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Title: Potts-Morris Aggregation in backyard, Cedar Mer, Sea Girt, NJ
Description: Photograph showing a woman and three children walking down a path through a field behind the Morris family home Cedar Mer. The children probably include Marriott C. Morris' sons Elliston Perot Morris Jr. and Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and his niece Helen Dickey Potts. The woman bends down to hold the youngest child's hand while the other two children look on. A man's shadow is visible in the foreground. Quaker architect Hibberd Yarnall built the summer home Cedar Mer around 1875. After his death in 1882, Elliston Perot Morris bought the property. Morris left Cedar Mer to his son Marriott Canby Morris in his will. It was sold in 1951 after his death. By 1958 the house had been demolished., 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: ca. 1902
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2034]

Title: [Jane Rhoads Morris and Janet Morris near rosebush], rose Time at 131 W. Wal[nut Lane]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' wife Jane Rhoads Morris and daughter Janet Morris standing in front of a rosebush at their home at 131 W. Walnut Lane. Jane Morris wears a checkered blouse, tie, and dark skirt and holds a basket filled with roses in one hand and shears in the other. Janet Morris as a young girl carries a small bag over her shoulder and looks at the flowers. A fence runs behind them., 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: June 8, 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.354]

Title: [Jane Rhoads Morris and Janet Morris near rosebush], Rose Time at 131 W. Wal[nut Lane]
Description: Film negative showing Marriott C. Morris' wife Jane Rhoads Morris and daughter Janet Morris standing next to a rosebush on the lawn at their home at 131 W. Walnut Lane. Jane Morris wears a checkered blouse, tie, and dark skirt and holds a basket full of roses in her right hand and a bloom in her left. Janet Morris carries a small bag over her shoulder and has ribbons in her hair., 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: June 8, 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.355]

Title: Rhododendrons Horticultural Grounds.
Description: Interview showing rhododendron flower bed in the center with adjacent plants and flowers.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.32d]

Title: Horticultural Building - Floral Hall - April.
Description: Interior view of the hall showing construction of a fountain. Also shows contruction materials including flooring, mounds of soil, parts of the fountain, barrels, and a hose.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.32e]

Title: Horticultural Grounds from W. Promenade.
Description: Extrior view from upper level showing the Horticultural Grounds including paths, trees, flower beds, and a gazebo.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.31b]

Title: Latonia [Latania] Barbonica, Floral Hall.
Description: Interior view of Floral Hall. Shows a potted Latonia [Latania] Barbonica plant and several other potted plants. Also shows interior wall of the hall incuding archways and windows.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.35c]

Title: Fountain Avenue.
Description: View down Fountain Avenue of the Horticultural Grounds and Horticultural Hall with trees in the background. People on the walkways and the promenade of the building. In the foreground are flowers, shrubs, planters, and urns. To the right is a gazebo. Image is identical to P.9137.3.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: *Centennial - photos [P.9037.6]

Title: Horticultural Hall.
Description: Exterior frontal view of building and grounds. Shows flower beds, paths, trees, and a man posing next to a potted plant.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.29a]

Title: Horticultural Building - S.W. Forcing Room.
Description: Interior view showing potted plants of various sizes on two long tables with a center walkway. Also shows a man facing the left table, hoses, and water on the floor.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.36a]

Title: Horticultural Hall from W. End.
Description: Interior view showing walkway with various plants, a fountain, and chandeliers. Also shows urns, a glass case, and a hose.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.33f]

Title: Horticultural Hall from Municipal Building
Description: Exterior view looking south west of building and grounds. Shows flower beds, paths, trees, and a man standing on a pathway.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.29f]

Title: Horticultural Hall - S.E. View.
Description: Exterior view of building and grounds. Shows paths lined with benches, flower beds, and shrubs.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial album [P.8965.29d]

Title: Fountain Avenue.
Description: View down Fountain Avenue of the Horticultural Grounds and Horticultural Hall with trees in the background. People on the walkways and the promenade of the building. In the foreground are flowers, shrubs, planters, and urns. To the right is a gazebo. Image is identical to P.9037.6.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: *Centennial - photos [P.9137.3]

