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Title: Chestnut St. from 10th
Description: View looking east from Tenth Street showing the north side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: H.P. & W.C. Taylor, perfumery; M.L. Spooner, ladies and children furnishings; and the Girard House hotel (823-835 Chestnut), built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. A partial view of the old masonic temple is seen in the distance. Lampposts line the sidewalk., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Date and title from manuscript note on mount., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.27g]

Title: [Seventh & Chestnut streets, looking west]
Description: View looking west from Seventh Street showing the south side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: J. Restein & Sons, enamelers, George W. Crosscup, engraver on wood, P. Garrett & Co., publishers, Dr. L. Lindoman, podiatrist, and E. Christmann, perfumery (702 Chestnut); the Parham Sewing Machine Co. (704 Chestnut); Thomas & Co., men's furnishing goods and Burton Mansfield, clothiers & tailors (706 Chestnut); Warne, Brothers & Co., importer of watches and jewelery and the One Dollar Store, fancy goods (712 Chestnut). A group of men read broadsides pasted on the side of the building at the corner. Many of the buildings are heavily adorned with signage. Also includes lamppost on the corner with an advertisement promoting Forney's Press. The Parham Sewing Machine Company operated at 704 Chestnut Street in 1870., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: 7th & Chestnut stts[sic], looking west., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher' s imprint printed on verso., Printed on mount: No. 7., Inscribed on negative: 207., Pink mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., R. Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: [ca. 1870], c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.129]

Title: Corner [Eighth] and Chestnut Street looking west
Description: View showing the north side of the 800 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: John Stone & Sons, silk merchants (805 Chestnut) and the Girard House (823-835 Chestnut), built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. Also includes partial view of Wilson & Marter, watch and jewelery store, (802 Chestnut) on the south side of the block. Awnings adorn the buildings. Several pedestrians crowd the sidewalk and horse-drawn carriages travel the street., Title from manuscript note on mount., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.25c]

Title: Corner [Eighth] and Chestnut Street looking west
Description: View showing the north side of the 800 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: John Stone & Sons, silk merchants (805 Chestnut) and the Girard House (823-835 Chestnut), built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. Also includes partial view of Wilson & Marter, watch and jewelery store, (802 Chestnut) on the south side of the block. Awnings adorn the buildings. Several pedestrians crowd the sidewalk and horse-drawn carriages travel the street., Title from manuscript note on mount., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.25c]

Title: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Eighth to Ninth, north side
Description: View showing the north side of the 800 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Sharpless Brothers, wholesale wools and dry goods (801-803 Chestnut); Edward Ferris, importer of whitegoods (807 Chestnut, 1870-1871); and the Girard House hotel (built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.) at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Awnings adorn many of the buildings. In the foreground, individuals stand on the sidewalk near lampposts and a horse-drawn wagon stands idle., Stereograph on green mount with square corners., Photographer's imprint and title printed on stereograph mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Lower right corner missing from stereograph., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [(6)1322.F.21e; (8)1322.F.27c]

Title: [View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware]
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Title from duplicate removed from Poulson's scrapbook illustrations of Philadelphia, vol. II, page 37.[(2)2526.F.37]., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Duplicate of (2)2526.F.37 and (6)1322.F.59c.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards [(6)1322.F.121b]

Title: View of the north side of Chestnut Street, east of Second Street, to the river Delaware
Description: Shows businesses and storefronts on the north side of the 100 block of Chestnut Street including a hotel, a carpenter, refrigerator dealer, oyster house, and John Gibson, distiller (31 Chestnut). Also shows a horse drawn-wagon in the street and a partial view of a gas lamp in the foreground., Reproduction of daguerreotype photographed June 5, 1843 by William G. Mason., Title and name of photographers from manuscript note by collector on mount., Mount inscribed with directions: N. E. S. W., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of Illustrations of Philadelphia, volume II, page 37., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Variant published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs, 1839-1914 (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1976), entry #114., Duplicate of (6)1322.F.121b and (7)1322.F.59c.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: [photographed June 5, 1843, ca. 1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets [(2)2526.F.37]

Title: [Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, Chestnut Street above 4th, north side, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of the bank built 1854-1855 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John M. Gries on Bank Row at 425-429 Chestnut Street. Also shows gas street lights lining the sidewalk and partial views of adjoining buildings, including signage for a piano manufactory., Partial impression of photographer's blindstamp on mount., Manuscript note on mount: Chestnut St. ab. 4th. Farmers & Mechanics Bk., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerrotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: [May 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Banks [(7)1322.F.25b]

Title: Chestnut St. west from 4th
Description: View showing the south side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Philadelphia Bank Building (400-408 Chestnut Street, built 1836); the U.S. Customhouse, formerly the Second Bank of the United States, completed in 1824 after the designs of William Strickland (420 Chestnut Street); and the U.S Post Office and U.S. Courts Building (426-428 Chestnut, 1863-1884). Signage adorns the bank building, including advertisements for the resident businesses of William M. Clark, engraver on wood, and Boswell & Co. insurance agents. Also includes vendor stands in front of the U.S. Custom House and pedestrians walking on the sidewalk., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to James Cremer based on other stereographs with same series title and mount, with the photographer's label pasted on verso., Orange mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate of (8)1322.F.19h., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 92., Arcadia caption text: Designed by William Strickland, the Philadelphia Bank building accommodated commercial tenants at street level while the bank occupied the upper floors. Businesses sharing bank premises were chosen with care. Although bank robberies were extremely rare in the 19th century, burglars tunneling into banks through the ground, or breaking through the adjoining walls of neighboring structures posed a very real threat to bank security., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [May 21, 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government buildings - C [P.9260.49a]

