Depicts a group of people gathering for Billy Sunday's Tabernacle in Philadelphia in front of a large unidentified wooden building. It is unclear if he was preaching in the building in the background of the photograph. Includes an inset of Billy Sunday in the top lefthand corner., Sheet number: 50B13A., Real photo. Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Churches - Miscellaneous - 50]
Advertisements depicting horse drawn Springfield Water Supply Company wagons. Springfield Water Supply Company established in 1897., Contains 2 postcards printed in color., Number 2524 printed on recto of one card., Sheet number: 40A09B, Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Divided backs., Postcards issued by the Springfield Water Supply Company, Philadelphia.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Business and Industry - Miscellaneous - 40]
View of old grist mill showing wheelhouse, built by Richard Townsend in 1683 on Mill Street (Church Lane) and Wingohocking Street. Considered the oldest mill in Pennsylvania. Later it was known as Lukens Mill and then Roberts Mill after its 19th century owner, Hugh Roberts. Demolished circa 1873., Photographed circa 1870 by Robert Newell., Undivided back. Dated 3/15/1910 in manuscript note on verso., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Industry - [P.9049.33]
View of old grist mill showing wheelhouse and waterfall, built by Richard Townsend in 1683 on Mill Street (Church Lane) and Wingohocking Street. Considered the oldest mill in Pennsylvania. Later it was known as Lukens Mill and then Roberts Mill after its 19th century owner, Hugh Roberts. Demolished circa 1873., Sheet number: 100B10., Undivided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]
Depicts private residences on both sides of Penn Street looking north., Numbered 930 on verso., Sheet numbers: 104A01 and 104A02., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Miscellaneous - 104]
Depicts the monument to the Battle of Germantown in Vernon Park., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 104A03 and 104B03., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Miscellaneous - 104]
Exterior views of the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged renovated circa 1915 by Ballinger & Perrot., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 100A02 and 100B05., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]
Exterior views of flank of tavern, showing the lion on its sign post and an unidentified stone bridge in the background. Founded in 1739, but built in 1750 according to the date stone on the building. The Lippincott Mansion was built opposite the tavern., Sheet number: 117B02A., Undivided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1906-1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hotels and Restaurants - Lauber's through Stenton - 117]
Shows the memorial, sculpted by J. Otto Schweizer and erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1934 in memory of all African American military men who have served in wartime. The top of the monument is a sculpted eternal flame, the "Torch of Life," surrounded by four American eagles. Below the torch, a female allegorical figure of justice stands holding wreaths symbolic of honor and reward. She is flanked by five figures of African American military personnel from each branch of the armed service. A dedication is inscribed into the memorial's granite pedestal which is adorned with a wreath. Erected after much controversy on Lansdowne Avenue, the memorial was moved in 1994 to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway opposite the Franklin Institute., Numbered 8419 on verso., Sheet number: 88L01., Divided back. Text on verso.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca 1935
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Monuments & Memorials - Miscellaneous - 88]
Depicts a crowd of people ice skating in Fairmount Park., Numbered 8901 and 43042 on verso., Sheet number: 86A18., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Depicts the number 33 trolley sitting in front of the West Park Trolley Station., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 in black and white., Sheet numbers: 86A19 and 86B11., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Depicts the statue of Religious Liberty symbolized by a classical figure wearing a cap with a border of thirteen stars representing the Colonies. She holds the Constitution of the United States in her left hand and raises her right hand above Faith, represented by a youthful figure holding the lamp of Religion. Designed by Moses Jacob Ezekiel in 1876 in honor of the Centennial anniversary. Also includes views of the cactus beds surrounding the base of the monument., Contains 5 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Statue commissioned by B'nai B'rith and dedicated in 1876. Moved near the National Museum of American Jewish History on North Fifth Street above Market Street in 1985., Sheet numbers: 88A06 and 88B05., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1905-1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Monuments & Memorials - Miscellaneous - 88]
