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Title: [Newmarket hardware, cutlery and nail store, 244 South Second Street, Philadelphia] [graphic] / James Queen del.
Description: LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886 artist., creator
Date: ca. 1845.
Location: http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W249.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W249 [P.2100]

Title: Bought of Edwin Hall, no. 28 South Second St., silks, shawls, dress goods, cloths, mourning goods, furnishing goods, gloves, hosiery, embroideries, laces, white goods &c
Description: Bilhead containing a vignette showing the exterior of the four-story dry goods store. Patrons enter the building past large display windows at which passers-by review the merchandise. In the foreground, a horse-drawn omnibus travels and a man on horseback greets a gentleman on the sidewalk., Completed in manuscript to Mr. C .J. Collings on May 1, 1871 for several items, including flannel, muslin, pink chintz, edging, lace, and ribbon, purchased between February 27 and March 3. Prices range from $.08 for lace to $2.75 for cuffs. Bill totals $21.34., Manuscript note on recto: 7/30 Recd Payt Edwin Hall., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.134]

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: [T. Sharpless & Sons, wholesale ware room, clothes, cassimeres, merinoes, silks and vestings and Pekin Tea Company, South Second Street and Trotter's Alley, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story double storefronts adorned with signage at 30-32 South Second Street, below Market Street. Massive merchandise displays adorn the windows and front facades of the businesses. At the wareroom, reams of different cloths hang within open windows from rods behind tables covered in swatches and bolts of cloth. A number of patrons, including women and a couple, admire the displays, and enter the open entry through which shadowy figures of female clerks are visible. More merchandise, including bolts of cloth and cloth-covered hat boxes, are visible in showcase spaces on the second floor. At the tea store, couples exit and enter the business in which several boxes of tea are piled between Chinese figurines displayed in the window. A clerk stands within the store. Potted plants adorn the third floor windows between which a large model of a box of tea hangs. In front of the store, boxes of tea are piled under a frame for an awning that displays a sign advertising "Fresh Teas." Manhole covers and a fire hydrant adorn the sidewalk as well. Around the corner of the building, a woman and girl walk past a horse-drawn dray travelling down a side alley to Strawberry Street partially visible in the background. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Pekin Tea Company relocated to Sixth and Callowhill streets in 1847. The textile firm established by Townsend Sharpless in 1815 located to the address in 1841 under the name T. Sharpless & Son. Firm was renamed T. Sharpless & Sons in 1842., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscriptions on recto: Strawberry. So. Second St. & Trotter's Alley. Sept. 1846. "Strawberry" written in image to identify street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 736, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., See related advertisement print, *W278 [P.2168]
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [September 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W358 [P.2198]

Title: Newmarket hardware, cutlery and nail store, 244 South Second Street, Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the storefront of Baxter & Brother hardware store at 244, later renumbered 522, South Second Street. Merchandise adorns the display windows of the shop and a clerk assisting a customer is visible through the doorway. A sign for "looking glasses," two teapots, and an anvil hang above the open entrance. In front of the store, crates, barrels marked "B&B," and unpackaged merchandise line the sidewalk and windowsills of the business. A shop employee rolls a barrel between the items that include shovels, rakes, and pots., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug 1846. Aug 1846. So. Second St. Probably a reissue. Pinkerton, Wagner & McGuigan was active 1844-1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 506, LCP copy trimmed and lacking complete title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [August 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W249 [P.2100]

Title: [C. F. Mansfield. Paper hangings. Wholesale and retail, 275 South Second Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-story storefront of the wallpaper store of Charles E. Manfield at 275, i.e., 621 South Second Street. A couple in winter clothing enters the store while a women wearing a shawl and bonnet views a large landscape print in the display window of the shop. Reams and samples of wallpaper are visible through the store entrance and behind the print. On the sidewalk in front of the store, a box wrapped in wallpaper and marked "Paper Hanging" and a wallpaper sample rest on and under an awning pole not in use. Also shows partial views, including a storefront with display window, of adjacent buildings. An alleyway separates the wallpaper store from the building in the right of the image., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: South Second Street, Dec. 1848., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 72, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed and lacking title.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [December 1848]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W38 [P.2019]