Title: [Congress Hall, southeast corner of Chestnut and Sixth Street, Phila.]
Description: View looking southeast showing Congress Hall, built 1787-1789 at 540-558 Chestnut to house the Pennsylvania district and county courts. Also served as the first quarters of the U.S. Congress 1790 - 1800. Includes the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley (520 Chestnut Street) and the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. (500 Chestnut). Also shows a vendor stand near Congress Hall., Title and photographer from duplicate in Poulson scrapbook "A collection of Miscellaneous Scraps: Illuminating the history of the city of Philadelphia in the 'olden time,'" volume 5, page 50., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Government Buildings - C [(3)1322.F.7a]

Title: North side of Chestnut above 7th
Description: View looking east from below Eighth Street showing businesses, including tenants of the Masonic Hall, on the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Shows A. Hildebrandt, fancy baskets and toys and G.W. Stead, cigar store (713-721 Chestnut) adjacent to the Washington House hotel (709-711 Chestnut). Hotel under the proprietorship of A.F. Glass. Storefronts demolished in 1853 for the erection of the new Masonic Hall., Title from manuscript note on recto., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McClees 1853-4., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: ca. 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Streets - Chestnut [(7)1322.F.39a]

Title: Rear of Independence Hall
Description: View looking from a tree-lined path in Independence Square showing the rear entrance of the State House. Also shows a street lamp., Title from accompanying publisher's label containing a line of descriptive text., Grey paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: c1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McClees - Government buildings [(8)1322.F.9b]

Title: S.W. corner 8th & Chestnut Street, 1851
Description: Depicts businesses on the south side of Chestnut Street between 7th and 8th Streets including H. Hooker & Co., stationer and bookseller (200 Chestnut, pre-consolidation); Murphy & Billmyers, house furnishings and hardware (202 Chestnut); W. J. Horstman, trimmings (204 Chestnut); Cornelius Everest, jeweler (206 Chestnut) and Le Boutillier Brothers, fancy dry goods (208 Chestnut). Also includes street and pedestrain traffic including coaches and an omnibus., Watercolor created for Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer circa 1880 probably based on Julio H. Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser (Philadelphia: Julio H. Rae, 1851) plate 13, south side., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., LCP AR (Annual Report) 1975, p. 6-11.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: ca. 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.4], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc004.html

Title: S.W. corner 8th & Chestnut Street, 1851
Description: Depicts businesses on the south side of Chestnut Street between 7th and 8th Streets including H. Hooker & Co., stationer and bookseller (200 Chestnut, pre-consolidation); Murphy & Billmyers, house furnishings and hardware (202 Chestnut); W. J. Horstman, trimmings (204 Chestnut); Cornelius Everest, jeweler (206 Chestnut) and Le Boutillier Brothers, fancy dry goods (208 Chestnut). Also includes street and pedestrain traffic including coaches and an omnibus., Watercolor created for Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer circa 1880 probably based on Julio H. Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser (Philadelphia: Julio H. Rae, 1851) plate 13, south side., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., LCP AR (Annual Report) 1975, p. 6-11.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: ca. 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.4], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc004.html

Title: State House
Description: Views showing a large gathering of people around a band in Independence Square at the rear of the State House. Also shows guards near the back entrance of the State House, barren trees, and an individual seated near a handcart in front of the rear gate of the square on Walnut Street., Title from photographer's label accompanying stereograph., Stereograph on yellow paper mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Government buildings [(8)1322.F.9a-2], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Moran - I [(3)1322.F.9c], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - Moran [(8)1322.F.9e]

Title: State House and Independence Hall, Phila
Description: Rooftop view looking southwest showing the State House at 520 Chestnut Street built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Also shows the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. adorned with lettering reading "Mayors Office" (500 Chestnut) and a partial view of Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut). View includes pedestrian traffic., Title from accompanying label., Photographer's imprint partially embossed on mount., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Paper backing pasted on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bartlett & Smith, photographer
Date: ca. 1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Government Buildings [(3)1322.F.7c]

Title: North side of Chestnut St., extending from Sixth to Seventh St., 1851
Description: Street view depicting businesses along the north side of Chestnut Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets. Most of the buildings include signage. Includes, right to left, the four-story brick building with Blood’s Dispatch and Dr. J.H. Schenck & Co. "Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup" (601 Chestnut Street); the second building of the Chestnut Street Theatre (603-609 Chestnut Street, built 1820-1822 after the designs of William Strickland); the three-and one-half story hotel Bolivar House (611-613 Chestnut Street); Dr. Jayne's Philada Arcade & Dr. Davidson's Arcade Baths (615-619 Chestnut Street); Columbia House hotel operated by Ferguson & Bro. and tenanted by tailor E. G. Dorsey (625-631 Chestnut Street); and the three-story red brick building tenanted by L. Benkert's Boot Store (633 Chestnut Street), "Philadelphia Fashions" publisher Francis Mahan(635 Chestnut Street), and druggist A. Smith (637-639 Chestnut Street). Also includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including horse drawn carriages and carts and an omnibus, strolling couples, couples in conversations, and a newspaper boy at work., Title from item., Date inferred from commission date of other drawings in collection., Inscribed in lower left corner: 1851., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Library Company. Annual Report, 1975, p. 6-11., Watercolor commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer circa 1880 and probably based on Julio H. Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser (Philadelphia: Julio H. Rae, 1851) plate 9, north side and plate 10, north side.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.44], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc044.html