Title: Horticultural Hall from Grounds.
Description: Exterior view of the building and grounds. Shows a path with a bench, shrubs, and trees.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - album [P.8965.29e]

Title: JOHNNY IS GONE FOR A SOLDIER.
Description: I'll trace these gardens o'er and o'er (5 vs. and chor.), Variant: a. [Without period at end of title;] publ. Auner (3). A-J border; Union soldier with rifle. 21 x 12.6 cm., Variant: ab. [As above.] A-J border; [without Union soldier with rifle.] 20.8 x 12.2 cm., Variant: b. [As above;] publ. Auner (4). 24 x 15 cm., Variant: c. Published and sung by James D. Gay, of Philadelphia; [with ROCK ME TO SLEEP, MOTHER on verso.] Letter paper; t. o. border. 22 x 13.5 cm., Variant: d. Publ. Johnson (2). A-J border; soldier with plumed hat. 25 x 16 cm., Variant: e. With exclamation point at end of title; sold by Partridge (2); sheet no. 703. T. o. border. 23.3 x 14.5 cm.

Title: 1888-1889 third supplement to catalogue of electrotypes from A. Blanc, Horticultural Engraver, No. 314 N. Eleventh St. Philada., Pa., U.S.A Registered Cable Address, "Blanc, Philadelphia."
Description: Catalog, including section “New Electros of Vegetables for 1889,” of electrotype specimens for the premier Philadelphia horticultural engraver and lithographer containing images of flowers, plants, fruits, and vegetables. Varieties of flowers, plants, fruits, and vegetables represented include begonias, carnations, chrysanthemums, ferns, pansies, poppies, roses, verbena, corn, melons, lettuces, onions, peppers, pumpkins, squashes, and tomatoes. Illustrations include specimen numbers and prices (ranging from $.50-$10), and most include titles. Images predominantly depict sentimental and genre views of women, children, and animals containing or bordered by flowers; baskets of fruit or flowers; wilderness scenes; insects; single letters and words embellished with floral details; potted plants and flowers; flower bushes; residential views containing flowers; flower and vegetable vignettes; bean pods; single, fields, patches, and bushels of fruits and vegetables; and gardening tools and agricultural implements and equipment., Other specimens depict reproductions of lithographs; female representations of months of the year; “Bulbs grown in Bamboo rod”; a montage, including a crate with packages of bulbs; "Craig’s New Chrysanthemum, Mrs. A. Blanc"; "The Philadelphia Prize Chrysanthemum of 1888"; "Cornfield"; "Insect Destroyers" (i.e., insect destroying insects); and "Odds and Ends" showing bottles of herbs. Also includes a photomechanical studio portrait of an African American boy and girl attired in winter coats and hats, a racist metamorphic montage showing a melon morph into a caricaturized African American figure; and an illustrated advertisement with testimonials promoting W. M. Giradeau’s Seminole Watermelon. Contents also include statements describing the flowers depicted; promoting made to order cuts and the possibility for the addition of text (mortised); noting possible alterations, including “each cut separate” and reductions in price; and indicating "3/4 natural size.", Cover annotated in pencil with date: 1890., Some leaves contain page numbers: 58-134., Cover contains photomechanical illustrations of a studio portrait showing a seated, barefoot girl in simple attire, holding a basket of roses under her arm, and holding a flower to her nose with the other. Attire includes a wide-brimmed hat adorned with several flowers. Grass and flowers rest at her feet. Portrait bordered by a large pictorial detail depicting two stemmed roses. Portrait is specimen 4817 in catalog., Contains promotional text to "Dear Sir" and dated Philadelphia, September 1, 1888 on inside front cover. Text advertises "list of new electrotypes, issued since last year’s supplement … that will enable you to give your catalogue an entirely different appearance" and references how it’s "an important item to the Horticultural trade" and Blanc’s stocks of electros are a “trifling expense” compared to original cuts. Text also explains the deferment of the reprinting of an entirely new catalog due to his addition of a large number of new electros, as well as ordering information including the necessity of a signed order sheet in which purchaser agrees not to sell or loan the electros; ability to make to order any cut for exclusive use; no discounts excepting for orders amounting to over $100; terms strictly cash with order; and cuts ordered to be mailed require a 10% additional fee for postage. Text also advertises "List of My Catalogues," including "Catalogue of Fruit and Tree Cuts"; "Cuts for Catalogue Covers'; "Lawn Views"; and "Sheets of Potato Cuts, Oats, Wheat, Grasses, etc."; their prices of 15 to 20 cents each or $1 for set, which is deductible from orders amounting to $5; and note about "Correspondence en Francais.", Several specimens include Blanc's copyright statement or name., Includes order sheet inscribed with addition equations., Back cover and end pages missing, RVCDC, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Purchased with funds for the Visual Culture Program., See the Albert Blanc entry in the Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers., See the Edward Stern & Co. entry in the Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers., William M. Giradeau (b. 1852), owner of Girardeau Seed Company in Monticello, Fla., developed the first commercial machine for separating seeds from watermelons, making Jefferson county, the top watermelon seed supplier in the world by 1884.
Creator: Blanc, Albert, 1850-
Date: [1888]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Blanc [P.2013.69.2]