Title: Wm. B. Eltonhead, dealer in all kinds of watches, and manufacturer of all kinds of jewelry and silver ware, 184 South Second Street, (between Pine & Union Streets, west side,) Philadelphia Also, a large assortment of fine French jewelry, & a great variety of fancy articles. Please call & examine my large & good stock of goods. Watches, jewelry, & silver ware repaired and warranted
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story storefront with an open entrance and two large display windows on the 200 block of South Second Street. A clerk attends to a male patron within the store as a man and woman mill around them. A number of men, women, and children walk in front of, proceed into, and admire the merchandise displayed in the windows of the store. Displays include framed portraits, platters, watches, and other sliver plated pieces and fancy goods. Also shows a large model pocket watch adorning the building. Eltonhead tenanted the address beginning in 1850 until the mid 1860s before relocating to Chestnut Street. He received patents for gold washing and a match machine in 1869., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 852, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., De-accessioned duplicate dated "Nov. 1854" by Charles A. Poulson.
Creator: Magee, John L., artist
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W461 [P.2245]

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: [Hartley & Knight's bedding warehouse, 148 South Second Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the cluttered-looking three-story storefront of the bedding warehouse on the 200 block of South Second Street. A clerk, possibly one of the proprietors, stands at the main entrance to his store and points to a disheveled display of mattresses, one of many. Behind him, a couple enters the wareroom in which two women work in a backroom. The couple walks under a framed figure of a goose hanging above the doorway. Shelves of mattresses line the walls and rolled mattresses fill the large open display windows. In the upper floor windows, mattresses and bedding are propped out of windows and piles of feathers are visible. In front of the store, a mattress on a bed frame, a bed frame, and bedding on a cot is on display; a clerk loads bedding onto a horse-drawn cart; and a gentleman walks past a fire hydrant on the sidewalk. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Partners Joseph Hartley and Reeve L. Knight relocated to this address circa 1842 and remained in a partnership until 1854., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: South Second street. Augt. 1846, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 345, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed and lacking imprint.
Date: [August 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W170 [P.2064]

Title: Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia
Description: View showing the second edifice of the Bank of Pennsylvania (established 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 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 Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 27.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: [1800]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views[Sn 27a/P.2276.62]

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: Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia
Description: View showing the second edifice of the Bank of Pennsylvania (established 1780), built between 1798 and 1801, after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, on South Second Street above Walnut Street. In the foreground, groups of men converse, a boy pets a dog, and men enter and leave the bank. The first American building built in the Greek Revival style, the bank building was razed around 1870., Contains watermark: AMIES and dove with branch., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: [1828]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 36b/P.2276.73]

Title: Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia
Description: View showing the second edifice of the Bank of Pennsylvania (established 1780), built between 1798 and 1801, after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, on South Second Street above Walnut Street. In the foreground, groups of men converse, a boy pets a dog, and men enter and leave the bank. The first American building built in the Greek Revival style, the bank building was razed in 1867., 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. 91., Arcadia caption text: The first of several major public edifices built in the Greek Revival style in the early 19th century, the Bank of Pennsylvania greatly influenced bank design in Philadelphia and other American cities and contributed to Philadelphia’s designation as the “Athens of America.” Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the bank contained the first domed banking room in America. The dome motif was echoed in the small pavilions located at each of the four corners of the lot, three of which housed the bank’s guards while the fourth served as an outhouse.
Creator: Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date: 1804
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 36a/P.2276.72]

Title: [Wines and liquors. Wholesale and retail store, northeast corner Second and Spruce streets]
Description: View looking north from below Spruce Street showing businesses occupying rundown rowhouses on the 200 block of South Second Street. Includes a wine and liquor store and the Plough Hotel. A stack of barrels rests near the entrance of the liquor store. Also shows the corner of Spruce and Water streets., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title supplied by cataloguer., Inscribed in negative: 31., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: September 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - W [(7)1322.F.45a]