Title: North side of Chestnut St., extending from Sixth to Seventh St., 1851
Description: Street view depicting businesses along the north side of Chestnut Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets. Most of the buildings include signage. Includes, right to left, the four-story brick building with Blood’s Dispatch and Dr. J.H. Schenck & Co. "Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup" (601 Chestnut Street); the second building of the Chestnut Street Theatre (603-609 Chestnut Street, built 1820-1822 after the designs of William Strickland); the three-and one-half story hotel Bolivar House (611-613 Chestnut Street); Dr. Jayne's Philada Arcade & Dr. Davidson's Arcade Baths (615-619 Chestnut Street); Columbia House hotel operated by Ferguson & Bro. and tenanted by tailor E. G. Dorsey (625-631 Chestnut Street); and the three-story red brick building tenanted by L. Benkert's Boot Store (633 Chestnut Street), "Philadelphia Fashions" publisher Francis Mahan(635 Chestnut Street), and druggist A. Smith (637-639 Chestnut Street). Also includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including horse drawn carriages and carts and an omnibus, strolling couples, couples in conversations, and a newspaper boy at work., Title from item., Date inferred from commission date of other drawings in collection., Inscribed in lower left corner: 1851., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Library Company. Annual Report, 1975, p. 6-11., Watercolor commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer circa 1880 and probably based on Julio H. Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser (Philadelphia: Julio H. Rae, 1851) plate 9, north side and plate 10, north side.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.44], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc044.html

Title: [Chestnut Street looking east from Thirteenth Street]
Description: View showing the south side of the 1200 block of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Lacey & Phillips, saddlery and harnessmaker (1220 Chestnut); Reeve L. Knight & Son, carpets (1222 Chestnut); T.L. Jacobs & Co., shirt manufacturer (1226 Chestnut); Peck & Co., druggists (1228 Chestnut); Edward Borhek & Son, opticians (1230 Chestnut); and Carrington, DeZouche & Co., window shades and paper hangings (Chestnut and Thirteenth). Lacey & Phillip's building is adorned with signage advertising the business's awards for excellence. A woman stands in front of Carrington, DeZouche & Co. A boy leans on a lamppost and letterbox at the street corner., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on mount: Thirteenth & Chestnut St., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Publisher's imprint printed on verso., Pink mount with rounded corners., Printed on mount: No. 4., Inscribed on negative: 308., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Robert and his son, Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.9299.131]

Title: An unfinished house, in Chesnut [sic] Street Philadelphia
Description: View showing "Morris' Folly", the unfinished brick and marble mansion on Chestnut Street above Seventh Street, designed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant for Philadelphia merchant and financier Robert Morris. Individuals stroll the grounds, and a laborer carries a ladder passed a guardhouse. Morris' mansion, begun about 1796 and unfinished as a result of his bankruptcy, was demolished in 1800, the building materials sold to finance creditors., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 14., Reproduced with article in Poulson's Scrapbook of Philadelphia History, vol. VII, p. 54-55. (LCP reference copy Uy 8, 2526.F)
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 14a/P.2276.27]

Title: [An unfinished house, in Chestnut Street Philadelphia]
Description: View showing "Morris' Folly," the unfinished brick and marble mansion on Chestnut Street above Seventh Street designed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant for Philadelphia merchant and financier Robert Morris. Individuals stroll the grounds, and a laborer carries a ladder passed a guardhouse. Morris' mansion, begun in 1796 and unfinished as a result of his bankruptcy, was demolished in 1800, the building materials sold to finance creditors., Title from duplicate print., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 14., Reproduced with article in Poulson's Scrapbook of Philadelphia History, vol. VII, p. 54-55. (LCP reference copy Uy 8, 2526.F).
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: [180[0]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 14a/P.2276.28]

Title: [Artist's study for an unfinished house in Chesnut [sic] Street. Philadelphia]
Description: View showing "Morris' Folly," the unfinished brick and marble mansion on Chestnut Street above Seventh Street, designed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant for Philadelphia merchant and financier Robert Morris. Individuals stroll the grounds and a laborer carries a ladder past a guardhouse. Construction began on the mansion about 1796 and was halted as a result of Morris's bankruptcy. The building was demolished in 1800 and its materials sold to finance creditors., Title from plate 14 in the first edition of Birch's "Views of Philadelphia.", Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See Martin Snyder's "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 73 (July 1949), p. 271-315., Reproduced in Julius Sachse's Pictures of old Philadelphia from the originals in the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1901), vol. 1, plate 44. (LCP Print Room Albums)., Also accessioned as P.9661.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, artist
Date: [ca. 1800]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department drawings & watercolors - Birch - Unfinished House [5394.Q]

Title: The Jayne Building, 7th & Chestnut Sts. Philada
Description: View looking west showing the north side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street depicting two office buildings constructed for patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne. Image includes Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut Street), constructed 1860 and tenanted by Atwood, Ralston & Co.; Yard, Gilmore & Co., silk goods; Furness, Brinley & Co.; and M.L. Hallowell & Co.; and Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut), constructed 1856., Title from manuscript note on mount of stereograph., Stereograph on yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bartlett & Smith, photographer
Date: [1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Businesses [(8)1322.F.25a; P.2005.2.3]

