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- Title
- A Neat and cheap history of the Rebellion just published by H. Derousse. For sale here. Price only 20 cents
- Description
- Printed in red, on card stock., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; price corrected in MS. to 15 cents., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [between 1861 and 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Neat 5786.F.10a (McAllister)
- Title
- A Neat and cheap history of the Rebellion just published by H. Derousse. For sale here. Price only 20 cents
- Description
- Printed in red, on card stock., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; price corrected in MS. to 15 cents., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [between 1861 and 1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1861 Neat 5786.F.10a (McAllister)
- Title
- Halfpenny Trade Token
- Description
- Gift of Jessica Linker, 2017., Obverse: "J. Lackington / [Bust of Lackington, facing front left] / 1794” Reverse: Central figure of a Fame blowing a trumpet surrounded by two-line inscription "Halfpenny of Lackington, Allen & Co." / "Cheapest booksellers in the world." "Edge lettered "Payable at the Temple of the Muses * / * / * " James Lackington opened his first bookstall in London in 1773 and issued his first catalog in 1779. The firm later was known as Lackington, Allan & Co. and occupied a large premises, "The Temple of the Muses," in Finsbury Square, London. According to his published "Confessions" (1804), he made the business wholly over to his cousin, George Lackington, in 1798. Tokens such as these were issued in many places in England between 1787 and 1800 when the government failed to mint enough copper coinage for the conduct of business.
- Creator
- Lackington, James, 1746-1815
- Date
- [1795]
- Location
- OBJ 910
- Title
- Halfpenny Trade Token
- Description
- Gift of Jessica Linker, 2017., Obverse: "J. Lackington / [Bust of Lackington, facing front left] / 1794” Reverse: Central figure of a Fame blowing a trumpet surrounded by two-line inscription "Halfpenny of Lackington, Allen & Co." / "Cheapest booksellers in the world." "Edge lettered "Payable at the Temple of the Muses * / * / * " James Lackington opened his first bookstall in London in 1773 and issued his first catalog in 1779. The firm later was known as Lackington, Allan & Co. and occupied a large premises, "The Temple of the Muses," in Finsbury Square, London. According to his published "Confessions" (1804), he made the business wholly over to his cousin, George Lackington, in 1798. Tokens such as these were issued in many places in England between 1787 and 1800 when the government failed to mint enough copper coinage for the conduct of business.
- Creator
- Lackington, James, 1746-1815
- Date
- [1794]
- Location
- OBJ 909
- Title
- ASSU Illustration 6204
- Description
- Block numbered in two places: 6204, also 1417 on small adhesive label on back of block., Image of a boy selling books (Bibles?) in the street, carrying a tray suspended around his neck while extending one to a man looking on; several other people are gathered around, including women wearing cloth headdresses resembling wimples., “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., “Am.S.S.U” – Back of block in three places., “Italy. Buy the light, the true light” – Inscribed on side of block.
- Date
- [between 1861 and 1876?]
- Location
- ASSU Woodblocks -- Box 22
- Title
- Bioren, John
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- May 14, 1800
- Title
- Raguet, Claudius P.
