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Title: [Seventh Street south of York Street.]
Description: Depicts residences along North 7th Street south of West York Street. Includes a partial view of a corner store., Numbered 849 on recto., Sheet number: 156B09., Real photo. Undivided back., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Streets - Miscellaneous - 156]

Title: United States Mint postcards
Description: Contains images of "Ye Olde Mint" painted by E. Lamasure. Depicts an exterior view of the first United States Mint at 37-39 North 7th Street, built in 1792. First public building erected by Act of Congress., Numbered 1924 on recto., Divided backs. Text on verso., Accession numbers: (2)1525.F.56b and P.9048.232, Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1915
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Government buildings - [various]

Title: Old Franklin Institute, S. 7th St., Phila
Description: Exterior view of the Franklin Institute's first building constructed 1825-26 after designs by John Haviland. The signs of the Buffalo Wire Works Co. affixed to the building north of the museum are visible., Inscribed in negative: 2198., Title from negative sleeve., The Franklin Institute occupied the 7th Street building until 1933, when it relocated to the new building at 20th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The 7th Street building became home to the Atwater Kent Museum in 1941.
Creator: Hand, Alfred, photographer
Date: ca. 1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department 4x5 Glass Negatives - Hand [P.9259.13]

Title: United States Mint postcards
Description: Contains images of "Ye Olde Mint" painted by E. Lamasure. Depicts an exterior view of the first United States Mint at 37-39 North 7th Street, built in 1792. First public building erected by Act of Congress., Numbered 1924 on recto., Sheet number: 160A01., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1915-1925
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [U.S. Mint - 160]

Title: [Interior of House of Industry with women at work, 114 North 7th Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of an interior at the House of Industry densely packed with women. The women sit on chaiars working on sewing projects and making handicrafts. Shuttered windows line the left and back walls. Two large skylights in the ceiling provide the main source of light in the room. The Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor, founded in 1795, operated the House of Industry, which offered a nursery and employed women to make handicrafts. The charity moved to Catharine Street in 1916., Title from entry in photographer's diary., Inscribed in negative: No. 2 of this., Same as last., Time: 3, Light: Good sun outside., 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. 49., Arcadia caption text: The Female Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor, one of the first charities in Pennsylvania established by women, was founded in 1795 under the leadership of Ann Parrish. The Quaker group provided food, clothing, and fuel to widows and children of men who had perished in the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. The society later established a “House of Industry” with a nursery, where women were employed to make handicrafts. The House of Industry depicted here in 1870 was located at 112 North Seventh Street. In 1916 the charity moved to 716 Catharine Street and was later known as the Catharine Street House of Industry., Digitization and cataloging edits have been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: January 24, 1888
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris [P.9895.1253]

Title: First premium (silver medal) to Cornelius & Sons, for gas fixtures in the Franklin Institute Exhibition, 1874
Description: Interior view of 1874 Exhibition of American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute, showing prize-winning gas fixtures designed by Cornelius & Sons, 1332 Chestnut St. The Exhibition was held in the John Haviland-designed building on South Seventh Street., Title from inscription 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. 13., Arcadia caption text: Incorporated in 1824, the Franklin Institute promoted knowledge in mechanic arts among its science-minded members. The Institute provided for its members a library and reading room, lectures, classes, a monthly journal, and it periodically held displays of American made products. This view of the 1874 Exhibition of American Manufactures highlighted prize-winner Cornelius & Sons, maker of gas fixtures and lamps. The Institute, today an educational science and technology museum open to the public, was located on Seventh Street just below Market Street, in the John Haviland-designed building now occupied by the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893, photographer
Date: 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer [P.9229.3]

Title: Franklin Institute Exhibition 1874
Description: Interior view of 1874 Exhibition of American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute, showing prize-winning gas fixtures designed by Cornelius & Sons (1332 Chestnut St.) flanking the wide aisle. The Exhibition was held in the John Haviland-designed building on South Seventh Street., Title from photographer's manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Exhibitions [P.9013.4]

Title: Franklin Institute Exhibition, 1874
Description: Interior view of 1874 Exhibition of American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute, showing prize-winning gas fixtures designed by Cornelius & Sons (1332 Chestnut St.) and the display of the machine tool firm of Wm. Sellers & Co., owned and operated by William Sellers who was elected president of the Franklin Institute in 1864. The Exhibition was held in the John Haviland-designed building on South Seventh Street., Title on mounts., Photographer's imprint on mounts., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Printed text on versos in paragraph form within decorative border describes history of the Franklin Institute and lists the present officers and exhibition officers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: 1874
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Exhibitions [P.9687.1-2]

