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Title: RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEER.
Description: Hurrah! for our braves of Rhode Island (5 vs. uneven length) Air:"Columbia the Gem of the Ocean." Composed by James D. Gay of Philadelphia, for the 9th and 10th Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers. Letter paper; blue ink; double-line border with flags and motto in red and blue; bust of "General Burnside, commanding the Burnside Expedition." 20.2 x 12.5 cm.

Title: Looking north, [Pier 80]
Description: Film negative showing a dockyard filled with debris at Pier 80 off Snyder Avenue. A small wooden building stands on the right and a man walks across the yard on the left., From same spot., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a], Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.479]

Title: Pier 80, foot of Snyder Av
Description: Film negative showing a horse-drawn carriage waiting in a dockyard at the end of Snyder Avenue. A large building labeled "Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 80" stands in the background next to a pier extending out into the water., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a]., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: May 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.478]

Title: Sansom, Hannah
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 15, 1859

Title: Sansom, William
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: May 7, 1830

Title: A view of Point Airy opposite South Street, Phila Persons visiting this delightful resort during the summer season will find the bar supplied with a variety of suitable refreshments for the season. Every facility is afforded at this place for enjoyment & recreation. Visitors have also an opportunity of enjoying as delightful a bath as can be had at any point on the Delaware. The boat leaves the first wharf above South Street every few minutes. D. Warren, Proprietor
Description: Advertisement showing the "Point Airy Hotel" and dock operated by David Warren at the resort located on the southern end of Windmill Island, a summer resort area popular in the 19th century before the removal of the island in 1897. Trees surround the resort. In the foreground, a wide variety of river traffic including ferries, sailboats, and rowboats traverse the river. A man attired in a suit and top hat helps row one of the vessels. In the background, sailing ships and a ferry are visible in front of the New Jersey waterfront., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 789, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Haugg worked in Philadelphia 1856-1894.
Creator: Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903, artist
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W7 [P.2003]

Title: Cardinal Mercier, and RT. Rev. Monsignor Edward J. Fitzmaurice, Philadelphia, September 28, 1919
Date: September 28, 1919
Location: photo - unidentified - events - World War 1 [7066.Q.80]

Title: Hutchinson & Honeywell, manufacturers of sealing wax and carmine inks, and wholesale dealers in foreign and domestic stationery, 104 William Street, New York.
Description: Provenance: Gift of David Doret, 2007., Provenance: Advertisements in the collection were sent by various manufacturers to John C. Clark & Sons, a Philadelphia stationery firm.
Creator: Hutchinson & Honeywell., creator
Date: 1868.
Location: Doret Ephemera

Title: A view of Point Airy opposite South Street, Phila. [graphic]: Persons visiting this delightful resort during the summer season will find the bar supplied with a variety of suitable refreshments for the season. Every facility is afforded at this place for enjoyment & recreation. Visitors have also an opportunity of enjoying as delightful a bath as can be had at any point on the Delaware. The boat leaves the first wharf above South Street every few minutes. D. Warren, Proprietor L. Haugg del.
Description: Date supplied by Wainwright., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Advertisement showing dock and hotel of resort located on the southern end of Windmill Island, a summer resort area popular in the 19th century before the removal of the island in 1897. View shows a wide variety of river traffic including ferries, sailboats, rowboats, and sailing ships. View of New Jersey waterfront visible in background.
Creator: Haugg, Louis, artist., creator
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W007.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W7 [P.2003]

Title: IT IS I!
Description: They come, they come - a motley crew (3 vs.) Double line border; pink paper; scales of Justice in cloud. 17.4 x 8.6 cm.

Title: BANKS OF SLIGO.
Description: On the sweet Banks of Sligo old Dennis did dwell (3 vs. and chor.) Tune—Kate Kearney. Sheet no. 783; publ. Wrigley (1). Wrigley kissing cupids border. 24.7 x 15.6 cm.

Title: Song sheet headpiece 80
Description: Sample image scanned from: Wolf 978h, One of 297 song sheet headpiece designs identified by Edwin Wolf in his bibliography, American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides Collection, 1850-1870: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1963).