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- July 15, 1790
- Title
- Fresh from a soldier's pen Our campaigns, or, The marches, bivouacs, battles, incidents of camp life, and history of our regiment during its three years' term of service: together with a sketch of the Army of the Potomac under generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant. By E.M. Woodward, adjutant, Second Pa. Reserves. 12mo., cloth. Price $2 00. The object in writing this volume is to give, in a clear and lucid manner, the history of the Second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Corps (Colonels Wm. B. Mann and Wm. McCandless), and an insight into the life of a soldier. ... Agents, canvassers, and others are wanted for the circulation of the book, with whom liberal terms will be made. Single copies sent, post paid, to any one on receipt of price, $2 00
- Description
- Woodward's Our campaigns was published in Philadelphia in 1865., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Woodward, E. M. (Evan Morrison)
- Date
- [1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1865 Woodward (2)5786.F.52c (McAllister)
- Title
- [T. E. Chapman, book store and book bindery, 74 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia]
- Description
- Advertisement showing the three-and-a-half story building on the 100 block of North Fourth Street for the bookseller, binder, and publisher Thomas Ellwood Chapman. A male patron enters the doorway of the building past advertisements (e.g. Books Stationery) adorning a mantle and the entry. A small broadside hangs in the window of the door, bundles of fibrous material rest atop the mantle, and shelves of books are visible lining the wall of the interior of the store. To the right of the doorway, a woman hunches over, and stands to the side of the closed cellar doors as she looks at one of several books and printed matter displayed in the window. A sign reading "Rags Bought" hangs below. Building facade also contains a wood door, possibly to an alleyway. Chapman opened the bookstore at the address in 1840, and added the bindery in 1843. He relocated in 1849., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. North Fourth St., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 734, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H.
- Date
- [August 1847]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W356 [P.2196]
- Title
- Undercurrents of the Southern conspiracy! The rebel pirate's fatal prize : the bloody tragedy of the prize schooner Waring
- Description
- Broadside advertisement for The rebel pirate's fatal prize (life story of the steward William Tillman [i.e., Billy Tilghman], a "brave and daring negro") and, on verso, The rival rebel cousins., "Sold by agents only.", Formerly part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 Und (2) 5786.F .46e
- Title
- Young and Woodward Business Papers, 1789-1826 (inclusive)
- Description
- The Young and Woodward Business Papers contain letters and documents relating to the printing, publishing, and bookselling efforts of both William Young, and William W. Woodward, to whom Young sold his business in 1802. Included are letters from authors, publishers, and other booksellers., On deposit at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For service, please contact the Historical Society at 215-732-6200 or http://www.hsp.org., William Young (1755-1829), a bookseller, printer, and publisher, was born in Scotland. He arrived in Philadelphia in June 1784 and opened a book store and print shop on Chestnut Street. Young sold his retail and publishing operations to William W. Woodward in 1802, and moved to Delaware, where he opened a paper mill., William Wallis Woodward (1769?-1837) was listed as a bookseller in the Philadelphia city directories from 1794 through the 1830s. In the 1802 directory his description expanded to “printer, bookseller & stationer,” the result of his having purchased Young's business; he remained in the directories with that description for twenty years. Woodward's main focus was religious books, and he was one of the first American publishers known to have marketed them using a network of clergymen as sales agents.
- Date
- 1789
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | MSS McA MSS 007, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A64423#page/1/mode/1up
- Title
- Jas. B. Smith & Co.'s Philada. blank book manufactory. Jas. B. Smith & Co. booksellers and blank book manufacturers. 207 Market St. above 5th Philadelphia Jas. B. Smith. Fredk. Scofield
- Description
- Advertisement containing a central interior view of the bustling manufactory bordered by several captioned vignettes of men and women at specific tasks, and the mechanisms used, in the manufacture of blank books. Central view depicts several woman at work seated at two tables in the center of the room surrounded by men at work stations lining the space lighted by windows in the right and rear of the area. Piles of pages of books rest in front of the workers. In the foreground, women sew as at the front end of the table as ladies at the rear toil at folding pages. At the work stations, rows of men work at finishing pages. In the background, men operate book presses and other machinery, and transport reams of papers near women folding pages below a loft. On the upper floor, men work at stations across from shelves of reams of paper as a boy carries a mound of book pages down the stairs to the lower floor. Also shows the walls adorned with a cabinet, posted papers, and a man's coat and hat. Work vignettes show "girls" sewing and folding pages and male employees rounding, stamping, gilding and extra finishing bindings, book pressing, cutting and operating large ruling and cutting machines. Other vignettes show a board cutting machine; Sewing bench; Bookbinders plough; a display of a pile of blank books and associated writing materials; and a view of the Smith & Co. storefront (500 block of Market Street) at which patrons stand in a doorway across from a crate covered with books., Also contains several lines of advertising text describing the several types of merchandise "which will be sold at very low prices." Products include "blank books ruled to pattern and bound in a superior manner," cap blanks bound and with "russia ends, ledgers, minute books, memorandums, pass books, copy books, wrapping paper, pocket books, ink stands, sealing wax, and "medical books, school books, & stationery.", Not in Wainwright., Manuscript note lower right corner., Philadelphia on Stone, Library of Congress: PGA - Kollner--Jas. B. Smith & Co's... (B size) [P&P], See "The Bookbinders Shop." Sketched from the establishment of Messrs. Westleys & Clark." PGA - Brechemin, L.--Bookbinders shop... (B size) [P&P]. Digital file included in LOC P&P on-line catalog.
