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Title: Academy of Natural Sciences
Description: Book illustration depicting an exterior of the museum building at Broad and George (i.e., Sansom) Streets built from 1839 to 1840 after designs by Philadelphia architect, John Notman. In the foreground, pedestrian traffic includes an African American man peddler carrying a rack of ducks. The Academy, incorporated in 1815 as a scientific association to disseminate and promote the knowledge of natural history, opened as a public museum in 1828., Title from item., Published in R.A. Smith's Philadelphia as it is in 1852 (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1852), p. 203. (LCP Am 1852 Smith)., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia., Poulson inscription: 1852., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Louderbach & Hoffmann, engraver
Date: [1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 8x10 - Museums [(1)1525.F.36e]

Title: Arch Street, with the Second Presbyterian Church
Description: Street scene showing Arch Street between Third and Fourth Streets including the Second Presbyterian Church. Depicts many well-dressed white men and women pedestrians walking down the sidewalks, a horse-drawn carriage and cart traveling up the cobblestone street, and an African American boy leaning against a lamp post upon which a saddled horse is hitched. The Second Presbyterian church, ministered by New Light Gilbert Tennent, was built between 1750 and 1753 after the split between the Old and New Light Presbyterians. It was demolished around 1838., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 5., LCP copy has a large vertical crease down the center of the print., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 5/P.2276.9]

Title: Arnold mansion postcards
Description: Depicts the front facade from the garden and a detailed view of the pediment over the front doorway. Includes interior views of the right and left sides of the entrance hall, the great chamber, the parlor, and a bedroom., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 9 printed in black and white., Mount Pleasant Mansion was built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Purchase 1984. Accessioned 2005., Accession numbers: P.2005.3.26 - 32, P.9048.5, P.9048.217 and P.9048.303., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: 1905-1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Residences A - M - [various]

Title: [Artist's study of detail from Second Street north from Market St. wth. Christ Church. Philadelphia.]
Description: Artist's study of a street scene showing Second Street north from Market Street with a view of Christ Church. Depicts a man on horseback, his back to the viewer, traveling down the street toward the church. A dog runs past him. To his right, pedestrians, including an African American boy with a basket, stroll near a horse-drawn cart. In the left, men and a boy gather around a man on horseback. Christ Church, a Protestant Episcopal Church, was built between 1727 and 1744 and was founded as part of a provision of the original charter given to Pennsylvania founder William Penn., Title from plate 15 in the first edition of Birch's "Views of Philadelphia.", Bequest of Charles Poulson, 1866., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Quarter of a millennium...(Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia in cooperation with Camino Books, 1981), p. 144., See Snyder 's "William Birch: His Philadelphia views," The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 73 (July 1949), p. 271-315., Reproduced in Julius Sachse's Pictures of old Philadelphia from the originals in the collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1901), vol. 1, plate 42. (LCP Print Room Albums), Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook., Accessioned 1999., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, artist
Date: [ca. 1798]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department drawings & watercolors-Birch [P.9667]

Title: The battle ground at Germantown. Cliveden or Chew's House
Description: Periodical illustration depicting the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. On the grounds in the foreground, a white boy stands beside a chair and exchanges a book with an African American man. Benjamin Chew owned property from Delaware to Maryland, including plantations that enslaved people. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Title from item., Plate from: Godey's magazine and lady's book, December, 1844. (LCP Per G 43)., Smith, a prominent Philadelphia landscape painter and friend of Godey's publisher, Louis A. Godey, had several of his Philadelphia and Pittsburgh views engraved for the 1844 issues of the periodical. Smith's painting, Chew House, Germantown, is in the collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Dick, Archibald L., approximately 1805-approximately 1855, engraver
Date: [December 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 11x14 - Residences [(7)1322.F.12b]

Title: Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Philada Founded in 1794 by the Revd. Richard Allen, Bishop of the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. Rebuilt in 1805
Description: Exterior view of the rough cast second edifice of the African American church at 125 South 6th Street. Pedestrians and church attendees, predominately women, stroll the sidewalk and enter the house of worship adorned with a simple stone tablet inscribed, "Bethel Church." Known as "Mother Bethel," the church was formed from African American congregants discriminated against by the Methodist Episcopal Church. The 1805 building, the site of the first convention of the Unified African Methodist Episcopal Church, stood until 1841 when a third building was erected on the site., Title from item., Kennedy and Lucas, operated by David Kennedy and William B. Lucas, printed the city's first commercial lithographs, a series of church subjects drawn by W.L. Breton, probably including "Mother Bethel.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 39, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Description revised 2021., Accessioned 1965., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: July 1829
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W26 [7500.F]

Title: Brown St. above 4th, north side three doors west of Fourth
Description: View of the Zoar Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest African American congregation within the organized structure of United Methodism, founded in 1794. The church, with a for sale sign, stands between a livery stable and C.W. Kramer's light carriage and wagon factory. Pedestrians, including African Americans, stand on the sidewalk. Contains two boxes of text below and above the image inscribed: "Zoar M.E. Church, Founded 1791, Rebuilt 1838" and "This church propt. for sale. Lot 50 x 190. Apply to F. Snyder, N.W. Cor. 5th & Green." The church relocated to Melon Street, near Twelfth Street., Title from item., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Purchase 1975., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.138], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc138.html