Title: [Fulton House, No. 121 South Second Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Busy view showing the early 1780s former residence of miniature painter and steamboat engineer Robert Fulton when tenanted by a lager beer saloon. Depicts two saloon workers moving barrels across from two men conversing near the entryway of the two-story, wooden building with display window and awning. One worker emerges with a barrel from the cellar in front of the window while the other rolls one of four barrels in his direction and away from a tilted telegraph pole. The pole extends up through the awning and leans into the roof of the adjoining building in the left. “Restaurant” is written on the display window and "Lager Beer Saloon" is written on the awning. A fire insurance marker and signage reading “121 Fulton House” and “ale” also adorn the building. Also shows partial views of adjacent brick buildings, and in the left, a woman attired in a hat, dress, and apron walking on the sidewalk and carrying a ceramic carafe. Building in right, likely a grocery store, is adorned with an awning frame on which a small round sign reading “L” hangs. Building is also adorned with signage that is partially visible and reads "Groc" and "Joh." Fulton lived and worked on South Second Street in the early 1780s. While in Philadelphia, he worked as an apprentice and miniature painter as well as began his experiments with the mechanics of steam power. In 1786 he relocated to Front Street. About 1787 he moved to London and studied painting with American-born artist Benjamin West., Artist and title from manuscript note on oil painting depicting similar scene and given in 1863 to Ferdinand Dreer by James L. Claghorn. Sold on liveauctioneers in 2019. Manuscript note: Ferdinand J. Dreer Esq. with Jas. l. Claghorn’s compliments, House No. 121 South Second Street Philadelphia PA in which Robert Fulton served his apprenticeship to an optician by John M. Falconer for NY Artists Fund Society, October 1863., Title supplied by cataloger., Drawing may be the watercolor listed as entry 291 and for sale by the artist in the United States Centennial Commission International Exhibition 1876 official catalogue, Art gallery and annexes. Department IV. Art. Tenth and Revised Edition (Philadelphia: John R. Nagle & Co., 1876), 14., Artist's initials written in lower right corner., Manuscript notes in modern hand on verso: Fasten title on backs, 132. From the collection of Samuel Castner, Jr. of Philadelphia., John Mackie Falconer (1820-1903), a Scottish-born New York artist, began his career as a painter and watercolorist before also specializing in etching starting in the mid 1860s. Known for works depicting older buildings and ruins, he was a treasurer of the Artist’s Fund Society, a member of the New York Etching Club, and an honorary member of the National Academy of Design.
Creator: Falconer, John Mackie, 1820-1903, artist
Date: [1861]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *drawings & watercolors - Falconer [P.2021.1]

Title: Old market
Description: View looking southwest at the north front and east flank of the fire-engine house (i.e., headhouse) at Second and Pine Streets, designed in 1745, with a cupola and alarm bell added in 1819. Two blocks of market sheds extend along Second Street from the rear of the headhouse to South Street., Inscribed in negative: 3296., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.90]

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: Old Market, Second & Pine Sts
Description: Distant view of the north front of the fire-engine house (i.e., headhouse) at 2nd and Pine Streets, designed in 1745, with a cupola and alarm bell added in 1819. Two blocks of market sheds extend along 2nd Street from the rear of the headhouse to South Street. Storefronts along South Second Street are visible in the foreground, including a business operated by B & M Cohen at number 342. Includes pedestrians walking along the sidewalks in the front of the shops., Title from negative sleeve.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.12]

Title: Old Market, 2nd & Pine Sts. 1745. Clock & bell put in, 1819
Description: Depicts the north front and west flank of the fire-engine house (i.e., headhouse) at 2nd and Pine Streets, designed in 1745, with a cupola and alarm bell added in 1819. Two blocks of market sheds extend along 2nd Street from the rear of the headhouse to South Street., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: Negative May 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.148]

Title: Old market sheds, 1898. 2nd St. North from Lombard
Description: Depicts the market sheds looking north toward Headhouse Square, identified by the fire-engine house (i.e., headhouse), designed in 1745, with a cupola and alarm bell added in 1819. Two men stand under the roof and a third man rests himself by sitting in the flatbed of a service cart. Perhaps it is day's end. There is refuse in the streets but no sign of customers., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title and date given in manuscript on mount., 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. 114., Arcadia caption text: Although market sheds were removed from Market Street almost 40 years earlier, this 1898 photograph shows public markets governed by the city still remained on adjacent streets. The Headhouse Market, originally known as the New Market, was erected in 1745 on the 400 block of South Second Street. Built to accommodate the growing number of South Philadelphia residents who did not wish to travel to the High Street market stalls, the market was not razed until 1956. The fire engine house, known as a headhouse, built in 1804 and for which the market was renamed, is visible in the distance on Pine Street.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: 1898
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.147]