Title: Chestnut Street from Eighth to Seventh north side
Description: View showing the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Washington House hotel (711 Chestnut), the Masonic Hall (713-721 Chestnut), built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart and razed by fire in 1886, and Horstmann and Bros.'s military goods and trimmings store (723 Chestnut Street, 1858 to 1861). Street traffic includes: a horse-drawn cart, a horse-drawn carriage, and a horse-drawn omnibus., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publication, Inc. in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), plate 228., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.25f]

Title: Chestnut Street from Eighth to Seventh north side
Description: View showing the north side of the 700 block of Chestnut Street. Includes the Washington House hotel (711 Chestnut), the Masonic Hall (713-721 Chestnut), built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart and razed by fire in 1886, and Horstmann and Bros.'s military goods and trimmings store (723 Chestnut Street, 1858 to 1861). Street traffic includes: a horse-drawn cart, a horse-drawn carriage, and a horse-drawn omnibus., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publication, Inc. in cooperation with The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), plate 228., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: ca. 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.25f]

Title: [Chestnut Street between Sixth and Seventh streets; construction]
Description: View showing the north side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street, including Jayne's Marble Building during the final stages of construction (615-619 Chestnut). The office building, completed in 1860, was commissioned by patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne. In the foreground, women with parasols stand on the sidewalk between a horse-drawn workmen's wagon and a pulley attached to the building. Construction materials line the sidewalk. Also shows adjacent businesses, including J.S. Eshelman, cloths, cassimeres, and trimmings store, tenanting Jaynes other office building, Jayne's Hall, built 1856 (625 Chestnut). Lampposts are visible in the lower right corners of the image., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.23f]

Title: [Chestnut Street between Sixth and Seventh streets; construction]
Description: View showing the north side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street, including Jayne's Marble Building during the final stages of construction (615-619 Chestnut). The office building, completed in 1860, was commissioned by patent medicine manufacturer Dr. David Jayne. In the foreground, women with parasols stand on the sidewalk between a horse-drawn workmen's wagon and a pulley attached to the building. Construction materials line the sidewalk. Also shows adjacent businesses, including J.S. Eshelman, cloths, cassimeres, and trimmings store, tenanting Jaynes other office building, Jayne's Hall, built 1856 (625 Chestnut). Lampposts are visible in the lower right corners of the image., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.23f]

Title: The election day in Philadelphia
Description: Print from an unfinished plate by Philadelphia engraver Alexander Lawson, after the 1815 painting (owned by the engraver) titled "Election Scene. State House in Philadelphia" by his friend and genre painter, John Lewis Krimmel that was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Exhibition of 1816. Depicts the rowdy immoral atmosphere during the afternoon of a Philadelphia election at the State House on Chestnut Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets. Voters arrive, complete and switch votes, and block the polls as politicians and campaigners, including former mayor John Barker, lobby for votes and engage in debate. A band and patriotic float parade down the street; a tavern quarrel occurs; two young African Americans attempt to rob a distracted woman peddler; an oyster vendor does a brisk business; and mothers and couples stroll and children play. Flags are displayed on the buildings, including Peale's Museum., Title from duplicate print at Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum., Plate deposited by artist's daughter at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 from which 42 prints were produced between 1888 and 1904., Anneliese Harding's John Lewis Krimmel. Genre artist of the early republic (Winterthur, Delaware: The Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum, 1997), p. 83-90., Milo Naeve's John Lewis Krimmel: An artist in federal America (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987), p. 118-119., LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America,, Accessioned 1992., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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: Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846, engraver
Date: [ca. 1894]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***PhPr-Gov't Buildings-Independence Hall [P.9380]

Title: White's great cattle show, and grand procession of the victuallers of Philadelphia
Description: Lithograph after genre painter John Lewis Krimmel's 1821 watercolor, "Parade of Victuallers." Depicts a view from publisher M. Carey & Son's Bookshop at the southeast corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets of the March 15, 1821 trade union parade organized by butcher William White to celebrate, promote, and sell the city's high quality meat stock. The streets, balconies, doorways, and open windows teem with spectators, including an African American man oyster peddler sitting upon his cart and a small white boy displaying an illustrated banner inscribed, "Fed by William White." Image includes: the crowd watching white smocked victuallers on horseback turn on to Fourth Street pass the grocery of William Whelan; a two-tier horse-drawn platform with a band and a handler with a live ox and banner inscribed, "Fed by Lewis Clapier"; carts of meat; floats, including a replica of the ship, "Louis Clapier"; and a hot air balloon inscribed, "Fed by White," floats in the sky. Contains text from detailed local newspaper accounts of the event below the image. Also contains a seal of butchers with the motto: "We Feed the Hungry.", Title from item., Fate inferred from content., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 837, See Anneliese Harding's John Lewis Krimmel: Genre artist of the early Republic (Winterthur, Delaware: The Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum, 1997), p. 215-218. (LCP Print Room Reference)., See Milo Naeve's John Lewis Krimmel: An artist in Federal America (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987), p. 116-118., See Philadelphia: Three centuries of American art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976) #211., See LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America #33., See LCP exhibition catalogue: Noteworthy Philadelphia, p. 27., Free Library of Philadelphia holds version printed circa 1850 by George Dubois. [Oversize Philadelphiana - Processions]., Accessioned 1983., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903, artist
Date: [ca. 1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW-Processions [P.8970.29]

