Pennsylvania State Fair
Title
Pennsylvania State Fair, Philadelphia, 1885. $41, 000 in premiums! Opens September 23d, closes October 14th Manufactures, machinery, implements, produce, live stock
Description
Advertising card containing a montage of captioned vignettes depicting the fair buildings and heavily trafficked grounds at Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue. Vignettes show the Main Building (Society of Arts); Poultry Agricultural Hall; Cattle Sheds; Restaurant; and Music Stand. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts.", Advertising text on verso: 31st. Pennsylvania State Fair, 1885. The spacious building and fine grounds, Broad St. and Lehigh Ave., Phila'a. for all the purposes of a grand exhibition of American industry, In [sic] all its departments, are unsurpassed in the United States. The lofty Main Building and its Annexes are devoted to General Machinery and Manufactured Goods, under the management of the Society of arts, office and books of entry, 411 N. 18th St., George W. Fryer, secretary. The Agricultural, Horticultural and Poultry, as well as other Live Stock Buildings, are devoted to special agricultural machinery products and manufactures. Under the management of the Penna. State Agricultural Society, Office and Books of Entry, N. E. Cor., 18th and Market Sts. D. W. Seiler, Secretary, Cheap Excursion Fares on all railroads entering Philadelphia. Low special rates of transportation on all objects entered for exhibtion. Trains run to Fair Grounds without change. Books of entry close Sept. 16., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 288, See POSP 239, Free Library of Philadlephia - Oversize Philadelphiana - Fairs, festivals, See related tradecard for Cheltenham Coach Works, Shoemakertown, PA. Moore & Ervien in FLP Americana - Tradesmen's Cards (A-D) - Folder C. Tradecard illustrated with a montage of views of the fair buidlings.
Date
[1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia. | Print Department trade card - Pennsylvania [P.2014.41.1]
Residence & property of James Holgate, n. w. cor. Lehigh Ave. & Eleventh St. Philadelphia, Pa.
Title
Residence & property of James Holgate, n. w. cor. Lehigh Ave. & Eleventh St. Philadelphia, Pa
Description
View, probably from an atlas, showing the Victorian-style house and substantial property of the state legislator at 1109 Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia. The property, surrounded by a fence, contains a carriage house and large landscaped garden, including a wall of trellises, a green house, and a dog house. A gardener works near the trellises. Neighboring buildings, including row houses and W.C. Gill, apothecary, are visible in the background. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn carriages; a lamppost with mailbox at the corner; and the names of the streets inscribed on the sidewalks., Contains inset of a view showing three elegant row houses. Includes pedestrian traffic., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 194, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 16 H 716
Date
[ca. 1885]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Residences [7810.F]
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Title
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
Description
Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking southeast. Shows rowhouses, warehouses near a grassy lot, and church steeples., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 #219., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1a]
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College.
Title
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
Description
Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking southeast. Shows rowhouses, warehouses near a grassy lot, and church steeples., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 #219., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1a]
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College.
Title
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
Description
Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking southeast. Shows rowhouses, warehouses near a grassy lot, and church steeples., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 #219., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1a]
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College.
Title
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
Description
Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking east. Shows a partial view of the college, rowhouses,and a grassy lot., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1b]
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College. [graphic] / Langenheim.
Title
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
Description
Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking east. Shows a partial view of the college, rowhouses,and a grassy lot., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1b]
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College.
Title
Philadelphia, from the roof of Girard College
Description
Cityscape view from the roof of the college (1201-1211 West College Avenue) in North Philadelphia looking east. Shows a partial view of the college, rowhouses,and a grassy lot., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Buff paper mount with square corners., Title printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers, who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator
W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date
ca. 1860
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Views [(8)1322.F.1b]
State fair buildings and grounds, Philadelphia. Industrial Exhibition Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, North Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia.
