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Title: [Humane Society of Philadelphia]
Description: Scene showing Humane Society volunteers during a rescue on the Delaware River near the old Navy Yard in Southwark. Shows male volunteers attending a rescued man on land, carrying another man to shore, and rowing a boat to a third victim near a capsized vessel. The Delaware riverfront and sailing ships are visible in the background. Scene used as the illustration on the membership certificate for the Humane Society., Lithographer probably Matthew Schmitz., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 101, Gift of David Doret., HSP: Bc 72 S 355.
Creator: Schmitz, M., lithographer
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W50 [P.2005.18.42]

Title: Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steamboat "New Jersey," on the Delaware River, above Smith's Island, on the night of March 15th, between 8 and 9 o'clock, in which dreadful calamity over 50 lives are supposed to have been lost
Description: Dramatic view of the steamboat, its nameplate visible, engulfed in flames and smoke, as the passengers escape into the icy river. Panicked passengers huddle, jump and dive into the water already teeming with disaster victims. The river-bound men and women bob; swim; and lie on, attempt to stay upon, and assist others onto cakes of ice and debris. In the lower right of the image, a rowboat containing a rower and a man holding a baby as well as a victim hanging on to the rear of the vessel arrives at the nearby wharf. The rescuer hands the limp baby to its mother, next to whom a man stands with a look of concern. In the left background, signage for "Baths" adorns the riverbank. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as a result of defective boilers, a fireplace, and brick work. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 745, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 19:33
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W366 [P.2202]

Title: Washington Mills, Gloucester, N.J. near Philadelphia David S. Brown & Co. Nos. 38 and 40 South Front Street, and No. 29 Letitia Street, Philadelphia, selling agents for the following American cotton and woolen goods
Description: Advertisement for David S. Brown & Co. textile merchants containing a view of the several factory buildings of the Washington Manufacturing Company's cotton mills on the Delaware River. Shows heavy maritime traffic, including a steamboat, sailboats, schooners, and a long boat with a crew transporting a bale of cotton. Also shows a church on the property in the far right of the image. Advertising text printed below the image lists the variety of the "Brown Cottons - Woolens - Prints - Pantaloonery &c. - and Bleached Cottons" available at Brown's as selling agents for other suppliers. Suppliers include Bates Mills, Essex Mills, Lion Mills, Whittenton Mills, Climax Mills, and Hale Mills. Products include sheetlings, shirtlings, jeans, flannels, shawls, zephyr coating, and corset jeans. Brown served as both senior partner in Brown & Co., and president and manager of Washington Mills., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America...Commercial edition with business cards of the prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 76. (HSP O 458), Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 269, Gift of George S. Macmanus Co., HSP copy BC 35 W 317., FLP copy Castner 20:21. Trimmed and folded.
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Industries [P.8694]

Title: Conflagration of the steam boat New Jersey on the Delaware River opposite Philada. March 15 1856 in which 50 persons lost their lives
Description: Shows, under the winter night sky, in the distance, clouds of smoke rising from the Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Co. steamboat as rowboats race to the wreck. In the right of the image, a partial view of the ferry "Dido" traveling to the rescue is visible. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as the result of defective boilers. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river., Reduced variant of print issued by the same artist and publisher [Wainwright 81]. Title altered from "60 persons" to "50 persons.", POS 155, Philadelphia on Stone, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Heiss, George G.
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W82 [P.2026]

Title: Theodore M. Apple, guager & cooper, no. 2 & 4 Gray's Alley between Front & Second and Walnut & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia Imitation brandy casks always on hand or made to order - Kegs of all sizes made of old stuff always on hand - Orders will receive prompt attention. Imitation stand-casks always on hand or made to order
Description: Advertisement containing a busy wharf scene on the Delaware River. Laborers fabricate and load numerous barrels onto a sailing ship while horse-drawn drays carrying barrels arrive on the scene. In the foreground, a man stands in one of two rowboats tied to the pier. His cohort unties his boat from the pier above. In the background, horse-drawn wagons arrive at a neighboring pier milling with activity. Also shows pairs and groups of men conducting business, a partial view of a loft house, and ships docked along the wharves and sailing in the river., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 748, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1988 p. 42.
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [P.9225.1]

