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Title: Brooklyn Academy of Music Lessee, Miss Laura Keene Second and last night of Miss Laura Keene! and her Comedy Combination. A new and splendid play Speciality.--Every visitor attending the performance at the academy, this evening, will be presented with a perfumed programme of Phalon's night-blooming ceres. This Wednesday evening, April 13th, 1864 will be performed the new and thrillingly effective Irish drama, written for Miss Laura Keene, and performed at her theatre, in New York, with the most brilliant success, entitled The wives of Ireland or, The foster brother ... To conclude with the glorious comedietta of The Smiths and the Browns! ... Prices of admission. Dress circle and parquet, 50 cts. Reserved seats, 75c. Family circle, 25c
Description: The casts include: Mr. Arthur, Mr. Bilby, Mr. Boyd, John Dyott, Laura Keene, Milnes Levick, Mr. Page, Charles Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Rea, W.H. Stevens, and Mrs. Tyrril., Illustration signed: Adrian-Probasco Phila., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.5 x 19.8 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Laura Keene's Comedy Combination
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Laura (26)5761.F.8a (McAllister)

Title: Brooklyn Academy of Music Lessee, Miss Laura Keene Opening night of Miss Laura Keene! and her Comedy Combination. Miss Laura Keene respectfully announces to the citizens of Brooklyn that she will give 2 grand performances Speciality.--Every visitor attending the performance at the academy, this evening, will be presented with a perfumed programme of Phalon's night-blooming ceres. This Monday evening, April 11th, 1864, the performance will commence with the beautiful domestic drama of Rachel the reaper dramatized expressly for Miss Keene by Chas. Reade, Esq., from the celebrated novel of Clouds and sunshine! ... To conclude with Cherry's celebrated comedy of The soldier's daughter! ... Wednesday night, April 13th, positively last night of Miss Laura Keene when will be produced a new thrilling drama, entitled The wives of Ireland, or The foster brother as performed by her in Washington, Philadelphia, and the principal cities of the West, during her late tour, with the most enthusiastic and brilliant success. Prices of admission. Dress circle and parquet, 50 cts. Reserved seats, 75c. Family circle, 25c. Box office open on Saturday morning for the sale of reserved seats
Description: The casts include: John Dyott, Laura Keene, Milnes Levick, Charles Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Rea, and Mrs. Tyrril., Illustration signed: Adrian-Probasco Phila., Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 55.2 x 19.8 cm., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator: Laura Keene's Comedy Combination
Date: [1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare PB 1864 Laura (26)5761.F.7a (McAllister)

Title: Greenwood Cemetery
Description: View showing a man sitting on a bench near a pond and a little girl standing behind him in the cemetery founded in 1838 in Kings County, New York. They look in the direction of the mausoleums and headstones built into the hill in the distance., Title on negative., Publisher's imprint printed on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Aaron Wunsch., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Union View Company - Cemeteries [P.9963.3]

Title: Fulton Ferry [Brooklyn, N.Y.]
Description: View showing pedestrians and horse-drawn vehicles traveling near the Fulton Ferry terminus in Brooklyn, New York. The bare masts of docked ships on the East River are visible in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Buff mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Transportation [P.9022.42]

Title: [Wall Street Ferry Terminal, foot of Montague Street, Brooklyn, New York]
Description: Elevated view of the Wall Street Ferry Terminal, built ca. 1853 at the foot of Montague Street in Brooklyn, showing two ships with bare masts near a docked ferry boat in the foreground. Shows other vessels on the Hudson River and a partial view of Manhattan in the background. Ferry operated 1853-1912 by the Union Ferry Company., Title supplied by cataloger. Identified from ca. 1884 photograph., Manuscript note on verso: View on the Delaware, Philada., Printed list of three series, "Philadelphia Centennial Views," "Philadelphia City and Park," and "Miscellaneous" on verso. Below lists of series on verso: Philad'a Stereo. Publishing Company., Publisher's imprint on mount., 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. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Fleischner - Views [P.9670.2]

Title: East River Bridge, N.Y
Description: View looking from Brooklyn showing the Brooklyn Bridge, built 1870-1883 after the designs of John Roebling, spanning the lower East River. In the foreground, several Brooklyn businesses and industries are visible, including a stove warehouse, grocer, liquor dealer, and a "cordage, twine, mats, & wicks" manufactory. Also shows several ferry boats and sloops docked along the shore. Manhattan is visible in the distance on the far right of the image., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title printed on mount and from label on negative., Gift of Saul Koltnow., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1883
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unid. - non-Philadelphia - New York [P.9022.44]

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