Title
State fair buildings and grounds, Philadelphia. Industrial Exhibition Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, North Broad Street and Lehigh Avenue, Philadelphia Manufactures, machinery, implements, apparatus, produce & live stock
Description
View of the fair buildings and heavily trafficked grounds enclosed by a wood fence. In the foreground, outside of the grounds, pedestrian and street traffic is visible. Horse-drawn carriages and wagons travel in the street near pedestrians, including a woman walking her dog on the sidewalk. Horse-drawn omnibuses arrive at and depart from the multiple entrances to the fair at Fifteenth Street near a Philadelphia & Reading Railroad train arriving at the "Special Station." Within the grounds, visitors stroll on the paths between and enter the several exhibition buildings, including the Main Building (center), Restaurant, House of Public Comfort, Carriage and Wagon House, and Poultry House. Agricultural implements, fountains, and shrubbery adorn the grounds. In the background, the cattle sheds, rows of horse stalls, and the Executive Offices line the outskirts of the grounds in back of which trains on the Connecting Railroad and Pennsylvania Rail Railroad tracks travel past. Also shows the entrances, train station, and buildings decorated with flags. The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society was founded in 1851 by representatives from 50 counties with the object to "foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts.", pdcp00044, Not in Wainwright., Key to buildings (left to right) printed below the image: Cattle Sheds. Connecting Railroad. Horse Stalls. Exercise and Parade Drive. Restaurant. Main Building. House of Public Comfort. Horse Stalls. Carriage and Wagon House. Pennsylvania R.R. Executive Offices. Fifteenth St. Entrances. Philadelphia & Reading R.R. Agricultural Building. Poultry House. Special Station P. & R.R.R., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 239, Free Library of Philadelphia: Oversize Philadelphiana – Fairs, festivals, See related tradecard for Cheltenham Coach Works, Shoemakertown, PA. Moore & Ervien in FLP Americana - Tradesmen's Cards (A-D) - Folder C. Tradecard illustrated with a montage of views of the fair buidlings.
Date
c1884
Location
Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Oversize Philadelphiana – Fairs, festivals
Church of the Resurrection. Rising Sun Village. Revd. Thos. J. Davis, rector.
Title
Church of the Resurrection. Rising Sun Village. Revd. Thos. J. Davis, rector
Description
View showing the small stone Protestant Episcopal church built in 1853 on North Broad and Tioga streets. Fenced pasture land surrounds the building. Congregation was organized under Rev. Thomas J. Davis in 1849., Title annotated with pencil inscription: Phila Pa., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 128, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 132 K 952
Creator
Kuchel, Charles Conrad, b. 1820, artist
Date
[ca. 1853]
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 132 K 952
Interior of St. Malachy's Church, Philadelphia, Pa.
Title
Interior of St. Malachy's Church, Philadelphia, Pa
Description
Confirmation and Holy Commmunion certificate containing an interior view of the Roman Catholic church built 1851 after the designs of Joseph D. Koecker in North Philadelphia. View looks toward the altar of the ornately decorated church and shows a large painting of the crucifixion behind the altar; other religious paintings; pews; small altars adorned with several candles; a frescoed ceiling; and religious statuary. Founded by Irish immigrants and the Sisters of Mercy in 1850, the church was nicknamed the "Church in the woods.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 120, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Malachy
Date
[ca. 1880]
Location
Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Malachy
Camac's Woods, Philadelphia.