Title: Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," On the River Delaware, opposite Philadelphia, on the night of Saturday, March 15th, 1856, between 8 and 9 o'clock, by which dreadful calamity sixty-one lives were lost. Names of all on board
Description: Dramatic view of the steamboat engulfed in flames and smoke, the captain still at the helm as the passengers escape into the icy river. Panicked-looking passengers jump into the water already teeming with disaster victims, including an African American man, who thrash, swim, and attempt to stay upon and assist others onto cakes of ice, debris, and a single rowboat. Rescuers from the nearby wharf, including firemen, work in a frantic manner and desperately throw a rope to a white woman standing on an ice floe. Also shows a horse on the fire engulfed deck and a white woman propelled by a flame off of the rear of the boat. A sign for "Baths" is visible on the riverbank in the background. Contains the names of the 107 white and "colored" dead, missing, and saved passengers in three columns below the image. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as a result of defective boilers, a fireplace, and brick work. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river., Title from item., Date supplied by Wainwright., Copyrighted by A. Pharazin., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 744, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W478 [P.2252]

Title: Shad fishing (taking up the net.) On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance
Description: View of several fishermen, including African American men, most waist deep in the river and all but one in a semi-circle, gathering up their catch into a rowboat. A Philadelphia pier lined with residences, the mills of Gloucester, New Jersey, and sailboats on the river are visible in the foreground and background., Title from item., Date from manuscript note written on recto: April-May 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 691, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Queen was a premier Philadelphia genre, nature, and advertisement lithographer who with fellow lithographer P.S. Duval, was an early successful chromolithographer.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 1821-1886, artist
Date: [1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W335 [P.2189]

Title: Terrible conflagration and destruction of the steam-boat "New Jersey," On the River Delaware, opposite Philadelphia, on the night of Saturday, March 15th, 1856, between 8 and 9 o'clock, by which dreadful calamity sixty-one lives were lost. Names of all on board
Description: Dramatic view of the steamboat engulfed in flames and smoke, the captain still at the helm as the passengers escape into the icy river. Panicked-looking passengers jump into the water already teeming with disaster victims, including an African American man, who thrash, swim, and attempt to stay upon and assist others onto cakes of ice, debris, and a single rowboat. Rescuers from the nearby wharf, including firemen, work in a frantic manner and desperately throw a rope to a white woman standing on an ice floe. Also shows a horse on the fire engulfed deck and a white woman propelled by a flame off of the rear of the boat. A sign for "Baths" is visible on the riverbank in the background. Contains the names of the 107 white and "colored" dead, missing, and saved passengers in three columns below the image. Captained by Ebenezer Corson, the "New Jersey," on mid-voyage to Camden from Philadelphia via an alternate elongated route due to heavy ice, caught fire as a result of defective boilers, a fireplace, and brick work. With the fire spreading rapidly, Corson retreated to Arch Street Wharf in Philadelphia, and came within thirty feet of the pier when the pilot house collapsed leaving the boat unmanned and out of control. Corson survived by leaping ashore before the uncontrolled ship drifted back out on the river., Title from item., Date supplied by Wainwright., Copyrighted by A. Pharazin., Philadelphia on Stone, Purchase 1965., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W478 [7541.F]

Title: Philadelphia, von dem grossen Baume zu Kensington aus geschen, unter welchem William Penn den tractat mit den Indianern abschloss
Description: View looking toward the city from the Penn Treaty Tree and Monument in Kensington. In the foreground, two men stand between the monument marked "William Penn's Landing Place" and the elm tree across from men working at the piers and arriving by skiff at the riverbank. Laborers pile sacks on the dock, transport goods by boat, and load a wagon. In the background, tall ships are docked, vessels travel the Delaware River, and cityscape is visible. The monument was erected in 1827 by the Penn Society to commemorate the site of William Penn's Treaty with the Delaware Indians at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington)., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 599, Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Traubel assumed proprietorship of the Kuhl lithography studio at 46 1/2 Walnut Street circa 1854 under the firm name Traubel & Co.
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Views - P [(1)1525.F.53c]

