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Title: [Women posed at Glendinning Rock Gardens, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia]
Description: Scene showing well-dressed women, including an African American woman, posed in the Glendinning Rock Gardens in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Shows nine women, attired in dresses, sitting and standing on the rocks around the pond and on the incline leading up to the stone wall. The garden, built in 1936 at the bequest of Fairmount Park Commission board member Colonel Robert Glendinning and his wife Elizabeth, is one of the most unusual in the country containing an atypical variety of species of shrubs, herbs, and trees., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from photographic medium and attire of the people., Manuscript note on verso: Glend[i]nning Rock Gardens, Fairmount Park., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: [ca. 1957]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8809.1]

Title: Chinatown. Looking north on Hutchinson Street which dead ends into Race Street
Description: View from Hutchinson Street towards the 900 block of Race Street, Philadelphia. Shows in the foreground a partial view of a car and the buildings flanking Hutchinson Street. In the center, depicts an exterior view of the four-story building at 919-921 and the three-story building at 923 Race Street. Part of the sign for the Shanghai Garden Restaurant at 919 is visible. The neighboring business has a storefront glass window which reads, "Hong Tai & [Co.] 921 Chinese Good[s]" with a display of merchandise. The adjacent building reads, "Fook Lee Co. 923" on the storefront glass window, and a seated man is visible inside., Title and date from label on verso., Photographer's imprint stamped on verso: Photo by Phila. Inquirer, Oct. 2, 1955., Gift of Linda Kimiko August.
Creator: Irving, William, photographer
Date: Oct. 2, 1955
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Irving (Phila Inquirer) [P.2023.27.6]

Title: Tel-Aviv Inc. Hotel and Convalescent Home for the Elderly and Retired, 145 West School House Lane, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Collage of views depicting the hotel and convalescent home at 145 West School House Lane, built as the Louis Adler residence in 1915 after designs by Magaziner & Potter. Depicts an exterior view of the front facade, the garden and lawn, a semi-private room, a sitting room and a patient receiving oxygen., Numbered 3753 on verso., Also identified as the Cedars of Tel Aviv nursing home, started by Rabbi Hiatt. One of the first institutions in the city to offer kosher food to residents., Sheet number: 138A07., Divided back. Description of home on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1948
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Organizations (By Name) - 138]

Title: [714-716 N. 10th Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Real estate photograph commissioned by the Jackson-Cross Company depicting several African American laborers working in a coal, ice, and scrap lot for sale by Arthur Boswell in the Spring Garden neighborhood. In the center, an African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a collared, zipped up jacket, an apron tied around his waist, pants, and shoes, leans on the open wooden door with signs that read, “Sale Arthur Boswell” and “Ice never fails.” The other wooden door has “coal” written in paint. In the scrapyard, several men moving material are visible. Planks of wood lie in piles on the ground. The Jackson-Cross Company, established around 1876, was a Philadelphia real estate firm in operation until 1998., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content., Number 16., Purchase 2000., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1945]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Jackson-Cross [P.9784.8]

Title: Former site of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Spring Garden and Broad Streets, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial view of the former site of Baldwin Locomotive Works, Broad and Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia. Includes view of the Elverson Building. Baldwin Locomotive Works buildings at this location were demolished in 1937 after the company moved south of Philadelphia to Eddystone, Pa. in 1928., Negative number: 18954n.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: April, 1938
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.18954n]

Title: Man and boy standing outside a screened porch, Philadelphia
Description: Group portrait showing a man in summer trousers and shirtsleeves and a little boy in long pants with suspenders standing outside a screened porch in front of a small garden, possibly at a shore resort near Philadelphia. The man has his hand on the child's shoulder. There is another wooden house very close next door., Azo postcard., See Robert Bogdan and Todd Weseloh’s “Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography,” (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006), p. 223., Keith was a Philadelphia photographer who specialized in portraiture, mainly of working-class Philadelphians in South Philadelphia and Kensington from the 1910s to the 1940s.
Creator: Keith, John Frank, 1883-1947, photographer
Date: ca. 1931
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photographs-Keith [P.8768.15]

