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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: 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: 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 Big Red House
Description: View of a large four-story home with a walled-in garden on a busy street. Pedestrians are on the sidewalk, and early automobiles and a horse-drawn carriage are present in the street. The silhouette of City Hall can be seen on the far right of the image., Taylor Catalog Number:
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1914

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: 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: 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: 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 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: A Bit of Old Philadelphia at Seventh and Filbert Streets
Description: Depicts a busy street corner with residences and businesses. The corner store displays a sign that reads, "Frank Melers' Grocery Store.", This quaint huddle of long-ago homes, now marked for removal, is yet existent (in 1916) at the Southwest corner of Seventh and Filbert Streets (which many school children of the sixties recall as Zane Street). Research has failed to discover anything beyond the fact that they were built when this neighborhood was a popular home section of the city. Hidden away behind them one who cares for such survivals may find a still older house which, doubtless, stood there, in its garden. When this was "out of town" and before the United States government bought across the street its first holding of real estate and built upon it the first national mint., Taylor Catalog Number: 56
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1916

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: 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: 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 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: Gray's Ferry and Gardens; A Bartram House on Woodland Avenue
Description: Contains two panels depicting homesteads on the Schuylkill River. The top image shows a three-story building with a two-story porch on the front. The bottom panel shows a two-story residence with a horse-drawn carriage waiting outside., Gray's Ferry and Gardens: A map of 1750 indicates two Gray homesteads upon the east side of the Schuylkill River, where the Gray family had long served wayfarers by ferry across the stream, at first by the batteaux and later by means of a floating bridge of logs, which connected the odl Gray's Gerry Road with the Southern Post Road, now known as Woodland Avenue. This bridge was rebuilt by the engineers of the British Army in October, 1777. Forts were placed to defend it and armies crossed to and fro. After the Revolution G. and R. Gray environed their tavern upon the Kingsessing shore with spacious gardens. On April 20th, 1789, Washington, on his way to assume the Presidency of the Republic, crossed the bridge beneath triumphal arches, and in the following year he was twice the chief figure of distinguished gatherings attending splendid fete's at Gray's Gardens. The decline of Gray's resort began with the opening, in 1803, of the permanent bridge at Market Street, and after the completion of the famous plowed railway sidings, fell from its high estate, lapsing into the ruin depicted in this print, drawn from a Newell photo. A Bartram House on Woodland Avenue: This sturdy house, located upon the east side of Woodland Avenue just north of Fifty-fourth Street, formerly stood well back from the road in the shade of large trees. It was built by William, a son of John Bartram, in 1807. The frame work is of heavy hewn timbers. When Bartram's lane gave way to Fifty-fourth Street the house stood in the road and was moved to its present site. The porch was built by the father of Councilman H.D. Beaston, who lived here for many years., Taylor Catalog Number: 161
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, creator
Date: ca. 1913

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

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