Title
Camac's Woods, Philadelphia
Description
Shows a wooded path and fenced corn fields on the estate of gentleman Turner Camac (i.e., Carnac) at the northeast corner of Eleventh Street and Montgomery Avenue. Views also include a man and several boys posed on and near a fence. The Camac estate was built circa 1841 and demolished in 1870., Attributed to John Moran., Yellow paper mounts with square corners., Title from labels pasted on mounts., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., 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 - Views [(8)1322.F.39i; (8)1322.F.41b]
[St. Malachy's Church, 1429 North 11th Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Title
[St. Malachy's Church, 1429 North 11th Street, Philadelphia]
Description
Interior views showing the altar during Christmas of the Roman Catholic church built 1851 after the designs of Joseph D. Koecker in North Philadelphia. Includes a large painting of the crucifixion behind the altar; other religious paintings; a garland decorated pulpit; pews; small altars adorned with several candles; and a man standing in the aisle of the church. One view also shows a service in progress., Title supplied by cataloguer., Attributed to McAllister & Brother., Contains stereographic prints mounted on yellow paper mounts with square corners, including one with a manuscript title and one accompanied by a label inscribed: St. Malachi Church, 11th above Master, Christmas Day 1860. Also contains one-half stereographic print mounted on paper., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator
McAllister & Brother
Date
[December 25, 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(5)1322.F.40f, g & j], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(5)1322.F.40i]
Photograph Album of Philadelphia and Vicinity
Title
Photograph Album of Philadelphia and Vicinity
Description
Photograph album compiled by Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell containing views by the photographer and his peers, including F. De. B. Richards. Images depict major city landmarks and views of Fairmount Park, including benevolent, educational and financial institutions, historic sites, residences, churches and meetinghouses, bridges, and hotels and taverns. Sites documented include Broad Street (Civil War) Hospital; Foster Home (Twenty-Fourth and Poplar); Germantown Academy; the former bookstore and printing office of William Young (200-204 Chestnut); Landing Avenue during alterations (East bank of Schuylkill); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (old and new); Carpenters Hall; Independence Hall; Academy of Music; Merchants' Exchange; Girard, Farmers', Mechanics', Pennsylvania, and Fourth National banks; Bartram's, Keene, and Rittenhouse mansions; Woodford residence (Fairmount Park); Washington's residence (Germantown); Womrath property, "where the first 4th of July" was celebrated" (4216 Frankford); Oldest house in Lansdown" (West Fairmount Park); Old Farm house (Broad and Oxford); St. Judes Episcopal church; Fairmount Water Works, and boat houses and ice houses along the Schuylkill; Cedar Hill, Laurel Hill and Woodlands cemeteries; Columbia, Old Callowhill Street, Girard Avenue, and New York Connecting Railroad bridges; Continental, Valley Green, Maple Spring, Markley's and Cole's hotels; and "Punch Bowl" (2100 Broad), "Abbey" (Hunting Park and Wissahickon Aves), Old Buck? (Lancaster Pike) and Old Grey's Ferry taverns.
Girard College, Phila., Pa.
Title
Girard College, Phila., Pa
Description
High-altitude aerial view of Girard College at Girard Avenue including Founder's Hall and the eastern and western outbuildings. The school buildings, designed by Philadelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter in the Greek Revival style, were constructed 1833-1847. Girard College was established through a bequest from Stephen Girard, a Philadelphia financier and philanthropist, for the creation of a school for poor white male orphans. It opened in 1848. Eastern State Penitentiary is visible in the foreground. View looks north and includes North Philadelphia., Negative number: 5376.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1925
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5376]
Photograph album of Philadelphia and vicinity
Title
Photograph album of Philadelphia and vicinity
Description
Photograph album compiled by Philadelphia photographer Robert Newell containing views by the photographer and his peers, including F. De. B. Richards. Images depict major city landmarks and views of Fairmount Park, including benevolent, educational and financial institutions, historic sites, residences, churches and meetinghouses, bridges, and hotels and taverns. Sites documented include Broad Street (Civil War) Hospital; Foster Home (Twenty-Fourth and Poplar); Germantown Academy; the former bookstore and printing office of William Young (200-204 Chestnut); Landing Avenue during alterations (East bank of Schuylkill); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (old and new); Carpenters Hall; Independence Hall; Academy of Music; Merchants' Exchange; Girard, Farmers', Mechanics', Pennsylvania, and Fourth National banks; Bartram's, Keene, and Rittenhouse mansions; Woodford residence (Fairmount Park); Washington's residence (Germantown); Womrath property, "where the first 4th of July" was celebrated" (4216 Frankford); Oldest house in Lansdown" (West Fairmount Park); Old Farm house (Broad and Oxford); St. Judes Episcopal church; Fairmount Water Works, and boat houses and ice houses along the Schuylkill; Cedar