- Creator
- Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813, artist
- Date
- c1850
- Location
- Library of Congress | Prints and Photograph Division LOC PGA - Kollner--Jas. B. Smith & Co's... (B size) [P&P]
- Title
- Crukshank, James
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- April 20, 1804
- Title
- Young, William, 1755-1829
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- March 27, 1794
- Title
- Biddle, Edward C.
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- June 8, 1832
- Title
- The Rebellion record a complete, authentic, official history of the great struggle of 1860-2. Including three departments, namely: I. Documents, speeches, narratives and reports, from official sources--complete and reliable. II. A diary of events, concise, succinct, comprehensive. III. Rumors, incidents, ballads, songs, facetiae; a mirror of the poetical and humorous aspects of the time. Edited by Frank Moore. Illustrated with portraits, maps, and plans
- Description
- Sample letter to a canvasser, p. [3], dated 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Evans, Charles T.
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Evans (2)5786.F.195a (McAllister)
- Title
- The brave soldier, consummate general, and devoted Christian! Thus does the New-York commercial advertiser speak of Stonewall Jackson. Chas. T. Evans, 448 Broadway, has just published the authentic biography of the great general of the South, by Markinfield Addey. With portrait. 12mo, cloth, one dollar. The appearance of this book has been hailed with acclamation by the public press of every shade of politics. ... The first edition is exhausted, so great has been the call for the work; and to meet the public demand, a new edition is now ready. 12mo, cloth, one dollar. Copies sent by mail on receipt of price. Canvassing agents wanted
- Description
- Addey's Stonewall Jackson was published in 1863., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Evans, Charles T.
- Date
- [1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1863 Evans 5786.F.174b (McAllister)
- Title
- Potts, Stephen
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- November 14, 1733
- Title
- Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823
- Description
- Mr. Dobson was born in 1751 near Edinburgh, Scotland. He was married to Jean Paton in 1777 and they had three daughters. In 1784, he moved his family to Philadelphia, bringing large stocks of books with him. He quickly became a major bookseller but instead of using his profits to acquire more books, he embarked on publishing and established a thriving printing business. He is most famous for having published the earliest American version of Encyclopedia Britannica which he began reprinting in 1789. When it was completed in 1798, it totaled 18 volumes with over 400 engraved plates and was by far the largest book ever published in America. In his American version, the dedication to King George III was eliminated and information about American geography and history was added. He was also the first in the United States to publish a complete Hebrew bible and the first to publish secular music composed by an American (Francis Hopkinson). In 1822, he retired from book-selling due to ill health and he died in 1823.
