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- Title
- $160 bounty! The Philadelphia Light Guard! 145th Reg't P.V. Colonel E.W. Davis Recruits wanted for Company E of this regiment, now in camp. Recruiting station, Masonic Hall, Manayunk!
- Description
- The 145th Pennsylvania Volunteers were organized in Sept. 1862 and mustered out May 31, 1865; Davis, Wrigley, and Heidenger were not associated with this regiment., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Philadelphia Light Guard
- Date
- [1862?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1862 Phila Light (1)5777.F.46b (McAllister)
- Title
- [4300 Fleming Street, northwest corner of Roxborough Avenue, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- Exterior view looking west at the three story corner grocery store owned by Frank Hummel. A table advertising "Old Dutch Cleanser" sits in front of the shop facing Roxborough Avenue and a wooden stand rests underneath the shop window facing Fleming Street. A side entrance enables access to upper floors above the grocery store along the southeast flank facing Roxborough Avenue. A one story shed occupies the lot north of the grocery store on Fleming Street., Title from manuscript note on verso., Real photo. Divided back. AZO stamp box with diamonds in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [P.2005.6]
- Title
- [Aerial view of the Schuylkill River looking southeast from Manayunk, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- Aerial view of the Schuylkill River looking southeast from the vicinity of Fountain Street in Manayunk. Relatively high vantage point shows the river and adjacent areas for some distance. Several bridges crossing the river are visible, as are industrial buildings in Manayunk and portions of Fairmount Park., Negative numbers: 1624., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Girard Ave. Bridge., Record revised with information supplied by former Aero Service employee Carl H. Winnefeld, Jr.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1922
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.1624]
- Title
- [Alice Berry photographing Walter N. and Elizabeth Berry, 201 Righter Street, Manayunk]
- Description
- Depicts the photographer's oldest daughter, Alice Berry, with a camera, photographing her two younger siblings, Walter N. and Elizabeth, who sit on the porch steps of their home in Manayunk., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1908
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.49]
- Title
- [Boy photographing another young boy, 201 Righter Street, Manayunk]
- Description
- Depicts a boy hunched over a camera as he photographs another young boy, who is seated in a rocking chair, reading a book in the backyard of the photographer's residence at 201 Righter Street in Manayunk., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.40]
- Title
- [Boys fishing in the Wissahickon Creek, near the Ridge Avenue and Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridges, Manayunk]
- Description
- View of four boys fishing, including the photographer's son, Walter N. Berry, off of the rocky banks of the creek near where it flows into the Schuylkill River. Two bridges are visible in the distance, the Ridge Avenue Bridge in the foreground and the taller stone, arched bridge of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad in the background., Construction of the railroad bridge (also known as the Wissahickon Creek Viaduct or High Stone Bridge) was begun in 1874 by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Due to budgetary constraints, construction was halted and later completed from 1881-1882., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame., See related: 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.34]
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.64]
- Title
- [Children sledding on the 200 block of Righter Street, Manayunk]
- Description
- Depicts children, probably included are the photographer's children, Frank W. and Alice Berry, sledding down the incline of a cobblestone street, which is flanked by row houses on the right and an open wooded area on the left. A grocery store is visible in the distance at the corner of Righter and Osborn streets., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.3]
- Title
- [Christmas tree, interior, 201 Righter Street, Manayunk]
- Description
- Views of an ornamented Christmas tree in the corner of a room in the photographer's home., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.41 ; P.8986.43]
- Title
- Cotton mills, Schuylkill River, Manayunk
- Description
- View showing the mills of Joseph Ripka erected in 1831, 1835, and 1853 between Main Street and the Schuylkill River in Manayunk. Ripka's mills, one of the largest U.S. textile manufacturers during the 1840s and 1850s, went bankrupt during the Civil War with the loss of the essential patronage of the Southern states. General Robert Patterson purchased and reopened the mills following the war. Includes the Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge, a covered bridge near the mills., Title from manuscript note on verso., Unmounted half of stereoview., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Industry [P.2282.32]
- Title
- Cotton mills, Schuylkill River, Manayunk
- Description
- View showing the mills of Joseph Ripka erected in 1831, 1835, and 1853 between Main Street and the Schuylkill River in Manayunk. Ripka's mills, one of the largest U.S. textile manufacturers during the 1840s and 1850s, went bankrupt during the Civil War with the loss of the essential patronage of the Southern states. General Robert Patterson purchased and reopened the mills following the war. Includes the Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge, a covered bridge near the mills., Title from manuscript note on verso., Unmounted half of stereoview., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Industry [P.2282.39]
- Title
- [Elizabeth Berry photographing Alice Berry in a rocking chair, 201 Righter Street, Manayunk]
