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Title: The three days of May 1844. Columbia mourns her citizens slain
Description: Memorial to nativist casualties of the violent clashes occurring between anti-foreigner "Native Americans" and Irish-American Catholics in Kensington, Philadelphia, May 6 through 8, 1844. The female figure of Columbia holds a large, billowing American flag near a broken column on which she places a wreath. On the column are the names of those Native Americans killed during the attacks on Catholic homes and institutions. At the top of the list, circled by Columbia's wreath, is the name of George Schiffler, the first and most famous of the nativist martyrs. Other names inscribed on the column are: Wright, Rhinedollar, Greble, Stillwell, Hammitt, Ramsey, and Cox. To the right of Columbia is an American eagle supporting a shield with the names of the wounded, including: Peale (the artist?), Whitecar, Lescher, Young, Wiseman, Willman, Schufelbaugh, Yocum, Ardis, Boggs, Ford, Bartleson, and Ort. Above the figure floats a streamer with the print's title. Below a similar banner reads "Deceased----We Revere Their Memory---Wounded---We Cherish And Reward Them---.", Not in Wainwright., Artist's signature lower left corner., LOC copy filed for copyright July 1, 1844., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 254, Library of Congress: LOT 10615-34 [item] [P&P] Columbia, Description supplied by LOC catalog record.
Creator: Peale, Washington, artist
Date: c1844
Location: Library of Congress LOC LOT 10615-34 [item] [P&P] Columbia

Title: The little homeless one or "no one to kiss me good night"
Description: Sheet music cover containing a view looking down an alley of wooden buildings, probably in Philadelphia. Shows a male figure leaning on a lamppost in front of a girl seated on the sidewalk and leaning on a shed on a street lined with debilitated colonial-style small wooden dwellings., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: P&P Sheet Music Little Homeless One
Date: c1867
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC P&P Sheet Music Little Homeless One

Title: Cardington Foundry
Description: Proof print for Coleman Sellers & Sons (No. 3 No. 6th Street) billhead containing vignette views of their "Cardington Factory" ironworks built along Cobbs Creek near West Philadelphia in 1828. Vignettes accompanied by caption reading "Iron and brass castings. Mill gearing all kinds of paper making machinery. Hydraulic and Screw Presses. Paper Molds & Cutters. Wood & Cotton Machine Cards & also wirework of all descriptions. The factory made equipment for the textile, paper and locomotive industry before its bankruptcy in 1838., Not in Wainwright., Attributed to Charles Fenderich., Inscribed: Mr. Coleman Sellers & Sons Dr. to F[enderich] for following work. Engraved Bills $2.00; 200 copies [illegible] 2.00; $4.00, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 82, Library of Congress: PGA - Fenderich, no. 59 (A size) [P&P], Sheet music cover illustrated with a ballroom scene titled "Concordia...Respectuflly dedicated to Miss Fanny Kemble..." and with imprint Chs. Fenderich's Lith Press, No. 21 Callowhill St., Phiada. printed on verso. Scene shows several formally attired couples engaged in a waltz as other attendees socialize, watch the dancing, and attend to a woman who has fainted. Also shows the orchestra playing from a balcony above.
Creator: Fenderich, Charles
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Fenderich, no. 59 (A size) [P&P]

Title: Christ Church Germantown Phila
Description: Exterior view showing the Episcopal church later known as Christ Church & St. Michael's, originally built 1854-1856, at 29 West Tulpehocken Street. Also shows an adjacent white-stone residence with porch and street and pedestrian traffic. Traffic includes a horse-drawn cart, ladies on promenade, and a man strolling with a young girl who holds his hand. Building was destroyed by a hurricane in 1878 and rebuilt in 1880., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 118, Library of Congress: DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Christ Church, Stephen C. Duval became a partner his father's lithograph firm in 1857.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC/PP-1997:105 Queen prints and drawings (C size) - 55 prints Christ Church

Title: [Firehouse scene in Philadelphia showing firemen from the Weccacoe Engine Company pulling a hand-drawn fire engine as other firemen scramble to readiness]
Description: Drawing, possibly an artist's study, by James Queen, a Weccacoe volunteer. Nightime view showing Weccacoe volunteers pull the engine from their Southwark station at 119 Queen Street, put on gear, and gather equipment from storage closets within the garage., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 78, Library of Congress: DRWG/US - Queen (J.F.), no. 3 (C size) [P&P] Firehouse
Creator: Queen, James, 1824-ca. 1877, artist
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DRWG/US - Queen (J.F.), no. 3 (C size) [P&P] Firehouse