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- February 20, 1806
- Title
- Penington, Edward
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- March 7, 1857-February 11, 1859
- Title
- Penington, John
- Creator
- Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
- Date
- September 4, 1830
- Title
- Important to book agents New era in American history, ask for Juan, the white slave, or The rebel planter's daughter. Thrilling story of slavery, suffering, and Southern secession, boldly exposing the unparalleled treachery, plotting and fraud of the Great Rebellion
- Description
- Publisher's call for distributors for W.D. Ritner's novel, first published 1857 under title "Juan, or The white slave," and reissued in 1865 under title "Juan, the white slave, and the rebel planter's daughter.", Prospective agents are instructed to contact W.D. Reichner, Wholesale Union Book Publishing House, no. 104 North Tenth Street, Philadelphia., Formerly part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Date
- [1865?]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Sm # Am 1865 Impor (2) 5786.F .38b
- Title
- Just published. Raff's Manual of pensions, bounty & pay A manual of pensions, bounty and pay:--containing the laws, forms and regulations relating to pensions, bounty land, bounty money, pay, claims for horses and other property destroyed, etc., etc.; with the opinions of the attorneys-general, and the official regulations and decisions pertaining to these subjects. By George W. Raff. 1 vol. 12mo., law sheep. $2 00. Will be sent by mail, prepaid, on receipt of the price. This work was announced for immediate publication in June last. It was, however, delayed to await any action which Congress might take upon this subject before adjournment. The new "Act to grant pensions," passed July 14th, rendered it necessary to re-write nearly the entire work
- Description
- George W. Raff's A manual of pensions, bounty, and pay was published in Cincinnati in 1862., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Robert Clarke & Co.
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Robert (2)5786.F.45f (McAllister)
- Title
- In press. Will be published on October 20th, 1862. Raff's Manual of pensions, bounty & pay A manual of pensions, bounty and pay:--Containing the laws, forms and regulations relating to pensions, ... By George W. Raff. 1 vol. 12mo., law sheep. $2 00. Will be sent by mail, prepaid, on receipt of the price. This work was announced for immediate publication in June last. It was, however, delayed to await any action which Congress might take upon this subject before adjournment. The new "Act to grant pensions," passed July 14th, rendered it necessary to re-write nearly the entire work
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; ink stamp: From John Penington & Son. Philada., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Robert Clarke & Co.
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Robert 5786.F.101a (McAllister)
- Title
- In press. Will be published on October 20th, 1862. Raff's Manual of pensions, bounty & pay A manual of pensions, bounty and pay:--Containing the laws, forms and regulations relating to pensions, ... By George W. Raff. 1 vol. 12mo., law sheep. $2 00. Will be sent by mail, prepaid, on receipt of the price. This work was announced for immediate publication in June last. It was, however, delayed to await any action which Congress might take upon this subject before adjournment. The new "Act to grant pensions," passed July 14th, rendered it necessary to re-write nearly the entire work
- Description
- Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook; ink stamp: From John Penington & Son. Philada., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
- Creator
- Robert Clarke & Co.
- Date
- [1862]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare sm # Am 1862 Robert 5786.F.101a (McAllister)
- Title
- Chestnut Street from Seventh to Sixth, (north side)
- Description
- View showing the north side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street (639-601). Addresses printed below the buildings. Includes Crittenden's Commercial College (637-639); Leonard Benkert, boot maker (635); Jayne's Hall (627-633) tenanted by Farrel, Herring & Co., safe manufacturer (631); Arcade Hotel, built 1826-1827 after the designs of John Haviland (615-621); Commonwealth Fire Insurance Co. (613); Cowperthwait's Building tenanted by Gaut & Volkmar, booksellers, Joseph A. Speel, book binder, and Granville Stokes, clothier (607-609); Rockhill & Wilson, clothiers (603-605); and E. V. McKoy, silk hat manufacturer (601). Contains advertisements for three of the businesses, a "directory to the above square," and an advertisement for Baxter & Harley, the undepicted business of D. W. C. Baxter, below the image., Printed on recto: Copyright Secured., Copyrighted by Baxter & Neff., One of the images probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., One of the images originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia.
- Creator
- Baxter, De Witt Clinton, ca. 1829-1881, engraver
- Date
- [1859, c1857]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Baxter - Chestnut Street - 1859 [1322 1/2.F.15; P.2006.1.14]
- Title
- Grigg Block, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] / W.H. Rease, No. 17 1/2 South Fifth Street.