- Description
- Depicts the photographer's youngest daughter, Elizabeth Berry, taking a photograph of her older sister, Alice, who sits in a rocking chair in the backyard of their home in Manayunk. A cobblestone path runs behind the house, and a wooden fence separates the property from those in the background., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1910
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.8]
- Title
- [Factory building, Manayunk]
- Description
- Depicts four large stone buildings along a street on a hillside. Telephone poles and wires line the street., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 156 [P.8513.156], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson156.htm
- Title
- Fair in aid of the sick & wounded soldiers will be held in Bromley's Hall, Baker and Mulberry streets, Manayunk, to commence on Tuesday, the 11th of Nov., and continue until Saturday afternoon, the 15th
- Description
- Nov. 11 fell on a Tuesday in 1862., The illustration shows an eagle clutching arrows, on a shield propped up by a cornucopia., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Fair (2)5786.F.107a (McAllister)
- Title
- Fair The children of Mount Vernon intend opening a fair on Monday, November 3d, 1862, in the Manayunk Engine House for the benefit of the sick & wounded soldiers
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Fair (6)5777.F.28a (McAllister)
- Title
- [Family portrait in a backyard, Manayunk]
- Description
- A family poses for the photographer in an unidentified backyard. Includes a man, two women and three children, the relationship between all of them is unclear. A nearby dwelling is visible in the background., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.57]
- Title
- Flat Rock Dam, on Schuylkill
- Description
- Landscape view showing the Flat Rock Dam. Dam constructed by the Schuylkill Navigation Company circa 1820 near Manayunk., Published in Port Folio (August 1827), frontispiece., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 263, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of miscellaneous portraits.
- Creator
- Swett, Moses, artist
- Date
- [1827]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Rivers - Schuylkill [(1)5750.F.73c; (2)5750.F.21a]
- Title
- [Frame houses next to Manayunk canal, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Depicts row houses built immediately next to canal. Shrubs grow around canal's stone wall and first floor of houses., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Scene along the canal at Manyunk [sic]. (Holland). (Blockout radio)., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 125b [P.8513.125b], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson125b.htm
- Title
- [Frank W. Berry riding bicycle downhill on cobblestone street, Manayunk]
- Description
- Depicts the photographer's oldest son, Frank W. Berry, riding a bicycle downhill on a wide, cobblestone street that ends at the intersection at the bottom of the hill. A large stone residence with an entrance gate is visible on the lefthand side., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.53]
- Title
- A group of young hill climbers of Manyunk [sic] with a background of overlapping roofs, to say nothing of a weekly wash
- Description
- Depicts seven children standing in the snow in front of a wooden fence. Background of image includes the backs of houses built on a hill, backyards separated by fences, and wash hanging on clotheslines., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 95 [P.8513.95], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson95.htm
- Title
- [Industrial buildings lining canal in Manayunk, Philadelphia during winter]
- Description
- Depicts buildings lining canal in Manayunk from opposite side of canal. Includes bridges crossing the canal., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Canal scene in winter - Manayunk, Phila. Along this canal are located the largest mills and factories of Manayunk, the output of which represents several hundred thousand dollars a year. Akin to a scene in Holland., Duplicate: P8513.18: same neg., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 68.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 214 [P.8513.214], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson214.htm
- Title
- [Industrial buildings lining canal in Manayunk, Philadelphia, during winter]
- Description
- Depicts buildings lining canal in Manayunk from opposite side of canal. Includes bridges crossing the canal., Photographer's manuscript note on duplicate: Canal scene in winter - Manayunk, Phila. Along this canal are located the largest mills and factories of Manayunk, the output of which represents several hundred thousand dollars a year. Akin to a scene in Holland., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Duplicate: P.8513.214: same neg., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in Frederic M. Miller, Morris J. Vogel, and Allen F. Davis' Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), p. 68.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 18 [P.8513.18], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson214.htm
- Title
- Joseph Ripka's mills. Manayunk 21st Ward Philadelphia. Manufacturer of all description of plain and fancy cottonades for men & boy's clothing warehouse 32 So. Front St
- Description
- Advertisement showing in the distance a compound of large mill buildings belonging to Joseph Ripka's textile manufacturing business, situated between the east bank of the Schuylkill River and the Manayunk Canal. Two men in top hats stand and converse in the foreground, while a man stands in a rowboat nearby. Buildings and trees dot the hilly landscape behind the mills. Ripka relocated to Manayunk in 1828, developing one of the largest textile businesses in the United States. During the Civil War, the shrinking Southern demand for cottonades caused Ripka to file for bankruptcy before the war's end and his death in 1864., Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), 77. (HSP O 458)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 418, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 R588.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., artist
