Advertisement print showing the factory complex on the 400 block of North Fifth Street. Complex includes a three-story building marked "Wm. Dunlap No. 169 Carriage Maker"; wood-gated courtyard; and a two-story building, probably including a showroom, adorned with signage reading ""Wm. Dunlaps' Coach Factory." A couple enters an entryway of the smaller building that also contains signage advertising "E.W. Pearce Saddle & Harness Maker." A gentleman walks near the corner of the complex near four different types of coaches lining the street. Also shows stacks of lumber within the courtyard through the open gate. Circa 1845, Dunlap began operating from the factory which was later used as a hospital, prison, and barracks during the Civil War., Date from manuscript note by Poulson on recto: May 1847. North Fifth Street., Wainwright sugggests date of 1845., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 838, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 D922., Reproduced in Jennifer Ambrose, "Nineteenth Century Advertising Prints," in Magazine Antiques (August 2006).
Creator
Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date
[May 1847]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W453 [P.2240]
Exterior view of the Fourth Baptist Church built 1853-1855 after the designs of Joseph C. Hoxie. Edifice includes a tapering spire. Also shows neighboring buildings. Demolished circa 1970., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., See clipping in Poulson scrapbook, "Illustrations of Philadelphia," vol. 4, p. 4 for description of church., 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 #89., 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
July 1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [(6)1322.F.34]