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: [Little Dock and Spruce streets, at Second Street]
Description: View showing the businesses at 303 South Second Street at the intersection of Second and Little Dock (i.e., Mattis) streets. Shows the ramshackle building tenanted by J.T. Wells, clothier; Jacob Reed, clothing rooms; and J. & R. Hattuck, locksmiths and bell hangers. Includes two gentlemen in top hats conversing on the Little Dock Street side of the building; a freight car and sign post for a hotel in the right background; and surrounding businesses., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative of (7)1322.F.39., Inscribed in negative of (7)1322.F.39: 23., Manuscript note on recto of (7)1322.F.55e: S.e. cor 2nd & Spruce., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Image (7)1322.F.39 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 #64.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: March 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - L [(7)1322.F.39d & 55e]

Title: Second Street Market, Second and Pine
Description: View showing Second Street, looking south, east side, including a partial view of the "Headhouse" Market, extending from Pine to South Street. The market sheds, erected about 1745 to accommodate the growing number of South Philadelphia residents, were expanded to included a fire engine house with cupola around 1804. The market was razed in 1956 and the market with headhouse was rebuilt between 1959 and 1963. A covered wagon stands between the market and the opposite block of storefronts. The storefronts, including a barber, are adorned with awnings., Title printed on mount., Coral mount with rounder corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Right edge of mount tinted purple., 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: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Squares [(8)1322.F.9e]

Title: Second Street Market, Second and Pine
Description: View showing Second Street, looking south, east side, including a partial view of the "Headhouse" Market, extending from Pine to South Street. The market sheds, erected about 1745 to accommodate the growing number of South Philadelphia residents, were expanded to included a fire engine house with cupola around 1804. The market was razed in 1956 and the market with headhouse was rebuilt between 1959 and 1963. A covered wagon stands between the market and the opposite block of storefronts. The storefronts, including a barber, are adorned with awnings., Title printed on mount., Coral mount with rounder corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Right edge of mount tinted purple., 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: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Squares [(8)1322.F.9e]

Title: Second Street Market, Second and Pine
Description: View showing the "Headhouse" of the New Market (established 1745) near Pine Street. The fire-engine house (i.e., headhouse), designed with a cupola and alarm bell, was added around 1804 with the extension of the market sheds to South Street. Also includes partial view of the sheds. A man and boy lean and sit on one of two stalls in front of the headhouse. The market was razed in 1956 and rebuilt between 1959 and 1963., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Coral mount with rounded 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: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Squares [(8)1322.F.9c-2]

Title: Second Street Market, Second and Pine
Description: View showing the "Headhouse" of the New Market (established 1745) near Pine Street. The fire-engine house (i.e., headhouse), designed with a cupola and alarm bell, was added around 1804 with the extension of the market sheds to South Street. Also includes partial view of the sheds. A man and boy lean and sit on one of two stalls in front of the headhouse. The market was razed in 1956 and rebuilt between 1959 and 1963., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Coral mount with rounded 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: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1866
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Squares [(8)1322.F.9c-2]

Title: Shippen's House, So. Second Street.; First Christ Church, Philada
Description: View showing the residence, near Dock Creek, purchased in 1693 by the second mayor of Philadelphia Edward Shippen. Dwelling includes a fenced side yard. Pedestrians, including a woman and child, walk on the sidewalk. Also shows a grove of trees and surrounding buildings., View showing the wood-plank building that served as the first sanctuary for the church founded and built in 1695 by the Church of England at 22-34 North Second Street. A wood fence protects the single-story, cabin-style building and the church bell hangs from the trunk of a tree fashioned as a bell tower. Wood buildings, including a dwelling, flank the church in front of which pedestrians walk. A woman stands in the doorway of the residence and a woman enters the gateway to Christ Church., Published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 315., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 694a&b, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of James Rush.
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: 1830
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Residences [9245.Q.28a&b]