Title: Abraham Lincoln, late president of the U.S. assassinated April 14th, 1865
Description: Bust-length portrait of the deceased sixteenth president Lincoln, attired in a white collared shirt, a black bowtie, waistcoat, and jacket, faces slightly right., Title from item., Publication information from duplicate in the collections of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Printed signature of sitter below image., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of materials related to Abraham Lincoln. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Created postfreeze., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Gibson & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Date: [1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *portrait prints - L [5792.F.80]

Title: Sansom, Samuel
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: May 14, 1764

Title: Callender, William, 1703-1763
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: March 1, 1739

Title: [Frederick Brown's Ginger trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards labeled "Cherry Unripe" depicting a woman with a pained look on her face clutching her stomach and "Cherry Ripe" showing a content, pretty woman. Advertises Genuine Brown's Ginger for cramps and colics, stomach-ache, stomache disorders, and indigestion in banners above and below the "Cherry Unripe" illustration., Title supplied by cataloger., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Brown's Ginger product for family medicine purposes, for "the dyspeptic, and to those who are predisposed to gout or rheumatic affections...and to the inebriate who wishes to reform." Also promotes Brown's Ginger in the fall for comfort from the "first cool chilliness", the winter for the skin "to act well" and in the spring "to add to your back-bone, and make you take interest in life"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Brown [1975.F.79 & 80]

Title: The New Masonic Hall, Philadelphia. [graphic] / Tholey ; Lithy. of Friend & Aub, 80 Walnut St.
Description: Sloan & Stewart, Architects; S.K. Hoxie, Builder., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979 p. 43., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: BcO5 T451.
Creator: Friend & Aub lithographer., creator
Date: ca. 1855
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W385.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W385 [P.8467]

Title: Church, corner 4th St. & Washington Av. Morrissania, Long Island, N.Y 55 x 80 feet
Description: Architectural view showing the Gothic-style Methodist Episcopal church for the parish established in 1850. Also shows pedestrian traffic., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.93a]

Title: Church, corner 4th St. & Washington Av. Morrissania, Long Island, N.Y 55 x 80 feet
Description: Architectural view showing the Gothic-style Methodist Episcopal church for the parish established in 1850. Also shows pedestrian traffic., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.93a]

Title: Commissioners Hall, Spring Garden
Description: Exterior view of the hall containing the district's police station and Mayor's office completed in 1848 after the designs of William L. Johnston at Spring Garden and North Thirteenth streets. Shows the Greek-Revival style building, the largest of the commissioners' halls buildings, adorned with an American flag and including a steeple built by Jacob Berger with a clock made by T. Tyson. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including strolling couples, a man on horseback, and a horse-drawn street car. Prior to the city's consolidation with bordering townships in 1854, neighborhoods maintained and housed their own police stations, mayors, and other government officials in commissioners' halls, including Spring Garden. Razed circa 1892., Names of artists and date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 152, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Kuchel, Charles Conrad, b. 1820, artist
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W 80 [P.2004.41.1]

Title: The rag-picker
Description: Illustration shows a familiar Philadelphia character: a black, male rag-picker. He wears a coarse, loose-fitting smock, trousers, and a cap. He carries a basket fastened to a stick over his shoulder and a hooked instrument in his hand. The accompanying text explains, "You see him with his hooked stick exploring heaps of rubbish, and carefully selecting whatever he finds which may be turned to good account, and storing all away in his basket.", Illustration in City characters, or, familiar scenes in town (Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton; New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1851), p. 80., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1851 Cit 68429.D p 80, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2784

Title: Wreck of the slave ship
Description: According to Hildreth's narrative, the plate shows a domestic slave ship that was caught in a storm while travelling down the Atlantic coast to Charleston. After the captain and crew fled in a jolly-boat, the slaves worked the pumps in the hopes of saving themselves. They were eventually rescued and brought to a jail in Norfolk, Virginia., Illustration in Richard Hildreth's The White Slave: or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (London: Ingram, Cooke, & Co., 227 Strand, MDCCCLII, 1852), p. 80., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images from the Slave Trade.
Date: [1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1852 Hildr 70799.O p 80, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2787

Title: Scene from s. side w. end South St Bridge, Phila
Description: View of industrial landscape along Schuylkill River south of South Street Bridge against winter sky., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Elect., Chester tie line standards (5000 volts), Coal crane, Grey's [sic] [Gray's] Ferry Bridge, rain soaked flats and winter sky., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 80 [P.8513.80], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson80.htm