Hill, Laurel Hill and Woodlands cemeteries; Columbia, Old Callowhill Street, Girard Avenue, and New York Connecting Railroad bridges; Continental, Valley Green, Maple Spring, Markley's and Cole's hotels; and "Punch Bowl" (2100 Broad), "Abbey" (Hunting Park and Wissahickon Aves), Old Buck? (Lancaster Pike) and Old Grey's Ferry taverns., Images also include neighboring and tenant businesses, including Charles Oakford & Sons, hats, Continental Hotel (29a), John C. Clark & Sons, stationers and printers, L. S. Boyer & Co., coal, and a "Shaving and Hair Cutting Emporium," on 228-232 South Third (29b), and a real estate office, 524 Arch (45b); street vendors (74b); and broadsides displayed on buildings and walls (49b & 79b). Several of the Fairmount views also show visitors, patrons to refreshment saloons, and park guards. Scrapbook also contains a small number of photographic reproductions of engravings, including one of Masonic Hall (700 block Chestnut) and images reproduced in R. Newell & Son's "Old Landmark" series (1876), including Old Swede's Church, Friends Almshouse, and Robert Morris Hotel., Title supplied by cataloger., Some of the contents identified by inscriptions on album pages. Inscriptions annotated and corrected in different hand., Texts from R. Newell & Son's "Old Landmark" series tipped in between album pages., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Images from album 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)., Album reformatted for conservation. Housed in two phase boxes, including binding and index., Robert Newell, the prominent Philadelphia commercial photographer operated a studio from circa 1855 to 1900. His firm, which originally specialized in portraiture, later focused on "Artistic Business and Landscape Photographs" and was reorganized as R. Newell & Son circa 1872. In 1876, the studio (Robert and Henry Newell) issued a series of six viewbooks under the title "Old Landmarks & Relics of Philadelphia." Newell also produced series of stereographs during the 1860s depicting commercial streets, the volunteer fire companies, and views of Fairmount Park and local cemeteries, as well as invented acid proof photographic ware in the 1870s.
Creator
Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date
ca. 1860-ca. 1900
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) [P.9062]
Church of the Incarnation, Broad and Jefferson streets, Philadelphia [graphic].
Title
Church of the Incarnation, Broad and Jefferson streets, Philadelphia
Description
Exterior views of the chapel of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1858-1859 in North Philadelphia. One view includes a pile of wood planks in the foreground and surrounding buildings. Church altered and compelted 1866-1870 after the designs of James H. Windrim., Unmounted halfs of stereographs., Title from mauscript note on verso of (5)1322.F.74a., Attributed to McAllister & Brother., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., McAllister & Brother, opticians, a partnership between brothers William Y., John A., and Thomas H. McAllister, was active 1853-1865.
Creator
McAllister & Brother
Date
[ca. 1860]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.74a(v) & 74b(v)]
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, 11th and Erie, Philadelphia, Pa.
Title
Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, 11th and Erie, Philadelphia, Pa
Description
Aerial views of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus in the neighborhood of North Philadelphia. Depicts vicinity of Butler Street between 10th Street and Old York Road. Delivery trucks and wagons populate the grounds of the circus, which consists of at least five tents and side shows. Adjacent to the circus grounds are row homes, railroad tracks, a streetcar shed, the lumber yard of Charles F. Felin & Co., and Welsh Bros. Coal facility., Negative numbers: 5777, 5784-5787.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
May 5, 1926
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5777; P.8990.5784-5787]
Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. North.
Title
Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. North
Description
Panoramic view looking North toward North Philadelphia predominately showing the area north of Chestnut Street between the Delaware River and 25th Street. Includes St. Augustine Church, 260-262 N. 4th Street (1); Girard College, 2000-2490 N. College Avenue (2); Zion Church, 100 block N. 4th Street (3); Franklin Square, between Race, Vine, North Sixth, and North Franklin streets (4); and Pennsylvania Hall, 100 block N. 6th Street (5). The north side of the 500 block (501-535) of Chestnut Street, with several businesses, dominates the foreground. Includes the office of "City Resor..," "Eagle Hotel" (533), "Washington Hall" (531), and "Woods Confectionary" (187, i.e., 523-525). Also shows the rooftops of several city blocks, the masts of docked ships along the Delaware, rows of trees in front of the State House, and a figure in one of the doorway of the Chestnut Street shops., Plate 2 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five number of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., First state., Key to 5 landmarks printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 542.b.1, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: P.2152 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Trimmed., 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 *W265.1 [P.2152]
Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House Steeple. North.