Title: Vertical views of Philadelphia along the Delaware River
Description: Vertical views of Philadelphia of the area bounded by the Spring Garden Street to the north, Reed Street to the south, the Delaware River to the east, and 10th Street to the west. Views are from a high altitude. The approach to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, the bridge itself, Washington Square, and piers along the river are clearly visible, as are portions of Camden on the east bank of the river., Negative numbers: 12422n, 12423n., Manuscript notes on negative sleeves indicate photos were taken May 5, 1930.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1930
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.12422n; P.8990.12423n]

Title: Testimonial banquet to Ms. Eugenia M. Neal. Daughter Ruler Keystone Temple, No. 448 I.B.P.O.E.W., Dec. 8, 1930. O. V. Catto Elks Home, Philadelphia
Description: Panoramic group portrait photograph depicting over one hundred African American men and women, of all ages, at a testimonial banquet of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World for Eugenia Neal (1873-1949). The attendees, attired in evening wear, sit at rows of tables and a few booths in the right of the room. Attendees wear suits, tuxedos, and evening and cocktail dresses. Most of the sitters do not smile and face the camera. Some are turned away or eating. Some of the men wear their I.B.P.O.E.W. fezzes. In the right background, one woman has an arch of flowers over her. The tables are covered in white tablecloths and lined with plates of food, serving platters, and silver pitchers. In the background, at the back of the room, a small band of men musicians is seated next to a woman at a piano. Streamers and a paper bell adorn the ceiling. The O.V. Catto Elks Lodge began in 1903 as a chapter of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World established in 1897 with a mission to "practice charity by providing and performing charitable services in our communities throughout the world and by promoting harmony, friendship, and unity among our esteemed members." By 1926, the Lodge had over 3000 members, and in 1929, it relocated to a new building that included a boxing ring, basketball court, and rooftop garden, at 16th and Fitzwater. Eugenia Neal, born Eugenia Brisby in Virginia, worked as a typesetter in Philadelphia by 1920. Married to Moses Neal in 1896, the couple resided in Atlantic City before relocating to Philadelphia by 1910. As a Daughter Ruler, Neal lead the Keystone Temple with her male counterpart, Exalted Ruler, and "under their leadership, all Elks shall show[ed] truth in activities and live[d] to help others, while promoting Brotherly and Sisterly Love to all.", Title and date from item.
Date: [1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department framed graphics [P.2023.5]

Title: Catha y Tea Garden, 1221-23-25 Chestnut St., Philadelphia
Description: Menu for the Cathay Tea Garden located at 1221-1225 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. The green and gold menu cover depicts a Chinese woman, attired in a dress and high-heeled shoes, raising her left hand to her chin as she faces the viewer. She stands on a balcony or bridge overlooking a landscape of trees and mountains under a moonlit sky. The menu is in English and organized by number in sections for “Wines and Liquors” (#1-167); “Chinese Menu” (#1-179); and “American Menu” (#181-383). The Chinese menu includes categories for chop suey, chow mein, Chinese omelettes, and a prix fixe “Table d’Hote” with three different options and prices from $1.25 to $2.50. The American menu includes categories for sea food, steaks, salads, and sandwiches. The restaurant advertises music, broadcasting, and dancing from 12 to 2:00 P.M., 6 to 8 P.M., and 10 to 1 A.M. with a note that “our patrons are requested to dance only with their escorts. This rule is for the protection of both you and us.” A one sheet insertion, decorated with a red border of bamboo, promotes three Table D’Hote dinners for Tuesday, August 17th for 85 cents, $1.10, and $1.35. The Cathay Tea Garden, also called the Cathay Restaurant, was a Chinese restaurant that had a large dance floor where musicians and bands played. They also broadcasted a live radio show. The restaurant closed in 1973., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of business., Gift of Linda Kimiko August.
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *ephemera - Menus - C [P.2023.43.7]

Title: Baldwin Locomotive Works
Description: Aerial views of Baldwin Locomotive Works, located at Broad and Spring Garden Streets in Philadelphia. Depicts factory and office buildings, as well as nearby industrial buildings. Includes views of the Elverson Building. Baldwin Locomotive Works buildings at this location were demolished in 1937 after the company moved south of Philadelphia to Eddystone, Pa. in 1928., Negative numbers: 8724, 8725., Negative 8724 dated July 30, 1928., Negative 8725 dated July 9, 1928.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: 1928
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.8724-8725]

