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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: Church of St. Philip Neri. Philadelphia, Penna Rev. N. Cantwell, Pastor
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic church built in 1840 after designs by architect Eugene Napoleon Le Brun. View includes two horse-drawn coaches travelling Queen Street, pedestrians promenading, and a church rectory or convent building immediately west of the church building. Damaged during the Nativist Riots in the spring of 1844, the church maintained most of its original appearance. Reverend Nicholas Cantwell served as pastor of the church from 1845 until his death in 1899., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 37, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri
Creator: Packard, Herbert S., 1850-1912, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri

Title: Come one! Come all! Now or never To arms! To arms! Our state must be defended! Action, not words! Volunteers wanted! A mass meeting will be held at the Southwark Guard's Armory, Second & Shippen Sts. this evening, at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of state & city defence Every man who has a home to defend is expected to answer the call. The meeting will be addressed by Mayor Henry, the Rev. Eddy and others
Description: Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [1863?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1863 Come (2)5777.F.27a (McAllister)

Title: A few volunteers wanted! For the Southwark Rangers! For immediate service Will be mustered in, the first of this week, armory on Front St., above Market, west side, this company is attached to Col. Mann's regiment
Description: Col. William B. Mann commanded the 31st Regiment Infantry of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, organized in May 1861, until Oct. 30, 1861; the regiment was mustered out June 16, 1864. Cf. S.P. Bates. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, v. 1, p. 575, and F.H. Taylor. Philadelphia in the Civil War 1861-1865, p. 67., Four illustrations: one set of three soldiers facing right; an officer standing, left arm raised, telescope in right hand; three people, one holding a U.S. flag, with the banner: The Union and the Constitution!; and one set of three soldiers facing left., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Southwark Rangers (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1861 Southwark (1)5777.F.24c (McAllister)

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: First Presbyterian Church, Southwark, Phila
Description: Exterior view of the church built 1857-1859 after the designs of Samuel Sloan at German Street below Third Street. Church includes two small and a large spire. Also shows an obelisk behind the church in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 261, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 136 S 728
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 136 S 728

Title: Gloria Dei Or old Swede's Church, Swanson below Christian, Philadelphia. The oldest church organization in the city. Founded 1667, five years prior to the landing of William Penn. Present edifice erected 1700, and has been worshipped in continuously from that time
Description: Exterior view of the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church known as Gloria Dei Church, built 1700-1703 by master builder John Harrison I at 929 South Water Street in Southwark. Shows a couple walking past the gravestones in the church cemetery and up the path to the entrance of Gloria Dei. Also includes neighboring buildings, trees on the cemetery grounds, and masts of ships in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 317, Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Religion - G [P.2007.28.16]

Title: [Group of children, Southwark, Philadelphia]
Description: Depicts group of boys and girls in coats and hats posed in front of a wall., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: A group from one of the melting pot sections of Phila., Southwark. Note: the two little boys on the left, the questioning seriousness of one and the amused assurance of the other. (Tell about sledding down an ash pile without snow, ice or cold weather and about tin-can-decorated trees and electric wires.), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 101 [P.3513.101], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson101.htm

Title: Interior of St. Philip Neri Church. Philadelphia, Penna
Description: Confirmation and Holy Communion certificate containing an interior view of the Roman Catholic church built in 1840 after designs by architect Eugene Napoleon Le Brun. View looks toward the nave of the ornately decorated church and shows boys and girls kneeling in a long row in front of the chancel rail during their Holy Communion ceremony. Two priests flank the bishop as he addresses the children from within the chancel. Murals and statuary of religious icons and angels adorn the sanctuary, frescoed ceiling, and alcoves of the church. Damaged during the Nativist Riots in the spring of 1844, the church maintained most of its original appearance., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri interior
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri interior

Title: Monitor Terror
Description: View showing the turret of the USS Terror, originally named the USS Agmenticus. Laid down in Portsmouth Navy Yard in Maine in 1862, launched in 1863, commissioned in 1864 at Portsmouth under the command of C. H. Cushman, decommissioned at the Boston Navy Yard in 1865, the monitor's name was changed to "Terror" in 1869. After being recommissioned in 1870, Terror came to the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1872. The facility, which built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships, operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Title printed on verso in publisher's series list with fifty-three other titles (No. 1-54)., Publisher's imprint in red text on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - H. Ropes & Co. - Military [P.9099.3]

Title: Monitor Terror, Philadelphia
Description: View showing the turret of the USS Terror, originally named the USS Agmenticus. Laid down in Portsmouth Navy Yard in Maine in 1862, launched in 1863, commissioned in 1864 at Portsmouth under the command of C. H. Cushman, decommissioned at the Boston Navy Yard in 1865, the monitor's name was changed to "Terror" in 1869. After being recommissioned in 1870, Terror came to the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1872. The facility, which built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships, operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Title on negative., Orange curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Military [P.9099.5]

