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Title: [Republican National Convention 1940, Municipal Auditorium, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view of the convention hall showing people, including African Americans, milling and gathered in front of the building at 34th Street below Spruce Street (i.e., S. 34th and Civic Center Blvd.) in West Philadelphia. Men and women enter and leave the building; convene on the steps; board a "Convention Hall-Center City" bus; and utilize a "Public Telephone" trailer. Lights that read, "Republican National Convention" hang over the front entrance. Also shows a sign advertising "nearly everybody reads The Bulletin" near one of the auditorium's doors. American flags decorate the street lamps on the sidewalk. The Municipal Auditorium was built 1929-1930 after the designs of Philip H. Johnson., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from content., Accessioned 2003., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: 1940
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - unidentified - Events [P.2003.27]

Title: Philadelphia. Chestnut St. looking east from Broad St
Description: Scene showing the heavily trafficked commercial thoroughfare near Juniper Street. Depicts numerous pedestrians, including African Americans, walking the business-lined sidewalks next to the street congested with automobile traffic. Businesses lining the street include the Western Saving Fund Society, the specialty store, Lousols, the Bailey, Banks, and Biddle Company jewelers building, and the rear entrance of John Wanamaker's department store., Title from manuscript note on verso., Date inferred from content, Gift of Joseph Kelly. 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: 1949
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8853.17]

Title: [American Legion parade, Broad Street, Philadelphia, August 30, 1949]
Description: Scene from the parade showing a float of the battleship "Post 654, Waterman ILL" passing a large crowd in front of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, opposite the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, near Walnut Street. Men, women, and children spectators, including African Americans, sit and stand along the street and look on from windows and balconies. A photographer on a ladder records the event in the street. American flag bunting and a sign that reads, "Welcome Delegates" decorate the awning of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The American Legion, chartered in 1919, is a patriotic veterans mutual aid society., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript note written on verso: 1371 American Legion Parade Aug. 30 49 passing Bellevue Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia., Gift of Joseph Kelly, 1982., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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: Photo Illustrators (Firm), photographer
Date: August 30, 1949
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Photo-Illustrators [P.8807.3]

Title: Court. Lombard St. W. of 7
Description: Depicts the courtyard between the brick residences of 710 and 714 Lombard Street, Philadelphia. An African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a white shirt, dark-colored pants, and shoes, stands in the courtyard near 710 facing the viewer. In the right, several children, including African Americans, sit on the stoop of the opposite residence. Chairs are visible in the courtyard., Title from manuscript note on verso., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney, 1979., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: [ca. 1923]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Wilson [P.8513.88], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson88.htm

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co's float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Float contains white men, attired in hats and smocks, near a large model of a keg inscribed "Brewing Industries of Philadelphia." Float also displays a large banner listing revenues spent by the brewing industry on its "allied trades." A large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, sit in viewing stands decorated with bunting and stand along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2958., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau. [P.9151.4]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day, Oct. 7th 1908. Phila. Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Four white men, attired in white suits and hats, lead the horses pulling the float. The float contains two white men near displays of crates of bottles and is adorned with a hand-painted banner depicting a freight train near factories and a vignette portrait of a horse. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2955., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau. [P.9151.6]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. The float with a financial theme contains white men costumed as "Uncle Sam" and a late 17th-century gentleman near a chest labeled "State Treasury" and stacks of money bags. Float also contains a banner inscribed with the annual amounts of local, state, and federal taxes paid by Philadelphia brewers. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2953., Purchase 1986, Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9151.7]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day Oct. 7th 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co.'s float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the celebration of the Founder's Week parade. Float contains white men and a woman in German costume near hop vines on stakes, and boughs of barley and hop tenders. Float also contains a banner promoting the amount of hops, barley, and other cereals utilized by Philadelphia breweries. Also shows a large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, seated in viewing stands decorated with bunting and standing along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of the Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Inscribed in negative: 2959., Purchase 1986., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9151.8]

Title: Founder's Week, Industrial Day, Oct. 7th, 1908. Philadelphia Brewing Co's float. By courtesy of Philadelphia liquor dealers journal
Description: View showing a horse-drawn Philadelphia Brewing Company float on the 300 block of South Broad Street during the Founder's Week parade. Four white men attired in costume lead the float containing brewing equipment, including a kettle and fermenter. Several men sit and stand on the float, which also displays a banner promoting the "Magnitude of the Brewing Industry of Pennsylvania." A large crowd of spectators, including African American men, women, and children, sit in viewing stands decorated with bunting and stand along the street. A white man police officer stands in front of the crowd. Partial view of the Chambers-Wylie Memorial Presbyterian Church (321 S. Broad) is visible in the background. Founder’s Week celebrated the 225th anniversary of the founding of Philadelphia, October 4-10, 1908. There were numerous parades and activities with each day having a special designation, including Religious, Military, Municipal, Industrial, Children’s and Naval, Historical, and Athletic and Knights Templar Day., Manuscript note on mount: Property of National Decorating Co., Phila. Pa., Title and photographer's imprint inscribed in negative., Purchase 1989., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Creator: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920, photographer
Date: October 7, 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Rau [P.9260.639]

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