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Title: Lore Mountain, from Dinis Road, Killarny [sic], Ireland
Description: Landscape view showing men and women sitting in a beached rowboat on a rocky shore. A strip of tree-covered land juts into the water in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in black text on mount., Buff 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: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Views [P.9022.32]

Title: River scene upper east park
Description: View showing the Schuylkill River from a small recess shaded by trees on the east bank. Includes rocks and an empty barrel floating in the water in the foreground, a docked rowboat, and a building on the west bank in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Explicative paragraph of text providing brief history of Fairmount Park entitled, "Fairmount Park and Water Works, Philadelphia" printed on verso. Text surmounted by vignette of state seal of Pennsylvania and surrounded by decorative border., Manuscript note on verso: Stuart., 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: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9212.15]

Title: Belmont Canal postcards
Description: Contains various views of a canal boat on Belmont Canal., Sheet number: 86B03., 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 [Fairmount Park - Miscellaneous - 86]

Title: Specialties in curtains and furniture , Walraven, 1105 Chestnut Street
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting boats and sailing vessels on a rough, choppy sea., Advertising text printed on verso promotes I.E. Walraven's "spring novelties" and "imported goods"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Walraven [1975.F.1002]

Title: [Gunnis, Barritt & Co. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a Japanese man attired in traditional clothing seated on a rock and fishing. Also shows a Chinese dragon boat at sea and two storks on a patch of land in the foreground., One print includes date of "important peremptory sale...on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 19th & 20th, 1881"., Advertising text promoting the sale of Chinese and Japanese lacquer goods by auctioneers Gunnis, Barritt & Co. at 524 Market Street printed on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1881]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Gunnis [1975.F.202 & 1975.F.364]

Title: Boating party
Description: Shows two women and four men sitting in a covered boat resting at the edge of a lake in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Rocks, weeds and fallen leaves form the shore line., Buff mount with rounded corners., Note on verso: No. 17 Papa 1876., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Gift of Raymond Holstein.
Creator: Hemple, A. H., (Alfred) photographer, fl. 1860-1879
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Holstein stereo - Fairmount Park [P.2011.47.856]

Title: Kane's boat, deer park, Philada. park
Description: View of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane's rescue boat "The Faith" enclosed within a wire fence in "Deer Park". Also shows a round shed in the background. Donated to Fairmount Park by George W. Childs., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's printed label pasted on verso., Mint green mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Monuments and statues [P.9915.1]

Title: Fairmount Park boats, dam & waterworks postcards
Description: Depicts views of the Schuylkill River including Fairmount Waterworks, Fairmount dam and canal and Boat House Row along East River Drive. The waterworks were built after designs by engineer Frederick Graff 1812-1815. Also includes views of boats on the river and an evening view of the river from Boat House Row., Contains 27 postcards printed in color and 1 in black and white., 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: 1900-1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Boats, Dam & Waterworks - 60]

Title: E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company. Wilmington, Del. U.S.A. Manufacturers of explosives of every kind. Established 1802
Description: Cut-out label containing a view of a gunboat. Also includes pictorial details depiciting cannons. The DuPont firm, the leading manufacturer of explosives in the United states through the 19th century, was the world's largest producer of explosives during World War I., REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE. M. IND. RGTRDA. NUM. [8?]886. Nov. [12th?] 190[8?], Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.95]

Title: A. L. Gerhart & Co.'s commission & forwarding warehouse, No. 365 Market Street
Description: Bill of lading for the Philadelphia shipping warehouse containing two vignette wood engravings. Images show a steam locomotive, and a horse-drawn canal boat., Completed in manuscript for Mr. Schrack shipping "1 bbl oil" to Brubacker & Co., dated September 22, 1846 and signed by A.L. Gerhart., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.118]

Title: Thomas Borbidge, forwarding and commission merchant, no. 278 Market Street
Description: Bill of lading for the Philadelphia merchant containing a view showing a locomotive hauling canal boats past two buildings in a scenic region., Completed in manuscript for C. Schrack for shipping 2 Kegs and 1 Box to Helfneck & Pepper, Chambersburg, dated December 6, 1849 and signed W. B. Smith., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [1849]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.123]

Title: A. Wright & Nephew, Vine Street Wharf, Delaware
Description: Bill of lading for the Philadelphia shipping warehouse containing two vignette wood engravings. Images shows a steam locomotive, and a horse-drawn canal boat., Completed in manuscript for C. Schrack shipping 1 box glass, 1 tin [illegible], 1 bbl oil to H.L. [Emmons, Wilkes Barre?], dated September 30, 1846 and signed L.B.C., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1840]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.120]

