[Miscellaneous specimens from specimen album loose prints collection]
Title
[Miscellaneous specimens from specimen album loose prints collection]
Description
Contains specimens of ornate borders; an amateurly-colored view of Cincinnati pasted on verso of proof periodical illustration depicting butterflies; uncut pages of a gas pipe fittings trade catalog depicting tees, crosses, elbows, bends, and sockets; an entrance notice for Bryant & Stratton Business College illustrated with a calligraphic image of a bird, likely by J. E. Soulé; a printed lease and 1877 electoral broadside; sheet music cover "Charming Waltz"; advertising print for the "Walnut Street House"; and a flower print., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger., Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., J. Emory Soulé worked as a calligrapher at Bryant & Straton Commercial College by 1870 and became the school's principal within the decade.
Date
[ca. 1858-ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Specimens Album Loose Prints Collection - Miscellaneous [P.9349.217, 314, 327, 343, 362, 417-418, 421, 460, 473, 567]
[Miscellaneous specimens from specimen album loose prints collection] [graphic].
Title
[Miscellaneous specimens from specimen album loose prints collection]
Description
Contains specimens of ornate borders; an amateurly-colored view of Cincinnati pasted on verso of proof periodical illustration depicting butterflies; uncut pages of a gas pipe fittings trade catalog depicting tees, crosses, elbows, bends, and sockets; an entrance notice for Bryant & Stratton Business College illustrated with a calligraphic image of a bird, likely by J. E. Soulé; a printed lease and 1877 electoral broadside; sheet music cover "Charming Waltz"; advertising print for the "Walnut Street House"; and a flower print., Title supplied by cataloger., Various printers, including Ehrgott & Fobriger., Originally part of Specimens Album [P.9349]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., J. Emory Soulé worked as a calligrapher at Bryant & Straton Commercial College by 1870 and became the school's principal within the decade.
Date
[ca. 1858-ca. 1880]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Specimens Album Loose Prints Collection - Miscellaneous [P.9349.217, 314, 327, 343, 362, 417-418, 421, 460, 473, 567]
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Clark and Washington sts.
Title
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Clark and Washington sts
Description
View of the four-story building at the southeast corner of Clark and Washington Streets in Chicago that housed the First Methodist Episcopal Church on its upper floors from about 1857 until 1871. A signboard for the church is visible along with signs for a dentist and millinery & strawgoods store on the ground floor of the building. Businesses situated at the northeast corner of Clark and Washington Streets, including Bryant & Stratton's business college and Fifth National Bank, are also visible. Also depicts a large gas lamp in front of the Clark Street entrance to the church with "First Methodist Church" inscribed onto the glass panes. Building destroyed by the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871., Title and photographer's imprint printed on mount., Distributor's label pasted on verso: From James Cremer's stereoscopic emporium, 18 South Eighth St., Philadelphia. Family groups taken for the stereoscope, and photography in all its branches., Manuscript note on verso: Muschamp - 17, Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Mr. Saul Koltnow., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., John Carbutt operated a photography studio and resided in Chicago from 1861-1870.
Creator
Carbutt, John, 1832-1905
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Carbutt - Religion [P.9022.64]