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W211 [P.2139]
- Title
- Joseph Ripka's mills. Manayunk 21st Ward Philadelphia. Manufacturer of all description of plain and fancy cottonades for men & boy's clothing warehouse 32 So Front St. [graphic] / Lith. of W. H. Rease N.E. cor. 4th & Chesnut.
- Description
- Published in Colton's atlas of America, illustrating the physical and political geography of North and South America... Commercial edition with business cards of prominent houses in Philadelphia. (New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 1856), page 77. (HSP O 458)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc35 R588.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [1856]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W211.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W211 [P.2139]
- Title
- [Man dressed in a clown costume, Manayunk]
- Description
- Full length portrait of a man costumed in a multi-color striped clown suit, with a ruffled collar and cone-shaped hat. He stands outside against the stone wall of a house., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.54]
- Title
- [Man on a motorcycle, The Flying Merkel, in Manayunk]
- Description
- Depicts a man sitting on "The Flying Merkel," a motorcycle model produced by The Light Manufacturing Company in Pottstown, Pennsylvania beginning in 1909. He is sitting on the cobblestone street in front of an unidentified stone house with a porch, most likely in Manayunk., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1909
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.42]
- Title
- Manayunk
- Description
- Book illustration of a landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Published in Daniel Bowen's A History of Philadelphia with a notice of villages in the vicinity (Philadelphia: Printed and published by Daniel Bowen, 1839), opposite page 134., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 455.4. Digital image shows third state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1839 Bow 9837.O and 76434.O., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
- Date
- [1839]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W226.4 [Am 1839 Bow 9837.O and 76434.O]
- Title
- [Manayunk]
- Description
- Landscape view showing a couple walking along the bank of the river near the industrial village. A large tree stands in the foreground and small factories and dwellings are visible in the background. Also shows tree groves, rocks, and ground cover., Artist, title, and publication information from duplicate in the collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 454, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reaccessioned as P.2188., Manuscript note with incorrect information on mount: Schuylkill River at Manayunk near Philadelphia. Augustus Kollner., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Manayunk
- Creator
- Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
- Date
- [1830]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W225 [7845.F]
- Title
- Manayunk
- Description
- Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka's cotton mills erected 1831, 1835, and 1853 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. A rowboat sails the river and a railroad track lines the west bank. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Artist's imprint inscribed on stone lower right corner., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 453, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 862 C 79
- Creator
- Copstick, A., artist
- Date
- [1853]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 862 C 79
- Title
- Manayunk: in the summer
- Description
- Depicts railroad tracks, stone wall bordering tracks, and stone steps leading to tracks in foreground. Houses built on hills of Manayunk appear in the background., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: The Readnig [sic] [Reading] R.R. tracks run along this street, which is the first street north of Main St., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 198 [P.8513.198], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson198.htm
- Title
- Manayunk, near Philadelphia
- Description
- Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier. Print lacking copyright statement., Issued as plate 18 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 455.1. Digital image shows third state of print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2093 and (1)1525.F.71d (hand-colored) and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F and Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W644, pl 18., Trimmed., 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 W226.1 [P.2093]
- Title
- Manayunk near Philadelphia
- Description
- Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 18 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 455.2. Digital image shows third state of print., 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 W226.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]
- Title
- Manayunk near Philadelphia
- Description
- Landscape view showing the village of Manayunk along the east bank of the Schuylkill River, northwest of Philadelphia. Townscape is visible in the right of the image, including Joseph Ripka’s cotton mills erected 1831 and 1835 near the depicted Flat Rock Turnpike Bridge. Manayunk was incorporated into the city of Philadelphia in 1854., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 18 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 455.3, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2094 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:, 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 W226.3 [P.2094]
- Title
- Manayunk near Philadelphia. [graphic] / [J. C. Wild].