Title: Fresh deviled crabs. McMenamin & Co., Hampton, Va
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a crab on land in the foreground and a man and two women crabbing in a rowboat on a body of water in the background. Includes two other boats on the water in the distance. A circular vignette showing deviled crabs is superimposed onto the landscape view., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **trade card - McMenamin [1975.F.1a]

Title: [Shoneman Bros. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for Shoneman Bros. trimmings and fancy goods' store at 116, 118 & 129 North Eighth Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations depict boats on the water, a child peaking through flowers, and a bird perched on flowers near its nest containing baby birds., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.800] copyrighted 1880 by Thomas W. Price Co., One print [1975.F.800] contains Shakespeare quote printed on recto: Words are easy like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find. Every man will be thy friend, whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; but if store of crowns be scant, no man will supply thy want.", One print [1975.F.809] contains advertising text printed on verso promoting Shoneman Bros.' inexpensive gloves, fancy goods, fringe & buttons, and trimmings & fancy goods., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Shoneman Bros. [1975.F.772; 1975.F.800; 1975.F.809]

Title: Regetta [sic] at Fairmount
Description: View looking northeast from the Fairmount Water Works showing several spectators watching the regatta from the bank of the Schuylkill River and the balcony of a boat house. View also includes a canal boat., White paper mount with square corners., Title from accompanying label., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks - Fairmount [(3)1322.F.122f]

Title: [D.S. Ewing trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a postcard of a dwelling labeled "new home" tucked into flowers and a beach scene showing siblings (brother and sister) on the beach, a boat with a sail labeled "new home", and a sewing machine in the sky. The boy has a patch with the initials "N.H." sewn onto the back of his pants and a caption under their feet reads: Sister.--What are the wild waves saying? Brother.--This patch was put on by the light running new home sewing machine., One print [P.9737] contains seller's stamp on verso: G.A. Buck, dealer in sewing machines, organs, etc. Weissport, Penna., 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 - Ewing [P.9737 & P.9754]

Title: D & H Canal & coal dock, Honesdale, Pa
Description: View showing the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company boat and coal dock on the canal. The Delaware and Hudson canal, constructed from 1825-1828 after the designs of engineer Benjamin Wright, was conceived by Philadelphia merchants, William and Maurice Wurtz, as a means to transport anthracite coal from northeastern Pennsylvania to New York. Depicts in the foreground, workers standing on one of several docked canal boats used to transport coal hauled to Honesdale by the Pennsylvania Coal Company gravity railroad. In the background, a Pennsylvania Coal Company locomotive steams down the tracks past mountains of coal., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified -Transportation [P.9212.4]

Title: Boat House and Lake, Philadelphia, Penn
Description: View looks west in the direction of West Philadelphia at Wm. F. Cline's floating "Union Boat House" with rowboats pulled up to the dock. Also shows a boat or ferry on the Schuylkill River and buildings on the west bank of the river, including Jeremiah King's hotel and tavern (left), in the background., Title printed on verso in numbered series list with fifty-three other titles (No. 100-153)., Printed on mount: Stereoscopic Gems. American Scenery., Publisher's imprint printed on verso below series list., 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 Robert M. Vogel.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Recreation [P.9047.40]

Title: Boat landing. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia
Description: Copy stereograph view looks west in the direction of West Philadelphia at Wm. F. Cline's floating "Union Boat House" with rowboats pulled up to the dock. Also shows a boat or ferry on the Schuylkill River and buildings on the west bank of the river, including Jeremiah King's hotel and tavern (left), in the background., Title printed on mount below image., Manuscript note on verso: Helen B. Wellman 1882., Orange 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. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Recreation [P.9449.1]

Title: First steamboat on Hudson River
Description: View showing a model of the steamboat, propellors and engine John Stevens purportedly built ca. 1804 and navigated in the Hudson River. Includes a framed portrait of Stevens, who also invented the first steamboat that navigated the ocean, in the model boat. The U.S. Sanitary Commission organized the Great Central Fair in Logan Square from June 7-28, 1864. The fair was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title from publisher's label pasted on verso., Photographer's imprint on label pasted on verso., Yellow mounts with square corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: James Cremer & Co.
Date: 1864
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Exhibitions [P.8643.6]

Title: Pleasure yacht, Flirt
Description: View looking west showing the boat, Flirt, docked with three men on board at the steamboat landing immediately north of the Fairmount Waterworks on the east side of the Schuylkill River. Also shows a woman standing on an elevated pavilion or gazebo overlooking the river in the background and buildings on the west bank of the river. Flirt was one of many recreational boats that transported passengers to various sites along the river. Dwelling on the west bank possibly the hotel inhabited and operated by Jeremiah King., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text 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: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [8353.F.15]