Title: Molineaux
Description: Full-length portrait of the frank, champion African American boxer, standing, bare-chested, fists raised, a crowd of spectators in the background. Portrait published following Molineaux's second unsuccessful bid to defeat the popular Champion of England Tom Cribb. Molineaux, a man emancipated from enslavement because of his boxing abilities, emigrated to England in the early 19th century, where he earned a living and a controversial reputation as a champion boxer., LCP exhibition catalogue: An African American miscellany p. 34., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1976 p. 65., Accessioned 1982., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: Jan. 1812
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department portrait prints - M [P.8911.653]

Title: Fountain Ave. from Horticultural Hall.
Description: View of Fountain Avenue looking southwest from Horticultural Hall. Includes partial view of U.S. Govenrment Building. Depicts flower gardens, scrubs, trees, and walkways.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.8975.2]

Title: Thaw, William H., -1889
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: December 4, 1857

Title: [Charles W. Gettz seated at table with one hand supporting his head.]
Description: Portrait of a seated young man resting one hand on his hand-painted pink cheek. His elbow is on a book placed on the nearby table. His other hand rests in his lap. Philadelphia city directories list Charles Getz as a farmer or gardener., Pad: Red velvet. Eagle with wings outstretched on top of sun. Embossed within two concentric circles forming the core of the sun: Evans 380 Market St. Girard Row. Original Sun Beam., Mat: Elliptical., Case: Leather. Spray of roses in an octagonal border. The design of the case is called A Spray of Roses, variant and is plate 127 in American Miniature Case Art by Floyd and Marion Rinhart (Cranbury, New Jersey: A. S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1969.) Produced in quantity, ca. 1857. No design on verso.
Creator: Evans, C. (Charles), fl. 1848-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Cased photos [P.2005.1.1]]

Title: Women's Pavillion and Government Building.
Description: Exterior view of the east facade of the U.S. Government Buillding and partial view of Women's Pavilion from Fountain Ave. Depicts fountain, flower gardens, shrubs, urns and walkways.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: Centennial - stereos [P.8975.10]

Title: Sheaff, George
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: February 25, 1805-June 8, 1832

Title: Haines, Ruben, 1728-1793
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: April 6, 1769