- Description
- Originally published as plate 18 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., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2094 and in *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
- Creator
- Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846., creator
- Date
- c1840,1848.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W226-3.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W226.3 [P.2094]
- Title
- Manayunk: one night only, Monday evening, April 27th, 1863 The far-famed Sanford Opera Troupe: oldest company in the world! Samuel S. Sanford, manager. Mr. Sanford will have the honor of presenting the best troupe of artists that has ever been concentrated into one body, embracing: operatic talent, tragic merit comic ability, delineations of men, manners & customs and the special acts, as given with unbounded applause at his opera houses, Philadelphia and Harrisburg. Sanford appearing each evening! with his star troupe ... Them Irishmen, ... The exempts, ... Sanford's black edition of Romeo and Juliet ... Strange scenes from the tragedy of The stranger. ... Our relations! ... The whole to conclude with the laughable burlesque of Old Josh and his family ... Admission, 25 cents. Children 15 cents Doors open at 7 o'clock. To commence at quarter of 8. Front seats invariably reserved for ladies. Tom W. Brown, ag't
- Description
- The company includes: Raffael Abecco, Mr. Batchelor, E. De Haven, G.L. Hall, E. Haven, A. Linwood, Fulton Myers, J.R. Myers, S.S. Sanford, E.J. Turner, and J. Williams., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Sanford's Opera Troupe
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Sanford (25)5761.F.63a (McAllister)
- Title
- [Manayunk, Philadelphia, in winter]
- Description
- Winter scene depicting buildings next to the Schuylkill River in the foreground. The hills of Manayunk and the houses built on them rise in the background., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Many people in Manayunk live on a bluff. The Schuylkill river is in the foreground., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 192 [P.8513.192], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson192.htm
- Title
- Masonic Hall, Manayunk for 2 nights and 1 afternoon only, on Friday and Saturday evenings, Feb. 19 and 20, and on Saturday afternoon Zographicon! A series of panoramic illustrations--of T.S. Arthur's Ten nights in a bar-room! John Bunyan's Pilgrim's progress, and other attractive scenes from life, character, nature and art! Comprising one of the most pleasing, instructive and highly impressive series of entertainments of this class ever presented to the American public
- Description
- Feb. 19 fell on a Friday in 1864., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.5 x 20.5 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Wunderlich, George, b. ca. 1826
- Date
- [1864]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Wunder (27)5761.F.84a (McAllister)
- Title
- Masonic Hall! Manayunk For 2 nights only Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 25th and 26th, 1863 The original and only Blaisdell Brothers, and their troupe of Swiss bell ringers! In national Swiss costume Playing 239 bells ... The troupe will be aided and assisted by five instrumental solo artists, quartet of vocalists, and brass and string band. ... Cards of admission, 25 cents No half price. Tickets can be had at Jas. G. Marce's jewelry store, Main Street. Doors open at 7 o'clock. Performance to commence at quarter before 8. See photographs at the hall
- Description
- The handbell troupe includes E.E. Blaisdell, Julia Peak Blaisdell, W.B. Blaisdell, Albert H. Fernald, Frederick Hess, Gustave Kaufman, Frank Moore, H.M. Rogers, D.G. Waldron, and Steven Young., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.1 x 19.9 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Blaisdell Brothers (Swiss bell ringers)
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Blaisdell (25)5761.F.104a (McAllister)
- Title