Title: Garden at 131 W. Walnut Lane with John Gagen, 1928
Description: Panoramic view showing the expansive backyard garden at Marriott C. Morris's Germantown residence. Garden includes tilled plots of land, patches and rows of flowers and bushes, and wire fencing extending from a building in the back, left of the image. Gardener John Gagen stands near a patch of daffodils in the right side of the garden. The residential and out buildings, including the garage (far right) of the Morris estate are visible in the background. Trees and lawns also adorn the property. The house was renovated 1905-1907 with the Morris Family taking residence about 1907., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to Marriott C. Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: [1928]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris [P.2016.37.3]

Title: In Nectarine Street
Description: View of row houses on a cobblestone street. Three people converse on a stoop while a cart rests in the road., This historic lane, just south from Green and west from Front Streets, was opened, in Colonial days, as a part of the British military reservation and barrack ground. It was then called Artillery Lane. In later days it was shown upon local maps as Dana Street. As Nectarine Street it has come within the line of the eastward extension of Spring Garden Street and its substantial old-style houses have been (in 1923) left to the wreckers.
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1923

Title: [Scene with fence, garden, and buildings]
Description: Depicts a garden beyond a fence in the foreground, with buildings in the background., 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 53a [P.8513.53a], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson53a.htm

Title: [Residence and garden at 42nd Street and Woodland Avenue, West Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts the front facade of a West Philadelphia stone house with an overgrown garden., Title from photographer's descriptive manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Would you think this old house with its weed grown garden is at 42 and Woodland Ave? Well it is. (1923), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.123], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson123.htm

Title: [The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 19 South 22nd St., Philadelphia]
Description: View of garden and part of south facade of College of Physicians building at 19 South 22nd St.Designed by architects Cope & Stewardson, building was built 1907., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Middle Renaissance., 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 179 [P.8513.179], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson179.htm

Title: [St. Albans Place, between Fulton and Clymer, Philadelphia]
Description: View of identical row houses with a garden along the street in front of the houses. Five people stand near one house., 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 170 [P.8513.170], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson170.htm

Title: [Quaint house on unidentified street between 2nd and 3rd Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing a residence in a courtyard . A group of children and a woman gather in front of the dwelling near a small garden. Also shows a young child leaning on a water fountain near a picket fence in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note by photographer on verso: Quaint House on _______ St. bet. 2" and 3.", Duplicate of P.8513.10., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.106], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson106.htm

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: [University of Pennsylvania Botanical Gardens, snow scene along roadway, Philadelphia]
Description: Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Snow scene along roadway in U of P Botanical Gardens., 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 69 [P.8513.69], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson69.htm

Title: [University of Pennsylvania Botanical Gardens, snow-covered bushes and trees, with dormitory buildings visible in background, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts snow-covered bushes and trees near iron fence. Towers of Quadrangle dormitory buildings on University of Pennsylvania campus appear in background., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: U. of P. Botanical Gardens. Tops of Dormatory [sic] Gateway on Woodland Ave., corner in distance., 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 77 [P.8513.77], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson77.htm

Title: [Detail of Bartram house window, Philadelphia]
Description: Close up view of window and architectural stone work surrounding it. Carved in plaque above window: It is God alone almyty Lord, The Holy One by me ador'd, John Bartram 1770. Botanist and farmer John Bartram built his home in 1730-1731 with a 1770 addition and began cultivation of America's first botanical garden. After many years of neglect the house was restored in the 1920s by the John Bartram Association., Manuscript note by photographer on verso: Bartram Gardens Phila., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.166], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson166.htm

Title: [Bartram residence, Philadelphia, detail of front facade]
Description: Close-up view of window, stone work, and porch of house. Botanist and farmer John Bartram built residence in 1730-1731. Altered in 1770, the residence and garden deteriorated throughout the 19th century, but was restored in the 1920s by the John Bartram Association., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: French chateaux style 15 century Bartram Gardens Phila., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.167], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson167.htm

Title: Cider press in Bartram gardens. Phila
Description: Large irregularly-shaped flat stone on the ground surrounded by an iron fence. Leafless trees and a bench visible outside of the fence. Bartram's Gardens, the first botanic garden in the country cultivated by botanist and farmer John Bartram in the mid 18th century, was restored by the John Bartram Association in the 1920s after many years of neglect., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., 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 photo - Wilson [P.8513.64], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson64.htm