Title: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Sixth to Seventh, south side
Description: Street scene showing commercial establishments on the block including the Public Ledger building. Depicts the western corner of the State House covered with theater broadsides., Photographer's imprint printed on mounts., Green mounts with square corners., Manuscript note on verso of P.9260.65: Philadelphia Jany 28/71. Chestnut St. from 6th to 7th - south side., One of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Duplicate view entitled Ledger Building published by R. Newell & Son, number 212 in their series on public buildings and street views (P.9047.33)., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: Jan. 28, 1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - streets [(8)1322.F.25e; P.9260.65]

Title: Ledger Building, Sixth & Chestnut Streets
Description: Exterior view from the north east showing the Public Ledger building and other commercial establishments along the south side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street. Depicts the western corner of the State House covered with theater broadsides. The Ledger building was constructed 1866-67, based on designs by Philadelphia architect John McArthur Jr., Paper label on verso listing over one hundred Philadelphia views (139-245) published by the firm., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Duplicate view entitled Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Sixth to Seventh, south side, published by R. Newell, 724 Arch St. (P.9260.65)., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - businesses [P.9047.33]

Title: [Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, from Sixth to Seventh, south side.]
Description: Street scene showing commercial establishments on the block including the Public Ledger Building. Depicts the western corner of the State House covered with theater broadsides., Title from duplicate view published as a stereograph by R. Newell, 724 Arch St. (P.9260.65)., Originally from a McAllister scrapbook., Also published as a stereoview entitled Ledger Building by R. Newell & Son, number 212 in their series on public buildings and street views (P.9047.33)., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: [1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - streets [(6)1332.F.117d]

Title: Chestnut Street, east of Third
Description: Reproduction of lithographic view showing the 200 block of Chestnut Street with pre-consolidation addressed buildings. Businesses include Lewis Brothers & Co., importers of silk goods, Senat, Perot & Co., importers, Cottringer, Boyd & Gibbons, importers, and Lawrence Stone & Co. (80-82, i.e., 238-240); the Jayne Building (built 1849-1850) tenanted by Wesendock & Co. importers of silks & cloths, Dr. D. Jayne & Son, patent medicine, and Ellwood Shannon, tea dealer (84-86, i.e., 242-244); Oberteuffer & Freytag, importers, and Samuel Robinson, importers of Irish linens (88, i.e., 246); N. Thouron & Sons, importers of French goods, and Harden’s [sic] Express, probably A. Howard & Co. express (92, i.e., 248); and the U.S. Life Insurance Annuity & Trust Saving Fund building tenanted by Draper, Welsh & Co. Bank Note Engraving (94, i.e., 250). Includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic. Horse-drawn carriages, wagons, an omnibus, and drays travel in the street in addition to a dray situated to be loaded in front of the Jayne Building. Clusters of pedestrians walk near the Jayne and the Saving Fund buildings. In the foreground, on the opposite side of the street, families stroll, converse, and are greeted by other individuals near men, including laborers, talking near a pile of crates and a loaded dray. Also shows lettering reading "Howard" above the doorway of 92 Chestnut Street and a partial view of adjacent buildings., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00010, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 113, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street 2nd-3rd
Creator: Collins & Autenrieth, artist
Date: c1857
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut Street - 2nd-3rd

Title: U. S. Bank
Description: Possible proof copy of view looking east showing the Second Bank of the United States, built 1821-1824 after the designs of William Strickland at 420 Chestnut Street. Also shows the neighboring Bank of Philadelphia, completed in 1837, also after the designs of Strickland, at 400-408 Chestnut. Pedestrians traverse the sidewalks in front of the banks and across from the buildings. Couples promenade and greet each other, and patrons ascend the stairs of the U.S. Bank and convene in front of the Philadelphia Bank. Also shows two dogs playing in the street and a man exiting the adjacent building (134, i.e., 426 Chestnut) partially visible in the right of the image. Building served as the Custom House 1844-1935., Originally published as plate 2 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., pdcp00018, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 762, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 4th-5th. FLP copy contains albumen print showing the Custom House pasted on recto., See Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53., Title variant of Wainwright 415.4.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 4th-5th

Title: Ledger Building, Sixth and Chestnut Streets
Description: Faded street scene showing commercial establishments on the block including the Public Ledger Building built 1866-67 after designs by Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. Depicts the western corner of the State House covered with theater broadsides., Title and publisher's imprint from series list printed on verso. One of 106 numbered titles in the series (No. 139-245)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Also published as a half stereoview mounted on paper [(6)1322.F.117d]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret., Robert Newell's son Henry entered the business in 1872 and the name changed to "R. Newell & Son".
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Streets [P.2010.6.17]

Title: Bird's eye view of Philadelphia, east from State House steeple
Description: Cityscape view looking northeast from State House (520 Chestnut) showing the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street before construction began on the Provident Life & Trust Company building (401-411 Chestnut) in 1876. Includes Peoples Bank (433-437 Chestnut, i.e., Girard Building, built ca. 1874); Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives & Granting Annuities (431 Chestnut, built 1871-73, Addison Hutton, architect); Farmers' & Mechanics' Bank (425-429 Chestnut, built 1854-55, John M. Gries, architect); Philadelphia National Bank (419-423 Chestnut, built 1857-59, John M. Gries, architect); and the Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance Co. (413-417 Chestnut, built 1873-74, James H. Windrim, architect). Also shows surrounding buildings including the steeple of Christ Church (22-34 North Second Street)., Title printed on mount and in manuscript note on verso of P.2010.6.2., Alternate title on negative of P.9168.17: "East from Sixth and Chestnut"., Photographer's imprint on mounts; in black text on P.2010.6.2 and red text on P.9168.17., Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of the city entitled, "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," printed on verso of P.2010.6.2. Text surmounted by vignette of state seal of Pennsylvania and surrounded by decorative border., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., One of the images gift of David Doret (P.2010.6.2).
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.2010.6.2 and P.9168.17]