Title: Wm. Penn's treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province of Pennsa. 1681 The only treaty that was never broken
Description: Print after the Benjamin West painting (1771) showing the treaty made at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington) on the Delaware River. Penn, surrounded by his delegates, negotiates with the Delaware Indian chief near a giant elm tree. Crates of goods are sat upon and displayed by the English delegation. Native Americans, including a translator and a woman breast-feeding her baby, participate in and watch the negotiations. Also shows brick residences being built in the background. River depicted on left., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 859
Creator: Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Penn [P.9458]

Title: Landing of Penn. Dock Creek
Description: Book illustration showing the landing of William Penn at Philadelphia in 1682. Depicts a crowd of several people, including early Pennsylvania colonists, waiting on the banks of the river as Penn and his entourage prepare to disembark from a small boat. Also shows the a tavern and the Delaware River in the background. Penn arrived in Philadelphia at a basin off of Dock Creek via a barge upriver from Chester, Pa. where he had moored his ship "Welcome.", Plate opposite page 69 in John F. Watson's Historic tales of olden time : concerning the early settlement and progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania ; for the use of families and schools ; illustrated with plates (Philadelphia : E. Littell : Thomas Holden, 1833)., William L. Breton and Kennedy & Lucas created many of the lithographic plates for Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, so it is probable that they also created the plates in Historic tales of olden time., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 428
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Am 1833 Wat [Log 2794.D.opp69]

Title: Rowley, Ashburner & Co.'s oil, alcohol, fluid & pine oil works Rowley, Ashburner & Co., manufacturers, Kensington screw dock, Penn Street above Maiden, Philadelphia. Store, No. 14 North Wharves, Philadelphia. Have constantly on hand, and for sale, at lowest market prices in bbls. and half bbls. alcohol, all qualities, burning fluid, pine oil, or camphene, rice in tierces and half ditto, spirits turpentine, soapmakers' rosin nos. 1, 2 & 3. common shipping rosin, tar, pitch and varnish, sperm oil, lard oil, elephant oil, whale oil, tanners' oil, linseed oil, machinery oil, refined paint oil, common greaing oil, extra refined winter machinery oil, winter, spring and summer strained in any size, refined winter greasing oil, refined black greasing oil, do do grease, no. 1 ship varnish
Description: Advertisement showing the Kensington Screw Dock on North Penn Street above Maiden (ie. Laurel) Street from the tumultuous Delaware River. Three small sailboats navigate the water in the foreground, while shipwrights work on the hull of a square-rigged ship raised in the dry dock in front of the firm's building. At the wharf, horse-drawn drays travel past the neighboring oil manufactory and distillery and a captain, with a dog, leans on a hitching post to which a tugboat is tied. In the rough water of the river, skiffs, sailboats, and a rowboat navigate the choppy waves. Also shows surrounding boathouses, wharves, and buildings lining the riverfront. Edward Rowley, Algernon Ashburner, and George B. Keen purchased the screw dock in 1850., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 662, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W321 [P.2256]

Title: Souvenir of the coldest winter on record. Scene on the Delaware River at Philada. during the severe winter of 1856
Description: Frolicking genre scene showing hundreds of persons skating and sledding on the frozen river in front of the old Navy Yard at Southwark. Skaters and sledders include men pushing women in chairs with blades, men pushing a sleigh of women passengers, a man pulling a boy on a sled, and a man being pulled by a dog running through a crowd of skaters. In the foreground, a couple stands and watches the activity; a woman peddler, seated on a stool, sells an apple to a boy; and a man has fallen on the ice, near a boy leaning on another boy. In the background, a sleigh ride has been fabricated with several men pushing a large pivoted pole lever to propel a toboggan of women passengers in a circle on an area free from congestion. Watch houses stand near by, with throngs of people surrounding the sheds. Moored ships, steamboats, and sailing vessels line the shore. Also shows distant cityscape., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 704, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb72 Q3
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W342 [P.2190]

