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Title: Carpenter's mansion
Description: Exterior view of the Sixth Street side of the isolated residence of brewer Joshua Carpenter built 1701-1722 at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Two men walk on the path next to the dwelling surrounded by trees. House razed 1826 following its sale by its last owner, Judge Tilghman, to the Arcade Company., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 323., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 83, Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences - C [9245.Q.22]

Title: Public baths. Thos. E. J. Kerrison's arcade-baths
Description: Advertisement showing the public bathhouse originally built 1826-1827 as a shop gallery after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Patrons enter one of the four arches to the visible interior of the arcade that contains stairs over a central enclosed space that is flanked by corridors of rooms. The front facade also contains statuary and advertising signs in two niches above gated cellar entrances to "D. Gibb, Franklin House." The signs promote the tenant oyster house. Also shows a boy posting a broadside on the building and a man and woman passerby. Kerrison operated the baths 1845-1849. Building demolished circa 1859-1860., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. Chestnut between Sixth and Seventh St., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 628, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed and lacking caption.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W301 [P.2176]

Title: Philadelphia Arcade. Joseph L. Moore, dealer in fancy & staple dry goods, corner of Pine & Water Streets New-York Having established a branch in the Arcade south front, and fitted up his store with a separate apartment for selling at whole sale, is constantly receiving from New-York auctions every description of goods in his line which will be sold at very reduced prices. at whole sale & retail. N.B. Country merchants are respectfully invited to call and exame [sic] before making their purchases
Description: Advertisement showing the Moore storefront within the two-story shop gallery built 1826-1827 after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Statuary, above empty niches, adorns the front facade of the four-arched gallery entrance and "JLM" is visible above the centrally-located storefront that is flanked by corridors lined with stores. Pedestrians walk in front of the arcade. Neighboring buildings, including the Bolivar House hotel (611-613), are visible. Also shows, in the foreground, a gentleman peering at the arcade from across the street. The building was later used as a bathhouse and hotel before being demolished circa 1859-1860., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 572, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W279 [P.2169]

Title: North side of Chestnut Street, west of Sixth Street on the lot of ground formerly occupied by Chief Justice Tilghman's mansion house
Description: Shows the front facade of the Arcade Hotel, formerly the Arcade Building, built 1826-1827 as a shop gallery after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Building adorned with an ironwork balcony and advertisements for publications sold by stationer T.B. Pugh, a tenant of the hotel., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Newspaper clippings pasted on mount dated October 14, 1843 and October 22, 1845 describing the reorganization of and alterations to the building., Detailed manuscript note by Poulson entitled "Battleground of Germantown" inscribed on verso., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 39. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Reproduced in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry #105., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: January 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Hotels - A [(3)2526.F.39 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f39d105.jpg

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