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Title: Museu de Filadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the Philadelphia Arcade also known as the Philadelphia Museum originally built 1826-1827 as a shop gallery after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Pedestrians walk in front of and into the museum in which a woman is visible walking down a staircase. Also shows adjacent buildings, an awning post, and street lamp. Museum served as an exhibition gallery including the display of the Philadelphia Museum Company's holdings of artist Charles Willson Peale's collections as well as a concert, public meeting, and lecture space. The building was also used as a bathhouse and hotel before being demolished circa 1859-1860., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 495, Gift of S. Marguerite Brenner.
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department BW - Museums - Philadelphia [P.9057.33]

Title: Philadelphia Arcade. Joseph L. Moore, dealer in fancy & staple dry goods, corner of Pine & Water Streets New-York Having established a branch in the Arcade south front, and fitted up his store with a separate apartment for selling at whole sale, is constantly receiving from New-York auctions every description of goods in his line which will be sold at very reduced prices. at whole sale & retail. N.B. Country merchants are respectfully invited to call and exame [sic] before making their purchases
Description: Advertisement showing the Moore storefront within the two-story shop gallery built 1826-1827 after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Statuary, above empty niches, adorns the front facade of the four-arched gallery entrance and "JLM" is visible above the centrally-located storefront that is flanked by corridors lined with stores. Pedestrians walk in front of the arcade. Neighboring buildings, including the Bolivar House hotel (611-613), are visible. Also shows, in the foreground, a gentleman peering at the arcade from across the street. The building was later used as a bathhouse and hotel before being demolished circa 1859-1860., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 572, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Lehman, George, d. 1870, artist
Date: [1833]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W279 [P.2169]

Title: Public baths. Thos. E. J. Kerrison's arcade-baths
Description: Advertisement showing the public bathhouse originally built 1826-1827 as a shop gallery after the designs of John Haviland at 615-619 Chestnut Street. Patrons enter one of the four arches to the visible interior of the arcade that contains stairs over a central enclosed space that is flanked by corridors of rooms. The front facade also contains statuary and advertising signs in two niches above gated cellar entrances to "D. Gibb, Franklin House." The signs promote the tenant oyster house. Also shows a boy posting a broadside on the building and a man and woman passerby. Kerrison operated the baths 1845-1849. Building demolished circa 1859-1860., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. Chestnut between Sixth and Seventh St., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1845., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 628, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., LCP copy trimmed and lacking caption.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W301 [P.2176]

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House steeple. West
Description: Panoramic view looking west toward West Philadelphia past the Schuykill River predominately showing the area between Arch Street and Gray's Ferry Avenue. Includes U.S. Naval Asylum, 2420 Gray's Ferry Avenue (1); [Blockley] Alms House, S. 34th and Pine streets (2); Peale's Museum, 100 block S. 9th Street (3); Walnut Street Theatre, 827-833 Walnut Street (4); Cook's Circus, i.e., Thomas Cooke's equestrian circus, 800 block of Chestnut Street (5); St. John's Church, i.e., St. John the Evangelist Church, 23-25 S. 13th Street (6); St. Stephen's Church, 19 S. 10th Street (7); University of Pennsylvania, Ninth Street below Market Street (8); [Beck's] Shot Tower, 21st and Cherry streets (9); Inst. for the Blind, 200 block Race Street (10); Water Works, Fairmount (11); East. Penitentiary, 2100-2199 Fairmount Avenue (13); Arcade, 615-619 Chestnut Street (14); and Chestnut St. Theatre, 603-609 Chestnut Street (15). Also shows part of Independence Square, Congress Hall, Marshall House hotel (625-631), residences on the 100 block of S. 6th Street, and the rooftops of several city blocks., Plate 3 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. WIld & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty view under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., First state., Key to 15 landmarks printed below the image., Upper right corner missing, including cited landmark "Waterman's Church.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 542.d.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: *P.2155 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Poulson), Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W267.1 [P.2155]

Title: Panorama of Philadelphia from the State House Steeple. West
Description: Panoramic view looking west toward West Philadelphia past the Schuykill River predominately showing the area between Arch Street and Gray's Ferry Avenue. Includes U.S. Naval Asylum, 2420 Gray's Ferry Avenue (1); [Blockley] Alms House, S. 34th and Pine streets (2); Peale's Museum, 100 block S. 9th Street (3); Walnut Street Theatre, 827-833 Walnut Street (4); Cook's Circus, i.e., Thomas Cooke's equestrian circus, 800 block of Chestnut Street (5); St. John's Church, i.e., St. John the Evangelist Church, 23-25 S. 13th Street (6); St. Stephen's Church, 19 S. 10th Street (7); University of Pennsylvania, Ninth Street below Market Street (8); [Beck's] Shot Tower, 21st and Cherry streets (9); Inst. for the Blind, 200 block Race Street (10); Water Works, Fairmount (11); [Thomas T.] Waterman's Church, i.e., Arch Street Presbyterian Church, 1006 Arch Street (12); East. Penitentiary, 2100-2199 Fairmount Avenue (13); Arcade, 615-619 Chestnut Street (14); and Chestnut St. Theatre, 603-609 Chestnut Street (15). Also shows part of Independence Square, Congress Hall, Marshall House hotel (625-631), residences on the 100 block of S. 6th Street, and the rooftops of several city blocks., Plate 3 of four panoramas originally issued as Panorama of Philadelphia. Views taken from the State House steeple (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, 1838). These panoramas also accompanied bound editions of Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity (Philadelphia: Published by J.C. Wild & J.B. Chevalier, Lithographers, 72 Dock Street, 1838). Views of Philadelphia was a series of twenty lithographs originally published as five numbers of four prints each. The four panoramas essentially constituted a sixth number in the series, and were published in bound editions with the twenty views under the title Panorama and Views of Philadelphia, and Its Vicinity, published by J.B. Chevalier in 1838 and reissued by J.T. Bowen the same year., Copyrighted by J.T. Bowen. LCP copies lacking copyright statement., Second state., Partial key to 8 of 15 landmarks (1-4, 8-12) printed below the image. Copy trimmed., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 542.d.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: *8236.F.4 and in Print Room *Am 1838 Wild 3008.Q (Rush), Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 862 W 6441 front, Gift of Mrs. A. Douglas Oliver.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), ca. 1804-1846, artist
Date: c1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W267.2 [8236.F.4]

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