Title: Certificate of Honorary Membership of the Weccacoe Fire Company. Philadelphia
Description: Honorary membership certificate containing vignettes of Weccacoe Fire Company engine houses and firefighting equipment between 1840 and 1860 within a decorative border adorned with filigree, bugles, and axes. American flags, laurel wreaths, and an eagle with a shield surmounts the text in the central portion of the certificate, below which is an 1860 view of the fire company’s engine house on the 100 block of Queen Street in Southwark. Fire fighters and wagons loaded with equipment congest the street in the foreground. A large American flag flies atop the roof of the engine house. Left and right panels contain smaller views of the 1840 firehouse and its hand-pumper fire engine and the three-story, enlarged engine house and a steam fire engine from 1850. All scenes include fire fighters dressed in the red and blue Weccacoe uniform., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 98, Library of Congress: PGA - Duval - - Certificate of honorary membership (C size), Atwater Kent Museum: 88.98.685. AKM copy issued to William Schlag. Signed by the [illegible] president and Wm. B. Landon, Secretary.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division PGA - Duval - - Certificate of honorary membership (C size)

Title: Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition buildings. Philadelphia, Pa Length, 1880 feet, width, 464 ; Area: ground floor 20.02 acres, upper floors, 1.45
Description: Birds eye view looking south toward the city showing the Art Gallery or Memorial Hall designed by Herman Schwartzmann and the Main Building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. View includes flags adorning the building and heavy visitor traffic by foot, carriage, and streetcars in the foreground. Wooded areas enclose the buildings and cityscape is visible in the background. Also contains the dimensions (length, width, and area in feet and acres) for the buildings below the image. The fair celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 52, Library of Congress: PGA - Currier & Ives--Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition ... (A size) [P&P]
Date: c1875
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Currier & Ives--Birds eye view of the Centennial Exhibition ... (A size) [P&P]

Title: Wagner & McGuigan's steam lithographic printing establishment no. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing a montage of vignettes related to lithography to promote partners Thomas Wagner and James M'Guigan, who jointly operated a lithographic studio jointly 1846-1858. Vignettes show the exterior of the printing establishment; lithographic artists working on stones propped flat and on an angle; pressmen operating two different types of lithographic presses (one modified with a cylinder that served as a paper feeding device); and the large steam engine that powered the presses. Also shows symbols of patriotism and the trade propped against the base of the steam engine. Includes lithographic stones, an ink roller, a brush, a large stoppered bottle probably representing gum arabic, and American flag and shield., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 115.1, Library of Congress: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:105 Wagner & McGuigan, Reproduced and described in Jennifer Ambrose's "Nineteenth Century Advertising Prints," Magazine Antiques (August 2006), pp. 96 & 98., LOC also holds variant state, tinted with one stone under same call number. Variant includes text in tint color: Drawings of Every Description Executed on Stone. Also, Maps, Plans, Certificates, Circulars, &c. Transferring from Steel, Copper & Stone. (POSA 115.2)
Creator: Wagner & M'Guigan
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:105 Wagner & McGuigan

Title: Philadelphia Exchange
Description: View looking northeast from the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets showing the Merchants' Exchange. A caduceus shaped weather vane adorns the roof. A crowd of men and a woman gather in front of the exchange. Several converse, some hold circulars, and one man stands on the balcony. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including men on horseback and two ladies on a stroll. Also contains partial views of a lamppost in the right foreground and Girard Bank (116-120 S. Third) in the background. Exchange built 1832-1833 after the designs of William Strickland. The Girard National Bank, formerly the First Bank of the United States, was built 1795-1797 after the designs of Samuel Blodgett. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as the Girard National Bank., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Fenderich, no. 92 (A size) [P&P]
Creator: Fenderich, Charles, artist
Date: [ca. 1833]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Fenderich, no. 92 (A size) [P&P]

Title: [Philadelphia Exchange]
Description: Artist's study drawing for ca. 1833 lithograph by Charles Fenderich depicting the Merchant's Exchange. View looks northeast from the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets. Shows the building adorned by a figure holding a two-pronged spear, possibly Hades, the god of wealth. Also contains partial view of Girard Bank (116-120 S. Third) in the background. Exchange built 1832-1833 after the designs of William Strickland. The Girard National Bank, formerly the First Bank of the United States, was built 1795-1797 after the designs of Samuel Blodgett. The bank, operated by Stephen Girard as Girard's Bank from 1812-1831, was chartered by the state in 1832 as the Girard National Bank., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Fenderich, no. 93 (A size) [P&P]
Creator: Fenderich, Charles, artist
Date: ca. 1833
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Fenderich, no. 93 (A size) [P&P]

