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Title: Independence Hall
Description: Impressionistic drawing looking north from Independence Square showing the rear elevation of Independence Hall built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street. View also includes a barren tall tree in the left, a sole pedestrian, and a tree with foliage in the right., Title inscribed on drawing., Signature of artist in lower left corner., Date from accompanying label: Built in 1731, - Independence Hall, originally called The State House, took its name from the signing of the Declaration of Independence within its walls in 1776. It contains the Liberty Bell, cracked while tolling the death of Chief Justice Marshall, and other precious relics of history. It is located on Chestnut Street, between 5th and 6th Streets, Philadelphia. An original drawing by Donald C. Taber, 1934., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Donald C. Taber, born in New York, was a commercial artist in Philadelphia by 1930.
Creator: Taber, Donald C., 1895-1981, artist
Date: [1934]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - A-Z - Taber [P.2017.8.29]

Title: No. 173 (now 509) Chestnut St. owned and occupied by the Company from 1817 to 1826
Description: Watercolor of the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities’ office building on the 500 block of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Shows the four-story building with an awning extending from the first story of the building to the outer edge of the sidewalk and a sign above the front entrance that reads, “Pennsylvania Company.” Also shows partial views of the adjacent buildings. The Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities was founded in 1812. In 1872, it was renamed as the Pennsylvania Company for Banking and Trust. The firm merged with the Bank of North America and Trust Company in 1929. The Company occupied the building at 173 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia from 1817 to 1826., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower center., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., George Emerick Essig (1838-1923), a Philadelphia-born painter, watercolorist, and etcher, specialized in marine scenes, particularly of the New Jersey coast. He exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1876 to 1888.
Creator: Essig, George Emerick, 1838-1923, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.9]

Title: [Pencil study and corresponding prints showing the storefront of C. & N. Jones, stockings, N. W. cor. 2nd & Chestnut St., 1832]
Description: Series containing a pencil study, engraving, and wood-engraved periodical illustration of the stocking store that was razed circa 1832. Images show a wood-frame house with a large front window, outside cellar door, two stacked small side windows, and gambrel roof with chimney. The building is adorned with signage reading "Stockings. C & N. Jones." All of the graphics contain shading around the foot of the building. Ann Jones purportedly operated a stocking store from the same location during the 1750s., Attributed to James Queen by Marion Carson., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript notes below image of P.2017.8.29: N.W. Corner of 2nd & Chestnut; Original of plates; M3727., P.2017.8.30 titled: N.W. Cor. 2nd & Chestnut St., P.2017.8.31 is clipping with letter-press text on verso., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., LCP duplicate copy of engraving [(1) 1525.F.17g] does not include manuscript note attributing print to Queen as noted by Snyder., See LCP Poulson's Scrapbooks vol. 5, p. 28 and p. 31 and vol. 7, p.21.
Date: [ca. 1832-ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings and Watercolors - A-Z -Jones [P.2017.8.30-32]

Title: F ourth and Chestnut Phila
Description: Impressionistic drawing from a raised vantage point showing the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Provident Life and Trust Company Bank and Office Building at 401-411 Chestnut (built 1876-1879, altered 1888-1902, demolished 1959-60); the Philadelphia Trust Company at 413-417 Chestnut (built 1873-1874, demolished 1959); Philadelphia National Bank at 419-423 Chestnut (built 1857-1859, altered between 1892-1908); Farmers and Mechanics Bank at 425-429 Chestnut (built 1884-1885, altered 1917); and the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities at 431 Chestnut (built 1871-1873). Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including automobiles., Title inscribed in pencil on mount., Signature of artist in lower right corner., Date inferred from drawing style and depiction of automobiles., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Philip Kassel, born in Germany, was a commercial artist and illustrator in Philadelphia by 1910. Between the 1910s and 1950, he was listed in city directories with offices on the 300 and 400 blocks of Walnut Street.
Creator: Kassel Philip, 1876-1959, artist
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.61.18]

Title: [South side, 400 block Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, including United States Bank of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bank]
Description: Watercolor and gouache view looking east on Chestnut Street between Fifth and Fourth Streets depicting the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes two banks designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland. Shows the United States Bank of Pennsylvania, formerly the Bank of the United States (i.e., Second Bank, later U.S. Custom House, 1844-1935), constructed 1818-24 at 420 Chestnut Street and the Philadelphia Bank, completed in 1837 at 400-408 Chestnut Street. Also contains partial views, in the foreground, of an adjacent storefront with signage for "Hanry [sic] Parkin.." as well as the entryway of the United States Hotel on the opposite side of the street. Men enter the storefront and stand in the entryway to the hotel. Also includes street and pedestrian traffic. Women promenade as couples, men converse, and men walk up and down the stairs of the United States Bank., Title supplied by cataloger., Date range inferred from fashion of figures depicted and manuscript note lower left: From a contemporary picture.
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell - Drawings & Watercolors [P.2018.61.19]

Title: Clarke Hall, s.w. corner of Third and Chestnut Streets, built soon after 1700 From 1700 to 1795 it was occupied as the office of U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. After many changes it was removed to make room for the Ledger building in 1840. The Public record was first published here in 1870
Description: Drawing of an early 1800s street view showing storefronts on the former site of the mansion of colonial lawyer William Clarke (built circa 1699, razed 1800) on Third and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. A man patron exits the two-and-half-story building near two women who peer into one of the multi-paned windows of the storefront. View also shows neighboring residential buildings as well as pedestrian and street traffic, including a woman resident being greeted by a man at her front door and a horse-drawn carriage traveling down the street., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., See related: Taylor – Case 12-15 [2717.F].
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, artist
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.20]

Title: Clark’s Inn (commonly known in the ante revolutionary period as the “Coach and Horses” in 1745) opposite the State House
Description: Watercolor after William Breton’s lithograph in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia (1830) of Clark’s Inn, also known as the State House Inn, on the north side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street. Shows the two-and-a-half story inn with a gabled roof and an addition in the rear. Five men sit and stand under a covered portico at the front entrance. To the left are two neighboring buildings. Several pedestrians walk along the road, including a man in the foreground attired in eighteenth-century clothes and using a walking stick. Trees flank the inn, and several trees are visible in the background. The inn, built circa 1693, served as a respite for members of Congress and purportedly William Penn., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower left corner., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019., George Emerick Essig (1838-1923), a Philadelphia-born painter, watercolorist, and etcher, specialized in marine scenes, particularly of the New Jersey coast. He exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1876 to 1888.
Creator: Essig, George Emerick, 1838-1923, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.7]

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