Title: Kugler's Restaurant postcards
Description: Contains interior views of Kugler's Restaurant at several locations. Most depict the main dining area in the restaurant's Widener Building location. Others depict the Red Banquet Room at 1412-1414 Chestnut Street and the ballroom at 34 South 15th Street., Contains 14 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., 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: 1900-1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Kuglers - 116]

Title: Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: View looking north from a tree-lined path in Independence Square at the rear elevation of the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Also includes the front facades of buildings on the north side of Chestnut Street., Copyright 1902 by H.C. White Co. on mount below image., Additional places of publication printed on mount, including Chicago; New York; and London., Title and publisher's imprint printed in gold on mount, along with the following numbers and letters: 973; 917.7, 88, A., Explicative paragraph of text describing Independence Hall printed on verso with series title and stereograph title., Stamped on verso: Fresno County Free Library ; 75, 37, Dark gray curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Date: [Printed ca. 1903; photographed c1902]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - White - Government buildings [P.9047.155]

Title: Views of Independence Hall, 520 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Views predominately showing exteriors of the front and rear of the State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley. Also shows the old City Hall built 1790-1791 after the designs of David Evans, Jr. adorned with lettering reading "Mayors Office" (500 Chestnut); views of Congress Hall built 1787-1789 (540-558 Chestnut), including the building adorned with broadsides; partial views of the construction site for and the completed Public Ledger Building (built 1866-1867, 600-606 Chestnut), the rear gate entrance to Independence Square and the square; pedestrian traffic; horse-drawn wagons; and a guard. Also includes a view of a queue of people in mourning clothes at the rear of the hall, probably during the funeral of President Lincoln and an interior view showing the Assembly Room when utilized as an exhibit gallery. Interior view includes William Rush's wood statue of George Washington (carved 1815); the Liberty Bell; a stuffed bald eagle; framed artwork, predominately from the Charles Wilson Peale portrait collection, and the "Rising Sun" chair (used by George Washington as he presided over the Constitutional Convention) displayed on top of a desk., Contains eight stereographic prints mounted on yellow, cream, or orange mounts, including six with square corners and two with rounded corners. Four of images contain manuscript titles. One of images published as series number 352. Independence Hall. New Excelsior Series. Fine American Views. Philadelphia, Penn'a., Six of the images were originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1865-ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government buildings [1322.F.7f; (3)1322.F.9h; (8)1322.F.8e; (8)1322.F.9bx; (8)1322.F.9dx; (8)1322.F.9f; P.9013.5; P.9299.26]

Title: Philadelphia, from the State House steeple, north, east and south
Description: Panoramic view looking east toward the Delaware River predominantly showing the area east of Fifth Street between Arch and South Streets from Independence Hall. Includes the Court House, i.e. City Hall (500 Chestnut Street); Philadelphia Library, i.e., Library Company of Philadelphia (105 S. Fifth Street); a flag flying on top of the U.S. Bank, i.e., Second Bank of the U.S. (420 Chestnut Street); the spires of Christ Church (22-34 N. Second Street) and St. Peter's Church (300-340 Pine Street). Also shows part of the State House garden; the north side of the 500 block of Chestnut Street, including adjoined storefronts tenanted by the American Hotel (181-183 Chestnut Street); S.L. Simons daguerreotype rooms (179 Chestnut Street); Geo. Earle's Pantechnethica (175 Chestnut Street); Geo. J. Henkels' City Cabinet Wareroom (173 Chestnut Street); and a clothing store on the northwest corner of Fifth and Chestnut Streets. Also depicts rooftop views (including people on the roofs) of several of the surrounding city blocks; and a few pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage on Chestnut Street and the grounds of the State House. Sailboats and a steamboat are visible on the Delaware River in the distance, along with the horizon of Camden, N.J., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 587, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Elliot, Leo von, 1816-1890, artist
Date: c1849
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W287 [P.2125]

Title: [German Peace Jubilee procession passing the 600 and 700 blocks of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., May 15, 1871]
Description: View showing the German Peace Jubilee procession in celebration of the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War. Procession includes a horse-drawn float and several marching parade participants. Spectators crowd the sidewalks and the balcony of the office building, Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut), which is adorned in bunting and displaying signage advertising a dry goods store. Also shows a partial view of the 700 block of Chestnut Street, including Joseph Monier's bookbinding establishment at Seventh and Chestnut., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's blindstamp on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: 1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Son - Processions [P.9840.2]