Title: Pine tree - Bartram gardens Phila
Description: View of tall tree standing apart from other leafless trees near a bench. Bartram's Garden, the first botanic garden in the country cultivated by botanist and farmer John Bartram in the mid 18th century, was restored by the John Bartram Association in the 1920s after many years of neglect., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., 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 photo - Wilson [P.8513.63], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson63.htm

Title: Bartram gardens, Philadelphia
Description: View of ivy-covered facade of John Bartram's residence with two women sitting on bench near door. Some outbuildings and vegetation also visible. Botanist and farmer John Bartram built residence in 1730-1731. Altered in 1770, the residence deteriorated throughout the 19th century, but was restored in the 1920s by the John Bartram Association., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.165], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson165.htm

Title: [University of Pennsylvania Botanical Gardens, snow-covered bushes, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows snow covered bushes next to wall., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Botanical Gardens. U. of P. Along rear wall of Phila Gen'l Hospital., 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 54 [P.8513.54], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson54.htm

Title: [University of Pennsylvania, entrance to Botanical Gardens, off Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia]
Description: View of iron gate and walkway extending into the distance between University of Pennsylvania buildings. Trees border walkway in distance., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: U. of P. Entrance to Botanical Gardens - off Woodland Ave., 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 157 [P.8513.157], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson157.htm

Title: Bartram gardens, Phila[delphia]
Description: Depicts three well-dressed children, including an African American girl, posed on and around a large stone trough by the wall of a building in Bartram's Garden. In the left, a white boy, attired in a white collared shirt, a striped tie, light-colored shorts, black socks, and shoes, stands facing the viewer with his left hand on the trough. The African American girl, attired in a short-sleeved dress with white trim at the neck, cuffs, and waist, stands behind the trough with her left hand resting on its rim. In the right , a white boy, attired in a short-sleeved, white collared shirt, shorts, and socks, sits on the trough with his legs hanging inside it. Bartram's Garden, the first botanic garden in the country cultivated by botanist and farmer John Bartram in the mid-18th century, was restored by the John Bartram Association in the 1920s after many years of neglect., Title from manuscript note by photographer on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access point revised 2022., 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: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson [P.8513.115], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson115.htm

Title: McAran's Pleasure Garden
Description: Shows a park with tree-lined paths, ampetheatre and an adjacent building. People watch a performance in the ampetheatre and a horse-drawn carriage goes down the path., John McAran was, about 1828, a gardener and florist occupying a suburban tract west of Seventeenth and south of Arch Streets. He developed this location as a public amusement park which was opened on June 13th, 1840, at which time D.J. Kennedy made the drawing from which this sketch has been copied. Fireworkds, music and dancing attracted the evening crowds. A feature was a fine collection of birds. He was induced to join with Ward & McIntosh, in the erection of a theatre upon the site. This venture failed and the ground was soon afterward devoted to the building of residences and two churches., Taylor Catalog Number: 254
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Hall of the German Society - City Gas Offices
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a building on a busy street. The building has a sign above the door that reads "Gas Office," and pedestrians gather on the steps to the building and by the tree directly in front of the building., The German Society, formed for teh assistance of newcomers from the fatherland, was organized in 1764. Its meetings were held for a dozen years in the building of the German Lutheran School on Cherry street, east from Fourth street. The Society was incorporated in 1781 and built, at that period, a substantial structure on Seventh street, a part of which was reserved for a library and reading rooms. Wings were added in 1841. The city leased the main structure in 1866 for offices of the gas works. Subsequently a new front was extended to the street line. The Builders' Exchange bought the property in 1893 and made radical alterations, including the construction of an office arcade upon the gorund covered by the original building. The German Society is now located (1915) at Marshall and Spring Garden Streets., Taylor Catalog Number: 64
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