Title: [Headhouse Square and market, Second and Pine Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of of the "Headhouse" of market from north side of Pine Street. The fire-engine house (i.e., headhouse), designed with a cupola and alarm bell, was added around 1804 with the extension of the market sheds to South Street. The market was razed in 1956 and rebuilt between 1959 and 1963., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Old Second St. Market House. 2" and Pine Streets. (get data about this.), Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 235 [P.8513.235], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson235.htm

Title: [John C. Bell and other residences, 22nd and Locust Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: View of facades of seven houses along Locust Street, and the first house on 22nd Street, which belonged to John C. Bell, district attorney of Philadelphia. This residence was built in 1905 after designs by architect Horace Trumbauer., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Location: 22nd and Locust St. One of the most artistic and interesting rows of houses in Phila. Note: no two houses are the same in style. There is represented colonial, modern colonial, English, and a mixture of colonial and French architecture., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 186 [P.8513.186], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson186.htm

Title: [S.E. corner of South and Second streets]
Description: View looking southeast from the Second Street Market showing several businesses lining the intersection of South and Second streets. Includes John A. Evers, leather store (142 South); C.P. Elfreth's Southern Drug Store(148 South); David Donaldson, photographer (601 S. 2nd); and C. Brown's lace and ribbon store (603 S. 2nd). Includes a market shed in the foreground. Many of the businesses covered in signage, including Donaldson's building, which advertises "ambrotypes, melanotypes, and photographs.", Title supplied by cataloguer., Date and photographer's monogram inscribed in negative., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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 #231.
Creator: Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
Date: May 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Odiorne - S [(7)1322.F.69a]

Title: George Albert Lewis Old Houses and Stores Album
Description: Memory album compiled by Lewis containing written narratives, photographs, watercolors, textiles, drawings, prints and ephemera documenting his childhood and his lineage and family businesses and residences from the late 18th century to mid 19th century. Specific narrative topics include the provenance of the "Pictures" included in the album; "Memorabilia"; the "Marriage of our Ancestor, 1786. Johann Andreas Philipp Ludwig (i.e., J. A. P. Lewis) and Anna Maria Klingemann"; 'In Memoriam: Johann Andreas Philipp Ludwig' "; the "Memorials of the old Houses, Stores &c.," including deed, plot, architectural, and decor information pertaining to Lewis family residences at 121, i.e., 311 North Fifth Street (1791-1797), 60, i.e., 128 North Fourth Street (1797-1805), 82, i.e., 132 North Second Street (1814-1818), 124, i.e., 264 South Third Street (1818-1824), 148, i.e., 264 South Second Street (1824-1840) and rear storehouse on Laurel Street, and Sixteenth and Walnut streets (1840-1858), and the stores at Walnut and Front streets (1829-1856).

