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- Title
- ASSU Illustration 4808
- Description
- Block numbered in two places: 4808., Image of a cherub resting on an architectural element.
- Date
- [s.a.]
- Location
- ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 8
- Title
- ASSU Illustration 9324
- Description
- Block numbered in two places: 9324., Image of an Orientalist interior, with vases., Back of block partially obscured by pasted-down paper.
- Date
- [s.a.]
- Location
- ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 3
- Title
- ASSU Illustration 7703
- Description
- Block numbered in two places: 7703., Image of two bearded men, one of whom appears to be talking, and the other is holding some sort of horn.
- Date
- [s.a.]
- Location
- ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 6
- Title
- Children's Art Union
- Description
- Comic genre view showing boys and girls sitting in a parlor creating or holding artwork. One boy stands on a table and draws a caricature of a man's face on the wall. Another boy holds his rough sketch of a horse for others to see. One girl stands in front of a sophisticated painting with a palette in her hand., Title on negative., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of F.J. Dallet.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Associations [P.9461.1]
- Title
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Description
- Aerial views showing the Philadelphia Museum of Art, built 1919-1928 after designs by Horace Trumbauer and the firm of Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary., Negative numbers: 12549-12555., Negatives dated May 22, 1930., 12553 not digitized; negative is damaged and cannot be scanned.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- 1930
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.12549-12555]
- Title
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Description
- Aerial view showing the Philadelphia Museum of Art, built near the Schuylkill River 1919-1928 after designs by Horace Trumbauer and the firm of Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary. View includes part of West Philadelphia., Negative number: P276., Negative dated September 18, 1931.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- 1931
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.P276]
- Title
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Description
- Aerial views showing the Philadelphia Museum of Art under construction. Designed by Horace Trumbauer and the firm of Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary, the museum was built from 1919 to 1928 near the Schuylkill River., Negative numbers: 5493, 5494.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1925
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5493; P.8990.5494]
- Title
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Description
- Aerial view showing the Philadelphia Museum of Art under construction. Designed by Horace Trumbauer and the firm of Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary, the museum was built from 1919 to 1928 near the Schuylkill River. View looking southeast includes Center City to the Delaware River., Negative number: 5915.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1926
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5915]
- Title
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Description
- Aerial view showing the Philadelphia Museum of Art under construction. Designed by Horace Trumbauer and the firm of Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary, the museum was built from 1919 to 1928 near the Schuylkill River. Construction materials are visible around the perimeter of the building., Negative number: 6277.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1926
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.6277]
- Title
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Description
- Aerial view showing the Philadelphia Museum of Art under construction, including scaffolding on the front facade. Designed by Horace Trumbauer and the firm of Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary, the museum was built from 1919 to 1928 near the Schuylkill River., Negative number: 7290., 7290 not digitized; negative is damaged and cannot be scanned.
- Creator
- Aero Service Corporation, photographer
- Date
- ca. 1926
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.7290]
- Title
- The Art Club, the headquarters of the artistic life of the city
- Description
- Depicts the Art Club clubhouse, built 1889-1890 after designs by Frank Miles Day., Sheet number: 27A01B, 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 [Buildings - Miscellaneous - 27]
- Title
- Cumberland Island, Georgia
- Description
- Views showing rocks with hieroglyphics on the the barrier island off the Southern end of Georgia used as a fishing and hunting ground by Native Americans before the 16th century., Title from label accompanying 5739.F.54d., Yellow paper mounts with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Non-Philadelphia - Georgia [5739.F.54a, b & d]
- Title
- ASSU Illustration 6105
- Description
- Block numbered in two places: 6105, also 1390 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a boy and a woman indoors; the boy stands across the table, holding a framed image toward the woman; the woman regards the image and holds a paper in her hand; an open chest or box sits on the ground, and plates, a coat hook, and a large table clock are visible behind them in the room., Signed: H.D. [i.e. Henry Dacre?], “N.J. Wemmer 215 Pear St. Phila” – Back of block. Boxwood dealer Nelson J. Wemmer is listed at this address in Philadelphia city directories from 1861 to 1876., “Tom Tracy. M.S. p. 135.” – Inscribed on side of block., Illustration appears in New book of two hundred pictures, p. 108
- Date
- [s.a.]