Title: Chesnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the third building of the popular theater, known as "Old Drury," at Chestnut Street above Sixth. White men and women pedestrians, a white newspaper boy, and laborers stroll the sidewalk. An African American huckster sells his wares to a customer in the street. The building, designed by William Strickland, was erected in 1822 after fire claimed the second building at Sixth and Chestnut Streets. It was demolished in 1855., Title from item., Published in John Howard Hinton's The history and topography of the United States (London: I.T. Hinton, & Simpkin & Marshall, 1830-1832), vol. 2, aft. p. 502. (LCP Am 1830 Hinto (2231.Q))., Printed in upper right corner: 47., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of Philadelphia illustrations., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Fenner, Sears & Co., engraver
Date: [May 15, 1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 8x10 - theaters [(1)1525.F.47a]

Title: Chew House Germantown
Description: Exterior view of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. Shows the facade of the two-story stone building with a pediment over the front door, shuttered windows, and dormers and chimneys on the roof. View includes the west wing of the estate house. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Title from manuscript note on verso: Chew House Germantown. [43?] Ross. [#H.B.?] Pencil., Date inferred from aesthetic style of drawing., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2018., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: [ca. 1910]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.61.10]

Title: Chew mansion, Germantown
Description: Exterior view of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. Shows a white woman and girl standing on the front steps before the doorway. A white man stands on the walkway in front of the house. On the grounds are two sculptures, a portrait bust on a pedestal and a classical female nude without a head and arms. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Title from item., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8x10 - Residences - C [(6)1322.F.80e]

Title: Chew Mansion postcards
Description: Exterior views of front and side facades of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. Also depicts the entrance drive to the Chew grounds. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Contains 11 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Accession numbers: P.9048.66, P.9048.70, P.9048.186, P.9048.200, P.9048.221, P.9048.239, P.9048.369, P.9048.374, P.9048.381, P.9049.68 - 69 and P.9526.3., Purchase 1984; Gift of Laura L Robb, 1997., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: 1900-1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Residences - A - M - [various]

Title: Chew's House, Germantown
Description: Exterior view of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. In the foreground, a white man and two white women stand and converse on the walkway in front of the house. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Title from item., Published in Ballou's pictorial drawing - room companion, Jan. 27, 1855, vol. 8, no. 4, p. 57., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date: [1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8x10 - Residences - C [(7)1322.F.12a]

Title: Chew's house, Germantown
Description: Watercolor view of the colonial residence built 1763-1767 by master carpenter Jacob Knor for Philadelphia attorney Benjamin Chew at 6401 Germantown Avenue. Shows the exterior of the mansion surrounded by trees and shrubbery. In front of the residence is a circular dirt pathway. Two busts on pedestals are visible on the left and right sides of the house. Chew House, also known as Cliveden, was the site of the turning point in the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The Chew family enslaved people of African descent in the city of Philadelphia and in Germantown during the 18th and 19th centuries. The estate was the Chew family residence until 1972 when it was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation., Title from item., Date from manuscript note on mount: Nov. 1856., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Inscribed in lower right corner of drawing: vol. 5, 2526.F.6., Originally part of a Poulson scrapbook of illustrations of Philadelphia.
Creator: Wells, C. H. (Charles H.), approximately 1832-1884, artist
Date: [November 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Drawings and Watercolors - W [2526.F.c]

Title: City Marble Works and Steam Mantel Factory. Corner Tenth and Vine Streets Philadelphia. J.E. & B. Schell
Description: Advertisement depicting a corner view of the three-building showroom and factory operated by the Schells from 1853 until 1856. J.E. Schell continued the business as J.E. Schell & Company starting in 1857. On Tenth Street, patrons enter the four-story storefront and mantle room adorned with signage and statuary displayed on a second floor veranda. At the corner, a coach waits, the disembarked African American man driver standing at the ready. On Vine Street, behind the showroom, a family of passerby admire the marble statuary, monuments, and headstones in the factory's fenced-in yard. White men factory laborers load a headstone onto a horse-drawn cart, inspect open crates lining the street, and review slabs of marble outside the factory's storage building. Partial views of adjacent buildings and the "10th" Street carriage are visible., Title from item., Although Wainwright suggests date of publication as circa 1855, date of circa 1854 is used since Rease relocated to the new business address of 97 Chestnut Street as of 1855., Text printed on recto: Having greatly improved their facilities for the Manufacture of every variety of Marble Works embracing the best styles of Mantels, Table Tops, Flooring, Tombs and Monuments, are prepared to supply all orders upon reasonable terms., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 134, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease & Schell, artist
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W71 [P.2032]

Title: Commissioners Hall, Northern Liberties, Phila
Description: Exterior winter view of the hall as it looked on February 22, 1852, with adjoining fenced property, adorned with an American flag, and containing the district's police station and Mayor's office, on the busy, snow covered Third Street between Buttonwood and Green streets. Several warmly dressed white pedestrians, hall officials, and a policeman mill about and converse on the sidewalk; white children throw snowballs and play with a sled; horse-drawn sleighs pass by; white men shovel snow off the street and hall steps; and an African American man carrying a basket of celery and a dead goose stops in the street and looks behind him and toward the passing sled. A broadside inscribed, "Washington, 22nd Feb. 1852" adorns a nearby building. Prior to the city's consolidation with bordering townships in 1854, neighborhoods maintained and housed their own police stations, mayors, and other government officials in Commissioners Halls, including Northern Liberties. Built in 1814, the Northern Liberties' hall served as the quarters of the Northern Liberty Barracks until the American Revolution, and was torn down circa 1869 for the erection of Northern Liberties Grammar School., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Reproduced in Edwin Wolf's Philadelphia: Portrait of an American city (Philadelphia: Camino Books in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1990), p. 199. Incorrectly identified as Commissioners Hall, Spring Garden., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 151, Print described in Public Ledger, July 1, 1853., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Kuchel, Charles Conrad, 1820-, artist
Date: [1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W79 [P.2034]