Title: Clarke Hall, S.W. Corner of Third and Chestnut Streets
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a series of buildings on the corner of an intersection. Pedestrians are walking on the sidewalks and conversing, and there is a horse-drawn carriage in the intersection in the foreground., This drawing of a pair of once notable buildings has been copied from a sketch by McAllister, dated 1808. The original structures were built by William Clarke, a wealthy attorney, soon after the year 1700. They were, probably, the first residences erected west of Third Street. In 1704 William Penn, Jr., lived in one of them. Subsequent owners were Andrew Hamilton, attorney general of the Province, and Israel Pemberton, who developed gardens in the rear, extending along Dock Creek. During the decade from 1790 the property was occupied by Alexander Hamilton as offices of the United States Treasury. THe Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank was located here in 1809. In the course of time the old double house was subjected to many changes. For a long period, prior to 1840, it was tenanted by a number of artisans and storekeepers. In that year the building was demolished by Messrs. Swain, Abel & Simmons, who had come here, four years before, from New York and founded the Public Ledger. They erected the brick Ledger building on the site, which is now covered by the Merchant & Mariner office building., Taylor Catalog Number: 160
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Turmoil of Dock Street Never Ceases
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a busy day on Dock Street with buildings fronted by awnings as well as pedestrians, horses, a truck, and a streetcar. There are multiple pedestrians in the foreground, including a policeman and two men talking by a barrel., From the early days of the city those who prospered began to build spacious houses along the nether shores of Dock Creek where its twin affluents, winding through wildwood groves, met and formed a haven. Their gardens were spread along its slopes, gracing a scene of sylvan beauty, but there came a time whenpestilence spread from the polluted stream and, at great cost, Dock Creek was roofed by a pavement and this broad winding space became and has since remained our greatest provision mart, affording busy and always picturesque vistas of which this scene is typical. Dock Street is an arena of the never-ending battle between plenty and hunger. The vital business of fetching and distribution is Dock Street's one big occupation by night and day. If Dock Street ever sleeps it is just for a few hours on a Sunday., Taylor Catalog Number: 200
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Swaim's Laboratory and Baths
Description: Shows commercial buildings on the corner of Seventh and Sansom Streets. Shops are on the first floor and pedestrians stand on the corner., The venerable buildings yet standing (in 1916) at the northeastern corner of Seventh and Sansom Streets, were erected nearly a century ago by William Swaim for the manufacture of his once famous "Panacea." In connection with them he established a bathing establishment, a long popular predecessor of the modern Turkish baths of the city. These structures are upon ground once part of the gardens in the rear of the Waln Mansion upon Chestnut street. At one time a tavern was located here. A variety of small industries, offices and stores give the old group an air of some remaining activity. When passing, please note the picturesque little fruit store at the corner., Taylor Catalog Number: 79
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1916
Location: Taylor - Case 7-15 [2717.F]

Title: The Twaddell Homestead
Description: View of a large residence surrounded by trees. The image is labeled, "The Twaddell Homestead, Forty Sixth Street and Baltimore Ave.," in the bottom left corner., Baltimore Avenue's most interesting home seems destined to pass from existence soon before the inroads of the operative builders. This fine example of colonial architecture occupies the centre of the block between Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Streets northwest from Baltimore Avenue. Old-time gardens grace the frontage of the house, shaded by the century-old trees. The rear portion of the house used as a kitchen was orignially the home of a Swedish settler and is counted as one of the first five habitations built west of the Schuylkill River., Taylor Catalog Number: 185
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1919

Title: Old Resorts in Library Street
Description: Depicts men outside Military Hall and Isaih Bryan's Our House on Library Street., Military Hall and "Our House: were features of Library (now Sansom) Street, west of Fourth Street, for many years. The first-named faced the rear of the U.S. Custom House. In the early months of the Civil War several regiments of the Pennsylvania Volunteers were recruited and had headquarters here. The structure was composed of a group of remodeled residences of the colonial era which commanded a view of the noted gardens of the Norris homestead, a portion of which was afterward covered by the United States Bank building, know, since 1845, as the Cutom house. The site of Military Hall and the adjoiing tap-house above mentioned is now occupied by the building of the American Bank Note Company., Taylor Catalog Number: 193
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: [Horticultural Hall, from the lily ponds, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia.]
Description: View of hall from lily ponds. Built 1875 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann, demolished in 1955 even though the 383' long, 193' wide building was supposed to remain a permanent botanical conservatory, showcasing exotic plant species and Victorian gardens., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.35]

Title: Morris-Littel House, Main & High St
Description: Exterior view of south flank and west front of house owned by the Morris-Littell family from 1776 until 1888. Dr. Christopher Wit (1675-1765) planted one of the first botanical gardens in North America on this site. The house was torn down for the construction of Germantown High School in 1915. Includes a view of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Germantown at the northeast corner of Germantown Avenue and High Street., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: January 30, 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.48]

Title: Morris-Littel House, S. east cor. Main & High St
Description: Exterior view of north flank and west front of house owned by the Morris-Littell family from 1776 until 1888. Dr. Christopher Wit (1675-1765) planted one of the first botanical gardens in North America on this site. The house was torn down for the construction of Germantown High School in 1915. A little girl on roller skates holds the hand of a toddler as they cross Germantown Avenue walking toward the camera., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative April 20, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.49]