- Location
- ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 21
- Title
- Cyclorama of Jerusalem and the Crucifixion, Broad and Cherry Sts., Philadelphia
- Description
- Series of titled views include "Crucifixion," "Mount Moriah and Tower of Antonia," "Mount Moriah, with Mount Olives as background of Temple," "Lower Part of Mount Zion, with Mountains of Moab in the distance," "Central portion of Mount Zion," "Herod's Palace and Towers," "Western View, Ruins of Caravensary," "Western View," "Northern View, with Shepherd's Cottage and Road to Damascus," "Northern View, with Caravensary and Illuminated Well," and "North-eastern view, with Grotto of Jeremiah". Images depict the crucifixion of Christ on a barren plateau outside of the city and include Roman soldiers, pilgrims, merchant caravans, donkeys and camels, and a cottage., Title and photographer's imprint from series label pasted on verso. Includes eleven numbered titles in the series list (No. 1-11)., Orange curved mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- R. Newell & Son
- Date
- [ca. 1888]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Theaters and halls [P.9900.1-11]
- Title
- First annual prize exhibition of the Philadelphia Sketch Club held in New York January 1866
- Description
- Poster containing Gothic-style lettering bordering a central vignette. Vignette depicts an oval-framed mid-length portrait of a lady in medieval attire holding a pencil and sketchpad. The lady's hand with pencil ascends outside of the frame. The professional artists' club was founded in 1860., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 79, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
- Date
- [1866]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.75a]
- Title
- First annual prize exhibition of the Philadelphia Sketch Club held in New York January 1866
- Description
- Poster containing Gothic-style lettering bordering a central vignette. Vignette depicts an oval-framed mid-length portrait of a lady in medieval attire holding a pencil and sketchpad. The lady's hand with pencil ascends outside of the frame. The professional artists' club was founded in 1860., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 79, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871.
- Date
- [1866]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.75a]
- Title
- Art exhibit at Rittenhouse Square - 1937
- Description
- View showing a young African American man looking at a display of art works from the "Clothesline Show" in Rittenhouse Square. The man stands to the right of the display composed of two, parallel rows of art hung on clothes lines strung between two trees. A collection of painted canvases rest under the lines in the left. The man stands near the opening to a pathway. A bed of flowers near a lawn of grass is visible in the foreground. The "Clothesline Show," later the Rittenhouse Square Fine art show began in June 1932 with the exhibition of art works within the square by arts students in the Arts Student League. In the following years, professional artists began to display their work as well and in 1976 the show was renamed the Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual. In 2004 the show moved to the outside of the park. In 2005 it was renamed Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Show., Date and title from manuscript note on recto., Part of a number of views of the "Clothelines Show" [P.2017.88.76.5-11] taken by Fetters within a series of his work in the Swayne Collection [P.2017.88.76.1-52]. Most of the views include spectators and two views include the "Lion Crushing the Serpent" statue after the designs of Antoine-Louis Barye., Description reviewed 2022., Access points reviewed 2022.
- Creator
- Fetters, H.
- Date
- [1937]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Robert Swayne Collection [P.2017.88.76.9]
- Title
- Chamberlain, William
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- December 5, 1834
- Title
- Standard Drop Shot bag
- Description
- Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2018., Textile shot bag. On the front of the bag in red letters: “Standard Drop Shot, T.W. Sparks, Philadelphia. 7.” An eagle in red is in the center. Inside the bag is a newspaper clipping, “A Brief History, Sparks Shot Tower.”, Opened in 1808 by Thomas Sparks and John Bishop, the 142 foot tall brick tower revolutionized the manufacture of ammunition. Gun shot was made by pouring lead from the top of the tower. The lead developed a round shape through falling and solidified in cold water at the bottom. Four generations of Sparks operated the tower until 1903 when it was sold to the United Lead Company. The City of Philadelphia bought the site in 1913.