Title: The conflagration of the Masonic Hall Chesnut Street Philadelphia. Which occured on the night of the 9th of March 1819 This plate is respectfully dedicated to the active and much esteemed fire engine & hose companies, by their obed't serv'ts S. Kennedy and S.S. West
Description: Reissue of the print after a commemorative painting of the hall on fire by Samuel Jones at the request of the publishers with added figures by the prominent Philadelphia genre painter, John Lewis Krimmel. View depicts several volunteer firefighters hosing the flame-engulfed tower of the majestic hall, erected in 1811, purportedly after the design of William Strickland. A large frenzied crowd, including African Americans and well-dressed men and women couples, gather on the street. Spectators push, shove, are knocked down, and watch the fire in horror. Residents flee with their belongings as firefighters blow horns and transport a handpump. The fire started by a faulty flue destroyed the building, which after several successful masonic charity events was rebuilt, without a tower, in 1820 under the direction of Strickland., Title from item., Third state., Inscribed below image: Copy right secured., Samuel Kennedy and Samuel West were members and official print publishers for the Association of American Artists, later headed by Krimmel., Barber, a Philadelphia printer, artist, and engraver, was in business from 1867 until 1885., See Anneliese Harding's John Lewis Krimmel. Genre artist of the early Republic. (Winterthur, Delaware: The Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum, 1997), p. 206-208., See Milo Naeve's John Lewis Krimmel: An artist in Federal America. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987), p. 109., LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America #30., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Hill, John, 1770-1850, engraver
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **PhPr - Associations - Masonic Hall [P.9210.5]

Title: Congress Hall and New Theatre, in Chestnut Street Philadelphia
Description: Street scene showing Chestnut Street near Sixth Street, including views of Congress Hall and the New Theatre. Depicts white men and women and an African American woman holding an African American baby in her arms and with a white boy at her side, strolling or conversing near a wooden post in front of the hall. In front of the theatre a large crowd is gathered, a white female peddler sells her goods, and a coach travels up Chestnut Street. Congress Hall, completed in 1789 to house the Pennsylvania district and county courts, was the first quarters of the U.S. Congress from 1790 until 1800. Completed in 1793, the New Theatre, or the First Chestnut Street Theatre, was established by actor Thomas Wignell and musician Alexander Reinagle. Modeled after a lavish English theatre, it quickly became the fashionable theatre of the city., Title from item., Illustrated in Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 20., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1800
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 20/P.2276.45]

Title: Destruction by fire of Pennsylvania Hall. On the night of the 17th May, 1838
Description: Exterior view of Pennsylvania Hall engulfed in flames. A large crowd looks on. Fire fighters spray water on an adjoining building. Pennsylvania Hall was constructed 1837-1838 at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia as a meeting place for local abolitionist groups. Dedication ceremonies began on May 14, 1838 and continued over several days in a climate of growing hostility. On the night of May 17, 1838, a mob stormed the Hall and set it on fire. Fire companies refused to fight the blaze, and the building was completely destroyed. Bowen issued this print commemorating the event within a few days of the fire., Title from item., Artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 179, Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner, 1984., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W94 [P.9057.27]

Title: Destruction by fire of Pennsylvania Hall. On the night of the 17th May, 1838. [graphic].
Description: Artist and publication information supplied by Wainwright., Exterior view of Pennsylvania Hall engulfed in flames. A large crowd looks on. Fire fighters spray water on an adjoining building. Pennsylvania Hall was constructed 1837-1838 at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia as a meeting place for local abolitionist groups. Dedication ceremonies began on May 14, 1838 and continued over several days in a climate of growing hostility. On the night of May 17, 1838 a mob stormed the Hall and set it on fire. Fire companies refused to fight the blaze, and the building was completely destroyed. Bowen issued this print commemorating the event within a few days of the fire., Gift of Mrs. S. Marguerite Brenner.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist., creator
Date: [1838]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W094.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W94 [P.9057.27]

Title: [Destruction of the hall]
Description: Depicts a street scene with the abolitionist meeting place, Pennsylvania Hall, engulfed in flames at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia. Crowds, including a group of drunken men and other revelers, look on as several fire companies using handpumps hose the adjoining spared building. The hall, erected in 1838 as an arena for "free discussion," was set on fire by a mob of hostile citizens who had witnessed 3 days of interracial dedication ceremonies and services. For disputed reasons, the fire companies did not attempt to extinguish the burning hall. The building was razed and never rebuilt., Title from: [Samuel Webb's], "History of Pennsylvania Hall," p. 136., Manuscript note on verso: Destroyed by a mob by fire on the night of 17th May 1838., Originally published in: Samuel Webb's History of Pennsylvania Hall. (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gun, 1838). (Am 1838 Hist Pa Hall). Last page contains advertisement for a limited supply of larger frameable versions of the print to be sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, No. 29 N. 9th Street, in Philadelphia., LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History #101., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.LCP exhibit catalogue: Negro History #101., Sartain, a member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and a premier 19th century Philadelphia engraver, often instilled his work with his reformist beliefs.
Creator: Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 8x10 - Events - Fires [P.2283.2]

