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Title: Slate roof house _ Residence of W. Penn 1700
Description: View showing the H-shaped building built circa 1687-circa 1699 on the 100 block of South Second Street. The dwelling served as the residence for Penn 1699-1701. A couple enters the entrance and two men walk on the sidewalk along the residence. Evergreens are seen behind the house and a partial view of an adjacent building is visible., Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 151., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 698, Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1830]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences - P [9245.Q.18]

Title: Residence of Wm. Penn 1700
Description: Book illustration showing the H-shaped building built circa 1687-circa 1699 on the 100 block of South Second Street. The dwelling served as the residence for Penn 1699-1701. A couple approaches the entrance. Evergreens are seen behind the house and a partial view of an adjacent building is visible., Plate opposite page 93 in John F. Watson's Historic tales of olden time : concerning the early settlement and progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania ; for the use of families and schools ; illustrated with plates (Philadelphia : E. Littell : Thomas Holden, 1833)., William L. Breton and Kennedy & Lucas created many of the lithographic plates for Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, so it is probable that they also created the plates in Historic tales of olden time., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 645
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: [1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Am 1833 Wat [Log 2794.D.opp93]

Title: [Slate Roof House, former residence of William Penn, southeast corner of Second and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Views showing the former Penn residence tenanted by John C. Rogers, sign painter, and a wine and cigar dealer, at the southeast corner of Second Street and Norris Alley (Sansom Street). The H-shaped building, adorned with signage and broadsides, was the residence of Penn from 1699-1701. Also includes merchandise displays in front of the building and partial views of adjacent businesses., Yellow mounts with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Possibly by Philadelphia photographer John Moran., One of images 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.
Date: ca. 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Residences [(6)1322.F.60a & P.9758.1]

Title: Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia
Description: View showing the second edifice of the Bank of Pennsylvania (established in 1780), built between 1798 and 1801, after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe on South Second Street above Walnut Street. Includes views of the mansion of Jewish merchant David Franks, and the City Tavern (opened in 1773) used as a tavern, banquet hall, and merchant's exchange by several eminent colonial Americans, including the Continental Congress. Depicts individuals walking the sidewalks, including a man with a handcart, and several patrons gathered outside the tavern. The first American building built in the Greek Revival style, the bank was razed in 1867. The tavern, razed in 1854, was reconstructed for the Bicentennial., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitleman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 27.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: [1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 27b/P.8717]

Title: St. James, 21st and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view of church and bell tower. Demolished circa 1947., Numbered 25427 on verso., Divided back. Post marked 1910., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Religion - [P.9050.45]

Title: William Penn's mansion or the "slate-roof house." Southeast corner of Norris Alley and Second Street
Description: View showing storefronts occupying the former Penn residence built circa 1687-circa 1699 on the 100 block of South Second Street. Scaffolding covers the H-shaped building and piles of wood planks lie in the street. A clothing store occupies one section of the building and small tables are visible on a flat-section of the roof. Served as the residence of Penn from 1699-1701., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Compass directions inscribed on mount., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: See p. 32., Accompanied by article dated April 23, 1864 describing the averted demolition of the residence and planned preservation of the building by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 2, page 31. 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., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image., Published in Kenneth Finkel's Nineteenth century photography in Philadelphia (New York: Dover Publications, Inc. in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1980), entry # 54., Corresponding album page describing "Penn's House" [(2)2526.F.28 (Poulson)] housed with photograph.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: August 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Residences - P [(2)2526.F.31 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f31.jpg

Title: [Early 20th-century drawings of prominent Philadelphia sites]
Description: Collection of drawings, predominantly pencil, depicting views of prominent sites in Philadelphia, mainly exteriors. Includes the residence of William Penn, the Slate Roof House (built circa 1687-circa 1699 and demolished 1867, 100 block of South Second Street), Benjamin Franklin Bridge (built 1922-1926), Rittenhouse Square, and John Wanamaker department store (built 1902-1910, 1300-1326 Market). Many of the exterior views include pedestrian traffic. The three Wanamaker’s pencil sketches show interiors of the department store, including the restaurant, balconies, American flags, and arm chairs. The sketches portray an impressionist aesthetic. Bridge view includes an automobile and cityscape. Rittenhouse view includes an apartment building in the background and visitors seated on park benches in the foreground. Collection also includes a pen & ink exterior view of an unidentified stone commercial building, likely in Philadelphia., P.2017.15.3 signed lower right corner: T. F. Bancroft 1923., P.2017.15.4 signed lower right corner: T. F. Bancroft., P.2017.15.1-2 & 5-7 attributed to Bancroft., P.2017.15.3 manuscript note on recto : Slate Roof House “1863.” From photo courtesy of Mr. L. C. Siner., P.2017.15.3 manuscript note on verso : Slate Roof House in 1863 (from Photo by Gutekunst) mentioned in “Watsons Annals” as home of Wm. Penn in 1700. S. E. cor. 2nd & Norris Alley (or Sansom St), P.2017.15.1 manuscript note lower right corner: Aug 11th. Bridge from 2nd & Race., P.2017.15.2 manuscript note lower right corner: Rittenhouse Sq. Aug. 2nd., P.2017.15.5-7 inscribed: Wanamakers., Thomas F. Bancroft (1864-1934) was a Philadelphia engraver and later illustrator for popular periodicals like “Ladies Home Journal.” Bancroft worked as a button maker early in his career and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the late 19th century. He resided in Collingswood, NJ by 1930., Forms part of the David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection., Leander C. Siner was proprietor of the Philadelphia gun and sporting goods business first established by John Krider in 1837. Siner assumed operations of the firm in 1903 with partner Charles Mohr as L. C. Siner & Co.
Creator: Bancroft, Thomas F., artist
Date: [ca. 1923-ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Bancroft [P.2017.15.1-7]

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