Title: French millinery, and fancy dress making establishment
Description: Caption title., Blank order form, p. [3], dated: 183[blank]., Madame Gaubert is listed in Philadelphia directories from 1831 to 1842; she is listed at this address from 1831 to 1833, but by 1835 is listed at 221 Chestnut Street., Printed on p. [1] and [3] only., Not in Checklist Amer. imprints., Library Company copy has Mme. Gaubert's MS. notes.
Creator: Gaubert, Madame
Date: [between 1831 and 1834?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1831 Gaubert 14395.Q

Title: Ground plan of the Philadelphia Gas Works Scale 80 ft. to 1 inch
Description: Plan of the first Philadelphia Gas Works, expanded in 1850 after the designs of Cresson, the second chief engineer of the gas works, near the Schuylkill River on the 2200-2300 blocks of Market Street. Diagrams the coal stores, retort house, lime and coke sheds, lime kilns and house, purifying houses, gasholders, and railroad tracks. Includes a "References" key to coded symbols of buildings, including valve houses and meters. Works originally completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer Samuel V. Merrick ., Date inscribed on recto., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 332, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Friend & Aub
Date: Feb. 11, 1851
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Public Utilities [(7)1322.F.91]

Title: Tred egar. Residence of C.W. Morgan, esqr. Germantown. Sidney & Neff, archts Frame. Cost $3,000
Description: Exterior view showing the two-story residence with an extension, gable roof, covered porch, and steps to the entrance as well as surrounding grounds. A pathway leads to the house. Trees line the fenced property which is also landscaped with a few plants and shrubs. In the right, a shed between two trees and near the edge of a pond is visible C.W. Morgan is possibly the Charles W. Morgan listed in the 1850 census as a resident of Germantown and an oil merchant in the fuel and ice retailing industry., Title and date from item., Printed in upper right corner: Plate 11., Probably published in J.C. Sidney's American cottage and villa architecture : a series of views and plans ... (New York: Appleton & Co., 1850). The book was to be issued in ten parts, monthly, beginning in July, 1850. The series was never completed and 4-5 parts containing a total of 22 plates by various Northeastern architects are known., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 298
Date: 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2019.64.36]

Title: [Francis Field & Francis, importers & dealers in tin plate & tinsmans furniture, importers & manufacturers of saddlery hardware, tin ware, tin toys & japanned wares, no. 80 Nth 2nd St., Philadelphia] [graphic].
Description: Location: 80 North Second Street., LCP copy lacking title and attributions., Wainwright retrospective conversion project.
Date: [ca. 1846]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W138.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W138 [P.2047]

Title: The New Masonic Hall, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view showing the four-story Gothic-style hall built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart at 713-721 Chestnut Street. A small portion of the adjacent Washington House hotel signboard is visible (right). On the sidewalk, eleven pedestrians (men wearing top hats and canes, women with parasols, and a child wearing a wide-brimmed hat) greet one another, converse, stroll, and admire the building. Hall building sold circa 1873 following the completion of the new Masonic Temple on North Broad Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 501, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1979 p. 43., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 05 T 451.
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898, artist
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W385 [P.8467]

Title: [Francis Field & Francis, importers & dealers in tin plate & tinsmans furniture, importers & manufacturers of saddlery hardware, tin ware, tin toys & japanned wares, no. 80 Nth 2nd St., Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront between Arch and Race streets on North Second Street covered in signage. A male patron enters the building. He walks below the sign illustrated with a pig hanging above the doorway that reads "Lard Lamp Manufactory," and past a stack of crates marked "Tin Plate By The Box" laying on the stoop. Toys, tinware, saddleryware and japanned ware fill the large display windows. In the windows of the upper floors, a male and female laborer at work are visible in addition to more merchandise. Also shows a barrel on the sidewalk next to the cellar doors of the store and partial views of adjacent buildings. Francis, Field & Francis (Henry and Thomas Francis and Charles Field), also known as the Philadelphia Tin Toy Manufactory, was one of the oldest toy manufactories in American and began operating from the address in 1839., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Second Street. Oct 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, LCP copy lacking title and imprint., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [October 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W138 [P.2047]

Title: [Aerial view from high altitude.]
Description: Negative numbers: 80 & 81, Photographs taken for the Aero Service Corporation.
Creator: Jennings, William Nicholson, 1860-1946, photographer
Date: ca. 1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jennings [P.9480.80-81]