Title: East side of Thirteenth above Callowhill. Occupied in 1844 by Colored Orphan Asylum
Description: View depicting the commercial Philadelphia street with the four-story building of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company Office. Building formerly housed "Brotherly Love Hall," the African American orphanage founded by the Society of Friends in 1822. Businesses lining the street include Sullivan & Sweeney, rag and feed store; J. Hunsinker, merchant; J. Neil & Sons, coal dealers; Barber & Son, Edward and Frank, painters; and Haines & Scarlet. Pedestrians walk along the sidewalk., Title from item., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Purchase 1975., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1881
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.93], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc093.html

Title: The election day in Philadelphia
Description: Print from an unfinished plate by Philadelphia engraver Alexander Lawson, after the 1815 painting (owned by the engraver) titled "Election Scene. State House in Philadelphia" by his friend and genre painter, John Lewis Krimmel that was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Exhibition of 1816. Depicts the rowdy immoral atmosphere during the afternoon of a Philadelphia election at the State House on Chestnut Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets. Voters arrive, complete and switch votes, and block the polls as politicians and campaigners, including former mayor John Barker, lobby for votes and engage in debate. A band and patriotic float parade down the street; a tavern quarrel occurs; two young African Americans attempt to rob a distracted woman peddler; an oyster vendor does a brisk business; and mothers and couples stroll and children play. Flags are displayed on the buildings, including Peale's Museum., Title from duplicate print at Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum., Plate deposited by artist's daughter at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887 from which 42 prints were produced between 1888 and 1904., Anneliese Harding's John Lewis Krimmel. Genre artist of the early republic (Winterthur, Delaware: The Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum, 1997), p. 83-90., Milo Naeve's John Lewis Krimmel: An artist in federal America (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987), p. 118-119., LCP exhibition catalogue: Made in America,, Accessioned 1992., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Lawson, Alexander, 1773-1846, engraver
Date: [ca. 1894]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***PhPr-Gov't Buildings-Independence Hall [P.9380]

Title: Evans, Card & Fancy Printer. Office, Fourth St. below Chestnut, cor. of Library St. Philadelphia
Description: Business advertisement depicting the commercial building at 402 Library Street containing the establishments of Howell Evans; ship and custom house brokers, E. Headley Bailey & M.S. Alexander; engravers on wood, James W. Louderbach & Gustavus A. Hoffman; and blank book manufacturer, J.R. McMullin. Several men and women pedestrians, including an African American man laborer carrying a bundle, walk the sidewalk. Patrons enter the building's open doorways. A coach travels speedily past the building. Evans, the self-promoted first "fast card press in the city" operated his firm at the address until 1880. In 1860, his press executed the advertisements for the Cohen Philadelphia City Directory. Louderbach & Hoffman, a partnership formed in 1852 remained at the site until dissolving in 1860. J.R. McMullin remained from 1857 until 1859., Title from item., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Decem. 1858., Signage on building for Evans, Card & Fancy Printer stamped with gilt., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Louderbach & Hoffman, engraver
Date: [December 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 11x14 - Business [P.8729.8]

Title: [Evans, card & fancy printer. Office, Fourth St. below Chestnut, Philadelphia]
Description: Business advertisement depicting the commercial building at 402 Library Street containing the establishments of Howell Evans; the Dime Savings Fund; ship and custom house brokers, E. Headley Bailey & M.S. Alexander; engravers on wood, James W. Louderbach & Gustavus A. Hoffman; lithographer, John Childs; and engravers, stationers and producers of embossed cards, envelopes, labels, etc., Jacob Maas, Henry Percival, and Jacob's son, Charles E. Maas. Several men and women pedestrians, including an African American man laborer carrying a bundle, walk the sidewalk. Patrons enter the building's open doorways. A coach travels speedily past the building. Evans, the self-promoted first "fast card press in the city" operated his firm at the address until 1880. In 1860, his press executed the advertisements for the Philadelphia City Directory. Louderbach & Hoffman, a partnership formed in 1853 resided at the site until dissolving in 1860., Title from duplicate print., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Fourth Street; s.w. cor.; Library Street; Feby, 26, 1856., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Louderbach & Hoffman, engraver
Date: [February 16, 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 11x14 - Business [P.2277.23]

Title: Evans, card & fancy printer. Office, Fourth St. below Chestnut, Philadelphia
Description: Business advertisement depicting the commercial building at 402 Library Street containing the establishments of Howell Evans; the Dime Savings Fund; ship and custom house brokers, E. Headley Bailey & M.S. Alexander; engravers on wood, James W. Louderbach & Gustavus A. Hoffman; blank book manufacturer, J.R. McMullin; and engravers, stationers, producers of embossed cards, envelopes, and labels, Jacob Maas, Henry Percival, and Jacob's son, Charles E. Maas. Several men and women pedestrians, including an African American man laborer carrying a bundle, walk the sidewalk. Patrons enter the building's open doorways. A coach travels speedily past the building. Evans, the self-promoted first "fast card press in the city" operated his firm at the site until 1880. In 1860, his press executed the advertisements for the Cohen Philadelphia City Directory. Louderbach & Hoffman, a partnership formed in 1853 remained at the site until dissolving in 1860., Title from item., Date inferred from content and history of the printer., Advertising text printed around border., Advertisements printed on verso: engraver, J.H. Byram - wholesale collar manufacturer, Robert C. Winters - and truss manufacturer and importer, C.W. Van Horn & Co., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of engravings related to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Louderbach & Hoffman, engraver
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department PhPr - 11x14 - Business [(7)1322.F.158.1a]