Title: Interior views of Franklin Institute Exhibition, 1874
Description: Interior views of 1874 Exhibition of American Manufactures at the Franklin Institute (13-17 South Seventh Street), showing displays by Edwin Harrington & Son, manufacturer of machinist tools; F. Gossin, terra cotta; Harrison Bros., white lead; and Cornelius & Sons, gas fixtures. Images depict machinery; terra cotta vases, pedestals, statues, and urns; containers of lead; and gas fixtures and lamps. The Exhibition was held in the John Haviland-designed building on South Seventh Street., Copyrighted by Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia., Attributed to Robert Newell., Titles written in manuscript notes on mounts., Pink mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Exhibitions [P.9299.105-108]

Title: The Franklin Institute Founded in 1824. Building erected in 1825. Contains a magnificent technical library
Description: Depicts the original Franklin Institute building constructed in 1825 based of designs by John Haviland., Sheet number: 27A05B, Undivided back., Manuscript note on verso giving the history of the Institute., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: ca. 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Buildings - Miscellaneous - 27]

Title: [Philadelphia Hose Company steam engine in front of the company fire station at Seventh above Market Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View includes a section of hose inscribed "Philadelphia Hose of Pioneer" laying on the street near the engine and a dog lying on a bin in the background. Company organized in 1803., Attributed to Robert Newell., Title supplied by cataloguer., Yellow paper mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Paper backing pasted on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897, photographer
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Fires & fire fighting [(8)1322.F.5a-2]

Title: [The Hamilton mansion, S.E. corner of Seventh and Carpenter, now Jayne St., taken down this spring.]
Description: Exterior view of the residence on South Seventh Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Also shows adjoining building and a store clerk standing in in the street to the left of the image., Title, date, and photographer's imprint from Poulson scrapbook duplicate., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: January 18, 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Residences - H [(6)1322.F.67a]

Title: One of the houses in which Edgar Allen [sic] Poe resided while in Phila
Description: Exterior view looking from below Brandywine Street showing the residence at 530 North 7th Street attached to the dwelling tenanted by Edgar Allan Poe from 1842 to 1844. Two ladies peer out of third floor windows who "did not know why this picture was being made but they got in it anyhow." Also shows a partial view of Poe's former residence adorned with a poster advertising traveling burlesque shows at the Bijou., Title from photographer's descriptive manuscript note on verso., Descriptive manuscript note by photographer on verso: "It is said that 'The Raven' and 'Gold Bug' were written in this house. It is at 7th and Brandywine Sts. Across the street at the (1923) present time is a sign on an old building reading 'Improved Order' of Free Lelts - whatever that is.", 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 photo - Wilson [P.8513.233], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson233.htm

Title: Saint James' Church, Philadelphia
Description: Interior views showing the altar, stained-glass chancel window designed by William Gibson, and pews of the Protestant Episcopal church built 1807-1809 on the 100 block of North 7th Street. Views also include the organ gallery holding the organ designed by Hall & Labagh, clerics in their robes, and a man in plain clothes standing near the pews., Contains four stereographic images mounted on pale yellow or white paper mounts with square corners and printed titles, including one, [(4)1322.F.82f] hand-colored and accompanied by publisher's label describing the church building and history of the congregation. Also contains one stereographic image mounted on paper and two cartes-de-visite., Four of images 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 1860, c1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McAllister & Bro. [P.8662.6], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.F.82b; (4)1322.F.82f; (4)1322.F.83a;(4)1322.F.83c], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - McAllister & Bro. - Religion [(4)1322.82d; 1322.F.83b]

Title: [St. James Church, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: View showing the Protestant Episcopal church at Seventh and Commerce streets above Market Street. The Georgian-style building, built 1807-1809, was demolished circa 1871 when the congregation relocated to Twenty-second Street. Also shows adjacent buildings, including John Heumann's boot and shoe store at 13 North 7th Street. Street railroad tracks are visible in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Purple 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: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Reigion [1322.F.156g]

Title: [St. James Church, Philadelphia, Pa.]
Description: View showing the Protestant Episcopal church at Seventh and Commerce streets above Market Street. The Georgian-style building, built 1807-1809, was demolished circa 1871 when the congregation relocated to Twenty-second Street. Also shows adjacent buildings, including John Heumann's boot and shoe store at 13 North 7th Street. Street railroad tracks are visible in the foreground., Title supplied by cataloguer., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Purple 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: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date: ca. 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Reigion [1322.F.156g]