Title: At P[ennsylvani]a School of Horticulture, Ambler
Description: Film negative showing five women and one man standing among trees and other foliage in front of a three-story building at the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women. Founded by Jane Bowne Haines (1869-1937) in 1911, the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women was one of the first horticultural schools for women in the United States. It had a mostly female faculty and board and taught women skills including gardening, landscape design, beekeeping, botany, and more. The school started on the site of McAlonan farm in Ambler. The colonial farmhouse on the site served as the main classroom and office building. In 1958 it merged with Temple University Ambler and became coeducational., 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: [1912]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.540]

Title: [University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, entrance gate, 34th and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts gateway surrounded by trees and shrubs. Architect Wilson Eyre, Jr. headed the team of architects who designed the University Museum buildings and surrounding gardens. Construction of the original buildings began in 1899 and ended in 1929., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Gateway. U of P Musium [sic]. 34th & Spruce., 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 158 [P.8513.158], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson158.htm

Title: [Dundas-Lippincott mansion, northeast corner of Broad and Walnut streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view from the southwest of the residence built circa 1838 after the designs of Thomas U. Walter for Philadelphia banker James Dundas at 1335 Walnut Street. Shows the property, known for its extensive gardens, surrounded by an ironwork fence. The residence, also known as the Yellow Mansion, was later the home of Agnes Keene Lippincott and her son, James Dundas Lippincott. Building demolished circa 1905., Manuscript note on recto: Mr. Dundas, Broad & Walnut, July 1858., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: July 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Residences - D [(6)1322.F.176a]

Title: East Pennsylvania Agricultural & Mechanical Society
Description: Fair certificate containing an ornate border with vignettes, female allegorical figures, and pictorial elements related to agriculture and horticulture. Vignettes show the Pennsylvania coat of arms (surrounded by flags) and montages of scenes of life on a farm. Farm scenes include a farmhouse; barns; a woman milking a cow; a farmhand settling a horse; piglets suckling on their mother; sheep being corralled; a field being cleared; and farmhands loading a wagon full of hay. Allegorical figures hold a sickle, cornucopia of flowers, a basket of fruit, and the head of a ram that lays near other farm animals. Border also includes cherubs, garlands of vines and flowers, fruit bushes, and displays of farm produce. Two bales of wheat clustered with doves, a bee hive, and gardening tools form another pictorial element. The East Pennsylvania Agricultural & Mechanical Society was established in 1860 in Norristown following a split from the Montgomery County Agricultural Society. The society held its first fair in 1861., Not in Wainwright., Issued to Charles P. Peters in 1867 for King of peaches being the best variety on exhibition. Signed Joshua Ashbury, President and A.S. Hallman for Secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 62, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - East Pennsylvania
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - East Pennsylvania