- Masonic Hall, Manayunk positively one night only Carncross and Dixey's Minstrels the star troupe of the world! In their great Ethiopian soirees ... Wednesday ev'ng, June 17, 1863, ... Burlesque monster concert a la Germania. ... Poor old maids! ... Babes in the wood ... Exempt shaking Quakers ... Deaf as a post, ... To conclude with the plantation walk-around, entitled High Daddy! by the full company. Admission, twenty-five cents Doors open at quarter past 7. Performance commence at 8 o'clock
- Description
- The performers include: Thomas à Becket, Charles Campbell, J.L. Carncross, J.S. Cox, E.F. Dixey, M.D. Edmonds, Charles Gibbons, James Lamont, Frank Moran, J.S. Paul, A.H. Rackett, J.H. Ross, R.F. Simpson, Charles Stevens, and Charles Villiers., Other playbills from this tour bear the imprint: U.S. Job Print, Ledger Buildings, Philadelphia., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 55.6 x 20.4 cm., Portraits signed: Waitt sc., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Carncross & Dixey's Minstrels
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1863 Carncross (25)5761.F.82b (McAllister)
- Title
- McDowell Paper Mills - actual paper makers since 1825
- Description
- Depicts an aerial view of McDowell Paper Mills in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia. On the back of the postcard is a list of the paper products manufactured by the mill., Sheet number: 40A07B, Divided back. Advertisement on verso describing the types of products manufactured at the mill., 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
- ca. 1910
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Business and Industry - Miscellaneous - 40]
- Title
- [Pennsylvania Railroad, Manayunk Bridge, Spanning Schuylkill River & Green Lane, Manayunk, Philadelphia.]
- Description
- Aerial views of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Manayunk Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River at Green Lane in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Today, the bridge also spans the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76). View looks southeast towards Manayunk from Green Lane, with the Green Lane automobile bridge also visible. Beginning stages of construction projects are visible on the west bank of the river at Green Lane., Negative numbers: 8844., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Manayunk Bridge, Manayunk.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1928
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.8844]
- Title
- [Portrait of a woman attired in a fur coat, Manayunk]
- Description
- Half-length, seated portrait of a woman attired in a large, wide brimmed hat, a dark fur coat, with her hands tucked into a fur muff. She's sitting indoors on a cushioned wicker seat., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.55]
- Title
- [Portrait of a woman in a plumed hat, Manayunk]
- Description
- Half-length portrait of a woman in a hat adorned with feathers, attired in a double-breasted jacket., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.56]
- Title
- [Portrait of the photographer on his porch, 201 Righter Street, Manayunk]
- Description
- Waist-length portrait of Frank Berry, Sr., standing on the porch of his residence at 201 Righter Street in Manayunk. He stands behind a chair on the porch, gripping the top of the chair for support. Berry is in his mid-forties in this photo, balding with a mustache, and is attired in striped trousers, a tie and a single breasted jacket buttoned only in the first hole., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.9]
- Title
- [Portrait of two men and two women on a porch on Righter Street, Manayunk]
- Description
- Two unidentified women stand between two unidentified men and pose for a photograph on the porch of a property along the 200 block of Righter Street in Manayunk., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.6]
- Title
- [Robert Swayne collection of Philadelphia photographs]
- Description