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 Fairmount Market
Description: Reproduction of a drawing depicting a busy market scene. Shoppers are examining goods are displayed under awnings, which have vendor names written on them. There are motor cars, horse-drawn delivery trucks, and a trolley, and two figures are crossing the streetcar tracks in the foreground., This long popular market house, at the southwest corner of Spring Garden and Twenty-second streets, was bought, in 1917, by the trustes of Lu Lu Temple Mystic Shrine, from the estate of Joshua Haines. The space, covering 300 feet by 265 feet upon the two streets, respectively, will be used as the site for an ornate and costly Temple of the Order. This will be undertaken when the return of Peace and normal construction conditions make the improvement timely., Taylor Catalog Number: 111
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: The Mint on Chestnut Street
Description: Sketch of the former United States Mint building. The silhouette of City Hall can be seen in the background., All visitors to Philadelphia a generation ago made special point to visit the United States Mint, conveniently located in the heart of the city, upon Chestnut Street, east from Broad Street. The structure, of white marble, in classic mould, fronted for 150 feet upon Chestnut Street and extended rearward, 204 feet, to South Penn Square. It was first occupied in 1832 and was only abandoned at the beginning of the present century, when the new and splendid Mint structure was completed at Spring Garden and Seventeenth streets. Prior to 1873 this Mint contained the office of the Director of the Mints. All coinage dies were made here; the official Troy pound, standard unit of all weights, was preserved in this building, in which, also, a comprehensive museum of rare and curious coins was on permanent exhibition. The site of the long familiar Mint building is now covered by a recently completed office building., Taylor Catalog Number: 68
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Academy of Fine Arts on Chestnut Street
Description: Busy street scene in front of the Academy of Fine Arts on Chestnut Street., When the artists and other interested citizens who were the fathers of the first American art institution built their structure, in 1805, upon the north side of Chestnut Street, west of Tenth Street, it was environed by a pleasant garden space. The original structure was burned in 1845. It was rebuilt and, as the encroachments of business forced economics of space, stores were erected in front. The old academy was the alma mater of many artists of note and the repository of a valuable collection of art works. The building was vacated in 1870 and later became "Fox's Varieties," destroyed by fire in 1877. The site is now covered by the Chestnut Street Opera House., Taylor Catalog Number: 40
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Yellow Mansion
Description: Aerial view of a mansion featuring columns in the front and a large garden behind it. Pedestrians stand outside on the sidewalk near a busy, tree-lined intersection., Taylor Catalog Number:
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: The Woodlands and Bartram's Mansion
Description: Contains two panels of country mansions. The top panel depicts a home with a neo-classical porch, identified as having been owned by Andrew Hamilton. The bottom panel depicts a home covered in ivy and surrounded by trees and identifired as having been built by John and Mary Bartram., There was a time when the unpolluted tide-water Schuylkill River was bordered by fine country seats and the embowered road leading from the town down the George Gray's ferry was a populat drive. The two well-preserved examples of COlonial homes here shown are the Woodlands and Bartram's Mansion. The first-named was established by Andrew Hamilton, an eminent jurist, in 1735, devised to his son, Andrew, designer of the State House, in 1741, and then passed to a grandson, William, in 1747. The latter erected the existing mansion about the time of the Revolution. The property covered 356 acres. It was devoted to cemetery purposes in 1835. Bartram's Mansion and garden are now city property. The interesting stone house was built by John and Mary Bartram in 1731, and, in time, the botanist and his rare garden became famous. The children of the worthy couple maintained the garden beyond a century. It then became the property of Andrew Eastwick, whose large residence formerly stood nearby. The Bartram Association of Descendants meet, here, annually., Taylor Catalog Number: 99
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: A Garden of Climbing Wistaria
Description: Shows a back view of the Wistar and Cadwalader mansions where a garden of Wistaria grows., This rear view of the locally noted Wistar and Cadwalader mansions, at 238 and 240 South Fourth Street, is of interest, especially, as it portrays the original creeping vine, shown, at the left, which was presented, early in the last century, to Dr. Caspar Wistar, by his guest, the French naturalist Michaux, who named it the Wistaria in honor of his host and friend. This is the parent vine of its species of all those now so plentiful in America., Taylor Catalog Number: 240
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

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: In Lodge Street
Description: Street view with horse and carriage in the foreground. Resdiences and pedestrians are in the background, as well as a section of the old Pennsylvania Bank., Taylor Catalog Number: 73, There is a forgotten dingy little alley connecting Second and Dock Streets, south of Chestnut street, which was once a pleasant and flowery by-way in the centre of Philadelphia's most exclusive residential section. Until lately it was named "Lodge Street." It is now called "Sansom." It is sometimes confused by historians, delving in the old directories, with "Lodge Alley," which is now Jayne Street. In colonial times, upon the southern side of this little lane, at Second Street, was the Griscom residence, the first brick house built in Philadelphia, and which was vis-a-vis to the "slate-roof house." The Griscom garden extended to the grassy verge of Dock Creek. Adjoining it, on the south, stood the double house of Edward Shippen, first Mayor of the city. Midway, in Lodge Street, and on the south side, was built, in 1755, the first Masonic hall in America. During the Revolution it was used as a prison of rQuaker tories. These several structures were replaced in 1788 by the classic building of the Bank of Pennsylvania, which, after the financial storm of 1857, remained to become a Federal provost prison in the period of the Civil War. The view here presented depicts the western front of the band with its neat garden and the range of time-worn warehouses and shops which were originally the homes of some of our "first families." The site of the Pennsylvania Bank is now covered by the United States Appraisers' Warehouse, built in 1871, in preparation for which the work began with the removal of the massive columns in the sections as shown in the drawing.
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1922