Title: Woman with Union shield envelope
Description: Image: A woman wearing a red, white and blue Grecian robe grasps a rolled document in her right hand and leans her left elbow on the Union shield in front of her., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector
Date: 1861-1865

Title: Bridgens, Richard
Description: Richard/Robert Bridgens, a Philadelphia lithographer, established the map publishing firm R. P. & H. F. Bridgens with Henry F. Bridgens in 1853. Following the short-lived partnership, Bridgens, who surveyed a number of maps and plans in the early 1850s, relocated to California where he worked as a civil engineer and architect. Later, he traveled to Japan where he designed a number of structures throughout the country.
Date: b. ca. 1820
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Horace Greely, to his farmer friends, one day, said "How needlessly man often labors, use the Enterprise Sprinkler, that is the proper way, and give up the watering pot, neighbors."
Description: Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising Enterprise Mf'g Co. of Pa. "Enterprise Lawn Sprinklers." Contains a scene including a caricaturized depiction of newspaper editor and agrarian reformer Horace Greeley. Shows Greeley demonstrating an Enterprise sprinkler to two farmers on the front lawn of an estate. Also contains a view of the Horticultural Building designed by W.L.B. Jenney. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of Pa. was established in 1866., Advertising text printed on verso: Enterprise Lawn Sprinklers. Two sizes. no. 1,-- $3.50. No. 2,--$2.75. Our No. 1 Sprinkler has the following advantages: 1st. Each machine is furnished with a cord or rope, so that the Sprinkler may be easily moved, when running, without going near it. 2nd. The water passes through a strainer before it enters the small perforations, which, therefore are prevented from filling up. 3rd. It is so constructed that the weight of its revolving parts is removed by the pressure of the water, thus overcoming unnecessary wear. 4th. All parts of the machine are made sufficiently strong for ordinarily rough usage and are interchangeable. 5th. The machine is Tinned and Nickel Plated, and is of very handsome appearance. 7th. [sic] The Sprinklers are finished and boxed complete in our factory and require no skill to put them together. Our No. 2 Sprinkler, being a cheaper machine, has no strainer or ball, but is similar to the No. 1 in other respects., Printed on verso: For Sale by the Hardware Trade. Send for Catalogue. The Enterprise M'f'g Co. of Pa., Third & Dauphin Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Typeface on verso varies between prints., Vignette illustrations on verso. Depicts an Enterprise lawn sprinkler spraying water., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Michael Zinman.
Date: c1893
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.58 & 80]