Title: Philadelphia from the Navy Yard
Description: Marine view looking north on the Delaware River showing the Navy Yard between Prime and Wharton streets in Southwark. Ships are docked at the yard, and a steam boat and other vessels travel nearby in the water. Also shows several ships docked along the riverfront in the background and two men pushing a rowboat off the shore in the foreground. The naval yard, the first U.S. Navy Yard, established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801, built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships. It operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 10 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 586.1. Digital image shows fourth state., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Views - Philadelphia from Navy Yard (3 copies), Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W286.1 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F]

Title: Philadelphia from the Navy Yard
Description: Marine view looking north on the Delaware River showing the Navy Yard between Prime and Wharton streets in Southwark. Ships are docked at the yard, and a steam boat and other vessels travel nearby in the water. Also shows several ships docked along the riverfront in the background and two men pushing a rowboat off the shore in the foreground. The naval yard, the first U.S. Navy Yard, established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801, built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships. It operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 10 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838), a series of views originally published as five numbers of four prints each, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 586.2. Digital image shows fourth state., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W286.2 [Print Room *Am1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)]

Title: Philadelphia from the Navy Yard
Description: Marine view looking north on the Delaware River showing the Navy Yard between Prime and Wharton streets in Southwark. Ships are docked at the yard, and a steam boat and other vessels travel nearby in the water. Also shows several ships docked along the riverfront in the background and two men pushing a rowboat off the shore in the foreground. The naval yard, the first U.S. Navy Yard, established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801, built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships. It operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 10 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 586.3. Digital image shows fourth state., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W286.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: Philadelphia from the Navy Yard
Description: Marine view looking north on the Delaware River showing the Navy Yard between Prime and Wharton streets in Southwark. Ships are docked at the yard, and a steam boat and other vessels travel nearby in the water. Also shows several ships docked along the riverfront in the background and two men pushing a rowboat off the shore in the foreground. The naval yard, the first U.S. Navy Yard, established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801, built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships. It operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Originally published as plate 10 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., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 586.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2171 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Views -Philadelphia from Girard College (2 copies, without hand-coloring), Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W286.4 [P.2171]

Title: View of the glass works of T. W. Dyott at Kensington on the Delaware nr Philada
Description: View showing the premier glass works in Kensington along the bank of the Delaware River, purchased in the late 1810s by English-born boot black maker and patent medicine dealer Thomas Dyott. Shows several of the buildings, including the factory adorned with the sign "T.W. Dyott's Glass Works," at the complex of the works. Smokestacks adorn all the buildings. Also shows a skiff docked near the factory and another sailing on the river. The works also contained a butcher shop, bakery, and chapel. Originally established as the Kensington Glass Works in 1771 by Towars and Leacock, the Dyottville Glass Works manufactured vials, bottles, flask, demijohns, and "indispensable articles." The factory ceased operations following Dyott's conviction for fraud in 1837 but resumed glass manufacturing in 1842 under the new ownership of Henry Seybert and was active until the end of the century., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110. Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 24 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 24., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 801, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.3 a&b and in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and Am 1831 Mease 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W431 [P.9830.3 a&b]

Title: Bridesburg Manufacturing Company
Description: Frontispiece illustration depicting the square, industrial complex of the textile machinery manufacturing company on Richmond Street between Walnut and Locust Streets from the Delaware River. View includes a steamboat traveling north on the Delaware River, a docked sailboat, and laborers and horse-drawn carts and drays near the entrance of the complex. Company originally established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks as Bridesburg Macine Works. Facility was enlarged in 1853, manufactured arms during the Civil War, and returned to manufacturing textile machinery after the Civil War., Not in Wainwright., Published in Bridesburg Manufacturing Company's Descriptive catalogue of machines built by the Bridesburg Manufacturing Company (Bridesburg, Pa., 1867), frontispiece., Catalogue includes fifty-eight lithographs by W. Boell depicting machinery manufactured by the company "to convey to them [patrons] an idea of the innumerable improvements we have made within a few years past, upon the machinery used for carding, spinning, and weaving Cotton and Wool.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 62
Creator: Boell, William
Date: 1867
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Brides 106980.D.frontispiece