Title: Old Swedes Church
Description: View looking from the southeast showing the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church known as Gloria Dei Church, built 1700-1703 by master builder John Harrison I at 929 South Water Street. A wood fence, stenciled with the advertisement "Read the Daily Register," surrounds the church cemetery. Also shows neighboring buildings in the background., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., *McClees 1858-12., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: September 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [(6)1322.F.18]

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

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

Title: Philadelphia from the Navy Yard
Description: Marine view looking north on the Delaware River showing the Navy Yard between Prime and Wharton streets in Southwark. Ships are docked at the yard, and a steam boat and other vessels travel nearby in the water. Also shows several ships docked along the riverfront in the background and two men pushing a rowboat off the shore in the foreground. The naval yard, the first U.S. Navy Yard, established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801, built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships. It operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Copyrighted by J. T. Bowen., Originally published as plate 10 in Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 586.3. Digital image shows fourth state., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W286.3 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: Philadelphia from the Navy Yard
Description: Marine view looking north on the Delaware River showing the Navy Yard between Prime and Wharton streets in Southwark. Ships are docked at the yard, and a steam boat and other vessels travel nearby in the water. Also shows several ships docked along the riverfront in the background and two men pushing a rowboat off the shore in the foreground. The naval yard, the first U.S. Navy Yard, established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801, built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships. It operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Originally published as plate 10 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). The lithographic stones for the views were acquired by John T. Bowen and reissued in 1838 and in 1848 with hand coloring., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 586.4, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2171 and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 3007.Q (Poulson) and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1514.F and in Print Room *Am 1848 Wild 1515.Q., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Views -Philadelphia from Girard College (2 copies, without hand-coloring), Described in Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W286.4 [P.2171]

Title: Philadelphia Navy Yard
Description: View showing a ship on the Delaware River, docked at the Philadelphia Naval Yard in Southwark. The naval yard, the first U.S. Navy Yard, established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801, built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships. It operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Title printed on mount., Publisher's printed label pasted on verso., Stamped on verso: G. Pfund, 4731 N. Front St., Phila., Pa., Manuscript note in modern hand on verso: Old Ironsides. U.S.S. Constitution. Idenitifcation is likley incorrect given design of ship and U.S.S. Constitution did not dock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in the 1850s, but circa 1873 for renovations for the Centennial Exhibiton of 1876., White mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim Brothers copyrighted a series of stereographs with labels inscribed: "American Stereoscopic Co., Langenheim, Loyd & Co., Philadelphia" in 1858. They continued to produce stereographs until 1865, when they withdrew from the American Stereoscopic Co.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm)
Date: c1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Military [P.9079.4]

Title: Plan of the United States dry dock, at Philadelphia, on the new system of the sectional floating dock, basin, & railways, now constructing by contract with Mess. Dakin & Moody Area available for docking in the plan 350 by 90 feet, 31, 500 square feet. Area available for docking in the U.S. dry dock at Norfolk, 210 by 60 feet, 12, 000 square feet. It will be observed that area available for docking in this dry dock is twice and a half greater than in the U.S. stone dry dock at Norfolk, enabling the former to receive a vessel covering twice and half as much space as the utmost limit of the latter. It will also be observed that the efficiency of the Norfolk dock, is limited to docking one ship of the line at a time, of about 200 feet in length, whereas the new Philadelphia dock, will be able to dock three war steamers of 350 feet in length each, and ten ships of the line all at the same time. The Norfolk dock cost $962, 459 and the cost of one on that plan capable of taking only one vessel 350 by 90 feet, estimated on the same basis would be $2, 406, 147 or about three times the contract price of the Philadelphia dock
Description: Plan showing the future dry dock at the first U.S. Navy Yard established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801 on the Delaware River in Southwark. A three-masted frigate rests in dry dock on land and a three-masted sidewheeler rests in dry dock on the floating dock in the river. Two workers stand on the deck of the sidewheeler. Between the frigates, completed hulls are visible in four storage bays. Across from the bays, a hull under construction rests in scaffolding. Tools and machinery lay near the hull. In the background, a worker hauls wood by horse-drawn cart in front of the naval yard factory. Also includes cityscape and Spark's shot tower. The facility, which built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships, operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Not in Wainwright., Published in Sketch of the plans, present condition, and proposed results of the United States dry docks at the Navy Yards of Philadelphia, Kittery, and Pensacola: ... (New York: P. Miller & Son, 1849)., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 609, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 57 P 544
Date: [1849]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 57 P 544

Title: [Residence at Second and Wharton streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Shows a three-story small wood plank dwelling. Residents peer from lower story windows., Title supplied by cataloguer., Descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso: Southwark. 2 and Wharton Sts. 4 families live in this house. It is known to be over 80 yrs old., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.231], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson231.htm