Title: First old Presbyterian church. East side of Seventh Street. A few doors below Bainbridge formerly Shippen Street
Description: Depicts street scene with a view of the African American church built 1810-1811 under the auspices of the Evangelical Society of Philadelphia. Church stands between red brick townhouses containing the businesses of "Cheap John" and a lager beer hall. African American men and women walk the sidewalks and an African American man peddler sells his wares from his horse-drawn cart in the street. A partial view of the "No. 3 Navy Yard" street car is visible. The congregation, organized in 1807 to convert the city's African American residents to Christianity, formed under the leadership of former Tennessee enslaved man, and missionary and preacher John Gloucester., Title from item., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., See LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History #178 for variant copy in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Purchased 1975., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), active 1857-1891, artist
Date: 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.137], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc137.html

Title: Foering & Thudiums cheap stove ware-house
Description: Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story warehouse operated by Frederick Foering and C.A. Thudium at 87 North Second Street. In the open entranceways, a white man clerk assists a white woman shopper and an African American laborer lifts a stove. Displays of stoves line the sidewalk and the store walls. On the second floor near open windows, white laborers work. A horse-drawn cart departs an adjoining exitway. Foering and Thudium, one of the city's first domestic stove manufacturers, started in business in 1828, and operated on North Second Street from 1845 until 1847., Print trimmed and lacking caption., Title from item., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1846. North Second Street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 266, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W132 [P.2045]

Title: Girard-college
Description: View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. Street scene in the foreground includes an omnibus drawn by a team of six horses, a man on horseback, and a carriage. Elegantly dressed men, women, children, and couples stroll, and an African American man leans against a pole smoking a pipe. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from item., Copyrighted by Augustus Kollner in New York., Plate 9 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.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 316, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, lithographer
Date: 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Education [P.2283.23]

Title: Girard-college
Description: View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. Street scene in the foreground includes an omnibus drawn by a team of six horses, a man on horseback, and a carriage. Elegantly dressed men, women, children, and couples stroll, and an African American man leans against a pole smoking a pipe. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for "poor white orphans.", Title from item., Plate 9 of a series of fifty-four views published by Goupil, Vibert & Company from 1848 to 1851 that were drawn by Kollner and lithographed by Deroy, and later bound under the title "Views of American Cities.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 305, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Deroy, Laurent, 1797-1886, lithographer
Date: [1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Education [P.2283.15]

Title: Girard's Bank, late the Bank of the United States, in Third Street Philadelphia
Description: Street scene with a view of the Bank of the United States on Third Street. Shows groups of men in conversation, couples strolling the sidewalk, and individuals walking up the bank's steps. View also includes, horse-drawn carts traveling in the street and, in the right, an African American man laborer working with wood scraps in front of a nearby building. Designed by Samuel Blodget, Jr., the building was completed in 1797 and housed the first Bank of the United States until the revocation of the bank's charter by Congress in 1811. Purchased by wealthy Philadelphian Stephen Girard, the building became "Girard's Bank" and operated there for the next twenty years., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 17., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, engraver
Date: [1828]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 17c/P.2276.38]

Title: Goodyears Rubber-Packing & Belting Company Warehouse 104 Chestnut St. Philada. Factory Newtown, Connecticut. Belting, packing, hose, clothing, druggist-articles, etc
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story offices and storefront known as the Girard Building (102-104, i.e., 306-308 Chestnut) tenanted by Goodyears, i.e., the Philadelphia warehouse of the New York Belting and Packing Company (104), "Peterson's Book Establishment," i.e., the store of publisher T.B. Peterson & Brothers, and C. J. Peterson, publisher of Peterson' Ladies national magazine (102). Lettering reading "Goodyears Rubber Packing & Belting Company" adorns the roof of the building. Through the open entryways and large display windows, clerks, patrons, and merchandise displays are visible in both stores. At Peterson's, clerks assist patrons with items from bookshelves surrounding the room in addition to a centrally located U-shaped display counter labeled "Peterson's Magazine." Stacks of books are displayed near the windows that contain promotions "Subscriptions for all Magazines" and "Chas. Dickens Complete Works." At Goodyears, a white man clerk stands at a counter in front of rows of shelves as he attends to a customer. Other patrons, including a white man and woman couple and a white man, converse and depart with rubber belting. A large model boot, shoes, and rubber toys adorn the display windows that are adorned with the company trademark and read "Goodyears Patent." A white man with a cane and an excited white boy, near his mother, peer at the displays from the busy sidewalk., Other activity, on opposite ends of the sidewalk, includes a white man paying a white newsboy for a paper, gentlemen in conversation, and a white man, a book under his arm, strolling by. Between the storefronts, a white man descends stairs within a central entryway. In the street, a coach with turned-down roof, occupied by a white lady, and driven by an African American coachman travels past a mounted First Troop Philadelphia City Calvary member in full regalia in the direction of a drayman. The white man laborer transports rubber belting on his horse-drawn dray. Two dogs greet each other in the street near his vehicle. Also shows shadowy figures, a man and two women, in upper floor windows of the buildings. Charles Goodyear patented the process to vulcanize rubber in 1844 and oversaw the factory where vulcanized rubber was practically manufactured at Newtown, Connecticut. Peterson established his magazine Peterson's Ladies national magazine in 1840 at 102, i.e., 306 Chestnut Street. Both establishments operated at the pre-consolidated address in 1856. Building razed to first floor by fire in 1857., Title from item., Date from Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 322, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Luders, E., artist
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W158 [P.2080]