Title: [Georgine E. Upshur Willis collection]
Description: Collection of primarily 20th-century photographs, ephemera, manuscript and textual materials related to trained undertaker Georgine Upshur Willis and her extended family, including descendants of the African American middle-class Stevens-Cogdell and Sanders-Venning families. Majority of collection is photographs, studio and professional portraits, as well as snapshots of Georgine E. Upshur Willis and her parents Agnes S. Upshur, a teacher, and William A. Upshur, an undertaker and Pennsylvania State representative, at various ages and dating between the 1920s and early 1970s. Includes images of Georgine as a baby, with her parents and grandparents (Charles Sanders Chew and Georgine Saunders Chew), at her coming out party, in her University of Pennsylvania college yearbook and graduation photograph, and several group portrait photographs, predominately dating to the late 1940s and early 1950s. Group portrait photographs include views of Georgine in costume in a 1934 Book Week Play, at her 1949 engagement party and wedding to anthropologist and ethnohistorian William Willis, Jr., recreating in Atlantic City, at holiday events, and at other friends and family gatherings. William A. Upshur portraits include a photograph of his meeting with Richard Nixon at the 1960 GOP Convention. Several of the professional photographs were taken by African American photographers, including John Gaston Devigne, Frank W. Harris, Jr., and John W. Mosley. Photographs also depict an 1890 group portrait, including Rennie and Sallie Venning (Holden) (P.2022.16.41), at an outside location; a modern reproduction of a portrait of Charles S. Chew (Georgine Upshur’s grandfather); a circa 1920s portrait of an unidentified woman and her baby; and two circa 1950 color photographs of landscape views of Fisher’s Island, N.Y., Ephemera materials are comprised of postcards, invitations and announcements, certificates, programs, and scraps dated predominately between the 1920s and 1950. The materials include a circa 1930 Gorges Du Loup postcard booklet; postcards addressed to Mrs. Julia Venning or Mr. and Mrs. George Venning containing views of Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Wildwood, N.J.; invitations/announcements to the 1921 Henpeck’s Annual Ball (William B. Holden, Committee President), Georgine E. Upshurs high school and college graduations, and the 1921 wedding of Cordelia Sanders and Dr. Dehaven Hinkson; University of Pennsylvania Bachelor of Arts diploma issued to Georgine Elizabeth Upshur, 1943; ca. 1939 program for Georgine E. Upshur’s induction into the Sophrosyne Chapter of The National Honor Society; and the 1950 program for Dr. Eric Reiss presents for The Blockley Medical Society Philadelphia General Hospital “Osler Slept Here.”, Manuscript and related materials primarily contain correspondence and newspaper clippings dated between the 1920s and 1950s. Correspondence includes a 1928 letter to William B. Holden about the “charges of the moral character of your Rector” of the Church of the Crucifixion; a 1938 and 1942 letter about Georgine E. Upshur, respectively, being elected to the honor society and nomination for membership in the University of Pennsylvania Delta Chapter of the National Social Science Honor Society, Pi Gamma Mu; and a 1942 letter from the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Welfare, Bureau of Recreation about swimming training. Newspaper clippings relate to the 1921 engagement and wedding of Cordelia Sanders Chew and Dr. Dehaven Hinkson; Georgine Upshur and a Y.W.C.A. baby contest, her Philadelphia High School for Girls graduation and coming out parties, and passing of the state mortician’s exam circa 1949; the 1930 musical recital of Georgine E. Upshur’s maternal aunt Mary Saunders Patterson; the 1954 death of Charles S. Chew accompanied by mourning cards and a pressed flower; and the death of the Hinkson’s dog Patchy accompanied by a plot receipt and business card for the Cheltenham Pet Cemetery. A 1932 "My Trip Abroad" day journal of Agnes C. Upshur, including an insert of her passport with a passport photograph of her and young daughter Georgine E. Upshur also comprises the manuscript material. The trip to Europe, included visits to Paris, Genoa, Florence, Venice, and Geneva., Collection also includes “Diary of the Women of the Class of 1943, University of Pennsylvania, The 1943 Almanack” containing inserts of correspondence, documents, and programs related to Georgine E. Upshur’s college education at University of Pennsylvania; The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, Civil War Issue, April 9, 1961; and The Saturday Evening Post, November 10, 1962 issue with mailing label for Dr. DeHaven Hinkson., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Photographers include Gaston Devigne, Harper, Frank W. Harris, Jr., John W. Mosley, Dan E. Paul, and Albert Sexton., RVCDC, See Lib. Company. Annual Report, 1991, p. 26-31., Gift of descendant Cordelia H. Brown in honor of Phil Lapsansky., See LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45., Genealogical charts available at repository., Descriptive inventory, including with names of portrait sitters, available at repository., Reference copies and miscellaneous related materials located with collection., Digital catalog record includes select images from the collection.
Date: [1890-ca. 1990, bulk ca. 1921-ca. 1950]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Stevens-Cogdell/Sanders Venning Collection - Upshur Willis Collection [P.2022.16]

Title: Ficken & Williams, steam sugar refiners, Crown, Willow and Fifth streets, Philadelphia Office 416. Crown Street Philada. Office. 119 So. Front St. Philada. Office 80 Wall Street New York
Description: Advertisement showing a busy street scene with a view of the refinery complex in Northern Liberties. Includes the office building adorned with signage "Ficken & Williams Steam Sugar Refinery" attached to the large multi-storied processing plant of several connected buildings marked at the corner "Crown St." and "William St." Smoke stacks and a large American flag adorn the facility. Two men converse at the doorway of the office across from a horse-drawn carriage parked in the street that is congested with refinery traffic. Several drays, some loaded with barrels, and a cart loaded with coal travel to and from the refinery. Factory employees also load a dray with barrels, sit on a barrel, converse, and emerge from a building entrance. Other street traffic includes two boys crossing the intersection, a woman and girl on promenade, dogs, and a driver leading a team of mules hauling freight cars of coal. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including three men convened in conversation, on the sidewalks around the factory., pdcp00036, Not in Wainwright, Reduced variant 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, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M)
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana - Factories and Foundries (A-M)