Title: Bridport, Hugh
Description: Hugh Bridport, born in England in 1794, was a portrait painter, drawing instructor, architect, and engraver, who practiced lithography in Philadelphia 1828-1830s. Trained at the Royal Academy and with miniature painter Charles Wilkins, Bridport immigrated to Philadelphia with his artist brother George in 1816. Soon after their arrival, the brothers established an architectural drawing academy that operated until 1822. In 1824, Bridport served as a founding member of the Franklin Institute and taught architectural drawing classes there until 1833., During the latter portion of this time, Bridport engaged in the trade of lithography with Kennedy & Lucas, the first commercial establishment in the city. He lithographed two of Kennedy & Lucas's earliest prints "Cowell as Crack in The Turnpike Gate" (1828) and "The Pagoda and Labyrinth Gardens, near Fairmount" (1828). Bridport would continue to work with Kennedy & Lucas as a lithographer as well as with the early premier firms of C. G. Childs and M. E. D. Brown. Although predominately a lithographer of portraits, including one of Rev. W.H. Furness, Bridport also drew the noted lithograph "Camp Meeting" after the painting by Alexander Rider as well as views of Niagara Falls ca. 1830. Bridport's work in lithography tapered off in the early 1830s and he focused his artistic career on portrait painting., From the 1810s to 1840s, Bridport also exhibited paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and Artist's Fund Society. In the 1860s, he earned sufficient income to be taxed by the I.R.S.; representative of his 1860 census listing as a "gentleman" with a personal estate worth $15,000 (ca. $400,000 in 2008 dollars)., During his lithographic career, he maintained a portrait painting studio at Fifth and Chestnut streets and lived at 2 Ranstead Court in 1833. Bridport was married to Rachel (b. ca. 1820) with whom he had at least three children. Bridport died on July 17, 1870 with his final listing in the census as a "merchant."
Date: 1794-July 27, 1870
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM, OR, WE'LL RALLY ROUND THE FLAG BOYS.
Description: Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'IIrally once again (4 vs. and chor.) [By George F. Root.], Variant: a. Publ. Auner (4). A-J border; eagle with motto "E Pluribus Unum". 23 x 13 cm., Variant: b. [Without commas after "Freedom" and "Or" in title; but with comma after "Flag";] publ. Auner (5); 4 chors.; imprint in upper and lower case. A-J border. 22.5 x 13 cm., Variant: bc. [As above, without publisher's name:] with verses and chors. 1.3 cm. high instead of 1.5 cm. A-J border. 19.5 x 14.4 cm. (cropped)., Variant: c. [As above;] with imprint in caps. A-J border. 22.8 x 13.9 cm., Variant: d. Title: "The Battle-Cry of Freedom!"; [publ.] De Marsan (3). De Marsan trapper border. 25.6 x 14.5 cm., Variant: e. [As above;] De Marsan ship border, with war scenes in lower corners. 25.5 x 14.5 cm., Variant: f. Title: "The Battle-Cry of Freedom"; [publ.] Doyle. T. o. border with spaced urn ornaments. 22 x 13.7 cm., Variant: g. Title as above; t. o. border with heavy black line and ornamental corners. 23.7 x 15.1 cm., Variant: h. [As above;] with exclamation point at end of title. T. o. border with lacy flower scroll. 22.8 x 15.4 cm., Variant: i. [As above;] with period at end of title; advs: Boyd's Circulating Library, and 2,000 Plays for Sale; 2nd song: Battle Hymn of the Republic. T. o. border. 22.5 x 12.7 cm., Variant: j. Published and sung by James D. Gay; [with FLAG OF OUR UNION FOR EVER on recto.] T. o. border. 23.2 x 16.2 cm., Variant: k. Respectfully Dedicated to Wheelock M. Gardener, Esq., of Boston, Mass.; publ. Johnson (2); advs: Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, etc., and Johnson's New Catalogue of Songs. Triple-line border. 23 x 14 cm., Variant: l. [As above;] but with comma after "Flag" in title; advs: Brook's Ball Room Monitor, and See the Song, Our Native Land, etc. A-J border; eagle with flag. 22.6 x 12.7 cm., Variant: m. Title: "The Battle Cry of Freedom"; headed: [Introduction]; 2nd song: "God Save the State!", headed: "[After the Prayer]"; 3rd song: "Battle-Hymn of the Republic", headed: "[After the Pledge]"; 4th song: Initiation Ode; 5th song: "Red, White and Blue!";, Variant: n. Title: "The Battle-Cry of Freedom"; adv: Ten [illustrated Songs. Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 103, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.2 x 12.7 cm., Variant: o. [As above;] hdpc. Magnus 205, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.2 x 12.6 cm., Variant: p. Title as above; adv: 500 Illustrated Ballads [publ.] Magnus (2). Letter paper; blue ink; hdpc. Magnus 121, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.4 x 12.7 cm., Variant: q. [As above;] hdpc. Magnus 132, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 18.5 x 12.7 cm., Variant: r. .[As above;] hdpc. Magnus 134, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 20.4 x 12.7 cm., Variant: s. [As above;] hdpc. Magnus 142, col.; publ. Magnus (1). 21.4 x 14 cm., Variant: t. Title: "The Battle Cry of Freedom"; with 2 chors.; music by Root and Cady, Chicago, owners of the copyright; sheet no. 838; publ. Partridge (2). T. o. border. 22.8 x 15.7 cm., Variant: u. Title: "Battle-Cry of Freedom"; sheet no. 1125; publ. Wrigley. Wrigley Ethiopian border. 23.5 x 15 cm.