Depicts a rustic, wooden bridge spanning an artificial lake filled with water lilies in Fairmount Park. Includes two women crossing the bridge and a man strolling along the water's edge. Possibly depicts Centennial Lake since water lilies covered eighty percent of the water's surface in the summer., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 86A01 and 86B01., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Depicts an unidentified music pavilion next to a lake in Fairmount Park., Sheet number: 86A02A., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Contains various views of a canal boat on Belmont Canal., Sheet number: 86B03., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Depicts an identified bridge spanning the drive near Sweet Briar Mansion in Fairmount Park., Numbered 2290 on recto., Sheet number: 86A10., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1910-1915
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Depicts a circular flower bed surrounded by a drive in the West Park Arboretum near Horticultural Hall in Fairmount Park., Sheet number: 86A11., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1910-1915
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Contains views of a wooded valley near Horticultural Hall, including a stream, a wooden pedestrian bridge and a stone arch bridge., Sheet numbers: 86A13 and 86A14., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1905-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]
Depicts a Nio-mon, or a Japanese temple gateway that was exhibited at the St. Louis Exhibition in 1904 and erected shortly thereafter upon the land designated for the Japan exhibit during the Centennial Fair twenty years earlier., Contains 12 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Japanese Pagoda - 75]
Exterior views of house and music pavilion built for William Peters. Construction of the main block of the house began in 1743 but was not completed until circa 1751., Contains 9 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., William Peters was a landowner and attorney from Liverpool, England. He held several offices in Philadelphia including Clerk of the Admiralty Court, Notary Public, and Prothonotary of the Superior Court. Belmont Mansion was one of several properties owned by Peters in Philadelphia. He gave the property to his son, Judge Richard Peters, when he returned to England in 1768., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Mansions and Houses - Belmont - 78]
Exterior view of house built near Wissahickon Creek between 1746 and 1752 for Joseph Gorgas, a lumber merchant and third generation resident of Germantown. Constructed on the site of "the Kloster," the log cabin built in 1737 as a community house for the German Dunkards., Also known as the Joseph Gorgas House and the Children's Museum of Philadelphia (1973)., Sheet number: 81B01., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Mansions and Houses - Miscellaneous - 81]
Exterior views of front facade of library building constructed in 1906 after designs by Frank Miles Day & Bro., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Vernon Park was formerly a private residence purchased by the City of Philadelphia in 1892. Andrew Carnegie's donation enabled the city to construct a Free Library on the property in 1906., Sheet numbers: 100A01 and 132B03., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100] and [Libraries - 132]
Contains images of Arch Street, including views looking east from Fifteenth Street and west from Broad Street, showing the Young Men's Christian association building (1417-23 Arch Street) and the United Gas Improvement Building (1401 Arch Street). Also includes an image of the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (55-65 North Broad Street), Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad Street), and City Hall tower near Broad and Arch Streets., Sheet number: 156A01., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1910-1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts row homes on Cambridge Street., Numbered 5669 on recto., Title illegible., Sheet number: 156B10., Real photo. Divided back. Post marked 1909., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts street and pedestrian traffic on Delaware Avenue., Sheet number: 156A02., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts the block of Eighth Street north of Market Street and the block north of Filbert Street, showing various store fronts including partial views of Lit Brothers and Strawbridge & Clothier., Contains 4 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 156A04 and 156B04., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts the number 206 bus traveling along Roosevelt Boulevard, heading toward the Margaret - Orthodox elevated station., Numbered 258 on recto. Publisher's monogram on verso., Roosevelt Boulevard was the result of Philadelphia Mayor Samuel H. Ashbridge's proposal to connect the small farming community of Torresdale directly to central Philadelphia in 1902. First named Torresdale Boulevard, then renamed after Theodore Roosevelt when the highway extended to Pennypack Creek in 1918., Sheet number: 156A06., Divided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1926