Title: Goodyears Rubber, Packing & Belting Company Warehouse 104 Chestnut St. Philada. Factory Newtown, Connecticut. Belting, packing, hose, clothing, druggist-articles, etc
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story offices and storefront known as the Girard Building (102-104, i.e., 306-308 Chestnut) tenanted by Goodyears, i.e., the Philadelphia warehouse of the New York Belting and Packing Company (104) "Peterson's Book Establishment," i.e., the store of publisher T.B. Peterson & Brothers, and C. J. Peterson, publisher of Peterson' Ladies national magazine (102). At Peterson's, shadowy rows of books and folios, including one titled, "A. Kollner View Philadel," adorn the display windows flanking the closed entry. At Goodyears, a white man and woman couple is visible through the open entry, standing at a counter. A large model boot, and other shadowy merchandise adorn the display windows that are marked with the company trademark and read "Goodyears Patent." A white man with a cane and an excited white boy, near his mother, peer at the displays from the busy sidewalk., Other activity, on opposite ends of the sidewalk, includes a white man paying a white newsboy for a paper, gentlemen in conversation, and a white man, a book under his arm, strolling by. Between the storefronts, a white man descends stairs within a central entryway. In the street, a fancy coach occupied by a white lady and driven by an African American coachman travels past a mounted First Troop Philadelphia City Calvary member in full regalia in the direction of a drayman. The women passenger looks with an expression of disdain at the horse of the cavalryman and the white man laborer transporting rubber belting on his horse-drawn dray. Two dogs greet each other in the street near the vehicle. Also shows shadowy figures, a man and two women, in upper floor windows of the buildings. Charles Goodyear patented the process to vulcanize rubber in 1844 and oversaw the factory where vulcanized rubber was practically manufactured at Newtown, Connecticut. Peterson established his magazine Peterson's Ladies national magazine in 1840 at 102, i.e., 306 Chestnut Street. Both establishments operated at the pre-consolidated address in 1856. Building razed to first floor by fire in 1857., Title from item., Manuscript note on recto: Wood Oct. 10 56., Date supplied by Wainwright who suggests an alternate date of 1857 as well., Artist and publication information inferred from color variant. See **W158., Title annotated with correction in pencil. Comma between "Rubber" and "Packing" crossed out., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 321, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Luders, E., artist
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W159 [P.2079]

Title: Grigg Block, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / W.H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 South Fifth Street.
Description: Contains advertisements for six of the depicted businesses below the image., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848., View of the active business block containing and named after Grigg, Elliot, & Co., the largest and most prosperous publishing firm in the city that was founded by John Grigg in 1823 and purchased by J. B. Lippincott in 1849. Shows the block of buildings (10-20 North Fourth Street) covered in signage and including Barcroft, Beaver & Co., dry good dealers and S. M. Day, wholesale combs, brush and fancy goods trimmings (10); Goff & Peterson, importers and manufacturers of saddlery, carriage, and harness trimmings (12); Grigg, Elliot & Co. (14); C. H. & Geo. Abbott, dealers and importers of hardware and cutlery and C. Ahrenfeldt & Co., importers of toys & fancy goods (16); C. B. Lassell & Co., hats and caps and Charles Wingate, dealer in shoes, boots, and palm leaf hats (18); and Edwin & John Tams, importers and dealers of china, earthernware, and glass (20). Patrons exit and enter the various storefronts; delivery men, including an African American man, haul, load, and remove goods from horse-drawn and push carts; laborers load goods into shop storage cellars and use a pulley to raise a large cask; store clerks inspect and open newly arrived packages on the sidewalk; a horse-drawn dust settling machine passes in the street; and artisans and merchandise are visible in several of the shops' upper floor windows. Partial views of the adjacent buildings and a nearby alley with a laborer and push cart are also visible.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
Date: [[1848]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W162.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W 162 [P.2077]

Title: Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl[kill] Front & Wood Streets
Description: Exterior view of the manufactory operated from 1849 until 1860 by William Hart and A.J. Montgomery at Schuylkill Front (i.e., Twenty-second) and Wood Streets depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame. A horse-drawn cart stands idle by a side entrance of the multi-storied factory and four goats roam a nearby yard. Smaller factory buildings are visible to the right. Horse-drawn delivery carts, one steered by an African American man, travel pass each other on the adjacent street. Pedestrians and laborers walk the sidewalks and converse near a street lamp. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the background. During the mid-nineteenth century, Philadelphia was the premier American city of fine wallpaper production., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Accessioned 1982., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 344, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W169 [P.2072]

Title: Hart, Montgomery & Co. Successors to Isaac Pugh & Co. Manufacturers and importers of paper hangings, No. 118 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Manufactory N.E. Cor. Schuyl[kill] Front & Wood Streets
Description: Exterior view of the manufactory operated from 1849 until 1860 by William Hart and A.J. Montgomery at Schuylkill Front (i.e., Twenty-second) and Wood Streets depicted within a lithographed tromp l'oeil wood frame. A horse-drawn cart stands idle by a side entrance of the multi-storied factory and four goats roam a nearby yard. Smaller factory buildings are visible to the right. Horse-drawn delivery carts, one steered by an African American man, travel pass each other on the adjacent street. Pedestrians and laborers walk the sidewalks and converse near a street lamp. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the background. During the mid-nineteenth century, Philadelphia was the premier American city of fine wallpaper production., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Accessioned 1982., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 344, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W169 [P.2072]

Title: High Street and market shambles
Description: View looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls during the colonial era. Shows white men in colonial attire walking on the sidewalks and street. In the right of the image, an African American man walks beside a white man. Two African American men are depicted in a stockade and attached to a whipping post near the jail. The man attached to the whipping post is attired in a white cloth that is tied around his waist. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles were replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 301., Title from item., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 354, Gift of James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., RVCDC, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - High (2 copies)
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Markets [9245.Q.21]

