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Title: The London Coffee House
Description: Exterior view showing the coffee house and merchants' exchange during the colonial era at the southwest corner of Front and Market streets in Philadelphia. An auction of enslaved people occurs outside the coffee house and pedestrians traverse the sidewalks. Partial view of the adjacent printing house of "Pennsylvania Journal" publisher, William Bradford, is visible. Erected in 1702 and established as a coffee house in 1754 by Bradford, the site was a public center for social and economic activities during the later 18th century, including auctions of enslaved people. The building was razed in 1883., Title from item., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time:....Embellished with engravings, by T.H. Mumford (Philadelphia, 1844), vol.1 and later editions., After wash study by Edward Mumford., Originally part of McAllister scrapbook of engravings relating to Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Mumford, Thomas Howland, 1816-, engraver
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8x10 - Hotels, Inns, Taverns [(6)1322.F.47a]

Title: Market Street, from Front St. [graphic] / Lith. of J.T. Bowen.
Description: Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Issued as plate 14 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., Snyder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53., Select link below for a digital image., View of the active business-lined street containing the "New Jersey" Market terminus, named after its central location to the ferries of New Jersey, the city's main provider of farm produce. Several marketers and pedestrians, including African Americans, stroll the streets, sidewalks, and under the market shed designed with cupola and clock. Peddlers sell their goods from carts on Front Street. Built in 1822, the market operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, lithographer., creator
Date: c1840, 1848.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W227-3.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W227 [P.2099]

Title: Looking up Market St. from Front
Description: Wagons, trolleys and pedestrians crowd the street and sidewalks in front of the shops along the north side of Market Street, west of Front Street. Names of businesses are painted on signboards along the block. Visible names include F. Frenzell, Vance & Co. and Coates Bros. Wool. A cigar shop occupies the southwest corner lot in the foreground., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date: Negative July 1882
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.173]

Title: Bought of Browning & Brothers, wholesale druggists, and dealers in white and red lead, litharge, linseed oil, oil of vitriol, window glass, putty, dye stuffs, &c.&c. No. 33 Market Street
Description: Illustrated billheads containing an exterior view of the "Browning & Brothers Drug and Chemical Warehouse" and storefront on the 100 block of Market Street. Crates and barrels line the sidewalk, near awning posts, in front of the store. One is marked "Oil Vitriol." Also shows partial views of adjacent buidlings. Established by Maurice Browning and his brothers circa 1839, the firm was one of the earliest involved in the United States dye trade and operated a factory known as the Aroma Mills in Camden, N.J., P.2011.46.17 completed in manuscript to Mess. Camitt & Albertson on July 18, 1849 for five items including "2 [fg.?] Laudamun" and "1# Cinnamon Bark" for $9.60. Signed "Recd Payment" Browning & Bros., P.2011.46.18 completed in manuscript to Mess. Camitt & Albertson on March 7, 1850 for six items including "5 #os Liquorice [sic] Root" and "4 doz. Batemans drops" for $3.80. Signed "Recd Payment" Browning & Bros., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - B [P.2011.46.17 & 18]

Title: Market Street, from Front St. Philadelphia
Description: View of the active business-lined street containing the "New Jersey" Market terminus, named for its central location to the ferries from New Jersey, the city's main provider of farm produce. Several marketers and pedestrians, including African Americans, stroll the streets, sidewalks, and under the market shed designed with cupola and clock. Peddlers sell their goods from carts on Front Street. Built in 1822, the market operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859., Title from item., Copyright statement printed on recto: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1840 by J.T. Brown in the Clerk's Office of the Dt Ct for the En Dt of Pa., Originally published as plate 14 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 457.2. Digital image shows third state of the print., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, See Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and his Philadelphia views," Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 87 (January 1953), p. 32-53., Gift of Dr. James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846, artist
Date: 1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W227.2 [Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush)]

Title: High Street Market, Philadelphia
Description: View of the interior of the "Jersey Market" shed on Market Street between Front and Second Streets. Depicts individuals, including a woman and boy, strolling through and in front of the closed market. Partial views of town hall and other market sheds are visible in the distance. The High Street Market established in the late 17th century, began operating from a permanent shed around 1709, providing shoppers twice a week with produce, meats, and wares from New Jersey and Pennsylvania farms., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 10.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: 1799
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 10/P.2276.18]