- Creator
- T.W. Sparks
- Date
- Between 1872-1903
- Location
- OBJ 908
- Title
- Suggestion Box
- Description
- A suggestion box with the face of a lion depicted and the words, "Gentlemen are Requested to deposit in the Lion's Mouth the titles of such Books as they may wish to have Imported" painted underneath., Made for the Library Company., Exhibited in, Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (2005-2007).
- Date
- Ca. 1750
- Location
- OBJ 650
- Title
- W. Boell, practical lithographer and engraver, 311 Walnut Street Philadelphia Lithographic drawing, engraving & printing. Orders in all branches of the lithographic art executed in the best style
- Description
- Tradecard illustrated with two female allegorical figures representing Prosperity (left) and Art (right). Figure of Abundance wears a Roman-style gown, with one breast exposed, and rests one hand on a cornucopia filled with fruits and grains. She leans toward the direction of Art who wears netting in her hair and a draped gown. She holds a paint brush in one hand and a palette in the other. She looks toward Abundance. Grass, twigs, and bushes surround the figures. Boell, a French-born lithographer, worked in New York 1854-1858 before relocating to Philadelphia, where he was active until the 1880s. He operated from 311 Walnut Street circa 1859-circa 1865., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 107, Forms part of Specimens Album [P.9349].
- Creator
- Boell, William
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.151s]
- Title
- Breuker & Kessler lithographers, engravers & printers. S. W. corner 7th & Chestnut sts. Philadelphia. Particular attention paid to all kinds of commercial engraving
- Description
- Book advertisement containing landscape views, allegorical figures, and artist and printer's tools. Shows the allegorical figure Art as she leans on a pedestal that is covered in vines and displays a vase of flowers. She stands on a moss covered rock marked "Labels" that is surrounded by a stone tablet, possibly a lithographer's stone, inscribed "Manufacturers of Transferable Pictures"; a press machine; and a paint palette resting on a book. In the background, trees, hills, and a bridge spanning a river near townscape are visible. Breuker & Kessler, a partnership between George W. Breuker & Harry C. Kessler, operated circa 1867-1880., Not in Wainwright., Published in Edwin Freedley's Philadelphia and its manufactures: a hand-Book of the great manufactories and representative mercantile houses of Philadelphia, in 1867(Philadelphia: Edward Young & Co., 1867), opp. p. 134., Philadelphia on Stone, POSA 7, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 39 B 750
- Creator
- Breuker & Kessler Co.
- Date
- [1867]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1867 Free 55213.O.134a
- Title
- "And Ruth said, intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." Ruth 1-16
- Description
- Illustrated trade card based on a copy of the oil painting "Ruth and Naomi" by Philip Hermogenes Calderon., Advertising text printed on verso promotes the "Ruth and Naomi" lithographic reproduction as a souvenir for patrons who submit five "Hires' improved Root Beer!" labels., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1890]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *trade card - Hires [P.9592]
- Title
- First annual prize exhibition of the Philadelphia Sketch Club held at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts December 1865
- Description
- Poster containing seated figures incorporated into the lettering to promote the exhibition of the professional artists' club founded in 1860. Figures include a female muse working with a sketch, and cherubic boys sculpting a bust and painting from a palette. Letters designed as trees, vinery, and a fish tail., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 80, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871., Cresson, an illustrator, was an early member and served as secretary of the club 1863-1864.
- Creator
- Cresson, William Emlen, 1843-1868, artist
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.75b]
- Title
- First annual prize exhibition of the Philadelphia Sketch Club held at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts December 1865
- Description
- Poster containing seated figures incorporated into the lettering to promote the exhibition of the professional artists' club founded in 1860. Figures include a female muse working with a sketch, and cherubic boys sculpting a bust and painting from a palette. Letters designed as trees, vinery, and a fish tail., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 80, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871., Cresson, an illustrator, was an early member and served as secretary of the club 1863-1864.