Title: Photograph album
Description: Photograph album belonging to Philadelphia amateur photographer John C. Browne. Contains landscape and architectural views of the Delaware Valley and Central Pennsylvania, informal portraits of family and friends, and canal boat excursions of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, including over the Pennsylvania Canal to Harrisburg (1879) and Morris Canal (1880). Images depict "Bartram's house, Gray's Ferry"; Cobbs Creek, including the Old Powder House; Wissahickon; Jay Cooke's Ogontz estate; Mill Creek (Lower Merion Township); the Philadelphia Zoo monkey house; Chelten Hills; Laurel Hill; Delaware Water Gap, including G. W. Childs arbor, Kittany House, Promontory, Lovers Leap, Young's Peak, and Mt. Minsi; falls, creeks, and Dingman's Ferry in Pike County, Pa.; sites along the Juniata Division of Pennsylvania Canal, including mill races, iron furnaces, Pennsylvania Rail Road bridges, and canal locks at or near Bridgeport, Dauphin, and Rockville; and sites along the Morris Canal, including canal boat planes and hoisting tower, Hopatcong Lake, Little Falls, and Passaic Falls., Other images show the English Cottage on the Centennial grounds (1877); strung hunted game and fish; landscape views of Sea Bright and Belvidere, N.J. and the Delaware near Torresdale; a posed "sweethearts" scene "On the Pennypack" (1878); and a group portrait of the Photographic Society (Samuel F. Corlies, Charles Pancoast, Charles Barrington, Samuel Sartain, Joseph William Bates, W. S. Vaux, Dr. Carl Seiler, Thomas H. McCollin, Thomas B. Craig) with cameras and fishing equipment during the Morris Canal excursion. Other portrait views include Mr. and Mrs. S. Fisher Corlies, Mamie Lloyd, Sallie Bacon, Jesse S. Graves, Alice E. Browne, Susie Hacker, Samuel Fox, and Charles Palmer. Some photographs show a photographer using his camera and several of the canal excursion views include the canal boats "Zuleika" (Pennsylvania Canal) and "Katie Kellogg" and her mule team "Tom & Baby" (Morris Canal)., Front free end paper signed John C. Browne., Photographs identified by inscriptions below images. Majority are date and some annotated "Washed Emulsion.", Red cloth binding, with gilt, and stamped on cover: Album., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., An article by Browne, "The Waterfalls of Pike County, Pa.," describing a trip to photograph natural scenery in Pike County appears in Philadelphia Photographer, Vol. XIII, no. 151 (July 1876), pages 208-211., LCP AR [Annual Reports] 1989 p. 33-34., Browne was a founder of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
Creator: Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date: 1877-1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9317]

Title: [Charles F. Haseltine trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards and announcements for Charles F. Haseltine's art receptions and gallery at 1516 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Illustrations show a rowboat and sailboat on a body of water depicted from the interior of a building. Plants sit on a ledge and on the ground near a rectangular window in the foreground. Also depicts bust portraits of Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo Da Vinci; robed figures holding art symbols, including a protractor, art palette, paint brushes, and canvases; and a winged figure manipulating a four-horse chariot pulling the mythological figure Mars, also known as the Roman god of war., Title supplied by cataloger., One print [1975.F.423] printed on light blue paper., Invitations to view Charles F. Haseltine's art collections for the 1879-1880 season printed on verso. One print [1975.F.423] lists artists of artwork in his collections by nationality (i.e., French, Italian, German, Flemish, American) in columns on verso., Printers and engravers include John A. Lowell & Co. (Boston) and Jeremiah Rea (Philadelphia)., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: 1879
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Haseltine [1975.F.408a & 1975.F.423]

Title: [Relics and curiosities] dept. Dr. Kane's boat
Description: Unmounted stereograph showing arctic explorer Dr. Elisha Kent Kane's rescue boat "The Faith" on display in the foreground. Also shows two boats in the background, portrait paintings hanging high on the walls, and patriotic bunting interspersed with relics. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair held June 7-28, 1864 on Logan Circle was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title from manuscript note on paper label below image. Incorrectly identified as "Arms and Relics dept"., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Watson, A., photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.156d]

Title: [Dr. Kane's boat, Relics & Curiosities Department, Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, 1864]
Description: Unmounted stereograph showing arctic explorer Dr. Elisha Kent Kane's rescue boat "The Faith" on display in the foreground. Also shows two boats in the background, portrait paintings hanging high on the walls, and patriotic bunting interspersed with relics. The Great Central or Sanitary Fair held June 7-28, 1864 on Logan Circle was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title supplied by cataloger., Manuscript note on paper label below image misidentifies department: Arms & Relics., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Watson, A., photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.171g-2]

