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Title: South east corner Broad and South Penn Square 1865 Tabernacle Presbyterian Church
Description: Exterior view of the Seventh Presbyterian Church built 1842 after the designs of Napoleon LeBrun at 1 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. Shows the front facade of the Greek Revival-style church with several steps leading to a portico. Numerous pedestrians walk in front of and around the church, and horse-drawn carriages travel down the streets. Also shows an adjacent building in the right and a tree at the street corner in the left., Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Manuscript note written on verso: Further reproduction of this drawing reserved by Henry B. McIntire., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator: McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date: 1936
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.11]

Title: West side of Broad St. north from Walnut St. 1865
Description: View looking North depicting the west side of the 100 block of South Broad Street, Philadelphia in 1865. Shows the buildings along Broad Street, including the Union League (140 South Broad) constructed 1864-1865 after designs by architect John Fraser and the Academy of Natural Sciences (Broad and George, i.e., Sansom) built from 1839 to 1840 after designs by Philadelphia architect, John Notman. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages travel along the street., Title and date from item., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., Henry B. McIntire (1872-1963) was an architectural illustrator active in Philadelphia from the 1930s to 1950s. His 1936 book, Philadelphia Then and Now, contained drawings of no longer extant buildings and contemporary images of those locations. He often used an offset lithographic printing process called aquatone in his work.
Creator: McIntire, Henry B., 1872-1963, artist
Date: 1939
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.14]

Title: [Gir ard Trust Company on South Broad Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of the Girard Trust Company building constructed in 1905 to 1907 based on designs by Furness, Evans & Co. with detailing by McKim, Mead & White at 34-60 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. Shows the building, inspired by the Roman Pantheon, with porticos supported by Ionic columns, pediments decorated with a portrait of Stephen Girard and ships, and a dome. Numerous pedestrians walk along the sidewalks. Also visible are City Hall and the Land Title Building., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from date of construction of the building and accompanying label., Labels removed from the frame: For [Girard Trust Ceo.], Order No. [A149], Date [6-8-08], Ketterlinus Litho Mfg. Co. Philadelphia. [R356]. Mellon Bank No #1., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022.
Date: [ca. 1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.18]

Title: [View of the water works at Centre Square]
Description: View of the neoclassical-style, marble pump house completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree and fence-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad Streets. In front of the pump house stands enclosed within a circular fence, the ornamental fountain ("Allegory of the Schuylkill River" or "Water Nymph & Bittern") depicting a female water nymph holding a bittern, designed by sculptor William Rush and installed in 1809. A man and woman admire the fountain from outside the fence. In the foreground, on the outer grounds, a man and woman ride in a sulky past two imposing trees and behind a man mounted on the horse of a team pulling a conestoga wagon. Two dogs chase each other nearby. Opposite the sulky, a boy plays with a dog as a man passes by with a bundle over his shoulder. Also shows a man and woman approaching the gate to the outer fence of the pump house. The city’s first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date inferred by content., Manuscript note written on mount below image: Drawn and presented by Geo. Lewis to George Schaeffer, Esq., Copied after a Cornelius Tiebout engraving made after a John James Barralet drawing. See related: Freedman Collection - Oversize - View [P.2013.87.9]; ***Ph Pr - Parks & Squares - Centre Square [P.9379]., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022.
Creator: Lewis, George, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.14]

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