- Creator
- Cresson, William Emlen, 1843-1868, artist
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.75b]
- Title
- First annual prize exhibition of the Philadelphia Sketch Club held at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts December 1865
- Description
- Poster containing seated figures incorporated into the lettering to promote the exhibition of the professional artists' club founded in 1860. Figures include a female muse working with a sketch, and cherubic boys sculpting a bust and painting from a palette. Letters designed as trees, vinery, and a fish tail., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 80, Stein & Jones established in 1859 was active under that name until the death of Stein in 1871., Cresson, an illustrator, was an early member and served as secretary of the club 1863-1864.
- Creator
- Cresson, William Emlen, 1843-1868, artist
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.75b]
- Title
- Drinker, John, 1760-1826
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- August 1, 1794
- Title
- Garrison, Nicholas, 1750-
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- April 26, 1775
- Title
- Harrold, Alfred, 1806-1844
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- March 6, 1840
- Title
- Langenheim, Frederick, 1809-1879
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- June 5, 1873
- Title
- Dorr, B. Dalton
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- March 3, 1871
- Title
- Heap, George
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- April 6, 1769-May 1, 1795
- Title
- Street, Robert, 1796-1865
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- June 2, 1837
- Title
- Parrish, Stephen Maxfield, 1846-1938
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- March 3, 1892
- Title
- Phenix Ins. Co. Nothing new under the sun
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting three western travelers in Egypt observing an image of a phoenix rising from flames (the Phenix Insurance Company's trademark) on the side of a large boulder. Travelers include a lady with a parasol seated on a camel, a man riding a donkey and another ma with a Phenix Ins. Co. policy in his back pocket hunched in front of the rock closely observing the image. Also shows two natives, an Egyptian woman pointing to the boulder and a naked man on top of the rock looking down at the travelers. The title mimics hieroglyphics in the rock adjacent to the phoenix. A caravan line is visible in the right background., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1885]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Phenix [1975.F.672]
- Title
- Haseltine Galleries
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a landscape view of a creek in the woods., Invitation printed on verso: Yourself and ladies are invited by Mr. Charles F. Haseltine to a private view of his new collection of paintings, at his galleries, 1516 Chestnut St., on Thursday evening, October 7th, 1880, from 7 1/2 to 11 o'clock., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- 1880
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Haseltine [1975.F.405]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]
- Title
- Souvenir de L'Exposition Universelle 1878
- Description
- Souvenir album containing captioned photographs of sites at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 held May 1-November 10, 1878 to celebrate the recovery of France following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Includes Palais du Trocadéro designed by Gabriel Davioud and Jules Bourdais; Vue Générale du Palais du Champ de Mars; Palais du Champ de Mars; Galerie d'Iéna; Galerie des Machines; Pavillion de la Ville de Paris; Façade des Galeries des Beaux-Arts; Rue des Nations (facades to the international exhibitors inside the Palace of Industry); Façade de la Section Belge; Façade de la Section Chinoise; Le Palais Algérien; and Pavillon des Eaux et Forêts. Views include landscaping, a pond, a bridge, exhibit cases, and steam-operated machinery, including printing presses., Red morocco binding stamped with illustration designed by bookbinders Lofficiau & Munzinger. Illustration depicts the main building and grounds in the Champs de Mars (Palais du Champ de Mars). In the foreground, the allegorical female figure Ceres sits among tools, equipment, and symbols representing art, industry, and technology. Includes a camera, paint palette, locomotive, wheels, a distillery, compass, books, an anvil, and a caduceus., Inscribed on front free endpaper: Bertha C. Moras. A tiny memento of the visit to the Paris Exhibition of 1878., Gift of Michael Zinman., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [1878]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Souvenirs [P.2008.36.44]