade card promoting druggist John H. Sheehan & Co. and depicting a scene of two Chinese men painting. In the left, show the Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a blue cap, blue robe, and blue, slip-on shoes. He sits on a bench in front of an easel and paints. In the right, the Chinese man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a green, patterned robe, stands and lacquers a vase. Also in the room are a red lantern, screen, and side table with a blue jar. In the background is a river with boats and a pagoda on the shoreline., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on verso: John H. Sheehan, Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Pefumery and Toilett (sic) Articles, 167 Genesee Street, Utica, N.Y., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC, See related: P.9828.6766.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Sheehan [P.9828.6777]

Title: “The Far East” Chinese Restaurant, Yuen Doon Low, 907 Race St. Phila, Pa. A refined first class restaurant
Description: Menu depicting an exterior view of the Far East Chinese Restaurant at 907-909 Race Street, Philadelphia built after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter in ca. 1827 and later altered with 907 raised one story and 909 raised two stories. There are Chinese architectural details on the balcony and awning which reads, 907 Far East Chinese Cafe. The balconies are decorated with lanterns and plants. Two American flags and a Chinese Republic National Flag are on flagpoles on the restaurant. The cover has a border of bamboo plants. The menu is in English and organized with numbered dishes from 1 to 106 and “to avoid mistakes patrons are requested to order by number.” Categories are: “Soups”; “Chicken Specialties”; “Chop Suey”; “Boiled Soft Noodles”; “Beef Specialties”; “Pork Specialties”; “Chow Main”; “Omelettes and Eggs”; “Fried Rice”; “Sandwiches”; “Miscellaneous”; “Preserves, Cakes and Candies”; “Teas”; “Special Dishes”; and a prix fixe “Table d’Hote” with five different options and prices from 85 cents to $3 dollars per person. Menu notes that dining on the third floor incurs “an additional charge of five cents.” The menu also includes the hours of service and telephone number. The Far East Chinese Restaurant operated from circa 1906 to 1952., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the publisher., Gift of Linda Kimiko August.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *ephemera - Menus - F [P.2023.27.4]

Title: With compliments, Israel Zinser, dealer in drugs, books, stationery, paints, oils, glass, brushes, perfumery, violin strings, and fancy articles, Washington, Illinois
Description: Trade card promoting druggist Israel Zinser and depicting three boys, possibly meant to be Asian, constructing an oversized paper lantern decorated with an image of a flowering branch. In the foreground is a bamboo scaffold on which is a jar full of paintbrushes. In the right, the boy, attired in a green and gold tunic, sits on the scaffold and holds a hammer working on the base of the lantern. In the left, the boy, attired in a hat, yellow shirt with red cuffs, and yellow pants, stands on the scaffold and paints. In the top right, the boy, attired in a green shirt and yellow pants, sits on a swing, holds a paintbrush, and paints the upper part of the lantern. The lantern hangs from a flowering branch., Title from advertising text printed on verso., Date inferred from content., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Z [P.9828.7194]

Title: Geo. F. Woods, druggist and apothecary, dealer in fancy goods, Bellows Falls, Ct Soda and mineral waters on draught and in package
Description: Trade cards promoting druggist George F. Woods and depicting an Asian man looking at a statue of an Asian woman in a park. Shows an Asian man, wearing a queue hairstyle and attired in a conical hat, patterned tunic and matching pants, and shoes. He stands behind a fence and looks at a statue of a barefooted woman, wearing a headpiece and attired in a sarong with her breasts exposed, on a pedestal. She holds a fan with a long handle in her right hand and gestures with her left hand. Also visible are a palm tree, potted plant, and a path., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., See related: P.9828.7151., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Wood [P.9828.7149-7150]

Title: W.F. Potteiger, druggist, N.W. corner Fourth and Spruce Streets, Reading, PA
Description: Trade card promoting pharmacist William F. Potteiger and depicting a white woman attired in a kimono, probably an actress in character from the opera The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Shows the woman wearing her hair up and decorated with fans and attired in a blue kimono with gold cranes, peach-colored obi, and purple skirt. She holds a peach-colored fan in her right hand and turns her head to the right with her left hand up. She stands on a fur rug., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the advertised business., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Potteiger [P.9828.6624]

Title: Compliments of R.B. Porter, druggist, St. Johnsville, N.Y
Description: Trade card promoting druggist Reuben B. Porter and depicting a white woman attired in a kimono dressed as a character from the opera The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Shows the woman wearing her hair up and decorated with fans and attired in a red and gold kimono. She sits on the branch of a red flower and holds a blue fan in her left hand. A white butterfly flies in the left., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of advertised business., Series no. on recto: 686., Manuscript written on verso: Nora Enlenmarks., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., See related: P.9828.332; P.9828.5299; P.9828.5852-5854., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Porter [P.9828.6622]

Title: Lloyd O. Woodruff, druggist. Cor. Broadway & Point St., Cape Vincent, N.Y. Don’t read the other side
Description: Racist trade card promoting pharmacist Lloyd O. Woodruff and depicting actress Kate Forster dressed in character as Pitti-Sing from the opera, The Mikado or, The town of Titipu, by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Shows Forster wearing her hair up and attired in a blue kimono with gold decorations and a gold, flower-patterned obi. She holds a fan in both hands behind her head. Kate Forster, whose real name was Kate Jancowski, worked for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and performed as Pitti-Sing and Katisha in the Mikado in 1885-1886, 1889-1902. Lloyd O. Woodruff opened a drugstore in Cape Vincent, New York circa 1870., Title stamped on recto., Date deduced from dates of the performance., Text printed on verso: Lloyd O. Woodruff, druggist, keeps a full line of drugs, patent medicines, paints, oils, window glass, dry goods, boots, shoes and rubbers, fine stationery, school books, fancy groceries, watches, chains, plated ware, crockery, and will not be undersold, if you do not see what you want at his store, ask for it. Don’t forget the place, Cor. Broadway & Point St., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC
Date: [ca. 1886]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists -Woodruff [P.9828.7139]

Title: Record Group 2, Series 2: Collection Records

Title: Japon
Description: Trade card promoting druggist John H. Sheehan & Co. and depicting a scene of a Japanese woman and a samurai holding a flag. In the right, the Japanese woman, wearing her hair up with Kanzashi hair ornaments and attired in a multi-colored kimono and yellow shoes, stands and reaches her right hand out towards the man. In the left, the Japanese samurai, attired in a helmet and armor, stands and holds a Japanese flag on a flagpole. A cherry tree with pink flowers grows in the background. In the top left corner is a crest with a Japanese flag., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Text printed on verso: John H. Sheehan, Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Pefumery and Toilett (sic) Articles, 167 Genesee Street, Utica, N.Y., Gift of William H. Helfand., RVCDC, See related: P.9828.6777.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Patent Medicine Trade Card Collection - Pharmacists - Sheehan [P.9828.6766]

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