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Title: U. S. Mint, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by J. C. Wild.
Description: Location: Chestnut Street and Juniper Street, northwest corner., Issued as plate 16 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 containing twenty views., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2220 & P.2221 and in *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F and *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846 lithographer., creator
Date: c1838.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W409-1.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W409.1 [P.2220 & P.2221]

Title: [United States Mint, Chestnut Street at Juniper Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: View looking northwest showing the front facade of the second mint building covered in patriotic bunting at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when it relocated and the building was razed. Several men walk on the sidewalk and in the street in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator: Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date: ca. 1895
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.147]

Title: United States Mint postcards
Description: Exterior views looking northwest of the second location of the United States Mint at the northwest corner of Juniper and Chestnut Streets. Built 1829-1833 after designs by William Strickland. Demolished in 1902., Contains 2 postcards printed in color and 1 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 160A09 and 160B03., 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 [U.S. Mint - 160]

Title: U.S. Mint
Description: View looking northwest at the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. Also shows two horses on Chestnut Street in the left foreground., One of 107 titles printed in series list on verso (No. 139-245)., Publisher's imprint on verso., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of David Doret.
Creator: R. Newell & Son
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Government buildings [P.2010.6.16]

Title: U.S. Mint, Chestnut below Broad St., Phila. Pa
Description: View looking northeast from Juniper Street showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. Men sit on the columns supporting the lamp posts in front of the mint building, while others stand near the partially ripped-up cobblestone street. A pile of stones rest on the sidewalk and trees in iron cages line the street in the foreground. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed., Yellow mount with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Professor Otto Albrecht., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Government Buildings [P.8913.7]

Title: U. S. Mint, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view showing the second mint building built 1829-1833 after the designs of William Strickland at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and 13th streets). A couple stands between columns on the portico of the Greek-Revival building and another starts to ascend the stairs. The mint operated at the site until it relocated in 1901. The building was razed in 1902., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier., Issued as plate 16 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 containing twenty views., Manuscript note on recto: La maison a gauche en banque., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 764.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2220 & P.2221 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 6626.F and 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 W409.1 [P.2220 & P.2221]

Title: U. S. Mint, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view showing the second mint building built 1829-1833 after the designs of William Strickland at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and 13th streets). A couple stands between columns on the portico of the Greek-Revival building and another starts to ascend the stairs. The mint operated at the site until it relocated in 1901. The building was razed in 1902., Originally published as plate 16 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., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 764.2. Digital image shows first state of print., 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 W409.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: [U.S. Mint, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Exterior view showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and 13th streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1901 when the mint relocated. The building was razed in 1902. Includes partial view of the side of an adjacent building, Gumpert Brothers cigar manufactory, advertising "Seeley's Hard Rubber Trusses." Trees protected by tree boxes line the street in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from manuscript note on verso., Manuscript note by photographer on verso: Coffee dry plates; Rouger Lens 60, Sec 0., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Described in Terence Pitt's William Bell: Philadelphia Photographer (MA thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987), p. 55-56., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bell, a Philadelphia photographer, was an early experimenter with dry plates.
Creator: Bell, William, 1830-1910, photographer
Date: May 22, 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bell - Government Buildings [P.9047.4]

Title: U.S. Mint [Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: Exterior view showing the front of the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and 13th streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the agency relocated and the building was razed. Trees protected by tree boxes line the street in the foreground., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Date from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with square corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Hurn, J. W., photographer
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Hurn - Government Buildings [P.9462.3]

Title: United States Mint
Description: Exterior view of the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and 13th streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the agency relocated and the building was razed. Pedestrians stand on the steps of, in front of, and near the building. Trees protected by iron cages line the street in the foreground., Photographer's label pasted on verso., Pale yellow mount with square corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Moran and Story was a short-lived partnership between Philadelphia photographers John Moran and John Story in the early 1860s.
Creator: Moran & Storey
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran & Story - Government Buildings [P.8464.19]

Title: U.S. Mint
Description: Exterior view of the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and 13th streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed. Trees protected by tree boxes line the street in the foreground., Title from manuscript note on mount., Attributed to John Moran., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: ca. 1861
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran -Government Buildings [(8)1322.F.29c]

Title: Mint Arcade
Description: Depicts the Mint Arcade built in 1903 by Savery & Scheetz. Building commissioned by the Crane Ice Cream Company after the demolition of the United States Mint in 1902. The Widener Building was built in 1914 on the site of the Mint Arcade., Undivided back., Sheet number: 27B05B, 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 [Buildings - Miscellaneous - 27]

Title: U.S. Mint
Description: View showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland, and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed. Trees line the sidewalk in front of the building. Also shows a partial view of a horse-drawn carriage., Title from manuscript note on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Inscribed on negative: 147., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization 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 - Government Buildings [P.9299.19]

Title: The United States Mint, Chestnut Street at Juniper
Description: View showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. Includes adjacent fenced lot lined with barrels of minted coins and partial view of neighboring building. Also shows a man standing in the entranceway of the building. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed., Title and date from transcribed manuscript note., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980), entry #92., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: 1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Government Buildings [(7)1322.F.xa]

Title: U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
Description: View looking west from Juniper Street showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed. Includes partial view of the side of an adajcent building, Gumbert Bros. Cigar manufactory, advertising "[Seeley's] Hard Rubber Trusses." Trees in iron cages line the street in the foreground., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Cremer - Government Buildings [P.9260.33]

Title: U.S. Mint, Philadelphia
Description: View looking east from Thirteenth Street showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed. Includes partial view of the adjacent cigar manufactory adorned with an awning inscribed with the name of the business, Gumpert Bros., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereos - Cremer - Government Buildings [P.9260.34]

Title: U.S. Mint, Chestnut, below Broad St
Description: View looking northeast from Juniper Street showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland and possibly John Haviland. Men sit on the columns supporting the lamp posts in front of the mint building. A pile of stones rest on the sidewalk and trees in iron cages line the street in the foreground. The awning for the adjacent Gumpert Bros. cigar shop (1341 Chestnut Street) is partially visible. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Similar image taken on the same day printed on yellow mount with square corners and included as No. 1038 in the series entitled "American Scenery" (P.8913.7)., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [photographed ca. 1866, printed ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Government Buildings [P.9107.6]

Title: Kugler's Restaurant postcards
Description: Contains interior views of Kugler's Restaurant at several locations. Most depict the main dining area in the restaurant's Widener Building location. Others depict the Red Banquet Room at 1412-1414 Chestnut Street and the ballroom at 34 South 15th Street., Contains 14 postcards printed in color and 2 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 [Hotels and Restaurants - Kuglers - 116]

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