Title: West Philadelphia Manufacturing Cos. Starch & Farina Works. Chestnut & Bridgewater Streets, Philadelphia. Refined pearl starch & corn farina
Description: Shows the bustling industrial starch and farina works at the corner of Chestnut and Bridgewater Streets (ie. Chestnut and Thirtieth Streets) looking northeast toward the Schuylkill River. Laborers direct horse-drawn drays and wagons to and from factory buildings and railroad cars. Scene includes a man on horseback riding toward the factory buildings, a laborer standing in the foreground near the tracks, smoke rising from several chimneys in the complex, the Market Street Bridge crossing the Schuylkill River in the distance, and the outline of Philadelphia Gas Works gasholders immediately east of the bridge., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 826.1, Library of Congress: PGA - Queen (J.) -- West Philadelphia Manufactoring (B size)
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: ca. 1858
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Queen (J.) -- West Philadelphia Manufactoring (B size) [P&P]

Title: East view. Looking down Chestnut St. across the Delaware. Camden N.J. in the distance
Description: Panoramic view showing cityscape in Center City near the Delaware River. Includes residential buildings, storefronts, and factories. Particularly depicts the old City Hall (500 Chestnut), the Library Company of Philadelphia (5th and Library) and the 400 block, north side of Chestnut Street, including the U.S. Hotel (419-423). Also shows the steeples of Christ Church and the Merchant's Exchange, the U.S. flag-adorned roof of the U.S. Custom House (420 Chestnut), trees in Independence Square, maritime traffic on the Delaware River, and Camden, N.J. Pedestrian and street traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage, visible in the lower left corner of the image., Copyrighted by E. Whitefield., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 544a, LCP copy of separately issued tinted and hand-colored "East View" in poor condition. Right edge torn., Library of Congress: PGA - Endicott--Panoramic views... (E size) [P&P], Digital image shows LOC copy of Panoramic Views of Philadelphia from the State House, including "East View." To request a reproduction of this image, please contact this holding institution., To request a reproduction of this print, please contact the holding institution cited.
Creator: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892, artist
Date: [c1850]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Endicott--Panoramic views... (E size) [P&P], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Views [P.2119]

Title: [Philadelphia] P.S. Duval & Co. lith, Phila.]
Description: Proof print containing a montage of 14 vignettes (12 captioned) separated by borders of branches and garlands. Vignettes depict the "Custom House," West Philadelphia stand pipe (Twenty-Fourth Ward Water Works), "Independence Hall," Spark's shot tower, Merchants' "Exchange," "Insane Asylum," "Naval Asylum," "Pennsylvania "Hospital," "Philadelphia" near the Naval yard on the Delaware River, "Alms House," "Fair Mount" at the water works, "Girard College," and Eastern State "Penitentiary." Vignettes also include street, maritime, and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages, wagons, and omnibuses; sail boats, skiffs, and steam boats; and laborers with hand carts and individuals on horseback. Also contains pictorial details showing an American eagle and shield, William Penn, and a Native American., Title and publication information from published duplicate., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 569, Library of Congress: DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints 23 (AA size) Philadelphia, See published copy DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen - 93 prints (AA size) Philadelphia
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints 23 (AA size) Philadelphia

Title: Views of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Part 1st
Description: Series of 12 collecting cards depicting bucolic views of the park. Includes two different views, including one with a fountain, of a "Rustic Arbor" with a park pavilion; "Spring" showing a water fountain; "The "Dam" and "The Arch" and a "Fountain" near the race at the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River; "Entrance to Lemon Hill" and the "Mansion House"; an ornate foot bridge over "The Brook"; the "Keeper's House"; the "Band House"; and "Iron Spring" pavilion. Many of the views include park visitors, gardens, and walkways and all include trees. Water work views also show the stand pipe and roof of the new mill house., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 811a-l. POS 811a: Rustic Arbor (fountain). 811b: Rustic Arbor. 811c: Spring. 811d: Spring. 811e: Dam. 811f: Mansion House. 811g: The Brok. 811h: The Arch. 811i: Entrance to Lemon hill. 811j: Fountain.811k: Keeper's house. 811k: Band House. 811l: Iron Spring., Library of Congress: LOT 11050 (F)
Date: c1879
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Title, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Rustic Arbor Willows, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Rustic Arbor Gazebo, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Spring, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) The Dam, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Mansion House, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) The Brook, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) The Arch, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Iron Spring, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Entrance to Lemon Hill, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Fountain, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Keeper's House, Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC LOT 11050 (F) Band House

