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Title: Interior view of George G. Evans' original gift book establishment. 439 Chesnut [sic] Str. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting a view looking toward the rear of the busy store. Shows bookcases filled with texts mounted atop cabinets and drawers lining the walls. Stacks of books and eight busts of prominent literary figures, including Shakespeare, adorn the tops of the cases. A clerk works from within and patrons surround a U-shaped central book display that contains a "Gifts" case. Patrons include men, women, and children. The individuals receive assistance at the case, peruse books on the shelves, carry their purchases, converse, and make payment at the cashier booth. The booth, enclosed with ornate white iron work, contains advertising text that reads "A Gift with Each Book Sold at Retail Price." Store signage is also displayed on three banners stretching across the ceiling. Additional advertising text includes "Gift Book Sales Originated by G.G. Evans' 1854." View also shows a ladder leaning against a bookcase, chandeliers, and a parquet floor., Title from duplicate in private collection., Not in Wainwright., Inscription on recto: Nov. 18th 1864 from Horace [W.?] Smith., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 385, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 641 E 15, E. Sachse & Co. operated from the Sun Iron Building in 1859., Smith, a Philadelphia antiquarian and collector, was well connected to the literary and book collecting societies of Philadelphia and New York. He was the great grandson of William Smith, D.D., the first Provost of the College of Philadelphia, i.e., University of Pennsylvania., Trimmed.
Creator: Sachse, E. (Edward), artist
Date: [1859]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 641 E 15

Title: From the Paris mantilla cloak and fur emporium. 920 Chestnut Street, Philada J. W. Proctor & Co
Description: Advertisement label showing an exterior view of the clothing store. Several cloaks are displayed in the storefront windows. A female clerk helps a customer at the entrance. Pedestrian traffic, predominately women wearing cloaks, pass on the sidewalk. Proctor relocated his store from 708 to 902 Chestnut Street in 1862., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 287, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 7, LCP holds engraved copy of advertisement. [Ph Pr - 8x10 - Businesses (7)1322.F.453i].
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 7

Title: [Philadephia Bank building] Country merchants will be supplied with goods at any of the above stores, on the most favorable terms. S. W. corner 4th & Chestnut sts. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the storefronts tenanting the Philadelphia Bank building completed in 1836 after the designs of William Strickland at Bank Place, i.e., 400-408 Chestnut Street. Businesses include Hancock, Bennett & Wolfe, importers of fancy goods and manufacturers of silver and plated ware (No. 1 Bank Place); Levi Eldridge, carpet & floor cloth warehouse (No. 2); W. F. Slaughter, paper hangings (No. 3); C. Bulkley, hat, cap, & fur store (No. 4); and Robb & Swift, successors to Browne & Robb, tailors (132 Chestnut). A family strolls on the sidewalk and patrons exit and enter the businesses that display merchandise, including rolled carpets, in the shop windows and in front of the stores. Partial views of adjacent buildings, including the Second Bank of the U.S., in addition to a horse pulling a vehicle, are visible. Also contains advertising text for each of the businesses that lists specific merchandises and promotes customer services, printed below the image. Merchandise includes chandeliers and Japannery Brittania & block tin wares; hearth rugs, floor baizes, stair-rods, and carpet bindings; fire-board figures; and muffs, pellerines & boas., Title and date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 573, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 87 C 525, Described in Public Ledger, April 2, 1838.
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 87 C 525

Title: J. M. Hafleigh & Co. Retail dry goods. No. 1012 & 1014 Chestnut St
Description: Advertisement showing an exterior view of the dry goods store built by contractor John Ketcham. Patrons enter and several pedestrians, including women with parasols, walk in front of the store. Large draped mounds are visible in the display windows. Also shows the proprietors name and address etched in the frieze above the entryway as well as an "H" on an arched tablet adorning the roof., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 398, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 5, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 10th-11th
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Print Collection - Small - Stores & Factories - Box 55, Folder 5

Title: Interior View of L. J. Levy & Co's Dry Goods Store, Chestnut St. Phila Erected in 1857 by W. P. Fetridge, Esqr. 55 Feet Front & 175 Feet Deep
Description: Advertisement showing the interior of the two-level dry goods store containing a parquet floor and Corinthian columns, and busy with customers at 809-811 Chestnut Street. Men and women patrons mill around and stop at the display counters, one centrally located and the other against the wall. Compartments of textiles line the wall to the right and a women clerk pulls a bolt of cloth as another assists a female customer accompanied by her stylishly dressed daughter. A couple with a child talks with a female clerk at the large C-shaped central counter lined with stools that encloses an island of shelves displaying dry goods. Three men convene near a woman talking to a teller behind a partition to the left. People ascend and descend the semi-circular staircase to the second floor balcony from which bolts of cloth, most with patterns, hang. Two large windows covered with drapes and a chandelier is visible on the upper floor that is also adorned with ornate lamps., Ms note on recto: 809/15 Chestnut St. Taken S. V. Henkels., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 387, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 38 L 668, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana -Stores and Shops - Levy. (2 copies) FLP also holds original watercolor. (Oversize Philadelphiana -Stores and Shops - Levy)., Fetridge was a New York publisher.
Creator: Rosenthal, Max, 1833-1918, artist
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 38 L 668