Title: The early settlement & progress of Philadelphia & Pennsylvania Philadelphia T. Holden Chesnut St. 1833
Description: Small vignette on the added title page depicting the site of the Treaty Tree, the legendary location of William Penn's treaty with the Delaware Indians in 1682. Shows boats and figures near the river. The Treaty Tree or Great Elm Tree blew down in 1810., Added title page in John F. Watson's Historic tales of olden time : concerning the early settlement and progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania ; for the use of families and schools ; illustrated with plates (Philadelphia : E. Littell : Thomas Holden, 1833)., William L. Breton and Kennedy & Lucas created many of the lithographic plates for Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, so it is probable that they also created the plates in Historic tales of olden time., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 197
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Am 1833 Wat [Log 2794.D.title page]

Title: Treaty Tree
Description: Book illustration after the Benjamin West painting (1771) showing the treaty made at the village of Shackamaxon (i.e. Penn Treaty Park, Kensington) on the Delaware River. Penn, surrounded by his delegates, negotiates with the Delaware Indian chief near a giant elm tree. Crates of goods rest on the ground near the English delegation. Native Americans, including a translator, participate in and watch the negotiations. Also shows brick residences in the background., Plate opposite page 73 in John F. Watson's Historic tales of olden time : concerning the early settlement and progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania ; for the use of families and schools ; illustrated with plates (Philadelphia : E. Littell : Thomas Holden, 1833)., William L. Breton and Kennedy & Lucas created many of the lithographic plates for Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, so it is probable that they also created the plates in Historic tales of olden time., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 759
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Am 1833 Wat [Log 2794.D.opp73]

Title: Philadelphia Citizen's Line of steam boats to New York & Baltimore
Description: Book illustration advertisement showing the busy "Philadelphia Citizens" steamboat wharf at Arch Street and the Delaware River. Also shows the "Citizen's Line" office building (right foreground) adjacent to Jacob Ridgway's Ferry House and Hotel. Swarms of people line the wharf and several walk on the sidewalks. Horse-drawn drays and a carriage line the street in front of the office and hotel. Partial views of surrounding buildings are also visible. Vessels for New York, Baltimore, and Wilmington left the wharf daily., Name of printer supplied by Wainwright., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 17 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvement of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831), vol. II, opposite page 21., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 577, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.9830.2 a&b and in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D and in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D and in Am 1831 Mease 20876., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Loose prints gift of Jay Snider.
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W283 [P.9830.2 a&b]

Title: Pennsylvania, 1776-1876, City of Philadelphia
Description: View looking west of the Delaware River and the city of Philadelphia from the Camden, New Jersey ferry terminal. Many people are gathered at the ferry terminal and the river is filled with steamboats and sailing ships. This scene is placed within the borders of a shield. Below the shield is Pennsylvania's state seal flanked by scenes of Pennsylvania's industries including railroads, oil, and agricultural., Not in Wainwright., Image was originally published in William Broadhead's The Centennial Book of Signers (Phila: J.M. Stoddard, 1872) page 219., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 556, In 1872 H.J. Toudy & Co. (Henry J. Toudy, George W. Ward, and William C. Berillat) were listed as practical lithographers and printers at 529 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia.
Creator: H.J. Toudy & Co., lithographer
Date: [1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW-Views-Philadelphia [P.9639]

Title: Philadelphia. S.E. view
Description: Panoramic view looking northwest from the Delaware River showing the southeast part of the city. Several vessels, including sailboats, rowboats, and a steamboat travel in the Delaware past cityscape and Windmill and Smith Islands. Cityscape includes the Navy Yard, Spark's shot tower, and the steeple of Christ Church., Plate 7 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Copyrighted by Aug. Köllner., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 593/594, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: c1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - View [P.2283.22]

Title: Philadelphia. S.E. view
Description: Panoramic view looking northwest from the Delaware River showing the southeast part of the city. Several vessels, including sailboats, rowboats, and a steamboat travel in the Delaware past cityscape and Windmill and Smith Islands. Cityscape includes the Navy Yard, Spark's shot tower, and the steeple of Christ Church., Plate 7 of series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Copyrighted by Aug. Köllner., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 593/594, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Upper corners clipped.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, artist
Date: c1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Views [P.2283.21]