Title: High Street, from Ninth Street. Philadelphia
Description: View of High (Market) Street from Ninth depicting a detachment of the First City Troop of Philadelphia drilling on horseback. The troop promenades up the busy street where several horse-drawn carts and a dray travel and several pedestrians, including an African American man and boy (in the right), watch the guard and/or stroll the tree-lined sidewalks. A market shed is seen in the distance. The First City Troop, one of the oldest continually mounted U.S. military units, was organized in 1774 to defend against British invasion. The troop used a variety of arenas to perform drills including circuses, riding schools, and various public grounds., Title from item., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982), pl. 12., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 12/P.2276.24]

Title: High Street in 1799 at present Market Street Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Founder's Week postcards commemorating the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia. Copies of William Birch's engraved view of High (Market) Street from Ninth depicting a detachment of the First City Troop of Philadelphia drilling on horseback. The troop promenades up the busy street where several horse-drawn carts and a dray travel and several pedestrians, including an African American man and boy (in the right), watch the guard and/or stroll the tree-lined sidewalks. A market shed is seen in the distance. The First City Troop, one of the oldest continually mounted U.S. military units, was organized in 1774 to defend against British invasion. The troop used a variety of arenas to perform drills including circuses, riding schools, and various public grounds. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1908 by P. Sander, N.Y., Series no.: 254-1., Divided backs., Gift of Clarence Wolf, 1984., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [P.9049.43 - 44]

Title: High Street Prison and Market Shambles
Description: View looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls during the colonial era. Shows men in colonial attire walking on the sidewalks and street and two African American men in a stockade and attached to a whipping post near the jail. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles were replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Title from item., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time:....Embellished with engravings, by T.H. Mumford (Philadelphia, 1844), vol. 1 and later editions., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Mumford, Thomas Howland, -1816, engraver
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pr Pr - 8x10 - Prisons - H [(7)1322.F.231]

Title: The house intended for the President of the United States, in Ninth Street Philadelphia
Description: View showing the executive mansion, originally built for President Washington, on Ninth Street below Market Street. Erected between 1792 and 1797 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the residence (completed after Washington's term in office), never housed a president, and was later purchased by the University of Pennsylvania. In the foreground, a horse-drawn cart travels the street; an African American man rides on horseback; and a white woman with a basket, possibly a peddler, sits across the street. Views of the Alms House and House of Employment are visible in the background., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 13., Accessioned 1979., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 13/P.2276.25]

Title: House where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, s.w. cor 7th & Market St. 1776
Description: Exterior view showing the three-and-a-half story brick residence of bricklayer Jacob Graff, Jr. during the year 1776. Jefferson resided as a boarder on the second floor. Men and women pedestrians stroll the sidewalk including an African American peddler. Residence, later converted to a warehouse and then demolished in 1883 for the erection of the Penn National Bank, was reconstructed in 1968 in anticipation of the Bicentennial., Title from item., Possibly commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., Purchase 1975., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
Date: 1889
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.144], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc144.html

Title: Indian Queen Hotel. [graphic].
Description: Manuscript note on verso: No. 15 So. Fourth Street., Print trimmed and lacking caption., Poulson inscription on recto: 1831, no. 15 So. Fourth Street., Advertisement depicting the three-and-a-half story hotel at 15 South Fourth Street operated, as indicated by a placard above the door, by Horatio Wade. Wade remained proprietor from 1831 until 1833. Elegantly dressed guests enter the building, converse on the sidewalk, and rest and read inside near the first floor windows. On the sidewalk, well-dressed pedestrians stroll and an African American hotel porter pushes a wheelbarrow of luggage. The Indian Queen Hotel established in 1771, the building altered several times until razed in 1851, was until the mid 19th century incorrectly identified as the site of Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Date: [[1831]
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W184.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W184 [P.2051]

Title: The International Exposition 1876 at Philadelphia, PA. U.S.A View from George's Hill
Description: Allegorical commemorative print celebrating the internationalism and historic significance of the Centennial Exhibition. Depicts a bird's-eye view of the active exhibition grounds including the Agricultural Building, Horticultural Building, Main Building, and Machinery Hall. In the foreground, figures representing various races, ethnicities, and cultures convene and interact with one another. An African American woman and man sit on a bench. An African American man, attired in a black suit, tips his top hat and greets a white woman sitting on a bench. Groups of people stand in clusters to converse and walk including Native Americans, attired in feather headdresses, and Chinese women and men. Middle Eastern and Russian men ride on horseback. Contains ghost-like imagery visible in the sky depicting significant historic American moments, figures, and buildings, including William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, George Washington, and the White House. Contains the names of the prominent exhibition halls below the image., Copyrighted by George H. Ellsbury & J. Hayward., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 390, Accessioned 1983., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Ellsbury, George H., lithographer
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Centennial [P.8966]

Title: Jacob Riegel & Co., importers and jobbers of dry goods. No. 333 Market, & Nos. 25 & 27 North 4th Street, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the multi-story storefront at 333 Market Street of the dry goods store originally established in 1832 as Siegers & Vogel. Patrons stand in the doorway of the building, while pedestrians converse and a white man and woman couple passes by on the sidewalk in front of the entrance. Laborers load and unload horse-drawn drays stationed nearby across from street traffic, including a Pennsylvania Central R.R. Depot street car, a racing Adams Express Co. wagon transporting crates, and an African American delivery man pushing a handcart carrying boxes. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Jacob Riegel operated Jacob Riegel & Co. from 1866 until his death in 1880. The establishment, considered one of the most prominent dry goods firms in the country, went into decline as Riegle, Scott, & Co. following the death of Riegle and was bought out by John Wanamaker in 1886., Title from item., Accompanied by complementary trade card [P.2008.34.22]., Reproduced in online LCP exhibition Mirror of a City., Purchase 2008., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906, engraver
Date: [ca. 1867]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Ph Pr - Businesses - R [P.2008.34.21], http://www.librarycompany.org/mirrorofacity/section6.htm