Title: The old houses and stores with memorabilia relating to them and my father and grandfather
Description: Memory album compiled by Lewis containing written narratives, photographs, watercolors, textiles, drawings, prints and ephemera documenting his childhood and his lineage and family businesses and residences from the late 18th century to mid 19th century. Specific narrative topics include the provenance of the "Pictures" included in the album; "Memorabilia"; the "Marriage of our Ancestor, 1786. Johann Andreas Philipp Ludwig (i.e., J. A. P. Lewis) and Anna Maria Klingemann"; 'In Memoriam: Johann Andreas Philipp Ludwig' "; the "Memorials of the old Houses, Stores &c.," including deed, plot, architectural, and decor information pertaining to Lewis family residences at 121, i.e., 311 North Fifth Street (1791-1797), 60, i.e., 128 North Fourth Street (1797-1805), 82, i.e., 132 North Second Street (1814-1818), 124, i.e., 264 South Third Street (1818-1824), 148, i.e., 264 South Second Street (1824-1840) and rear storehouse on Laurel Street, and Sixteenth and Walnut streets (1840-1858), and the stores at Walnut and Front streets (1829-1856)., Other narratives describe the yellow fever epidemic of 1793; J. A. P. Lewis's service in the volunteer militia; G. Albert's siblings S. Weir, John A., and Theodore C.; John F. Lewis's successful management of the financial panic of 1828 and his entertaining, including fireworks and "ample supplies of groceries, provisions, wine and liquors" on store; the business practices of the import trade; the conversion of Second Street residences into storefronts; the regrettable disposal of family possessions from the China trade, including card receivers, satins, pearl and ivory seals, artificial flowers, tortoiseshell combs, and silk covered boxes; the childhood of Eliza Mower along the Schuylkill River, her clandestine marriage to Lewis, and her death; John F. Lewis's lucky Mexican dollar; and the childhood and young adult years of G. Albert Lewis, including his "spying" at family parties, Christmas memories, sailing excurisons on the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers, and work for the Lewis firm., Album also contains numerous captioned and dated graphic and ephemeral materials, including watercolors and drawings by G. Albert Lewis, photographic views of family churches, family portraiture, newspaper clippings, certificates, bills of lading, and business and calling cards. Lewis's works depict family crests and coats of arms; sentimentalized genre scenes representing family lore, including J. A. P. Lewis's immigration to America for love; his childhood haunts, Christmas presents, and play areas; exteriors, interiors, grounds and gardens of the family residences and storefronts, including parlors, front rooms, gates, a weather vane designed as a cavalryman on the Walnut Street stable, dormer window (Second Street residence), store house on Laurel Street, and stores on Front and Walnut street; ground plans of Lewis residences (264 S. Second and Walnut Street); the "Great Tree" (South Second Street property); and Chinese exports and china patterns. Photographs depict family portraits of Johann Andreas Philipp and Anna Maria Lewis, John F. and Eliza Lewis, and G. Albert and Anne C. Lewis; the Lewis cargo ship "Globe," family churches and residences, including the altar of St. John's Lutheran Church, Crailsheim (J.A.P. Lewis's baptismal font) and St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Swedes Church, (Gloria Dei), and St. Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church (Philadelphia), and the final residence of Eliza Lewis at 1927 Spruce Street; and family artifacts, furniture, and mementoes, including Ludwig's sword and secretary and John F. Lewis's lucky Mexican dollar. Also contains engraved portraits of Frederick the Great and pictorial details by Lewis incorporated at the end of narratives and as frames around portraits., Ephemera includes certificates, bills of lading, and calling cards (including in Chinese) related to the Lewis firms; G. Albert's share certificate in the Philadelphia Museum Company; photomechanical and chromolithographed genre prints; an engraving sample possibly by James Otto Lewis; newspaper clippings, including advertisements and announcement for the Lewis firms, family obituaries, and poems; manuscript "endorsements on notes received, but protested for non-payment" by Weir, Lewis & Co. and family signatures, including that of Eliza Lewis; and textile swatches from Chinese curios, wall paper, and upholstery. Family trees and a chronology of the Lewis firm (until 1828) also form the content., Floral border in watercolor on title page. Border also includes pictorial details showing a sailing ship and Chinese character., Wm. F. Murphy's Sons, Co. Makers stamped on spine., Red leather binding with gold lettering., Dedication: "Dedicated to the Memory of my dear Mother who made the homes of my childhood most lovely and so beautiful!" Surrounded by watercolor frame reading "Haec Olim Meminisse Juvabit Virgo," i.e., "This will help you remember once upon a time.", Gift of Oliver Allen., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Transcription and inventory available at repository., See Sarah Weatherwax, "The Lewis Albums," The Magazine Antiques (August 2006), 116-121., See Oliver H. Allen, "The Lewis Albums," American Heritage 14 (December 1962), 65-80., One of six Lewis Family albums held in the Print Department., Housed in clamshell box., George Albert Lewis, son of Philadelphia China trade merchant John F. Lewis (1791-1858) of John A. Lewis & Co. and Eliza Mower (1788-1885), was a banker, genealogist, and artist descended from Hessian solder and Philadelphia Prothonotary Johann A. P. Lewis [formerly Ludewig]. Lewis studied art with G. W. Holmes, frequently exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Artist's Fund Society, and was a member of several organizations, including the Numismatic & Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, Genealogical Society of Philadelphia, and the Library Company. He married Anne C. Larcombe on July 1, 1851 and with her had two children Alberta (1854-1934) and Hermann (b. 1863) and grandchildren Hildegarde Allen (b. 1885), editor and publisher Frederick Lewis Allen (1890-1954), Barbara Lewis [Shepperd] (b. 1885), Margaret Lewis [Browne] (b. 1886), and George Draper Lewis (b. 1888).
Creator: Lewis, G. Albert, 1829-1915
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9829.2]

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