Title: Zoological gardens, Philadelphia
Description: Aerial view showing the grounds of the Philadelphia Zoo. Includes the Schuylkill River on its eastern boundary and surrounding railroad tracks., Negative number:1619.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: ca. 1922
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1619]

Title: Small Houses of Library Company on Juniper Street Between Locust & Walnut Streets
Description: Pen and ink drawing; 15 x 11.5 in (38 x 29.5 cm), Depicts a building with two doors and multiple signs next to a walled garden. Two figures stand in front of one of the doors, and an automobile is parked across the street from the entrance. Building is possibly the Centaur Bookshop owned by Harold T. Mason during the 1920s and early 1930s., See photograph showing Centaur Bookshop in the LCP Photo Archives, Print Department, Folder Philadelphia. Library Company. Centaur Books and Records, South Juniper St.
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: 1921

Title: Cathay Restaurant, 1221-23 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa Music, dancing, broadcasting
Description: Interior view of the Cathay Restaurant located at 1221-1223 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Shows the view from the second-floor staircase, looking down at the main dining room on the first level and the balcony sections that flank the main stairway. Depicts on the first floor, a line of red tray holders for waitstaff in the left and rows of white table-clothed dining tables and chairs. On the balconies are additional rows of white table-clothed dining tables and chairs. The edges of the balcony are lined with different-colored figurine lamps with fringed shades. Colored paper lanterns and a chandelier hang from the ceiling. The Cathay restaurant, also called the Cathay Tea Garden, was a Chinese restaurant that had a large dance floor where musicians and bands played. They also broadcasted a live radio show. The restaurant closed in 1973., Title from item., Date inferred from medium and content., Numbered 95415 on verso., Sheet number: 112A03., Divided back.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Bingham through Green's - 112]

Title: [African American woman holding a dog]
Description: African American woman sitting in a meadow holding up a small dog from her lap. The woman, attired in a short-sleeved dress, smiles and looks at the viewer as she holds a small white and brown dog up. Trees and a vegetable garden are visual in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from attire of sitter and active dates of the photographer., Purchase 1988., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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., Rich was a professional Philadelphia landscape photographer and avid traveler who privately produced several candid portraits of family and friends.
Creator: Rich, James Bartlett, 1866-1942, photographer
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Rich - Portraits - Unidentified [P.9266.970]

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: Can Vegetables Fruit and the Kaiser Too
Description: Produced for the National War Garden Commission
Creator: Verrees, J. Paul, 1889- , artist., creator
Date: 1918
Location: WWI Posters Drawer 1 Folder 9 [P.2284.121-134]

Title: Sow the seeds of Victory!
Description: Produced for the National War Garden Commission.
Creator: Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960, artist., creator
Date: 1918
Location: WWI Posters Drawer 3 Folder 16 [P.2284.261-306]

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

Title: [Vegetable cultivation at demonstration center at Little Wakefield, Germantown]
Description: Group of young women, including an African American woman, from the National League for Women's Service with plow, wheelbarrow, watering can, and other tools working in a vegetable garden. Shows eighteen women spread out over the garden tending to different plants. In the center, the African American woman stands holding a pitcher. A voluntary organization in support of the homefront during World War I, the League used the Little Wakefield estate as a demonstration center. They held classes in home economics and canning and preserving, grew fruits and vegetables, and cultivated bees. Little Wakefield was built by Thomas Rodman Fisher in 1829 on property adjacent to his father's estate, Wakefield, located at 1601 Lindley Avenue. La Salle University purchased the land in 1989., Title from published postcard., Date inferred from content., Photographer's blind stamp on recto., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: Pancoast, Charles R., 1858-, photographer
Date: [ca. 1918]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Pancoast [P.9276.41]

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]

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