- Collection of photographs documenting Philadelphia cityscapes, neighborhoods, landmarks, churches and benevolent institutions, businesses and factories, street views, and local events. Images depict interiors, exteriors, and alleyways. Many views include storefront signage; utility poles and street clocks; railroads and stations; and street and pedestrian traffic, as well as show the Western, Southern, and Northern sections of the city. Subjects depicted include All Saints Church (Torresdale); Cliveden; views along the Delaware River; Fairmount Park and Waterworks; Wissahickon Creek, Schuylkill River and Boathouse Row; Frankford Arsenal (1948); Philadelphia Gazette Building (924 Arch Street); the WCAU building (Bala Cynwyd) ; Rittenhouse and Logan squares; the “Clothesline Show” at Rittenhouse Square: a ca. 1930 view of a baseball game at the Baker Bowl, i.e. National League Park (2622 North Broad St.); the power house of the Westinghouse Gas Engine Machinery (Manayunk); the attic and basement of the original United State Mint (37-39 N. 7th Street, built 1792) photographed ca. 1890 by Newell & Son; interior of the second Mint Building (Broad and Chestnut);, the construction of the Delaware River, later Benjamin Franklin, Bridge (ca. 1924), Hahnemann Hospital (1928), Philadelphia Municipal, later JFK, Stadium (ca. 1926); the interior of an unidentified bakery (53rd and Vine) photographed ca. 1905 by C.H. Miller; interior and exterior of Geo. W. Einselen, Fine Cake Bakery and Ice Cream Saloon (1372 Somerset St.) photographed 1904 by Joseph Pearce; progress photographs photographed 1926 of the property of “Philadelphia Brick Co. Required for P.R.R. Temporary Track” and photographed 1921 by J.E. Bewley of and near the 3400 block of North 5th Street ; “Stephen Girard's ‘Alleged Slave Dungeons,’ Front & Market Streets uncovered by demolition” photographed 1906-1907 by John Trautwine, likely the civil engineer (P.2017.88.37.1-7); ca. 1880s studio portraits of adult and child mummers photographed by Richter & Co.; workers on scaffolding attached to the Nixon Building (20 S. 52nd St.); an exterior view photographed ca. 1873 by Newell & Son of the carpenter shop of Clarkson Fogg in front of which numerous household implements and furniture are lined, as well as men, women, and children, including a policeman are posed (449 N. 10th St.); ca. 1868 view of the 100 block of North Third Street, including the storefront for Dr. Stoever's Bitters manufactured by Kryder & Co (121 N. Third); Maryland Metal Bldg. Co. Incorporated classroom modules for the Philadelphia School District (ca. 1924); ca. 1920 advertising photos for an unidentified lighting company of examples of their work in Philadelphia manufactories with sewing machines (Greenwald Bros., Inc., 313 Arch St. and Trio Waist Co., 821 Arch St.) and of the moulding room of S.J. Cresswell Iron Works (2250 Cherry St.); the ca. 1905 interior of the cigar store of Ramon Azogue (102 S. 8th St.);, ca. 1930 view of the hairdressing salon at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel; ca. 1895 view of the interior of the Bourse (i.e., Philadelphia Stock Exchange); and a ca. 1930s exterior view of the Roxborough Home for Indigent Women (601 Leverington Avenue). Other images show a WWI benefit parade "to Keep the War Chest Filled" (1419 N. 2nd St.); a ca. 1900 lavish display of elaborately-decorated cakes photographed by William Phillipi; a posed WWI publicity still with release statements on the verso for Eastman Kodak showing Anna B. Graham with a camera and a young girl in a nurse’s uniform photographed by William F. Langrock; the storefront of a women’s owned business (Mrs. R.T. Anderson); a ca. 1920s contact sheet of variant bust-length portraits of a young woman photographed by the Lipp Studio; and the Walter Lippincott family posed on the porch of a residence., Portrait photographs, including of engraver John Sartain (P.2017.88.77.1 & 2), African American Rev. C. M. Tanner (1869-1933)(P.2018.66.4), John McAllister, Jr. and family members, and “physio-psychism” researcher Emil Sutra (P.2018.66.2) by Philadelphia photographers and occupational, school, and organizational group portrait photographs also comprise the collection. Group portraits document the Bellview Wheelmen; a class trip to the Franklin Institute; and performers attired in leotards, including jugglers, titled “Mr. Jonathan Evans, Haines & Cheer St.” Collection also includes William Stuart McFeeters family photograph album; a small number of images depicting African American men (P.2017.88.11, P.2017.88.61, P.2017.88.76.9 & 38); an organizational group portrait with a man with dwarfism (P.2018.66.15); candid snapshots, including ca. 1900 views of women using cameras along the Schuylkill River; and two film negatives depicting the WCAU building., Title supplied by cataloger., Various photographers, including Frank B. Cassel; William Bell; Berry & Homer; J. E. Bewley; Coward & Shannon; Harry A. Derr; Eagle Photo View Co.; Empire Photo Co.; H. Fetters; S.M. Fisher; Frederick Guteknust; Hansbury Studio; Henry C. Howland; Keystone Instantaneous View Company; William J. Kuebler; William F. Langrock; Lipp Studio; Charles Luedecke; F. Mattes; Monarch Photograph & Publishing Co.; Marriott C. Morris; Robert Newell; Newell & Son; Newell Studio; C. H. Miller, C. R. Pancoast; Joseph N. Pearce; William Phillipi; William Rau; Frederick DeBourg Richards; Schreiber; George Sheridan; Alfred Taylor; John Trautwine; Universal Photo Service; and W. D. Weland, Cartes-de-visite portraits of John Sartain (P.2017.88.77.1 & 2) housed separately and with cdv portraits – sitters - S., View by Schreiber of horse cart racing (1903) housed separately and with *photo – Schreiber., Cartes-de-visite portrait photographs of John McAllister, Jr. and family members (P.2017.88.79-102) housed with the McAllister Family Portrait Collection - cartes-de-visite., Electronic inventories of collection available at repository., See Lib. Company. Annual report, 2016, p. 64-65., RVCDC, Access points revised 2022., Robert Swayne (1927-2011) was a West Chester antique dealer, collector of vernacular photographs, and local writer about the Civil War.
- Date
- [ca. 1860-ca. 1952]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Swayne Collection [P.2017.88 & P.2018.66]
- Title
- [Ruins of house in Manayunk, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Depicts remains of house in Manayunk that include stone wall with four openings in wall, three of them windows and one possibly for a fireplace, and partial roof. House's debris is visible through openings in the wall., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: An old wall and windows at Manyunk [sic]- on the banks of the canal and under the P.R.R. bridge. (make another point - and block out wall)., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 48 [P.8513.48], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson48.htm
- Title
- [Sarah A. Wright's ale, porter & lager beer saloon, 5226 Ridge Avenue, Manayunk]
- Description
- Tree foliage obscures part of Sarah A. Wright's lager beer saloon, depicted here in an Italianate corner property at Ridge and Manayunk avenues., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.13]
- Title
- [Schuylkill River and houses atop hill in Manyaunk, Philadelphia]
- Description
- View from opposite bank of Schuylkill River of hill in Manayunk. Houses appear on top of hill and at bottom of hill, near river. Ground and river are snow- and ice-covered., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Schuylkill River and cliff dwellings - Manyunk - Phila., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1923
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 124 [P.8513.124], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson124.htm
- Title
- [Self-portrait of the photographer with a camera]
- Description
- Waist-length portrait of Frank Berry, Sr., sitting next to a camera, photographing himself using the reflection of a dresser mirror in a bedroom. Berry is in his mid-forties in this photo, balding with a mustache and attired in a three-piece suit. This self-portrait was probably taken inside of his home in Manayunk., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.10]
- Title
- [Snow scene, 100 block of Kalos Street, Manayunk]
- Description
- Depicts a snow-covered street near the photographer's home. Men stand on the cleared sidewalks with their shovels in hand. Includes the brick row homes along the 100 block of Kalos Street looking west., Modern reference prints available., Gift of Richard R. Frame.
- Creator
- Berry, Frank, b. 1863, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1907
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Berry [P.8986.63]