Title: A view of Point Airy opposite South Street, Phila Persons visiting this delightful resort during the summer season will find the bar supplied with a variety of suitable refreshments for the season. Every facility is afforded at this place for enjoyment & recreation. Visitors have also an opportunity of enjoying as delightful a bath as can be had at any point on the Delaware. The boat leaves the first wharf above South Street every few minutes. D. Warren, Proprietor
Description: Advertisement showing the "Point Airy Hotel" and dock operated by David Warren at the resort located on the southern end of Windmill Island, a summer resort area popular in the 19th century before the removal of the island in 1897. Trees surround the resort. In the foreground, a wide variety of river traffic including ferries, sailboats, and rowboats traverse the river. A man attired in a suit and top hat helps row one of the vessels. In the background, sailing ships and a ferry are visible in front of the New Jersey waterfront., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 789, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Haugg worked in Philadelphia 1856-1894.
Creator: Haugg, Louis, 1827-1903, artist
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W7 [P.2003]

Title: Philadelphia, from Camden, - 1850
Description: Panoramic view looking west from Camden showing the city to West Philadelphia. In the foreground, several bustling piers line the Camden riverfront. Sail ships and steamboats are docked, horse-drawn wagons are loaded and transport goods, and individuals mill on the piers and near the Market Street ferry house. Several vessels, including sail ships, tug boats, and steam boats sail in the river near both riverfronts and around Smith and Windmill islands. In the background, the cityscape of Philadelphia is visible. Includes the Navy Yard, Spark's Shot Tower, the steeples of Christ Church and Independence Hall, and Girard College. Also shows rows of buildings, smokestacks, undeveloped land, and the Schuylkill River in the distant background., Copyright by Francis Smith in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 583, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., The Smith brothers, Benjamin, Francis, David and George, were premier and prolific artists and publishers of panoramic city views during the pre-Civil War era., Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana - Views
Creator: Smith, Benjamin F., Jr., 1830-1927, artist
Date: c1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***BW - Views [P.8970.31]

Title: S.E. view of Philadelphia
Description: Panoramic view looking from Camden, New Jersey showing the Delaware riverfront and harbor. Includes cityscape; docked ships; boathouses; Spark's Shot Tower; Smith and Windmill Island; and several sailing vessels and a steamboat traversing the river. Also shows two men near grazing horses on the riverbank in the foreground., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 667, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Rivers - Delaware [(7)1322.F.19]

Title: Microscopic view of Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view predominately showing the built city from the Schuylkill to the Delaware rivers and Port Richmond to South Philadelphia. Market Street runs down the center of the view. Shows the residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying areas of Center City. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia, Windmill Island, and Camden, NJ. and public utilities, bridges, railroad depots, and reservoirs. Includes from west to east, the Woodlands, Blockley Almshouse, the Upper Ferry Bridge, Market Street Bridge, the two Gas Works, Fairmount Water Works, Girard College, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Naval Asylum, Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mark's Church, Christ Church, Independence Hall, Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Peter's Church, and Spark's Shot Tower. Also shows the five major squares (as well as Independence Square) and adjacent landmarks, including the P.R.R. Freight Depot, U.S. Mint, First Independent Church, Pennsylvania Asylum for the Blind, and Will's Eye Hospital. Masts of docked ships line the piers along the Delaware and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border the built city to the North and South., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 478, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Views
Date: c1869
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Views [P.9087]