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts snow covering Columbia Avenue, along with businesses decorated for the Businessmen's Carnival., Sheet number: 156B02., Real photo. Divided back. VELOX stamp box in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]
Depicts the Strawberry Mansion Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River, built 1894-1896 by Russell M. Thayer and Theodore Cooper. Depicts the bridge in Fairmount Park from Strawberry Mansion., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Also known as the Fairmount Park Trolley Bridge., Accession numbers: P.9048.116, P.9048.333 and P.9076.12., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Bridges - [various]
Depicts the neo-classical style marble pump house, completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827. Includes the Water Nymph and Bittern fountain sculpted in wood in 1809 by William Rush for the Centre Square Water Works, but later moved to the Fairmount Waterworks on the Schuylkill River., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1908
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Public utilities - [P.9049.31 - 32]
Contains images of store fronts and automobile and pedestrian traffic looking east and west on Market Street. Views depict Market Street looking: at the Market Street loop; west from 10th Street, showing Woolworth & Co. 5 and 10 store; west of 11th Street showing the Denckla, Inquirer and Reading Terminal buildings and east from City Hall showing the Wanamaker Department store. Also includes a bird's eye view of Market Street looking west towards West Philadelphia., Contains 4 postcards printed in color and 3 printed in black and white., Accession numbers: P.2002.67.30, P.9048.37, P.9048.41, P.9049.16, P.9049.53 and P.9512.6 - 7., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
1900-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Streets - [various]
Exterior view of the Bustleton station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, used as a barn, an arsenal and a powder storage magazine during the Revolutionary War before the property was taken over by the railroad in 1870., Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Transportation - [P.9933.1]
Exterior views., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 100A02 and 100B04., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]
Depicts steeple of original Germantown Town Hall built in 1855 by Napoleon LeBrun. View of building obscured by trees., Contains 1 postcard printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 100A07 and 100B10., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Buildings - 100]
Exterior view of apse protruding from the stone church. Located at West Seymour Street at the corner of Merion in the Germantown section of Philadelphia., Sheet number: 101B03., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1905
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Churches - 101]
Exterior view., Sheet number: 101B03., Divided back. Post marked 1910., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Germantown - Churches - 101]
Depicts the train entrance for the Market Street subway near Front and Market Streets looking west, showing a train emerging from underground about to loop around a steep incline to continue along Delaware Avenue. Also depicts commercial store fronts on the south side of Market Street., Numbered 302 on verso., The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) built the Market Street subway - elevated from 15th Street to 69th Street in 1907. Construction expanding the line eastward to Delaware Avenue finished in 1908, but the elevated section connecting Frankford to the Center City line was not completed until 1922., Sheet number: 158A01., Divided back. Post marked 1914., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1914
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]
Depicts sections of the Market Street elevated railroad along Delaware Avenue looking north and south, showing the Delaware Avenue station and the Market Street and Chestnut Street Ferry stations., The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) built the Market Street subway - elevated from 15th Street to 69th Street in 1907. Construction expanding the line eastward to Delaware Avenue finished in 1908, but the elevated section connecting Frankford to the Center City line was not completed until 1922., Sheet numbers: 158A02, 158A06, 158A07 and 158A11., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1907-1916
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Transit - 158]
Exterior view, showing signs for hair cutting, various brands of cigars and post cards for sale in the store., Real photo. Undivided back. AZO stamp box with upward pointing triangles in corner., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Business - [P.9933.14]
Depicts images of Cobbs and Darby Creeks including Independence Falls, an old log cabin and homes of early settlers along Darby Creek., Contains 4 postcards printed in color and 4 in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Cobbs and Darby Creeks - 57]