Title: Keyser House, 6316 Main St., subsequently owned by Elwood Johnson
Description: Exterior view of east front of house on land purchased by Dirck Keyser from Adam Simon Kuhn in 1756. Keyser operated a tannery in the rear of the property, which was willed to his son Peter Keyser in 1810. Cedar fence pierced by bullets during the Battle of Germantown. Occupied by Mr. Ellwood Johnson circa 1902. Portions of the tannery buildings in the rear of the property were demolished in 1952., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: February 18, 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.76]

Title: Orphan's home at York
Description: Exterior view of the four-story red brick Children's Home of York built in 1867 at East Philadelphia and Pine Streets. Two men stand in the foreground on the sidewalk in front of the white picket fence surrounding the property. Closed in 1972, demolished in 1973., Title from manuscript note on photographer's label pasted on verso., Series number on negative., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: P. S. & H. E. Weaver
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Weaver [P.9191.9]

Title: Handicap race presidential stakes 1844
Description: Satire of the presidential election of 1844 depicting the potential candidates; Whig Henry Clay, and Democrats Martin Van Buren, Lewis Cass, John Calhoun, Richard M. Johnson, and John Tyler on various mounts racing for the White House. Clay riding a racoon leads the pack claiming that no one can overtake him. Van Buren follows riding a fox and holding a weather vane labeled "N" (North) and "S" (South) with the slogans "Free Trade Texas" and "Abolition Oregon" attached. He acknowledges that Lewis Cass is closing in. Cass on his hound gloats that he has finally overtaken the "old fox." Calhoun, positioned fourth, rides a lion with an enslaved African American man and child, portrayed in racist caricature, on his shoulders and bemoans his extra weight. Johnson, on foot and holding a hook, follows Calhoun stating he will "hook on" to whomever gets in. Last is Tyler, who switched political parties, trying to ride the two mounts of the "Loco Foco" (radical Democrats) donkey and the "Whig" horse., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in year 1844 by J. Childs in the Clerk's Office in the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y., Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1977., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1977, p. 51-52., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Clay, born in Philadelphia, was a prominent caricaturist, engraver, and lithographer who created the "Life in Philadelphia" series which satirized middle-class African Americans of the late 1820s and early 1830s.
Creator: Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857, artist
Date: 1844
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political cartoons - 1844-55W [8366.F.36]

Title: Republican Hall: Tamaqua, Wednesday evening, June 24th, 1863 The far-famed and old established Sanford's Opera Troupe, from his opera houses, Philad'a and Harrisburg The best troupe in the world. Two companies condensed into one. Sanford, the pioneer of minstrelsy will appear in his special acts. Mr. Sanford will have the honor of presenting the best troupe of artists that has ever been concentrated into one body, embracing operatic talent, tragic merit, comic ability, delineations of men, manners and customs, and the special acts, as given with unbounded applause! for the past fourteen years, to the elite of the world. ... Street warblers! ... Donnybrook fair! ... A sketch, by Sanford, entitled Handy Andy, ... To conclude with the last new walk-around, by Dan Emmett, entitled High Daddy ... Admission, 25 cents. Children, 15 cents Front seats invariably reserved for ladies. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Performance to commence at 8 o'clock
Description: The company includes: Mr. Batchelor, E. De Haven, G.L. Hall, E. Haven, A. Linwood, Fulton Myers, S.S. Sanford, E.J. Turner, and J. Williams., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 42.7 x 16.4 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Sanford's Opera Troupe
Date: [1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Sanford (25)5761.F.84a (McAllister)

Title: Tall Case Clock
Description: A Queen Anne clock with a brass arched dial and eight-day works., Engraved “Edwd Duffield/Philadelphia” in the boss above the chapter ring., Gift of Dr. Richard Alan Mones, 2003.
Creator: Duffield, Edward, 1730-1803
Date: Ca. 1760
Location: OBJ 865