Title: Philadelphia in 1702
Description: Print containing a panoramic view of the city in 1702 and three titled vignette views representing the early settlement of the city. View looks west from Camden, New Jersey and shows the Delaware River and burgeoning Philadelphia cityscape. Includes Swedes Church (1); Old Horse Mill (2); Pont House from Chester (3); Sven Svener's House (4); Duck Pond and Indian Huts at 3rd & Pine (5), Loxley's House (6); Dock Creek and drawbridge (9); Blue Anchor Tavern (13); Budd's Row (18); Carpenter's House, Brewery and Bakery (20); Old Slate House (22); Friends Public School (24); Benezet House (25); Duck Pond at 4th & Market (26); Baptist & Presbyterian Meeting House at 2nd & Chestnut (27); Friends Meeting (28); London Coffee House (31); Market Shambles (34); Christ Church (36); Jones Row (37); Turners Famous House (39); Arch Street under Arch (40); Friends Bank Meeting (42); Penny Pot House (43); Pegg's Run (44); Swedish settlement (48); Fairman's Mansion & Treaty Tree (49); and Floating Windmill (50) in the Delaware. Also shows other early dwellings and taverns, sailing vessels on the river, and activity at the riverfront that is lined with a few piers. Vignettes show "Penn's Treaty" after the Benjamin West painting; "Site of Philada. When in Possession of the Swedes before the Landing of Penn" covered with forests; "Landing of the First Families" who gather with their posessions at the shore near a cave and in the presence of Native Americans. "Landing" vignette also shows a man cooking at a spit and a cabin under construction on a hillside in the background., Copyrighted by Smith & Cremens in Washington, D.C., Not in Wainwright., Print priced at 50 cents., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 590, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 864 W 119. HSP copy contains separately-issued key to 50 sites depicted in image pasted on verso. Facsimile of key provided with LCP copy of print., Trimmed.
Creator: Smith & Cremens
Date: c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Views [5225.F.4]

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. East
Description: Panoramic view looking toward the Delaware River predominately showing the area east of Fifth Street between Arch and South streets. Includes the Court House, i.e. City Hall, 500 Chestnut Street (1); Philadelphia Library, i.e., Library Company of Philadelphia, 105 S. 5th Street (2); U.S. Bank, i.e., Second Bank of the U.S., 420 Chestnut Street (3); Philadelphia Bank, 400-408 Chestnut Street (4); Girard Bank, 120 S. 3rd Street (5); Pennsylvania Bank, 134-136 S. 2nd Street (6); [Merchants'] Exchange, 143 S. 3rd Street (7) Christ Church, 22-34 N. 2nd Street (8); Smith's Island, Delaware River (9); and Camden (10) and Kaighn's Point (11) in New Jersey. Also shows part of the State House garden; the north side of the 400 block of Chestnut Street; the adjoined storefronts at 426-434 Chestnut Street; the "Our House" hotel, 408 Library Street; Military Hall, 412 Library Street; rooftop views of several of the surrounding city blocks; and a few pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage on the 400 block of Chestnut Street and the grounds of the State House., Plate one of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838.) Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., First state., Key to 11 landmarks printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 542.a.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2153 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W264.1[P.2153]

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. South
Description: Panoramic view looking south toward the Delaware River predominately showing the area between Independence Square, the river, and about 8th Street. Includes the Navy Yard at Southwark (1); Shot Tower, 2nd and Carpenter streets (2); Philadepha. C. Prison, i.e., Moyamensing Prison, 1000 block of Reed Street; Albert Barnes Church, i.e., First Presbyterian Church, 626-630 Locust Street (4); Penna. Hospital, 801-849 Pine Street (5); Washington Square, between Sixth, Eighth, Walnut and Spruce streets (6); and Independence Square (7). Also shows visitors on the grounds of Independence Square, the 500 block of the south side of Walnut Street, including a horse-drawn dray, and the rooftops of several city blocks., Plate 4 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., First state., Key to 7 landmarks printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 542.c.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: *P.2154 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W266.1 [P.2154]

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House Steeple. South
Description: Panoramic view looking south toward the Delaware River predominately showing the area between Independence Square, the river, and about 8th Street. Includes the Navy Yard at Southwark (1); Shot Tower, 2nd and Carpenter streets (2); Philadepha. C. Prison, i.e., Moyamensing Prison, 1000 block of Reed Street; Albert Barnes Church, i.e., First Presbyterian Church, 626-630 Locust Street (4); Penna. Hospital, 801-849 Pine Street (5); Washington Square, between Sixth, Eighth, Walnut and Spruce streets (6); and Independence Square (7). Also shows visitors on the grounds of Independence Square, the 500 block of the south side of Walnut Street, including a horse-drawn dray, and the rooftops of several city blocks., Plate 4 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., Second state., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen. LCP copies lacking copyright statement., Key to 7 landmarks printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 542.c.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: *8236.F.3 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder’s "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53., Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W266.2 [8236.F.3]