- Description
- Contains advertisements for six of the depicted businesses below the image., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848., View of the active business block containing and named after Grigg, Elliot, & Co., the largest and most prosperous publishing firm in the city that was founded by John Grigg in 1823 and purchased by J. B. Lippincott in 1849. Shows the block of buildings (10-20 North Fourth Street) covered in signage and including Barcroft, Beaver & Co., dry good dealers and S. M. Day, wholesale combs, brush and fancy goods trimmings (10); Goff & Peterson, importers and manufacturers of saddlery, carriage, and harness trimmings (12); Grigg, Elliot & Co. (14); C. H. & Geo. Abbott, dealers and importers of hardware and cutlery and C. Ahrenfeldt & Co., importers of toys & fancy goods (16); C. B. Lassell & Co., hats and caps and Charles Wingate, dealer in shoes, boots, and palm leaf hats (18); and Edwin & John Tams, importers and dealers of china, earthernware, and glass (20). Patrons exit and enter the various storefronts; delivery men, including an African American man, haul, load, and remove goods from horse-drawn and push carts; laborers load goods into shop storage cellars and use a pulley to raise a large cask; store clerks inspect and open newly arrived packages on the sidewalk; a horse-drawn dust settling machine passes in the street; and artisans and merchandise are visible in several of the shops' upper floor windows. Partial views of the adjacent buildings and a nearby alley with a laborer and push cart are also visible.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer., creator
- Date
- [[1848]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W162.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W 162 [P.2077]
- Title
- [Plate 10 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
- Description
- Plate depicts section of the 600 block of Chestnut Street (154-213 pre-consolidation). South side includes Swaim’s Building (160-164) tenanted by Barnum’s Museum and Edward L. Walker, Music Store and Piano Dealer (160); Lee & Walker, Successors to G. Willig, music store (162); and C. G. Henderson & Co., Booksellers and Publishers (164). North side includes Ambrose Smith, Druggist (213); F. Mahan, Publisher of Philadelphia Fashions (211); Leonard Benkert, Boot Store (209); Columbia House operated by Ferguson & Brothers and tenanted by E. G. Dorsey, Tailor (207). Swaim’s Building adorned with a flag, circus billboard illustrated with a seal, and a sign directing individuals to Swaim’s Laboratory. Plate also includes an unidentified residence with walled courtyard adjacent to Swaim’s. Swaim’s Building and Swaim’s Laboratory signage (160-164) included on plate as pasted-on details., Advertisements promote eight of the businesses depicted and Swaim’s Celebrated Panacea (New York agents Schieffelin Brothers & Co., later W.H. Schieffelin & Co.). Swaim’s full-page advertisement contains endorsements, several lines of promotional text, including "Beware of Imposition," and a description of the bottle label composed by Philadelphia bank note engravers Draper & Co. Smaller advertisements contain promotional text and ornamented type. Barnum’s text includes a description of the exhibits and performances at the Lecture Room and Mahan’s provides prices for his fashion plates., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 11., LCP also holds trimmed duplicate depicting North side [P.2008.34.16.4].