Title: Philadelphia
Description: Print containing a montage of 14 vignettes (12 captioned) separated by borders of branches and garlands. Vignettes depict the "Custom House," West Philadelphia stand pipe (Twenty-Fourth Ward Water Works), "Independence Hall," Spark's shot tower, Merchants' "Exchange," "Insane Asylum," "Naval Asylum," "Pennsylvania "Hospital," "Philadelphia" near the Naval yard on the Delaware River, "Alms House," "Fair Mount" at the water works, "Girard College," and Eastern State "Penitentiary." Vignettes also include street, maritime, and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages, wagons, and omnibuses; sail boats, skiffs, and steam boats; and laborers with hand carts and individuals on horseback. Also contains pictorial details showing an American eagle and shield, William Penn, and a Native American., Distributor's imprint printed on recto: For Sale by Drovin & Co., 38 S. 3rd Phila., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 569.1, Drovin & Co. was a Philadelphia stationery business., Library of Congress: DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen - 93 prints (AA size) Philadelphia, See proof DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen prints 23 (AA size) Philadelphia
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC DLC-PP-1997: 105 Queen - 93 prints (AA size) Philadelphia

Title: Bird's eye view, Philadelphia Lith. by H. J. Toudy & Co. 621 & 623 Commerce St. Philadelphia Pa
Description: Bird's eye view print containing a border designed with nine vignettes showing Centennial Exhibition buildings at Fairmount Park. View predominately showing the built city from the Schuylkill to the Delaware rivers and Port Richmond to South Philadelphia. Market Street runs down the center of the view. Shows the residential, commercial, industrial, religious, educational, and cultural buildings lining the streets and outer lying areas of Center City. Also shows parts of West Philadelphia, Windmill Island, and Camden, NJ. and public utilities, bridges, railroad depots, and reservoirs. Includes from west to east, the Woodlands, Blockley Almshouse, the Upper Ferry Bridge, Market Street Bridge, the two Gas Works, Fairmount Water Works, Girard College, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Naval Asylum, Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, St. Mark’s Church, Christ Church, Independence Hall, Pennsylvania Hospital, St. Peter’s Church, and Spark’s Shot Tower. Also shows the five major squares (as well as Independence Square) and adjacent landmarks, including the P.R.R. Freight Depot, U.S. Mint, First Independent Church, Pennsylvania Asylum for the Blind, and Will’s Eye Hospital. Masts of docked ships line the piers along the Delaware, mills line the Schuykilll above Market Street, and vessels sail on the waters of both rivers. Foundries with smokestacks and undeveloped land border the built city to the North and South., Captioned vignettes show Main Building, Memorial Hall, Horticultural Hall, Machinery Hall, Independence Hall 1876, Women's Pavilion, Agricultural Hall, Independence Hall 1776. Also contains vignette showing bird's eye view of the exhibition grounds. Captioned vignettes include the size of the buildings. Several of the depicted buildings were built after the designs of Henry Petit, Hermann Schwarzmann, and Joseph Wilson. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the anniversary of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., Not in Wainwright., Copyrighted in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 50, Library of Congress: PGA - Toudy & Co.--Bird's eye view, Philadelphia (E size) [P&P]
Date: c1876
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Toudy & Co.--Bird's eye view, Philadelphia (E size) [P&P]

Title: Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Print containing an exterior view and three titled interior views of the saloon and hospital of the volunteer relief agency located near the Navy Yard at Swanson and Washington Avenues. Exterior view shows heavy street activity. A Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad train stops on the grounds in front of a cheering crowd of spectators. Hundreds of soldiers line up to enter and depart the "Hot Coffee and Refreshment" and "Water" stand and "Dining Saloon Free for Volunteers"; officers direct foot traffic onto the train; and other soldiers enter the adjacent "Post Office" and are greeted by women in front of a row of adjoining row homes. Also shows the O.K. House in the background, the fence of "W. Thorn Lehigh & Schuylkill Coal Yard, and an American flag marked "Union for Ever" adorning the saloon. Interior views, framed by filigree, shows a line of soldiers at, and others waiting for a row of wash basins at the "Washing Department"; the "Interior of the Dining Saloon Free for Union Volunteers" where soldiers wait in line for food, eat standing up at tables, and are served by female volunteers; and civilian spectators watching the men volunteers of the "Cooking Department" attend cauldrons atop ovens and carry baskets of food and large coffee pots. and freedmen., Also contains facsimile signatures of saloon supporters and a vignette portrait of General Winfield Scott below the image. Portrait framed by a laurel wreath held in the beak of an eagle surrounded by American flags, a fasces, cannons, and a banner reading "Respectfully dedicated by the Committee to Winfield Scott General in Chief of the U.S.A." Situated at the transportation hub between the North and the South on land leased en gratis from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, the agency provided meals, hospital care, washing, sleeping, and writing facilities to military personnel, refugees, and freedmen. It served over 800,000 men, 1,025,000 meals before closing., First state., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P], Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 32 V 58c
Creator: Boell, William
Date: c1861
Location: Library of Congress | Prints and Photographs Division LOC PGA - Boell--Volunteer refreshment saloon... (C size) [P&P]

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