Title: John Stevens' first steamboat
Description: Unmounted stereograph shows a model of the steamboat, propellors and engine John Stevens purportedly built ca. 1804 and navigated in the Hudson River. Includes a framed portrait of Stevens, who also invented the first steamboat that navigated the ocean, in the model boat. Located in the Machinery and Heavy Wheeled Vehicles section of the fair building. The U.S. Sanitary Commission organized the Great Central Fair in Logan Square from June 7-28, 1864. The fair was one of several national fairs that displayed art, craft, and historical exhibits to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization., Title from manuscript note on paper label below image., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Watson, A., photographer
Date: [ca. 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Watson - Fairs [5781.F.172a]

Title: Explorations West of the 100th Meridian. Expedition of 1871, Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Com'dg
Description: Series of titled views from Wheeler's United States surveys of the West include, "Grand Cañon, from opposite Diamond Creek," "Middle of Black Cañon," "The Start, Camp Mohave, A.T.," "Mohave Indians; Panambona and Mitiwara," "Camp Big Horn, Black Cañon," "Mohaves Caught Napping," and "Grand Cañon, above Grotto Spring." Images depict mostly landscape views of large rock formations flanking the Colorado River. Views also include Mohave people and men leaving Camp Mohave in boats., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Manuscript note on versos: Bessie & Smith, Media., Yellow curved mounts with rounded corners., See William Bell's series [66651.D.1-7] of Colorado River and Geological Series for similar views of Wheeler's survey. Bell replaced O'Sullivan in 1872., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Timothy O'Sullivan accompanied George M. Wheeler on his survey of the territories west of the 100th meridian in 1871, 1873 and 1875.
Creator: O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882, photographer
Date: [ca. 1871]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - O'Sullivan - Views [66652.D.1-7]

Title: [A.C. Yates & Co. clothing trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards for A.C. Yates & Co. clothing store, which began operations on the ground floor of the Public Ledger Building at Sixth and Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia in 1876. Illustrations depict a bust portrait of William Penn and Penn's treaty with the Indians to commemorate the Penn Bicentennial (1682-1882); children walking in the snow and carrying sprigs of holly; a boy sitting on a bare tree limb under a smiling moon serenading cats from sheet music labeled "Au Clair de la lune"; couples on the beach painting, reading by moonlight, and embracing behind the privacy of a large umbrella; swans swimming with flower garlands in their beaks; a traveling hunting party, including two men mounted on horses with a large group of hounds; three bystanders watching a man paint a large sign for A.C. Yates & Co. onto a brick wall; birds; sprays of flowers; two women and a man ice skating together; children blowing bubbles; children tumbling to the ground after hoisting one another to grab canisters from the top of a pantry; putti holding grotesque masks; and a view of Fairmount Park from Belmont, showing well-dressed couples sitting and walking in the park, a horse-drawn carriage and a man riding horseback on a dirt path in the foreground, and bridges spanning the Schuylkill River in the background., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers and engravers include Hatch Lith. Co. (New York); Chas. Shields' Sons (New York); and E. Ketterlinus & Co. (Philadelphia)., Eighteen prints contain advertising text printed on versos., Two prints contains calendars for 1881 printed on versos., One print [P.9057.52] contains a manuscript note on verso: A.N. Fisher, card with which she read the three volumes of "The Dutch Republic" winter of '77 & '78. The ending of the books were nicer than the rest. Suge? of Leipsig--very good--& you couldn't help being interested in persons, places & performaces. Wm. of Orange's nearly only despicable characteristic was having spies and thru them interrupted [?]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1876-ca. 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Yates [1975.F.679; 1975.F.907; 1975.F.1013 & 1014; 1975.F.1016; 1975.F.1018-1032; P.8666.3i-3l; P.8666.3p; P.8666.3z; P.9057.52; P.9642.7; P.9802.12]

Title: Belmont and waterworks. Mount Pleasant, Fairmount Park, Philada
Description: Lithograph showing mules walking on towpaths pulling canal boats in the Schuylkill River in the foreground. Also shows distant views of West Fairmount Park properties, including Belmont Mansion, the estate house and country seat of Judge Richard Peters; the smokestack of the Belmont Waterworks engine house, designed by Frederick Graff in the late 1860s; and Mount Pleasant Mansion (i.e. Arnold Mansion) built after designs by Thomas Nevil 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson. Includes a locomotive traveling north on the west bank of the river in the right background. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion. The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia Museum of Art restored the house in 1926., Title from item., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kollner advertised four volumes of small folio pictures, including "Bits of Nature and Some Art Products, in Fairmount Park ..." in 1878. Several of the lithographs from this volume were based on sketches he executed in the 1840s.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906
Date: [ca. 1878]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Kollner [*Am 1878 Kol 2086.F.7]

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