Title: Grace, Robert, -1766
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: November 10, 1731

Title: Peters, William, 1702-1786
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: March 13, 1742-May 1, 1782

Title: Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel, 1783-1840
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: June 2, 1836

Title: [Plate 2 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate depicts section of the 200 block of Chestnut Street (60-75 pre-consolidation). South side includes J. Stockman & Son, Pencil Case & Thimble Manufactory (60); Penrose Fell, Tailor (62); B. G. Atkinson, Tailor (64); S. Hopper, Watches & Jewelry (66); Goodyear’s Insoluble Rubber (68); Wm. Boning, Watches & Jewelry (70); E.G. Whitman, Confectionery (72); and Dunn’s Eating Saloon (74). North side includes E. G. Whitman, Confectioner and Fruit Dealer (71); D. Landreth, Seeds & Tools for Farming & Gardening; E. Shannon, Tea Warehouse; and hides and leather dealer J. Howell & Co. Also shows part of Exchange Place and Bank Street. Whitman signage (72) included on plate as pasted-on details., Advertisements promote four of the businesses depicted (Allen, Hopper, Stockman & Son, and Whitman) and Mechanics’ Union Association. Full-page Association advertisement details members' disability benefits and the union’s weekly journal. Stockman& Son promotes their stock of gold and silver wares, including " Everpointed Pencils," thimbles, silver spoons, butter knives, purse clasps, and finger shields. Depicted businesses' advertisements include ornamented types and a vignette of a watch (Hopper)., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 3., LCP also holds trimmed duplicate depicting North side [P.2008.34.16.1].
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 3 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: This diploma was awarded by the Luzerne County Agricultural Society at their [blank] annual fair held at Wyoming [blank] 18[blank]
Description: Diploma containing two vignettes and and a dominant scene symbolizing agriculture separated by borders comprised of sheaves of wheat, a shovel, farm produce, and vinery. In the upper right, vignettes depict a farmer reaping his field with a horse-drawn reaper and an industrial view of a train passing a coal breaker factory across from a coal mine in which horse-drawn coal cars arrive and depart. The dominant scene shows a farm with livestock, including a pig, turkeys, chickens, and ducks milling the grounds near a woman milking a cow while farmhands corral cows out of a yard, transport a wagon of hay from a barn, and plow a field. View also shows horses before a pasture of grazing sheep and other homesteads, the Wyoming Monument (erected in 1833 in memory of victims of the Wyoming Massacre 1778), and treescaped hills in the distance. The Luzerne County Agricultural Society was founded in 1858 by persons interested in farming and gardening with the mission "to foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual fair was held in 1859 and stopped after circa 1879 and before 1891., Not in Wainwright., Dilpoma completed in manuscript: This diploma was awarded by the Luzerne County Agricultural Society at their [Thirteenth] Annual Fair held at Wyoming [Sept. 25, 26 & 27] 18[72] To [William H. Shoemaker Esq. of Wyoming] for [best bottle of grape wine]. [Steuben Jenkins], Prest. and [W. H. Jenkins], Secy., Glued onto a modern mat by previous owner., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 287, Steuben Jenkins was a respected lawyer, farmer, historian, and antiquarian of Wyoming County.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Agriculture - Luzerne [P.2014.11]

Title: Old Littell-Morris house, Main & High Sts., showing also Dr. Dunton's house &c., [Germantown]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of the Morris-Littel House at 5933 Germantown Avenue, seen from across the brick road lined with trolley tracks. A low stone wall separates the house from the sidewalk and trees grow both in the lawn and in planters next to the road. The Morris-Littell House belonged to the Morris and Littell families from 1776 to 1888 when it was purchased by E.H. Butler. Dr. Christopher Wit (1675-1765) planted one of the first botanical gardens in America on the property. The house was the residence of Ann Willing Morris (1767-1853) from 1812 to 1853. Her daughters, Elizabeth Carrington Morris (1795-1865) and Margaretta Hare Morris (1797-1867) were a botanist and an entomologist respectively. Margaretta Morris was also the first woman elected to the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences. The house was torn down in 1915 after the construction of the Germantown High School., Time: 12:30, Light: Faint sun., 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: April 25, 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.1523]