Title: Lesueur, Charles Alexandre
Description: Charles Alexandre Lesueur, born January 1, 1778 in Le-Havre, France, was an artist, naturalist, and early member of the Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia), who experimented with lithography in Philadelphia in the late 1810s and early 1820s. An experienced specimens illustrator from a previous travel expedition with French commander Nicholas Baudin, Lesueur arrived in America in 1816 at the bequest of Scottish-American geologist William Maclure to explore the Northeastern United States., In 1817, he learned copperplate engraving and in 1819 began to experiment with lithography in Philadelphia as a means to illustrate his own articles in scientific periodicals. Lesueur resided in Philadelphia between 1818 and 1825 and worked as an art teacher, illustrator, and naturalist. He received diplomas from the Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Societas Medica Philadelphiensis. In 1821, lithographs that he drew and printed after sketches of specimens he made while on his surveys with Maclure illustrated a small number of the October 1821 issue of "The Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia" before being replaced by engravings., Lesueur continued to experiment with lithography in the city until about 1823. In 1825 he relocated to the commune New Harmony, Indiana where he remained, except for travels, until 1837. That year he returned to France via New Orleans. In 1846 he was appointed Curator of the Museum of Natural History at LeHavre, France. Lesueur died in France on December 12, 1846
Date: January 1, 1778-December 12, 1846
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: M'Clees & Germon, daguerreotype rooms, S.E. corner of Chestnut and 8th Sts., Philadelphia Messrs. McClees & Germon, having fitted up the most splendid apartments in the above location, hope for a continuance of that patronage which they have heretofore received, ... The great success with which they have met at their former establishment, in a retired location, (No. 80 Walnut street,) with many disadvantages to contend against
Description: McClees & Germon is listed in Philadelphia directories at 80 1/2 Walnut Street in 1847, and at the S.E. corner of 8th and Chestnut Streets from 1848 to 1850., Imprint from p. [2]., Printed on p. [1]-[2] only.
Creator: McClees & Germon
Date: [1848?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1848 McClees 105443.D (Doret)

Title: Bridgens, Henry
Description: Henry F. Bridgens, a map lithographer and publisher, born in England about 1824 immigrated to the United States before 1850. By September 1856, he resided in Philadelphia and had gained U.S. citizenship. Although primarily a surveyor and map publisher, his early work included acting as principal lithographer for the "Map of the Township of Westhempfield, Lancaster County, Penna." (1850) in addition to possibly lithographing several plates of J. C. Sidney's "American Cottage and Villa Architecture" (1850). By 1853, he formed the short-lived map publishing firm R. P. & H. F. Bridgens with Richard P. Bridgens that ended soon thereafter when Richard relocated to California. Bridgens is also known for the creation of the first county atlas, when he reissued his 1860 wall map of Berks County as a bound volume in 1861. Although listed as a conveyancer at the time of his death on November 22, 1872, Bridgens continued his work as a map publisher until his last day of life. At the time, he was working on an atlas of Chester County, which was completed posthumously by A. R. Witmer of Safe Harbor, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Date: ca. 1824 - November 22, 1872
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Hart, S[arah] & Son
Description: S. Hart & Son, the partnership established in 1823 between widowed mother Sarah Stock Hart (1789-1863) and her son Abraham Hart (1810-1885), the noted mid-19th century publisher, operated a stationery and fancy goods store that also sold and published lithographs. The firm sold lithographic cartoons by 1829 and published satiric prints, including the "Life in Philadelphia" series of engravings (1829-1830), and per Peters, a ca. 1830s lithographic caricature of a woman titled "Much Ado About Nothing." The firm operated until 1843, originally from 65 South Third Street and after 1838 at 120, i.e., 324 Chestnut Street - the future location of Theodore Leonhardt & Son., Sarah Hart, widow of the dry goods proprietor Abraham Hart (d. 1823), immigrated to the United States from Holland in 1807. A prominent member of the Philadelphia Jewish community, she was active in the Female Hebrew Benevolent Society. She died August 20, 1863 with her residence at 325 Spruce Street., Abraham Hart , in addition to partnering with his mother, also partnered in the publishing firms of E. L Carey & A. Hart (1829-1839) and Carey & Hart (1839-1849) before operating his own firm 1849-1854.
Date: fl. 1823-1843
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: [Manayunk]
Description: Landscape view showing a couple walking along the bank of the river near the industrial village. A large tree stands in the foreground and small factories and dwellings are visible in the background. Also shows tree groves, rocks, and ground cover., Artist, title, and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 454, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reaccessioned as P.2188., Manuscript note with incorrect information on mount: Schuylkill River at Manayunk near Philadelphia. Augustus Kollner., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Manayunk
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W225 [7845.F]

Title: Fox sisters.
Description: In Illustrated news, vol. 1, no. 5 (Jan. 29, 1853), p. 80., Signed: [undeciphered monogram] del., Waist-length portraits of the spiritualists Kate (i.e., Catherine) and Margaretta (i.e., Margaret) Fox; Margaretta has her arm around Kate.
Date: [1853?]