Title
Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House Steeple. North
Description
Panoramic view looking North toward North Philadelphia predominately showing the area north of Chestnut Street between the Delaware River and 25th Street. Includes St. Augustine Church, 260-262 N. 4th Street (1); Girard College, 2000-2490 N. College Avenue (2); Zion Church, 100 block N. 4th Street (3); Franklin Square, between Race, Vine, North Sixth, and North Franklin streets (4); and Pennsylvania Hall, 100 block N. 6th Street (5). The north side of the 500 block (501-535) of Chestnut Street, with several businesses, dominates the foreground. Includes the office of "City Resor..," "Eagle Hotel" (533), "Washington Hall" (531), and "Woods Confectionary" (187, i.e., 523-525). Also shows the rooftops of several city blocks, the masts of docked ships along the Delaware, rows of trees in front of the State House, and a figure in one of the doorway of the Chestnut Street shops., Plate 2 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., Key to 5 landmarks printed below the image., Second state., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen. LCP copies lacking copyright statement., Key to 5 landmarks printed below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 542.b.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: 8236.F.2 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: 8236.F.2 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver., 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 *W265.2 [8236.F.2]
[Robert Swayne collection of Philadelphia photographs] [graphic].
Title
[Robert Swayne collection of Philadelphia photographs]
Description
Collection of photographs documenting Philadelphia cityscapes, neighborhoods, landmarks, churches and benevolent institutions, businesses and factories, street views, and local events. Images depict interiors, exteriors, and alleyways. Many views include storefront signage; utility poles and street clocks; railroads and stations; and street and pedestrian traffic, as well as show the Western, Southern, and Northern sections of the city. Subjects depicted include All Saints Church (Torresdale); Cliveden; views along the Delaware River; Fairmount Park and Waterworks; Wissahickon Creek, Schuylkill River and Boathouse Row; Frankford Arsenal (1948); Philadelphia Gazette Building (924 Arch Street); the WCAU building (Bala Cynwyd) ; Rittenhouse and Logan squares; the “Clothesline Show” at Rittenhouse Square: a ca. 1930 view of a baseball game at the Baker Bowl, i.e. National League Park (2622 North Broad St.); the power house of the Westinghouse Gas Engine Machinery (Manayunk); the attic and basement of the original United State Mint (37-39 N. 7th Street, built 1792) photographed ca. 1890 by Newell & Son; interior of the second Mint Building (Broad and Chestnut);, the construction of the Delaware River, later Benjamin Franklin, Bridge (ca. 1924), Hahnemann Hospital (1928), Philadelphia Municipal, later JFK, Stadium (ca. 1926); the interior of an unidentified bakery (53rd and Vine) photographed ca. 1905 by C.H. Miller; interior and exterior of Geo. W. Einselen, Fine Cake Bakery and Ice Cream Saloon (1372 Somerset St.) photographed 1904 by Joseph Pearce; progress photographs photographed 1926 of the property of “Philadelphia Brick Co. Required for P.R.R. Temporary Track” and photographed 1921 by J.E. Bewley of and near the 3400 block of North 5th Street ; “Stephen Girard's ‘Alleged Slave Dungeons,’ Front & Market Streets uncovered by demolition” photographed 1906-1907 by John Trautwine, likely the civil engineer (P.2017.88.37.1-7); ca. 1880s studio portraits of adult and child mummers photographed by Richter & Co.; workers on scaffolding attached to the Nixon Building (20 S. 52nd St.); an exterior view photographed ca. 1873 by Newell & Son of the carpenter shop of Clarkson Fogg in front of which numerous household implements and furniture are lined, as well as men, women, and children, including