Title: Views of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Part 1st
Description: Series of 12 collecting cards depicting bucolic views of the park. Includes two different views, including one with a fountain, of a "Rustic Arbor" with a park pavilion; "Spring" showing a water fountain; "The "Dam" and "The Arch" and a "Fountain" near the race at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River; "Entrance to Lemon Hill" and the "Mansion House"; an ornate foot bridge over "The Brook"; the "Keeper's House"; the "Band House"; and "Iron Spring" pavilion. Many of the views include park visitors, gardens, and walkways and all include trees. Water work views also show the stand pipe and roof of the new mill house., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 811a-l. POS 811a: Rustic Arbor (fountain). 811b: Rustic Arbor. 811c: Spring. 811d: Spring. 811e: Dam. 811f: Mansion House. 811g: The Brok. 811h: The Arch. 811i: Entrance to Lemon hill. 811j: Fountain.811k: Keeper's house. 811k: Band House. 811l: Iron Spring., Library of Congress: LOT 11050 (F)
Date: c1879
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Title, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Rustic Arbor Willows, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Rustic Arbor Gazebo, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Spring, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) The Dam, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Mansion House, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) The Brook, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) The Arch, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Iron Spring, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Entrance to Lemon Hill, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Fountain, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Keeper's House, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Band House

Title: Mahan, Francis
Description: Francis Mahan, born ca. 1790 in Pennsylvania, worked primarily as a fashion lithographer, publisher and designer in Philadelphia from 1829 to 1871. Trained as a tailor in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the mid-1810s "by making clothes of every description, plain or fashionable, to suit customers," Mahan relocated and was proprietor of Francis Mahan & Co. in Philadelphia (Chestnut Street Ward) by the late 1820s. He copyrighted and advertised protractors and his proof system "to impart the art of garment cutting" to tailors, a system disputed by rival tailor and publisher Allen Ward in local newspapers beginning in the late 1830s. In a newspaper war that endured many years, Ward accused Mahan of copying designs from old drafts of his work, resulting in several design competitions; an injunction against Mahan by Ward in 1839; and a libel suit by Mahan against Ward in 1840., By the 1840s both Mahan and Ward published fashion prints. The prints displayed in local tailors' shops depicted several figures attired in seasonal fashions that often included prominent figures for credibility and made the lithographs collectibles. Prominent figures in Mahan prints, which were often advertised in the local newspapers, included Henry Clay and James K. Polk in 1844 and 1845 and Colonel May, "the hero of Palo Alto," (from a daguerreotype) in 1847. During the 1840s, Mahan also exhibited fashion plates in the Franklin Institute Exhibition of American Manufactures (1848) and included an advertisement in the catalog that claimed he had "near Six Thousand regular subscribers" to his plates. He continued to publish plates through the 1850s and in the 1860 issued a print "which contain[ed] all the Presidential Candidates" for which he advertised in the "Public Ledger" for canvassers., A listing for Mahan's tailor shop at 20 South Sixth Street appeared in city directories in 1831. The shop moved to Chestnut Street in the early 1840s, with locations at 215, then 211, 186, 720, 911 and then back to 720 Chestnut Street. Mahan resided within the same ward as his business, and by 1850 he lived in the hotel owned by Filbert I. Nagle at 18 South Sixth Street. He moved to Camden, New Jersey in the 1860s, and returned to Philadelphia by 1871, after which time his name is absent from city directories. He had one son, Phineas Jenks Mahan (1814-1875), who was an expert gardener and a soldier in Texas in the mid-late 1830s. The younger Mahan was appointed by Richard G. Harrison of Philadelphia to secure contracts for bank note engraving in Texas, which is where he subsequently moved his family by 1870.
Date: ca. 1790-1871
Location: Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers

Title: The first part of the institutes of the laws of England or, a commentary upon Littleton, ... authore Edwardo Coke
Description: The firm of E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling comprised Elizabeth Nutt, Richard Nutt, and Robert Gosling.
Creator: Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634
Date: 1738
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *E Coke 266.F

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