Title: Col. M. Corcoran addressing the crowds in front of the Continental Hotel, Phila., August 21, 1862
Description: Rooftop views looking east from above Ninth Street showing a massive crowd in front of the Continental and Girard House hotels on the 800 block of Chestnut Street. Shows a large horse-drawn enclosed platform resting near the crowd and a caravan of horse-drawn carriages traveling up the street. People look out the windows and stand on the balconies of nearby businesses. Businesses include the Root Gallery photographic studio operated by J.J. Bushnell from 1862-1863 (901 Chestnut) and J.H. Richelderfer's "Boy's Clothing Bazaar" (903 Chestnut). Corcoran, colonel of the Sixty-Ninth New York Brigade, i.e., the Irish Brigade travelled through Philadelphia following his release as a prisoner of war from Libby Prison., Title and date from unmounted stereograph 5779.F.12e, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Variant in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. [Penrose Collection, Box 18]., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [August 21, 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Events [(6)1322.F.27a; P.2282.12], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - 5x7 - unidentified - Events [(7)1322.F.69e], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Events [5779.F.12e]

Title: [Plate 8 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate depicts the 500 block of Chestnut Street (168-199 pre-consolidation). South side includes Congress Hall, the State House, and City Hall. North side includes E. B. Mears, Stereotyper, W.B. Gihon, Engraver on Wood, and W. T. Parker, Saloon (199); J. W. Moore, Importer and Bookseller (193); William J. Kerr, China Hall and French Ware House (191); [Isaac] Newton’s Confectionery (187); American Hotel tenanted by L. & B. Orne, importers of carpets and operated by Ambrose L. White (181-183); Richards. Successor M.P. Simons, Daguerreotypist and Swift & Justice, Tailors (179);wigmaker Richard Dollard (177); Geo. J. Henkels, City Cabinet Wareroom (175); A. Brett’s Lithographic Establishment, Oscar C. B. Carter, Piano Fortes, Safford & Cookmann Curtain Warehouse, Thomas J. Natt & Co.’s Looking Glass Warehouse, and Polytechnic Lecture Rooms, F. Langenheim Manager (171). Also shows sides of buildings on Fifth and Sixth streets and signage above the subsidiary entrances to the State House. Signs read Orphan’s Court Clerk’s Office; Recorder of Deeds Office; Court of Common Pleas; Register of Wills; Prothonotory Off., Supreme Court, Eastern District; Prothonotary’s Office; Sheriff’s Office, County Commiss's. Office; Prothonotary District Court; and Quarter Sessions Clerk’s Office., Advertisements promote fifteen of the businesses depicted and Watson & Cox, Sieve, Riddle, Screen and Wire Cloth Manufacturers, No. 46 North Front St. (half-page) and Yerger & Ord, Patentees and Manufacturers of the Metallic Skeleton Artificial Leg, Ankle Supporter, and Improved Anatomical Machinery (half-page). Half-page advertisements contain several lines of text, as well as a cameo stamp illustration showing the Watson & Cox manufactory and a wood engraving showing a metallic artificial leg. Yerger & Old advertisement also cautions about a competitor circulating "a petty species of slander." Most of the smaller advertisements include several lines of promotional text and ornamented type. Langenheim's cites the admittance fee of "25 Cts."; Newton's notes that "he has taken" the confectionery of the late Mrs. Wood; Kerr's promotes his China Hall as the largest in the Unitd States; and Parker's Saloon advertises "All the Luxuries of the different season constantly kept. Games, Fish, Oysters, &c. My Liquors, Wines & Segars are selected with care and attention, the best always purchased without regard to Cost.", Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 9., LCP also holds trimmed duplicate depicting North side [P.2008.34.16.3].
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 9 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: [Plate 8 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
Description: Plate depicts the 500 block of Chestnut Street (168-199 pre-consolidation). South side includes Congress Hall, the State House, and City Hall. North side includes E. B. Mears, Stereotyper, W.B. Gihon, Engraver on Wood, and W. T. Parker, Saloon (199); J. W. Moore, Importer and Bookseller (193); William J. Kerr, China Hall and French Ware House (191); [Isaac] Newton’s Confectionery (187); American Hotel tenanted by L. & B. Orne, importers of carpets and operated by Ambrose L. White (181-183); Richards. Successor M.P. Simons, Daguerreotypist and Swift & Justice, Tailors (179);wigmaker Richard Dollard (177); Geo. J. Henkels, City Cabinet Wareroom (175); A. Brett’s Lithographic Establishment, Oscar C. B. Carter, Piano Fortes, Safford & Cookmann Curtain Warehouse, Thomas J. Natt & Co.’s Looking Glass Warehouse, and Polytechnic Lecture Rooms, F. Langenheim Manager (171). Also shows sides of buildings on Fifth and Sixth streets and signage above the subsidiary entrances to the State House. Signs read Orphan’s Court Clerk’s Office; Recorder of Deeds Office; Court of Common Pleas; Register of Wills; Prothonotory Off., Supreme Court, Eastern District; Prothonotary’s Office; Sheriff’s Office, County Commiss's. Office; Prothonotary District Court; and Quarter Sessions Clerk’s Office., Advertisements promote fifteen of the businesses depicted and Watson & Cox, Sieve, Riddle, Screen and Wire Cloth Manufacturers, No. 46 North Front St. (half-page) and Yerger & Ord, Patentees and Manufacturers of the Metallic Skeleton Artificial Leg, Ankle Supporter, and Improved Anatomical Machinery (half-page). Half-page advertisements contain several lines of text, as well as a cameo stamp illustration showing the Watson & Cox manufactory and a wood engraving showing a metallic artificial leg. Yerger & Old advertisement also cautions about a competitor circulating "a petty species of slander." Most of the smaller advertisements include several lines of promotional text and ornamented type. Langenheim's cites the admittance fee of "25 Cts."; Newton's notes that "he has taken" the confectionery of the late Mrs. Wood; Kerr's promotes his China Hall as the largest in the Unitd States; and Parker's Saloon advertises "All the Luxuries of the different season constantly kept. Games, Fish, Oysters, &c. My Liquors, Wines & Segars are selected with care and attention, the best always purchased without regard to Cost.", Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 9., LCP also holds trimmed duplicate depicting North side [P.2008.34.16.3].
Creator: Rae, Julio H.
Date: [1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 9 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]

