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Title: Mouth of the Wissahickon Creek
Description: Drawing depicting the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge, also known as the Wissahickon Creek Viaduct or High Stone Bridge, which began construction in 1874 and was completed in 1882. The Wissahickon Creek flows in the foreground. There are several buildings and trees along the bank. The stone arched bridge spans across the water, and more buildings are visible in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in lower right., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.6]

Title: Bridge over the Schuylkill at Philadelphia
Description: View of the Schuylkill Permanent Bridge built after the designs of Timothy Palmer and completed in 1805 at Market Street over the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Shows the stone, covered bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. Trees are visible along the river bank. The bridge was redesigned in 1850 by the Pennsylvania Railroad and destroyed by fire in 1875., Title and date from item., Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner., Manuscript written in top left corner on recto: 32., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., William Constable (1783-1861) learned to draw as an apprentice in an engineering firm in Lewes, England. He traveled to the United States in 1806 and began taking painting lessons. He and his brother Daniel traveled America sketching and making watercolors. He returned to England in 1808.
Creator: Constable, William, 1783-1861, artist
Date: Sept. 12, 1807
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.10]

Title: Wissahickon Creek, Phila., PA
Description: Drawing depicting a bridge, probably the Henry Avenue Bridge (also known as the Wissahickon Memorial Bridge,) which spans the Wissahickon Creek at Lincoln Drive and Henry Avenue and was built from 1930-1932 after designs by Ralph Modjeski and Paul Cret. The Wissahickon Creek flows in the foreground. The stone arched bridge spans across the water. Tree-lined paths flank the shores of the creek., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date: [ca. 1935]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.18]

Title: P. & R. Ry. Bridge Fair Mount Park
Description: Drawing depicting the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge, also known as the Wissahickon Creek Viaduct or High Stone Bridge, which began construction in 1874 and was completed in 1882. Shows the waterfall of the Wissahickon Creek flowing in the foreground. The stone arched bridge spans across the water. Trees are visible in the background., Title from item., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Graeff, Henry F., artist
Date: [ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.66.7]

Title: [View of the Fairmount Water Works]
Description: Landscape view showing the engine house originally built between 1812 and 1815 after the designs of Philadelphia engineer Frederick Graff at the Fairmount Water Works. Shows the Federal-style engine house and the garden created by Graff in 1829 featuring geometric walkways with trees and a fountain. Two women and a man walk around the garden. The Wire Suspension Bridge built over the Schuylkill River from 1841-1842 after the designs of engineer Charles Ellet, Jr. is visible in the background. Trees grow along the river bank., Title supplied by cataloger., Date inferred from date of construction of the garden and fountain., Signed by the artist on verso., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Frederick Graff, Jr. (1817-1890) was chief engineer of Philadelphia's Water Department from 1847 to 1856 and 1866 to 1872. His father Frederick Graff (1774-1847) was superintendent of the Philadelphia Water Works in 1805 and recommended their relocation to Fairmount in 1811. He designed the Fairmount Water Works, which was constructed between 1812 and 1822.
Creator: Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890, artist
Date: [ca. 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.11]

Title: [Early 20th-century drawings of prominent Philadelphia sites]
Description: Collection of drawings, predominantly pencil, depicting views of prominent sites in Philadelphia, mainly exteriors. Includes the residence of William Penn, the Slate Roof House (built circa 1687-circa 1699 and demolished 1867, 100 block of South Second Street), Benjamin Franklin Bridge (built 1922-1926), Rittenhouse Square, and John Wanamaker department store (built 1902-1910, 1300-1326 Market). Many of the exterior views include pedestrian traffic. The three Wanamaker’s pencil sketches show interiors of the department store, including the restaurant, balconies, American flags, and arm chairs. The sketches portray an impressionist aesthetic. Bridge view includes an automobile and cityscape. Rittenhouse view includes an apartment building in the background and visitors seated on park benches in the foreground. Collection also includes a pen & ink exterior view of an unidentified stone commercial building, likely in Philadelphia., P.2017.15.3 signed lower right corner: T. F. Bancroft 1923., P.2017.15.4 signed lower right corner: T. F. Bancroft., P.2017.15.1-2 & 5-7 attributed to Bancroft., P.2017.15.3 manuscript note on recto : Slate Roof House “1863.” From photo courtesy of Mr. L. C. Siner., P.2017.15.3 manuscript note on verso : Slate Roof House in 1863 (from Photo by Gutekunst) mentioned in “Watsons Annals” as home of Wm. Penn in 1700. S. E. cor. 2nd & Norris Alley (or Sansom St), P.2017.15.1 manuscript note lower right corner: Aug 11th. Bridge from 2nd & Race., P.2017.15.2 manuscript note lower right corner: Rittenhouse Sq. Aug. 2nd., P.2017.15.5-7 inscribed: Wanamakers., Thomas F. Bancroft (1864-1934) was a Philadelphia engraver and later illustrator for popular periodicals like “Ladies Home Journal.” Bancroft worked as a button maker early in his career and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the late 19th century. He resided in Collingswood, NJ by 1930., Forms part of the David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell Collection., Leander C. Siner was proprietor of the Philadelphia gun and sporting goods business first established by John Krider in 1837. Siner assumed operations of the firm in 1903 with partner Charles Mohr as L. C. Siner & Co.
Creator: Bancroft, Thomas F., artist
Date: [ca. 1923-ca. 1930]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Bancroft [P.2017.15.1-7]

Title: [Robeson's Ridge Road, Philadelphia]
Description: Watercolor depicting the Robeson House, also known as Shoomac Park, built ca. 1759 at Ridge Ave. and Wissahickon Drive, Philadelphia, PA. Shows the two-and-a-half story house with a gabled roof and chimneys. A white fence lines the road in front of the property. Pedestrians and horse-drawn carts, carriages, and covered wagons travel along the road. A train crosses the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge in the background. Andrew Robeson purchased Shoomac Park in 1690 and operated a flour mill on the land. Rudiman Robeson likely built the house. Peter and Jonathan Robeson bought the park and mill in 1789. The Fairmount Park Commission purchased Shoomac Park in 1872 and demolished the house in 1961. The railroad bridge, known as the Wissahickon Creek Viaduct or High Stone Bridge, began construction in 1874 and was completed in 1882., Title supplied by the cataloger., Date inferred by the active dates of the artist., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022.
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.6]

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