Title: [First U.S. mint building, the "Old Mint," 37-39 Seventh Street, Philadelphia]
Description: View showing the former mint building built 1792 being used as storefronts. Businesses include Cumming & Biddle, plumbers & metallic roofers and Joseph Sellers, silver plater. Also includes two young men standing near and in the doorway of the building. Adjacent building is also visible. Mint occupied location until 1833., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date inscribed on photograph (5)2526.F.6a. Photograph accompanied by brief newspaper clipping noting the establishment of the mint., Manuscript note inscribed on photograph (7)1322.F.31d: Old mint 7 St., One of images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 5, page 6a?. 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.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: July 1854
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Government buildings - U [(7)1322.F.31d; (5)2526.F.6a (Poulson)]

Title: The London Hotel, N.W. corner 7th & Arch. Soon to be torn down
Description: Glass negative showing the London Hotel, a large building set on the corner of Seventh and Arch Streets. A sign at the top of the building reads "The London...Temperance Hotel" and a sign on the first floor awning reads "Gas Stoves." Horse-drawn carts wait outside the building and trolley tracks run down the cobblestone street. A building to the left has a sign reading "St. Cloud Hotel.", Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: October, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.784]

Title: [Office of Elliston P. and Marriott C. Morris], 21 N. 7th St. Phila[delphia]
Description: Glass negative showing Marriott C. Morris and his father's four-story office at 21 North Seventh Street. The building is connected to a three- and five-story building on either side, each constructed from either stone or brick. The five-story building on the right is adorned, with the number 19 above the door. The word "George" is visible on the signage between the second and third floors. The building on the left displays a sign reading "Rent will improve, W. Bruce Barrow, 130 N. 12th St.", Photographer remarks: Photo taken 10/23 1905. Building torn down 10/30/1905. 2 mountd, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: October 23, 1905
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.8.5]

Title: Great Central Depot, southwest corner of 7th and Market Streets
Description: Men looking in windows of shop with comments in speech balloons. William Brown, prop., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Date: ca. 1850
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Ph Pr - Business - Grand Central Depot [P.9178.16]

Title: 7th + Filbert Sts., [Philadelphia, PA]
Description: Glass negative showing the corner of Seventh and Filbert Streets in Philadelphia. A three-story building stands on the corner in the center with a sign reading "D.M. Shirk Dry Goods" (701 Filbert Street). To the left stands a six-story building with a sign painted on the side that reads "Philada. Photo Electrotype Co. Designers & Engravers" (707-709 Filbert Street). A sign on the front of the building reads "709 Ladies' Undergarments Quindlen & Co. [...] Dresses, 707." The buildings to the left have signs reading, "Gold Leaf," "Phila. Tag Co. Label & Paper Cutting" (44 N. 7th Street), "Central Trunk Factory," and "Oliver T. Terry [...] Woolens" (46 N. 7th Street). People walk on the sidewalk while a carriage drive down the street., Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.552]

Title: 7th + Filbert Sts., [Philadelphia, PA]
Description: Glass negative showing the corner of Seventh and Filbert Streets in Philadelphia. In the center of the image, a three-story building stands on the corner. To the left stands a six-story building with a sign painted on the side that reads "Philada. Photo Electrotype Co. Designers & Engravers" (705-707 Filbert Street). A smaller building closer to the center has a sign reading "G.W. Bean & Co. Perfumery." The buildings to the right display signs reading, "Gold Leaf," "Appleton & Company Wallpapers" (44 N. 7th Street), and "Oliver T. Terry [...] Woolens" (46 N. 7th Street). Various carriages drive down the street., Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.553]

Title: 7th + Filbert Sts., [Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing the corner of Seventh and Filbert Streets in Philadelphia. In the center of the image, a three-story building stands on the corner. To the left stands a six-story building with a sign painted on the side that reads "Philada. Photo Electrotype Co. Designers & Engravers" (705-707 Filbert Street). A smaller building closer to the center has a sign reading "G.W. Bean & Co. Perfumery." The buildings to the right display signs reading, "Gold Leaf," "Appleton & Company Wallpapers" (44 N. 7th Street), and "Oliver T. Terry [...] Woolens" (46 N. 7th Street). A man stands in the doorway of 44 N. 7th across from horse-drawn carts and carriages parked in the street., Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.549]