Title: U. S. Naval Asylum; State House = Malrosen Hospital bei Philadelphia; Das Rathhaus in Philadelphia
Description: Lettersheet containing vignette exterior views of the U.S. Naval Asylum, the convalescence home for retired sailors, and the State House, i.e., Independence Hall. Views show street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn wagon and omnibus as well as a man on horseback. Asylum built 1827-1833 after the designs of William Strickland at 2420 Gray's Ferry Avenue. State House built 1732-1748 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton and Edmund Woolley at 520 Chestnut Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 766/767
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hospitals [P.9454.6]

Title: Rear view of State House from Walnut St[reet]
Description: Glass negative showing exterior view of the back of the Independence Hall. A wide path with benches leads through a Independence Square toward the building. Pedestrians pass through the square on the flagstone walks under the trees that dot the park. Construction on Independence Hall began in 1732 and completed in 1753 after the designs of Andrew Hamilton (1676-1741) and Edmund Woolly (1695-1771). It originally housed all three branches of the Pennsylvania colonial government, as well as being host to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitutional Convention. The building went through numerous renovations and reconstructions, until in 1950 when the National Park Service restored much of the architecture and interior to its 1776 appearance. It is a part of Independence National Park and a major tourist attraction as of the 21st century., Title from entry in photographer's diary., Inscribed in negative: No. 14., Photographer remarks: too fast for stop used., Time: 2:00, Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 119., Arcadia caption text: Originally known as the State House Yard, Independence Square, on the 500 block of Walnut Street, was purchased in 1729 by the Pennsylvania Assembly for the erection of the State House. When the city bought the square in 1816, the undeveloped portion north of Walnut Street had been enclosed by fencing and was used as a public green for community meetings and demonstrations. The above view, taken in 1887, shows the square after its major redesign into geometric form, and includes the new flagstone walks, from the plans of William Dixey, City Commissioner of Property., Digitization and cataloging edits have been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: April 25, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris [P.9895.1107]

Title: [German Peace Jubilee procession at the 600 block of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa., May 15, 1871]
Description: View showing the German Peace Jubilee procession in celebration of the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War. Procession includes several horse-drawn carriages carrying parade dignitaries. Spectators crowd the sidewalks and the balcony of the office building Jayne's Hall (625-631 Chestnut). Bunting, as well as signage advertising a dry goods store and W.G. Spencer & Co., notions, is visible on the building. Also shows a partial view of Joseph Monier's bookbinding establishment at Seventh and Chestnut., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to Schreiber & Sons because of blindstamps on mounts of other stereographs in series [P.9840.1 and P.9840.2], Incorrect manuscript note on verso: 5th below Market., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Schreiber & Sons, photographer
Date: 1871
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Schreiber & Son - Processions [P.9047.44]

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

Title: Ice scenes at the burning of Jayne's Building, Chestnut Street, Philada
Description: Views of the front and rear elevations of the fire-ravaged Jayne building with ice hanging from its exterior. One image shows the front elevation from the northwest, including the Liverpool & London Globe Insurance Co. clock jutting from the company's building at the northeast corner of Third and Chestnut Streets in the foreground and signboards for businesses occupying 242-248 Chestnut Street, including Wernwag & Co. silk importers (242 Chestnut), Shannon teas (244 Chestnut), H.P. & W.P. Smith dry goods (248 Chestnut), and F.S. Hovey, manufacturer of sewing silk (248 Chestnut). Also shows pedestrians gathered on the north sidewalk observing the scene as men, probably firefighters, stand in the street near the unraveled hose of a fire engine. Rear views from Carter's Alley show a thick layer of ice covering the building, low-hanging wires, carts, and lumber in the alley. A saloon fronting on Carter's Alley is partially visible in one image. Dr. David Jayne, a chemist and Philadelphia manufacturer of patent medicines, moved into an eight story building at 84-86 Chestnut Street (i.e., 242-244 Chestnut Street), between 2nd and 3rd Streets in 1850, after it was completed after designs by William J. Johnston and Thomas Ustick Walter. His business occupied the building until his death in 1866. It burned on March 5, 1872., Titles and photographer's imprint printed on mounts., Manuscript notes in pencil on versos describe views., Yellow curved mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brooks, Thomas, photographer
Date: March 5, 1872
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Brooks - Fire Ruins [P.9095.1-6]

Title: Chestnut St. looking E. from top of Wanamakers arch, [Constitutional Centennial Celebration, Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of Chestnut Street seen from above during the Centennial celebrations. The street is filled with carriages and people. American flags fly from each story of the buildings on either side of the street. The Centennial Anniversary of the framing and creation of the Constitution was held on September 16-18, 1887 in Philadelphia. Organized by representatives from the various states and territories, the festivities included a military display, orations and concerts, and an industrial parade., Time: 4:30, Light: Faint sun., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 17, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1228]

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