Depicts several entrances to Fairmount Park including the Lemon Hill (Callowhill Street) entrance showing a woman admiring William Rush's seven and one-half feet tall Water Nymph and Bittern fountain sculpture (1809) and the marble Frederick Graff Memorial (commissioned in 1844); the Dauphin Street entrance to the park showing another fountain sculpture located near Strawberry Mansion at Thirty-third and Dauphin Streets; the winding entrance path to the Spring Garden Street entrance; Emmanuel Fremiet's Joan of Arc statue marking the entrance to the Fairmount Park at 25th Street and Kelly Drive and the entrance near the Sunken Gardens and Horticultural Hall, showing vehicular traffic and pedestrians. Includes one unidentified entrance to the park., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1910-1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Entrances - 69]
Depicts hall built 1875 after designs by Hermann J. Schwarzmann, demolished in 1955 even though the 383' long, 193' wide building was supposed to remain a permanent botanical conservatory, showcasing exotic plant species and Victorian gardens. Includes exterior views of front facade and flank and interior views of chrysanthemums, a palm exhibit, a fern house, a cactus bed and the entrance of the hall. Also depicts various views of the Sunken Gardens and the Lily Pond., Contains 89 postcards printed in color and 20 printed in black and white. Also includes 2 linen postcards., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1930
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Horticultural Hall - 71-74]
Depicts the Blue Stone Bridge, also known as the Lotus Inn Bridge, over Wissahickon Creek at Rittenhouse Street in Fairmount Park. Also includes a waterfall in the foreground., Contains 4 postcards printed in color. Also includes 1 linen postcard., Sheet numbers: 62A01 and 62L01., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1907
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Bridges - Miscellaneous - 62]
Depicts a wooden pedestrian bridge over a stream in Fairmount Park. Identified as the "Rustic Bridge" on two postcards and as the "Bridge in Glen" on the other., Two postcards issued by the Douglass Post Card Co., 21 N. 10th St., Philadelphia, Pa., Sheet number: 62A05., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Bridges - Miscellaneous - 62]
Depicts the Henry Avenue Bridge spanning the Wissahickon Creek at Lincoln Drive and Henry Avenue. The bridge was built from 1930-1932 after designs by Ralph Modjeski and and Paul Cret., Numbered 175 on recto., Also known as the Wissahickon Memorial Bridge., Postcard issued by Lynn H. Boyer, Jr. of Philadelphia, Pa. & Wildwood, NJ, and Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago., Sheet number: 62L01., Divided back. Text on verso describing the construction history of the bridge., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1935
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Bridges - Miscellaneous - 62]
Depicts the Rex Avenue stone bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek above the Indian Rock Hotel. Also includes the statue of Tedyuscung (1700-1763) on Indian Rock, the chief of a tribe whose lands covered the Wissahickon., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1910-1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Bridges - Rex Avenue - 63]
Depicts the stone bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek leading to Springfield Avenue. Built in 1832 and rebuilt in 1915. Also referred to as the Springfield Avenue Bridge., Contains 5 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1910
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Bridges - Valley Green - 64]
Exterior views of the distribution plant of Sears Roebuck & Co. on Roosevelt Boulevard built after designs by Ernest A. Greenfeld and Tilden, Register & Pepper., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
ca. 1925
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Business and Industry - Sears - 42]
Contains views of Chestnut Street looking west from Sixth Street, Eighth Street, Ninth Street and Eleventh Street. Also includes views looking east from Sixth Street, Eleventh Street and Sixteenth Street. Depicts one view looking north from Chestnut and Fifth Streets. The Philadelphia Record building, Post Office, United States Custom House and the Pennsylvania Building are the most prominent buildings in these street views., Contains 21 postcards printed in color and 8 printed in black and white., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1900-1920
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Chestnut Street - 46]
Song in eight unnumbered stanzas, with chorus; first line: Of all the many mighty things in this here Quaker city,., The American Party, also known as the Know-Nothing Party, flourished between 1849 and 1856., Printed area, including ornamental border, measures 21.3 x 14.3 cm., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Eastlack, Francis F., b. 1833
Date
[between 1849 and 1856]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1849 Eastlack 15143.Q (Roughwood)