Title: 7th + Filbert Sts., [Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing the corner of Seventh and Filbert Streets in Philadelphia. A three-story building stands on the corner in the center with a sign reading "D.M. Shirk Dry Goods" (701 Filbert Street). To the left stands a six-story building with a sign painted on the side that reads "Philada. Photo Electrotype Co. Designers & Engravers" (707-709 Filbert Street). A sign on the front of the building reads "709 Ladies' Undergarments Quindlen & Co. [...] Dresses, 707." The buildings to the left have signs reading, "Gold Leaf," "Phila. Tag Co. Label & Paper Cutting" (44 N. 7th Street), and "Oliver T. Terry [...] Woolens" (46 N. 7th Street). Various people walk on the sidewalk while a carriage drives down the street., Originally housed in negative box inscribed “Bought 12/27, 1899.”, Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.2013.13.550]

Title: Old Norris mansion, 7th & York Sts. Built 1727
Description: View looking northeast at the front elevation of the Fairhill mansion built 1778 near York and Seventh Streets. Shows the painted phrase, "Revolution House, Iron Sons of..." spanning the width of the front elevation, which was the name of a tavern that operated there in the 1870s. The original mansion, constructed 1712-1719 by bricklayer Richard Redman and stone mason John Hart for Isaac Norris, Sr., was destroyed by fire by the British troops in 1777. Second mansion demolished in 1885., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount. Also contains photograper's blindstamp on mount: Gutekunst, 712 Arch St., Orange curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Gutekunst - Residences [P.9047.65]

Title: 7th & Filbert streets, [Philadelphia]
Description: Glass negative showing a view of the corner of Seventh and Filbert Streets. Signs are also visible for Tom Keene Cigar on an adjacent building and on the relocated Philada Photo Electrotype Co. Designer & Engravers (705-707 Filbert Street). Includes the storefronts, adorned with signs, for Rider Erickson Engine Company; H.W.B. Conrad Publishers (705-707 Filbert Street); Quindlen Company Ladies Undergarments (707-709 Filbert Street); and Lit Brothers Jobbers in Cotton & Woolen Dress Goods (714-738 Filbert Street). For Sale and For Rent signs hang from the Quindlen Company building in the left. Telephone poles and wires line the brick road. A fire escape winds down the side of the four-story building (705-707 Filbert Street) in the center of the image. Philadelphia Photo Electroype Company relocated from the Filbert Street address in January 1894., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.11.7]

Title: Aaron Wolff's old wine store, &c on the northwest corner of Chestnut and Seventh Street
Description: Views showing the former wine shop being tenanted by Mahlon Warne, rifle and pistol gallery, and J.E. Gould, pianos, at 701 Chestnut Street. Also shows a partial view of John Sturdivant's lodging house (703 Chestnut); a vendor stand, horse-drawn carts and wagons, and signage for Lacey & Phillips, saddlery, painted on their building on South Seventh Street. Wolff operated as a wine merchant in the 1840s., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount of (3)2526.F.70., Date inscribed on (3)2526.F.70., Newspaper clippings dated April 1859 pasted on mount of (3)2526.F.70 reporting the demolition of the building., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of the images originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 70. 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., One of the images [(3)2526.F.70] 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. 63., Arcadia caption text: ... This image, one of approximately 120 views shot by Richards, was taken in April 1859, only days before the demolition of this building at the northwest corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets. The building’s last tenants included a wine shop, a piano store, and on the top story a shooting gallery with bulls-eye targets affixed to the windows.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Businesses - W [(6)1322.F.113f; (3)2526.F.70 (Poulson)]

Title: First old Presbyterian church. East side of Seventh Street. A few doors below Bainbridge formerly Shippen Street
Description: Depicts street scene with a view of the African American church built 1810-1811 under the auspices of the Evangelical Society of Philadelphia. Church stands between red brick townhouses containing the businesses of "Cheap John" and a lager beer hall. African American men and women walk the sidewalks and an African American man peddler sells his wares from his horse-drawn cart in the street. A partial view of the "No. 3 Navy Yard" street car is visible. The congregation, organized in 1807 to convert the city's African American residents to Christianity, formed under the leadership of former Tennessee enslaved man, and missionary and preacher John Gloucester., Title from item., Commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer., Lib. Company. Annual report, 1975, p. 6-11., See LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History #178 for variant copy in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Purchased 1975., 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 Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), active 1857-1891, artist
Date: 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.137], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc137.html

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]

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