Title: Old London coffee house, s.w. corner of Market and Front street
Description: View showing the former coffee house and merchants' exchange. Shows building tenanted by Ulrich & Brother's Tobacco & Segar Store (100 Market). Crates stand piled near the entranceways and striped poles and window shutters adorn the building. Also shows the adjacent men's and boys' clothing stores operated by Philip Hunt (100 Market) and William Umberger (102 Market); merchandise on display; a handcart resting idle on Front Street; and a conestoga wagon parked near a pile of barrels on the sidewalk. Also shows a doll standing on one of the piles of crates in front of the tobacco store. Originally built in 1702, the former coffee house was razed circa 1883 by the Ulrich brothers, whose family purchased the building in 1813., Title, date, and photographer's imprint form Poulson inscription on mount., Contains a newspaper clipping dated January 19, 1842 about the changed social climate in Philadelphia over the last eight years and an advertisement for Mr. Rice as Jim Crow on the verso., McClees 1858-9., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 11, page 47. 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., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 96., Arcadia caption text: The old London Coffee House, depicted here, and the Merchants’ Coffee House (also known as City Tavern) served as informal business exchanges in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Merchants, ship owners, and investors gathered at these establishments to conduct business, advertise their wares, attend auctions, discuss politics and trade, and drink coffee with their associates. This photograph, taken in August of 1858, shows the former coffeehouse at the southwest corner of Market and Front streets occupied by a variety of businesses including a tobacconist, a barber, and a clothing shop., 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 #74., McClees, an early 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: August 1858
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Hotels, Inns, and Taverns [(2)2526.F.47]

Title: Market Street from Front St. Philadelphia
Description: View of the active business-lined street containing the "New Jersey" Market terminus, named for its central location to the ferries from New Jersey, the city's main provider of farm produce. Several marketers and pedestrians, including African Americans, stroll the streets, sidewalks, and under the market shed designed with cupola and clock. Peddlers sell their goods from carts on Front Street. Built in 1822, the market operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859., Title from item., Copyrighted by J.C. Wild and J.B. Chevalier in 1838., Issued as plate 14 in Views of Philadelphia, and its vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). A series of Philadelphia views, the first produced by lithography, originally published as five numbers of four prints each in 1838, and later sold as a bound volume of twenty views., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 457.1. Digital image shows the third state of the print., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Market - 2nd (2 copies), Athenaeum of Philadelphia: General Prints Collection - PR250, See Martin Snyder's "J.C. Wild and His Philadelphia Views," Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 87 (January 1953), p. 32-53., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846, artist
Date: 1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W227.1 [P.2098]

Title: Market Street, from Front St
Description: View of the active business-lined street containing the "New Jersey" Market terminus, named after its central location to the ferries of New Jersey, the city's main provider of farm produce. Several marketers and pedestrians, including African Americans, stroll the streets, sidewalks, and under the market shed designed with cupola and clock. Peddlers sell their goods from carts on Front Street. Built in 1822, the market operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859., Title from item., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen., Issued as plate 14 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 457.3, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - Market - 2nd (3 copies; 2 hand-colored), Snyder, Martin. "J.C. Wild and his Philadelphia views," Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography (January 1953, Vol. LXXXVII), p. 32-53., Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1840, 1848
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W227.3 [P.2099]

Title: London Coffee House
Description: Exterior view of the coffee house and merchants' exchange at the southwest corner of Front and Market streets in Philadelphia during the colonial era. An auction of enslaved African American people occurs outside the coffee house and pedestrians traverse the sidewalks and street, including an African American woman carrying a basket on her head. Views of the adjacent printing house and book store of "Pennsylvania Journal" publisher, William Bradford, are visible. Erected in 1702 and established as a coffee house in 1754 by Bradford, the site was a public center for social and economic activities during the later 18th century, including auctions of enslaved people. Razed in 1883., Title from item., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 339., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 442, Gift of James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Breton, William L., lithographer
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Hotels, Inns, Taverns [9245.Q.20], http://www.lcpimages.org/afro-americana/F-London.htm

Title: [Old London Coffee House, Front and Market streets, Philadelphia.]
Description: View showing the former coffee house and merchants' exchange. Shows building tenanted by Ulrich & Brother's Tobacco & Segar Store (14 Market, i.e. 100 Market). Also shows a partial view of the adjacent men's and boy's clothing store operated by Umberger & Co. (16 Market). Includes a female peddler with her baskets of goods at the corner; store merchandise on display; several handcarts resting idle on Front Street; tobacco store employees standing in the doorway; and a conestoga wagon parked in front of the clothing store. Originally built in 1702, the former coffee house was razed circa 1883 by the Ulrich brothers, whose family purchased the building in 1813., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., Title supplied by cataloguer., *McClees 1853-1., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., McClees & Germon, a partnership between Philadelphia photographers James E. McClees and Washington Lafayette Germon, was active between 1854-1855.
Creator: McClees & Germon, photographer
Date: ca. 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *photo - McClees [8339.F.16]

Title: Stereoscopic view of a portion of Market Street, Philadelphia, looking west, embracing the cupola of the Market House
Description: View showing the "New Jersey" Market terminus at the corner of Market and Front streets. The terminus, designed with cupola and clock and adorned with horns of plenty, was built in 1822 and operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859. In the background, businesses line the north side of the 100 block of Market Street including: Thomas J. Mecauley, tin warehouse (105 Market); R. & W.C. Biddle & Co., hardware, (131 Market); and the seed and agricultural warehouses of Philip B. Mingle & Co. (103 Market) and Rogers & Boyer (111 Market). Also includes a partial view of William D. Jones & Co., dry goods (217 Market) in the distance., Yellow mount with square corners., Manuscript note on verso: Old Corner House Market., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: c1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Markets [P.9047.99]