- Creator
- Rae, Julio H.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 11 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]
- Title
- [Plate 9 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
- Description
- Plate depicts section of the 600 block of Chestnut Street (136-209 pre-consolidation). South side includes E. Durand & Sons, Druggists (136); Sleeper & Jeanneret, Jewelry (1388-140); Howell & Brothers, Paper Hangings (142); Langdon’s Daguerreotypes and W. S. Martien, Publisher and Bookseller(144); American Sunday School Union (146); and Jones’ Hotel, Bridges & West proprietors (152). North side includes Dr. Jayne’s Philadelphia Arcade, Dr. Davison’s Arcade Baths, and D. Robinson, Bookseller and Stationer (205-209); N.Y. Journal of Fine Arts Agency (203 1/2); Bolivar House (201-203); Chestnut St. Theater (199); and Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup and Blood’s Despatch (197). Also shows a few of the buildings adorned with flag or statuary. Sleeper & Jeanneret signage (138-140) included on plate as pasted-on details., Advertisements promote twelve of the businesses depicted with signage, as well as John M. Coleman, Importer of Sheffield and German Cutlery, Guns, Pistols, &c (209) and William White, Chemist, S.E. cor. Twelfth and Pine Sts. White's full-page advertisement contains testimonials and several lines of text describing the benefits of “White’s Hair Regenerator, or Amber Gloss” and “White’s Essence of Jamaica Ginger.” Most of the small advertisements include several lines of promotional text and ornamented type. Langdon & Co. quotes price of $1 to $5 for daguerreotypes and the Journal of the Fine Arts notes the merging of "The Messsage Bird," "Literary American," and "Musical Gazette" to form the periodical of "music, literature and art.", Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 10., LCP also holds trimmed duplicates depicting South side [P.2008.34.16.5 and P.2006.1.21].
- Creator
- Rae, Julio H.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 10 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]
- Title
- Grigg Block, North Fourth Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- View of the active business block containing and named after Grigg, Elliot, & Co., the largest and most prosperous publishing firm in the city that was founded by John Grigg in 1823 and purchased by J. B. Lippincott in 1849. Shows the block of buildings (10-20 North Fourth Street) covered in signage and including Barcroft, Beaver & Co., dry good dealers and S. M. Day, wholesale combs, brush and fancy goods trimmings (10); Goff & Peterson, importers and manufacturers of saddlery, carriage, and harness trimmings (12); Grigg, Elliot & Co. (14); C. H. & Geo. Abbott, dealers and importers of hardware and cutlery and C. Ahrenfeldt & Co., importers of toys & fancy goods (16); C. B. Lassell & Co., hats and caps and Charles Wingate, dealer in shoes, boots, and palm leaf hats (18); and Edwin & John Tams, importers and dealers of china, earthenware, and glass (20). Patrons exit and enter the various storefronts; delivery men, including an African American man, haul, load, and remove goods from horse-drawn and push carts; laborers load goods into shop storage cellars and use a pulley to raise a large cask; store clerks inspect and open newly arrived packages on the sidewalk; a horse-drawn dust settling machine passes in the street; and artisans and merchandise are visible in several of the shops' upper floor windows. Partial views of the adjacent buildings and a nearby alley with a laborer and push cart are also visible., Title from item., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Dec. 1848., Contains advertisements for six of the depicted businesses below the image., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 331, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Rease, a prominent mid-19th century Philadelphia trade card lithographer known to highlight details of human interest in his advertisements, partnered with Francis H. Schell in the 1850s and eventually operated his own press until around 1872.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H., lithographer
- Date
- [1848]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W 162 [P.2077]
- Title
- [Plate 8 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
- Description