Title: View of Chestnut Street between 8 & 9 sts. (south side,) Philadelphia
Description: Busy street view showing businesses on the 800 block (802-824) of Chestnut Street. Majority of the storefronts show merchandise displays in the windows. Includes a storefront to let (800); Lewis Ladomus & Co., watches, jewelry & silver ware (802); Theodore H. McCalla, hats and caps (lower floor) and A. F. Lupus, morocco cases "upstairs" (804); Anthony Mustin, trimmings (806); Charles Dummin, importer, musical instruments, fancy goods & toys (812); J.W. Scott, gentleman's furnishing store and shirt manufactory (814); James S. Earle & Son, looking glasses & picture frames (816); Root Photographic Gallery operated by Dr. Bushnell and Ladd Webster & Co., sewing machines (818); Caldwell & Co., jewelers (822); and the Continental Hotel tenanted by Charles Stokes, "First Class Clothing One Price" and "Made to Order Short Notice," Charles Oakford & Sons, "hatters, furriers, hats, caps, cans [sic] & umbrellas, gentleman's furnishing goods" (near the ladies entrance of the hotel) and Frederick Brown Jr., druggist (824-838). Hotel also includes window shades for an unidentified store advertising watches and jewelry. In the foreground, heavy street and pedestrian traffic is visible in front and across from the storefronts. Several horse-drawn vehicles travel in the street past the sidewalks congested with pedestrians. Pedestrians include a newspaper boy, couples on promenade, a gentleman escorting two ladies greeting another gentleman, and patrons looking at store windows and entering the businesses., Vehicles include a "Chestnut & Walnut Sts." omnibus, horse-drawn carriages, a partially unloaded dray, and a Farrel & Herring (safe manufactory) delivery wagon drawn by three horses. Also shows men waiting at the main entrance of the hotel, mannequins attired in suits displayed outside of Stokes, and a model eagle holding a watch adorning the roof of the store of Ladomus., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 786, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 87 C 525a, Print torn in two.
Creator: Boell, William
Date: 1860
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania | Print Department | HSP at LCP HSP Bc 87 C 525a

Title: Independence Hall. Philadelphia 1876
Description: Busy street view showing Independence Hall during the year of the Centennial Exhibition, a celebration through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art for the centennial of the United States. Independence Hall was built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. Also shows the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans (500 Chestnut); Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut); and the Public Ledger Building built 1866-1867 (600-606 Chestnut). Pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles, including carriages, coaches, and street cars, congest the sidewalks and roadway. Couples and families promenade, a man and women travel on horseback, and a man carries a sack over his shoulder. American flags adorn most of the buildings. Also shows, in the foreground, the building at the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets (501 Chestnut) tenanted by J. E. Johnson & Co., hatter; Russell & Russell, law & collection office; Baird & Russell; and Miley's Bowling Saloon. in front of the building, a man buys a paper from one of two newsboys as another runs toward him. Another man stands in the doorway next to a display window. Building adorned with an awning advertising underwear and fine shirts. A vignette showing the Liberty Bell is printed above the image., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 379, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 47 P 765, Thomas Hunter published several variant views, including folio-size prints commissioned in 1874 by the Centennial Board of Finance, of the Centennial Buildings after the official plans of the structures.
Creator: Poleni, T. (Theodore), 1834-1889?, artist
Date: c1876
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 47 P 765

Title: America Fire Engine Co. of the city of Philadelphia
Description: Fire company membership certificate containing two side panel views, vignettes, and firefighting iconography. The left panel shows firefighters running from the fire house on Buttonwood Street, below Third Street. Two men stand lookout on the tower above the house, as others pull the fire engine from the garage. The right panel shows the fire company attempting to extinguish the January 14, 1869 fire caused by an explosion of a steam boiler at the southeast corner of Ninth and Chestnut Streets. Flames shoot from the top of three adjacent businesses on land formerly occupied by the Burd Mansion including, Howell & Brothers, paper hanging (900 Chestnut Street); J.M. Hafleigh, dry goods (902 Chestnut Street); and J.F. & E.B. Orne, carpets & oil cloths (904 Chestnut Street). The center vignette, below the membership text, depicts a man standing in front of the two horses that are hitched to a carriage pulling the fire company's engine. At the top of the certificate, American and Pennsylvania flags flank the image of lady liberty sitting on the wing of an eagle. With a lightning bolt in her left hand, she floats above a banner that reads "Allways [sic] ready and willing to assist". Fire fighting equipment, including a helmet, engine, and bugles, are drawn as decorative elements interspersed with the side panel views. Also contains the company's number "No. 9" and institution date, April 10th 1790. Incorporated on April 13, 1844., Not in Wainwright., Signed by Thomas F. Moore, president, and Frank Jacoby, secretary., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 16, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Certificates - Fire Companies - American Fire Engine
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Certificates - Fire Companies - American Fire Engine

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