Title: Riot in Philadelphia July 7, 1844
Description: Discrepant news print showing a battle scene from the second series of anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia in July 1844 that stemmed from the defensive arming of St. Philip de Neri Catholic Church in preparation of a July 4 Nativist party parade. Shows the melee around the city militia under attack from the Protestant rioters depicted as gentlemen in top hats and coats. In the foreground, a rioter picks up a brick as his compatriots fire at a charging band of militiamen near an illuminated lamppost. One soldier lays fallen on the ground as a rioter collapses over him. To the right, a mother flees with her children as men fight hand-to-hand in front of a group of onlookers. The crowd watches another band of militia attempt to guard the targeted Catholic church that is marked "I.H.S. A.D., 1840." In the background, rioters and the militia fire cannons at one another. In actuality, rioters gained control and set the church on fire by the morning of July 7, causing the militia to try and clear a neighboring street on which the combat and cannon fire occurred. The riot, which killed 15, was quelled by the state militia late that evening., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 650, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 892 B 921, LCP exhibit catalog: Made in America, entry #63.
Creator: Bucholzer, H., artist
Date: [1844]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 892 B 921

Title: South view. Looking towards Navy Yard, Southwark and Moyamensing
Description: Panoramic view looking toward the Delaware River showing cityscape in South Philadelphia. Includes residential buildings, storefronts, factories, warehouses, St. Peter's Church steeple, Sparks Shot tower, and the Navy Yard. Also shows trees in Independence Square in the foreground and maritime traffic on the river in the background., Series title, artist, and date information from complementary prints., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 544c, Trimmed.
Creator: Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892, artist
Date: [c1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Views [P.2121]

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

Title: The Swedes' Church, Southwark. (From the south east.) Rector Rev. J.G. Clay, D.D Called Gloria Dei Church
Description: Exterior view of the Episcopalian, former Lutheran, church built 1700-1703 by master builder John I. Harrison at 929 South Water Street. Also shows tombstones in the adjacent cemetery of the church., Title and date from Poulson inscription on accompanying label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 42 or 43. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., McClees 1856-6., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: 1856
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Churches and meetinghouse [(5)2526.F.45]

Title: View of the launch of the U.S. ship of war Pennsylvania From the Navy Yard at Philadelphia, July 18th 1837
Description: View showing several spectators on vessels in the Delaware River watching the launch of the largest sailing ship built to that date by the U.S. Several tall ships, rowboats, and sailboats filled with spectators congest the river as the ship glides out from its storage house. In the background, cityscape is barely visible behind the several masts of the spectator ships. Pennsylvania, one of nine ships authorized by Congress in April 1816 to carry at least 74 guns, was designed and built 1821-1837 by Samuel Humphreys in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The ship remained in service until 1842 when she became a receiving ship for the Norfolk Navy Yard, where she was burned at the onset of the Civil War. The first U.S. Navy Yard was established by shipbuilder Joshua Humphreys and Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert in 1801 in Southwark. The facility, which built, overhauled, stored, and disposed of warships, operated in Southwark until 1876 when the Navy Yard enlarged and relocated to League Island., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 803, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 56 Penna 381
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1837]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 56 Penna 381

Title: The Weccacoe Engine Co.'s house and the reception of the United Fire Co. of Baltimore
Description: View showing Weccacoe Fire Company firefighters (left) welcoming the firefighters of the United Fire Company of Baltimore (right) in front of the three-story Weccacoe engine house on the 100 block of Queen Street in Southwark. An eagle surmounts the dormer-like addition on top of the building. The captains (including General Anthony Miltenberger, chief marshall of the Union Fire Co., center right), shake hands in front of the open engine house doors, behind which the faint outline of equipment is visible. Both companies wear uniforms. The Weccacoe firefighters wear long, belted jackets under red capes adorned with "Weccacoe W.E.S", and hats marked with "Weccacoe 1800" on the front and "FA" (Fire Association of Philadelphia) on the back. The United Fire Co. firefighters are dressed in red jackets with green lapels, green and gold hats labeled "Union" on the front, and brass belt buckles., Date supplied by duplicate in the collections of the Maryland Historical Society., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 824, James Fuller Queen was a volunteer firefighter with the Weccacoe Fire Company., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1851]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W398 [6621.F]

Title: Weccacoe Fire Compy. Instituted 1800, incorporated 1833
Description: View of the hand-powered Philadelphia-style fire engine of the fire company that operated from the 100 block of Queen Street in Southwark. A firefighter, attired in his uniform, rests his hand on the harness of the horse-drawn engine. His hat is marked "Weccacoe 1800" and he wears a cape adorned with an "F" and an "A." Engine contains double decker end-stroke hand pumpers and the compressor, with ornate detailing, is adorned with a plate depicting a mermaid kissing a barely-clad man. A trumpet hangs from the harness of the engine. Also contains a border with geometric details and a vignette below the image depicting a Native American figure., Not in Wainwright., Date of publication written on stone lower left corner., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 272, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 832 W 41, Removed from Stauffer Collection, vol. 22, p. 1686.
Creator: Heiss, George G.
Date: 1855
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 832 W 41

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