Title: Stereoscopic view of a portion of Market Street, Philadelphia, looking west, embracing the cupola of the Market House
Description: View showing the "New Jersey" Market terminus at the corner of Market and Front streets. The terminus, designed with cupola and clock and adorned with horns of plenty, was built in 1822 and operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859. In the background, businesses line the north side of the 100 block of Market Street including: Thomas J. Mecauley, tin warehouse (105 Market); R. & W.C. Biddle & Co., hardware, (131 Market); and the seed and agricultural warehouses of Philip B. Mingle & Co. (103 Market) and Rogers & Boyer (111 Market). Also includes a partial view of William D. Jones & Co., dry goods (217 Market) in the distance., Yellow mount with square corners., Manuscript note on verso: Old Corner House Market., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: c1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Markets [P.9047.99]

Title: [Stereosco]pic view of a portion of Market Street, Philadelphia, looking west, embracing the cupola of the Market House
Description: View showing the "New Jersey" Market terminus at the corner of Market and Front streets. The terminus, designed with cupola and clock and adorned with horns of plenty, was built in 1822 and operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859. In the background, businesses line the north side of the 100 block of Market Street, including: Thomas J. Mecauley, tin hardware (105 Market); R. & W.C. Biddle & Co., hardware (131 Market); and the seed and agricultural warehouses of Philip B. Mingle & Co. (103 Market), and Rogers & Boyer (111 Market). Also includes a partial view of William D. Jones & Co., dry goods, (217 Market) in the distance., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Upper right corner missing., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: c1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Markets [(8)1322.F.35e]

Title: [Stereosco]pic view of a portion of Market Street, Philadelphia, looking west, embracing the cupola of the Market House
Description: View showing the "New Jersey" Market terminus at the corner of Market and Front streets. The terminus, designed with cupola and clock and adorned with horns of plenty, was built in 1822 and operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859. In the background, businesses line the north side of the 100 block of Market Street, including: Thomas J. Mecauley, tin hardware (105 Market); R. & W.C. Biddle & Co., hardware (131 Market); and the seed and agricultural warehouses of Philip B. Mingle & Co. (103 Market), and Rogers & Boyer (111 Market). Also includes a partial view of William D. Jones & Co., dry goods, (217 Market) in the distance., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Upper right corner missing., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: c1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Markets [(8)1322.F.35e]

Title: [Stereoscopic view of a portion of Market Street, Philadelphia, looking west, embracing the cupola of the Market House]
Description: View showing the "New Jersey" Market terminus at the corner of Market and Front streets. The terminus, designed with cupola and clock and adorned with horns of plenty, was built in 1822 and operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859. In the background, businesses line the north side of the 100 block of Market Street, including: Thomas J. Mecauley, tin hardware (105 Market); R & W.C. Biddle & Co., hardware, (131 Market); and the seed and agricultural warehouses of Philip B. Mingle & Co. (103 Market) and Rogers & Boyer (111 Market). Also includes a partial view of William D. Jones & Co., dry goods, (217 Market) in the distance., Photographer, title, and publication information from duplicate., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [c1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Markets [(8)1322.F.9d]

Title: [Stereoscopic view of a portion of Market Street, Philadelphia, looking west, embracing the cupola of the Market House]
Description: View showing the "New Jersey" Market terminus at the corner of Market and Front streets. The terminus, designed with cupola and clock and adorned with horns of plenty, was built in 1822 and operated until the abolition of street markets in 1859. In the background, businesses line the north side of the 100 block of Market Street, including: Thomas J. Mecauley, tin hardware (105 Market); R & W.C. Biddle & Co., hardware, (131 Market); and the seed and agricultural warehouses of Philip B. Mingle & Co. (103 Market) and Rogers & Boyer (111 Market). Also includes a partial view of William D. Jones & Co., dry goods, (217 Market) in the distance., Photographer, title, and publication information from duplicate., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
Date: [c1859]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Markets [(8)1322.F.9d]

Title: High Street and market shambles
Description: View looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls during the colonial era. Shows white men in colonial attire walking on the sidewalks and street. In the right of the image, an African American man walks beside a white man. Two African American men are depicted in a stockade and attached to a whipping post near the jail. The man attached to the whipping post is attired in a white cloth that is tied around his waist. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles were replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 301., Title from item., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 354, Gift of James Rush., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., RVCDC, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Streets - High (2 copies)
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Markets [9245.Q.21]

Title: High Street Prison and Market Shambles
Description: View looking east from above Third and High (Market) streets showing the High Street Prison built circa 1723 and the nearby old market stalls during the colonial era. Shows men in colonial attire walking on the sidewalks and street and two African American men in a stockade and attached to a whipping post near the jail. The prison operated until the early 1770s when replaced by the Walnut Street Prison. The market shambles were replaced by the permanent Jersey Market circa 1765., Title from item., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time:....Embellished with engravings, by T.H. Mumford (Philadelphia, 1844), vol. 1 and later editions., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Mumford, Thomas Howland, -1816, engraver
Date: [ca. 1844]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Pr Pr - 8x10 - Prisons - H [(7)1322.F.231]

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