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: Warnick & Leibrandt's Philadelphia stove works and hollow-ware foundry. First wharf above Noble St. Philadelphia Gunners Run & Franklin Avenue. Noble St. Wharf
Description: Advertisement containing two views of the stove works and hollow-ware foundries owned and operated by Charles W. Warnick and Frederick Leibrandt. The upper scene depicts the stove works at Gunners Run (ie. Aramingo Canal) and Franklin Avenue (ie. Girard Avenue). Viewed from the opposite bank of Gunner's Run, the scene shows laborers working with horse-drawn carts and drays on the bank of the canal, in front of a complex of industrial buildings labeled "Foundry" (left) and "Warnick & Leibrandt's Stove Works" (right). In the foreground, four laborers lift a large plank of wood, and men in groups of three move materials across the canal in row boats. Includes a docked sailing vessel (left) and smaller vessels in the canal. The bottom winter scene depicts the stove works looking northeast at the Noble Street Wharf (ie. northeast corner of Beach and Noble Streets) showing horse-drawn traffic in the snow-covered street outside of the company's wide, four-story brick building surmounted by a large cupola and weathervane. Includes drivers pulling horse-drawn sleds (left), speeding horse-drawn sleighs carrying a family of four (right), Warnick & Leibrandt covered wagons (center), and children playing with dogs and sleds on North Beach Street in the foreground. A group of bare masts is visible on the Delaware River behind the company's building. The Noble Street Wharf site later became home to the Philadelphia Sugar House., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 818, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W442 [P.2267]

Title: East view of Philadelphia, Pennsylva. and part of Camden, New Jersey
Description: Bird's eye view looking from Camden toward the east side of the city. Tree-lined blocks of residential and commercial buildings in Camden predominate the foreground. The tower of the Philadelphia-Camden Ferry House and light traffic on Market Street comprises the townscape as well. Several types of vessels, including ferries, steamboats, and sailing ships traverse the Delaware River. In the distance, the cityscape of Philadelphia between Port Richmond and Southwark to West Philadelphia is visible. Includes Fairmount, Girard College, the Navy Yard, Blockley Almshouse, and the steeple of Christ Church. View also shows Smith and Windmill islands, and several ships docked along the piers lining the Delaware riverfront., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 200, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc864 K81.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: c1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W104 [P.2083]

Title: Gems of Art. Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view predominately showing the built city from the Schuylkill to the Delaware rivers and Port Richmond to South Philadelphia. Market Street runs down the center of the view. Shows the residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying areas of Center City. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia, Windmill Island, and Camden, NJ. and public utilities, bridges, railroad depots, and reservoirs. Includes from west to east, the Woodlands, Blockley Almshouse, the Upper Ferry Bridge, Market Street Bridge, the two Gas Works, Fairmount Water Works, Girard College, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Naval Asylum, Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mark's Church, Christ Church, Independence Hall, Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Peter's Church, and Spark's Shot Tower. Also shows the five major squares (as well as Independence Square) and adjacent landmarks, including the P.R.R. Freight Depot, U.S. Mint, First Independent Church, Pennsylvania Asylum for the Blind, and Will's Eye Hospital. Masts of docked ships line the piers along the Delaware, mills line the Schuykilll above Market Street, and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border the built city to the North and South., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 293, See "For Business Men," Worcester Daily Spy, September 20, 1866. Article reports "A new illustrated work called the 'Gems of Art,' is now being published by John H. Bufford & Sons, of Boston, to consist of finely exectured lithographic plates of landscapes, portraits, battle scenes, and cities to be interspersed with pages of advertisements ... The work is to be published in January, 1867, and four thousand copies gratitously distributed."
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Views [P.9192.2]

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