Title: Cavalry! Let us serve without drafting! The only authorized cavalry company in the state. The last chance for the young, the active & brave. A few good men yet wanted to fill this company. The usual bounty, premium, and advance of pay given. Recruiting station now open at the Corner Centre & Market Streets, Pottsville. Our county now & forever
Description: Printed in red and blue; printed on two sheets, 61 x 80 cm. and 54 x 80 cm., pasted together., The illustration is a mounted Union cavalry soldier, sabre drawn, attacking a mounted Confederate cavalry soldier., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; see also 2# Am 1861 Cavalry (1)5777.F.18d (McAllister)., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1861 and 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 4# Am 1861 Cavalry (4)5777.F.45 (McAllister)

Title: Weik, John
Description: John Weik, born ca. 1827 in Württemberg, Germany, worked as a book seller, stationer, and print publisher in Philadelphia ca. 1851-ca. 1872. Weik immigrated to Philadelphia in 1850 and soon after started the naturalization process and entered the city's publishing industry, including lithographs. In 1851, he operated a book and stationery store at 155 North Third Street. From 1857 to ca. 1860, he partnered with Hugo Liebing to form the book publishing and importing business John Weik & Co. at 533 Chestnut Street. During the 1850s and 1860s, Weik traveled between Germany and Philadelphia several times, presumably to enhance his shop's collection of German works. Weik also published lithographs, many of them bird's eye views, including Bachmann's "Bird's Eye View of Philadelphia" printed by P.S. Duval & Son (1857), Herline's "Microscopic View of New York" (1870), and a map of Boston, Massachusetts (1870) designed by F. Fuchs., Weik enlisted in the Civil War as a Quartermaster on September 11, 1861 and several months later joined Company S of the 75th Regiment of Pennsylvania. Mustered out on September 1, 1865 in Franklin, Tennessee, Weik did not reappear in Philadelphia city directories until 1870. He resumed publishing activities from 605 Sansom Street for a few years, and owned personal estate worth $30,000, but switched to real estate between 1873 and 1878. By 1879, he manufactured clay heaters from 605 Sansom Street., Although Weik first settled in Kensington when he arrived in Philadelphia, he resided at Forty-fourth and Eadline (i.e., Wallace) Streets in West Philadelphia (Ward 24, now Powelton Village) for the rest of his life. He married the Pennsylvania-born Maria L. (1817-1902) by 1850 and had an infant daughter, also Maria L (b. 1850). Two more children, Anna R. (b. 1852) and John A. (b. 1854), were born before Weik enlisted in the war. Weik presumably died ca. 1890, the same year that his wife filed as a widow to receive his pension. Mary Weik died in New York City in 1892.
Date: b. ca. 1827-ca. 1890
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: Catholic College, Chestnut Hill, Pa
Description: Aerial view of Mount Saint Joseph College, a Catholic liberal arts college for women opened in 1924 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph. Also the site of Mount Saint Joseph Academy until 1961. Renamed Chestnut Hill College in 1938. Became coeducational in 2003., Negative number: 13591n.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.13591n]

Title: Eine wahre Geschichte, oder eine probirte Kunst in Feuers-Gefahr wie auch in Pestilenz-Zeiten zu gebrauchen Ist von einem christlichen Singmeister, König aus Egypten, erfunden worden. Es wurden im Jahre 1714, den 10 Tag Juni, im Königreich Preuszen 6 Zigeuner oder Heiden genannt, mit dem Strang gerichtet, der siebente aber, ein Mann von 80 Jahre alt, sollte am 16 Tage gleich darauf mit dem Schwerdte hingerichtet werden
Description: The gypsy's fire charm, a magical incantation for preventing fire or pestilence., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 25.1 x 13.0 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [between 1850 and 1870?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1850 Wahre 14308.Q (Roughwood)

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