a policeman are posed (449 N. 10th St.); ca. 1868 view of the 100 block of North Third Street, including the storefront for Dr. Stoever's Bitters manufactured by Kryder & Co (121 N. Third); Maryland Metal Bldg. Co. Incorporated classroom modules for the Philadelphia School District (ca. 1924); ca. 1920 advertising photos for an unidentified lighting company of examples of their work in Philadelphia manufactories with sewing machines (Greenwald Bros., Inc., 313 Arch St. and Trio Waist Co., 821 Arch St.) and of the moulding room of S.J. Cresswell Iron Works (2250 Cherry St.); the ca. 1905 interior of the cigar store of Ramon Azogue (102 S. 8th St.);, ca. 1930 view of the hairdressing salon at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel; ca. 1895 view of the interior of the Bourse (i.e., Philadelphia Stock Exchange); and a ca. 1930s exterior view of the Roxborough Home for Indigent Women (601 Leverington Avenue). Other images show a WWI benefit parade "to Keep the War Chest Filled" (1419 N. 2nd St.); a ca. 1900 lavish display of elaborately-decorated cakes photographed by William Phillipi; a posed WWI publicity still with release statements on the verso for Eastman Kodak showing Anna B. Graham with a camera and a young girl in a nurse’s uniform photographed by William F. Langrock; the storefront of a women’s owned business (Mrs. R.T. Anderson); a ca. 1920s contact sheet of variant bust-length portraits of a young woman photographed by the Lipp Studio; and the Walter Lippincott family posed on the porch of a residence., Portrait photographs, including of engraver John Sartain (P.2017.88.77.1 & 2), African American Rev. C. M. Tanner (1869-1933)(P.2018.66.4), John McAllister, Jr. and family members, and “physio-psychism” researcher Emil Sutra (P.2018.66.2) by Philadelphia photographers and occupational, school, and organizational group portrait photographs also comprise the collection. Group portraits document the Bellview Wheelmen; a class trip to the Franklin Institute; and performers attired in leotards, including jugglers, titled “Mr. Jonathan Evans, Haines & Cheer St.” Collection also includes William Stuart McFeeters family photograph album; a small number of images depicting African American men (P.2017.88.11, P.2017.88.61, P.2017.88.76.9 & 38); an organizational group portrait with a man with dwarfism (P.2018.66.15); candid snapshots, including ca. 1900 views of women using cameras along the Schuylkill River; and two film negatives depicting the WCAU building., Title supplied by cataloger., Various photographers, including Frank B. Cassel; William Bell; Berry & Homer; J. E. Bewley; Coward & Shannon; Harry A. Derr; Eagle Photo View Co.; Empire Photo Co.; H. Fetters; S.M. Fisher; Frederick Guteknust; Hansbury Studio; Henry C. Howland; Keystone Instantaneous View Company; William J. Kuebler; William F. Langrock; Lipp Studio; Charles Luedecke; F. Mattes; Monarch Photograph & Publishing Co.; Marriott C. Morris; Robert Newell; Newell & Son; Newell Studio; C. H. Miller, C. R. Pancoast; Joseph N. Pearce; William Phillipi; William Rau; Frederick DeBourg Richards; Schreiber; George Sheridan; Alfred Taylor; John Trautwine; Universal Photo Service; and W. D. Weland, Cartes-de-visite portraits of John Sartain (P.2017.88.77.1 & 2) housed separately and with cdv portraits – sitters - S., View by Schreiber of horse cart racing (1903) housed separately and with *photo – Schreiber., Cartes-de-visite portrait photographs of John McAllister, Jr. and family members (P.2017.88.79-102) housed with the McAllister Family Portrait Collection - cartes-de-visite., Electronic inventories of collection available at repository., See Lib. Company. Annual report, 2016, p. 64-65., RVCDC, Access points revised 2022., Robert Swayne (1927-2011) was a West Chester antique dealer, collector of vernacular photographs, and local writer about the Civil War.
Date
[ca. 1860-ca. 1952]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Swayne Collection [P.2017.88 & P.2018.66]