Title: John Hibler, importer & wholesale dealer in foreign & American wines & liquors. No. 56, North Third Street, (second door above Arch,) Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the four-story shop containing signage advertising wines & liquors. The doors, windows, and cellar are open for business. Inside the shop, wine casks, crates, jugs, and bottles line the floors and a laborer raises a cask with a pulley. Outside, a white man laborer loads casks onto a horse-drawn cart. In the right, an African American man peddler with a basket and ringing a bell passes by. Partial views of the adjacent stores, possibly an apothecary and bolting cloth business, are visible. Hibler, operated the wine business at the location from 1840 until 1844, where afterward he operated a grocery., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 410, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., lithographer
Date: [1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W203 [P.2116]

Title: [Johnson Homestead postcards]
Description: Contains images of the Johnson Homestead, showing exterior views of front facade of the former residence of John Johnson built 1765-1768 by master builder Jacob Knor at 6306 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA. John Johnson resided in the house during the Battle of Germantown. The dwelling sustained damage including a hole in the parlor door caused by a cannon ball and a chipped corner. It served as a station on the Underground Railroad. The Johnson family owned the house until 1908. The Woman's Club of Germantown purchased the house in 1917, and in 1980, gifted the house and its contents to the Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust to operate as a house museum. In 2002, the deed of ownership was transferred to the Johnson House Historic Site, Inc., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Contains 3 postcards printed in color and 4 printed in black and white., Accession numbers: P.9048.219 - 220, P.9048.376, P.9048.387, P.9049.73 - 74 and P.9577.18., Purchase 1984, 1998., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022.
Date: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Residences - A - M - [various]

Title: Lacey & Phillips
Description: Advertisement depicting William N. Lacey's and Samuel R. Phillips' busy four-story equestrian store at 12 South Fifth Street selling "ladies and gentlemen's saddles, single and double harnesses, and bridles and whips." Saddles, bridles, harnesses, and blankets are prominently displayed in the storefront window and on the building facade. On the upper floors, several white men employees work by open windows. Elegantly dressed, white men patrons converse near the entryway and four horses are lined up in the street awaiting and receiving service including a pair reined in by an African American man coach driver. Partial view of the adjacent building containing the carpenter, W.B. Morrell, is visible. Lacey and Phillips, established in 1845, remained at the site until 1854. The firm, known as the finest horse equipment makers in the world, won the first and only prize medal for harness at the World Fair in 1851 and a gold medal at the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in 1853. The South Fifth Street address was damaged by fire in 1854 and the firm relocated to larger facility at 14 and 16 South Seventh street in 1855. Lacey died in 1860 and the firm was renamed S.R. Phillips Company. Phillips Company remained in business until circa 1880., Title from item., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 425, Print trimmed and lacking caption., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W215 [P.2108]

Title: Ledger carriers annual greeting 1862 Girard College (Philadelphia)
Description: View of Girard College at Girard Avenue facing northwest from Corinthian Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. Street scene in the foreground includes a streetcar drawn by a team of six horses; elegantly dressed white pedestrians strolling, including men and women couples; and an African American man leaning against a pole smoking a pipe. The college buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed from 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans., Title from item., After drawing by Augustus Kollner published as plate 9 of a series of fifty-four lithographs executed by Isidore Laurent Deroy issued as a bound volume in New York and Paris by Goupil, Vibert and Company from 1848 to 1851 under the title "Views of American Cities.", Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *PhPr - Education - Girard [1883.F.182]

Title: London Coffee House
Description: Exterior view of the coffee house and merchants' exchange at the southwest corner of Front and Market streets in Philadelphia during the colonial era. An auction of enslaved African American people occurs outside the coffee house and pedestrians traverse the sidewalks and street, including an African American woman carrying a basket on her head. Views of the adjacent printing house and book store of "Pennsylvania Journal" publisher, William Bradford, are visible. Erected in 1702 and established as a coffee house in 1754 by Bradford, the site was a public center for social and economic activities during the later 18th century, including auctions of enslaved people. Razed in 1883., Title from item., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 339., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 442, Gift of James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Breton, William L., lithographer
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hotels, Inns, Taverns [9245.Q.20], http://www.lcpimages.org/afro-americana/F-London.htm

Title: The London Coffee House
Description: Exterior view showing the coffee house and merchants' exchange during the colonial era at the southwest corner of Front and Market streets in Philadelphia. An auction of enslaved people occurs outside the coffee house and pedestrians traverse the sidewalks. Partial view of the adjacent printing house of "Pennsylvania Journal" publisher, William Bradford, is visible. Erected in 1702 and established as a coffee house in 1754 by Bradford, the site was a public center for social and economic activities during the later 18th century, including auctions of enslaved people. The building was razed in 1883., Title from item., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time:....Embellished with engravings, by T.H. Mumford (Philadelphia, 1844), vol.1 and later editions., After wash study by Edward Mumford., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Mumford, Thomas Howland, 1816-, engraver
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8x10 - Hotels, Inns, Taverns [(6)1322.F.47a]

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