- Plate depicts the 500 block of Chestnut Street (168-199 pre-consolidation). South side includes Congress Hall, the State House, and City Hall. North side includes E. B. Mears, Stereotyper, W.B. Gihon, Engraver on Wood, and W. T. Parker, Saloon (199); J. W. Moore, Importer and Bookseller (193); William J. Kerr, China Hall and French Ware House (191); [Isaac] Newton’s Confectionery (187); American Hotel tenanted by L. & B. Orne, importers of carpets and operated by Ambrose L. White (181-183); Richards. Successor M.P. Simons, Daguerreotypist and Swift & Justice, Tailors (179);wigmaker Richard Dollard (177); Geo. J. Henkels, City Cabinet Wareroom (175); A. Brett’s Lithographic Establishment, Oscar C. B. Carter, Piano Fortes, Safford & Cookmann Curtain Warehouse, Thomas J. Natt & Co.’s Looking Glass Warehouse, and Polytechnic Lecture Rooms, F. Langenheim Manager (171). Also shows sides of buildings on Fifth and Sixth streets and signage above the subsidiary entrances to the State House. Signs read Orphan’s Court Clerk’s Office; Recorder of Deeds Office; Court of Common Pleas; Register of Wills; Prothonotory Off., Supreme Court, Eastern District; Prothonotary’s Office; Sheriff’s Office, County Commiss's. Office; Prothonotary District Court; and Quarter Sessions Clerk’s Office., Advertisements promote fifteen of the businesses depicted and Watson & Cox, Sieve, Riddle, Screen and Wire Cloth Manufacturers, No. 46 North Front St. (half-page) and Yerger & Ord, Patentees and Manufacturers of the Metallic Skeleton Artificial Leg, Ankle Supporter, and Improved Anatomical Machinery (half-page). Half-page advertisements contain several lines of text, as well as a cameo stamp illustration showing the Watson & Cox manufactory and a wood engraving showing a metallic artificial leg. Yerger & Old advertisement also cautions about a competitor circulating "a petty species of slander." Most of the smaller advertisements include several lines of promotional text and ornamented type. Langenheim's cites the admittance fee of "25 Cts."; Newton's notes that "he has taken" the confectionery of the late Mrs. Wood; Kerr's promotes his China Hall as the largest in the Unitd States; and Parker's Saloon advertises "All the Luxuries of the different season constantly kept. Games, Fish, Oysters, &c. My Liquors, Wines & Segars are selected with care and attention, the best always purchased without regard to Cost.", Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 9., LCP also holds trimmed duplicate depicting North side [P.2008.34.16.3].
- Creator
- Rae, Julio H.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 9 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]
- Title
- [Plate 1 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
- Description
- Plate depicts section of the 200 block of Chestnut Street (42-59 pre-consolidation). South side includes William McMakin, Tailor (42); Wm. [G.] Mason, Printing and Engraving (46); McAllister & Co., Walking Canes & Spectacles (48); Wm. Curry’s Wholesale & Retail Trimming Store (50); F. H. Smith, Pocket Book & Port Monnaie (52 1/2); J. E. Van Meter & Co., Paper Hangings (54); Charles Ellis & Co., Druggists & Importers of English, French & German Drugs (36); and Joseph Fisher, Thermometers (for distilling). North side includes H. A. Dreer’s Seed & Horticultural Warehouse (59); J. G. Falconer, French millinery and J. N. Torr, Card and Fancy Job Printing (57); Bank of Commerce with the offices of Browns & Bowen (55); Clarenbach & Herder, Cutlery (51); and R. Magee, Bookseller and Stationer (45). Also shows partial view of Strawberry Street. Plate also includes a detail showing a donut-shaped object captioned “Blacking” pasted on the depicted roof of the Curry building (50)., Advertisements promote the businesses depicted, except Bank of Commerce, as well as Thomas Hargrave, Plain and Ornamental Marble Worker and Designer, Corner of Ridge Road and Thirteenth St., Philadelphia; Marble-colored and Fancy Papers, Wholesale and Retail, Manufactured by Joshua M. Raybold, Goldsmith’s Hall, Library Street, Philadelphia; George Hummel’s Premium Essence of Coffee Manufactured and Sold, Wholesale and Retail, by Daniel Bohler & Co., No. 218 Callowhill Street, above Sixth; and J. Dougherty’s Black Expectorant Syrup, No. 26 North Sixth Street, Between Market and Arch Streets, Philadelphia. Majority of advertisements include several lines of promotional text and ornamented types, as well as a few include wood engraved vignettes. Mason (50) advertisement lists the materials produced, including seals, presses, paper stamps, cards, tickets, blanks, and door plates. Vignettes depict a woman leaning on a sepulchral monument (Hargrave), portrait of J. Dougherty holding his “Black” syrup, and a shears (Clarenbach & Herder)., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 2., LCP also holds trimmed duplicate depicting the North side [Rae - Chestnut Street (8)1322.F.7a] .
- Creator
- Rae, Julio H.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 2 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]