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- Title
- [Wm. D. Rogers' coach manufactory, Sixth and Brown Streets, Philadelphia] [graphic] / Lithography of A. Hoffy.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790 lithography., creator
- Date
- ca. 1850.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W465.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W465 [P.2247]
- Title
- Dunlaps' Phoenix Coach Works, corner of Fifth & Buttonwood Streets, Philadelphia. [graphic].
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Date
- ca. 1850.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W100.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W100 [P.2084]
- Title
- [William Dunlaps' coach manufactory & repository, No. 169 North Fifth Street. Philadelphia] [graphic] / Drawn by M. S. Weaver.
- Description
- Date from manuscript by Poulson on recto., Wainwright dates as 1845., LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 D922.
- Creator
- Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, creator
- Date
- 1847.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W453.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W453 [P.2240]
- Title
- Chestnut Street Schottisch. [Wm. D. Rogers' "Carriage Repository", 1009 & 1011 Chestnut St.] [graphic] / J. Haehnlen Lith Phila.
- Description
- Copyrighted by James W. Roddon., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Haehnlen, Jacob, b. 1824 lithographer., creator
- Date
- c1858.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W059.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W59 [P.9001]
- Title
- George W. Watson coach & harness maker. Factory 13th & Parrish Sts. Old stand No. 9 Sth. Sixth. [graphic] / Executed on stone by W. H. Rease, No. 17, So. 5th. St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1847.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W151.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. **W151 [P.2081]
- Title
- Williams Ogle, coach & harness maker No. 280, Chesnut Street, above 10th south side, Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease, 17 So. 5th. St.
- Description
- Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- ca. 1847.
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W457.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W457 [P.2243]
- Title
- A. S. Renner, carriage builder, Perkasie Station, N.P.R.R. Bucks Co., Pa
- Description
- Trade card containing images of a convertible carriage and a coach., Printed in red ink., 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. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.53]
- Title
- Bought of John Westney, agt. Late of Shill, Jr. & Co., manufacturer and dealer in baby carriages, boys' & girls' velocipedes, bicycles, express wagons. All kinds of carriages and velocipedes repaired, nos. 214 and 226 Dock Street
- Description
- Billhead containing a vignette showing a baby carriage designed with an overhead, hanging shade., Completed in manuscript to Mr. Lawson on July 19, 1886 for "#21 Coach" for $14., Stamped on recto: Received Payment, Jno. Westney, Agt. Signed: Per A.O. Bloecker., 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. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.148]
- Title
- The Philadelphia Wagon manufactured by Rech-Marbaker Co. Girard Ave & 8th St. Philadelphia Pa Wagons. Coaches. Autombiles. Ambulances. Nothing to risk when we do your work
- Description
- Advertisement blotters, reused as mounts, containing calendars and vignette views of wagons designed for specific firms by the manufactory. Wagons include H.H. Battles, flowers; Dexter's Tip-Top Bread (Springfield, Mass.); and Lit Brothers Furniture. Also contains cut-outs of fashionable female figures attired in dresses captioned in type "Most Beautiful"; "Merry Youth"; and "Easy Always" pasted on the versos., Printed below title: Wm. A. Rech, President; W. E. Marbaker, Vice President; and J. Edwin Rech, Secretary and Treasurer., 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
- [1913]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.50-52]
- Title
- Carriage repository. Medal awarded at the World's Fair of 1851. G.W. Watson, Chestnut St. above Twelfth, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting an exterior view of George W. Watson's coach manufactory at 1219 Chestnut Street. Coaches inside the repository are visible through two large doorways on the ground level. Built in 1851, the building also served as a concert hall beginning in 1853., Damaged in upper right corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1853]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Watson [(6)1322.F.163a]
- Title
- Compliments of J. Westney, agt. Manufacturers of baby carriages, velocipedes, &c. No. 226 Dock Street
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting a man and woman carrying baskets and bundles of fruit walking along a path flanked by fruit and flowering plants. Includes the faint outline of the townscape in the background., Advertising text printed on verso: Largest variety of baby coaches, doll coaches, velocipedes, bicycles, propellors, sleds, sleighs and coasters, express wagons, shoo-fly horses, rocking horses, spring horses, leaping horses, sulkies, tally ho! and American trotters. At manufacturers' prices., 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 - Westney [1975.F.982]
- Title
- William D. Rogers & Co. Carriage Manufactory, Philadelphia
- Description
- View showing the manufactory and warerooms of the premier carriage business built in 1857 and 1860 at 1009 and 1011 Chestnut Street. Several smokestacks adorn the buildings, carriages on display line the street, and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. Rogers established his manufactory in 1846 and in 1870 partnered with Joseph Moore, Jr. to form William D. Rogers & Co., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr., Variant published in Charles Robson, Manufactories & manufacturers of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1875).
- Creator
- H.B Hall & Sons, engraver
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.23a]
- Title
- [Joseph Beckhaus carriage factory, 1204 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.]
- Description
- Advertisement depicting the factory and office at 1204 Frankford Avenue. Coaches line the street in front of the establishment and pedestrians walk on the sidewalk. Beckhaus was originally established as Beckhaus, Allgaier, and Petry in 1853. Beckhaus assumed sole operation about 1869., Probably engraved by John Serz., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Madelyn Wolke, Lucianne Reichert, and Clifford A. Mohwinkel Jr.
- Date
- [ca. 1870]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Serz [P.9773.76d]
- Title
- Williams Ogle coach and harness maker, no. 280, Chestnut Street, above 10th.. south side, Philadelphia
- Description
- Advertisement showing a view of the three-and-a half story factory of the “Ogle’s Coach & Harness Manufactory” on the 1000 block of Chestnut Street. Building adorned with signage, including “Wm. Ogle Coach 280 Maker” signs by the entranceway. A gentleman, probably the proprietor, stands at the open entranceway to the first-floor showroom in which several carriages are displayed. A couple approaches the entrance. In the street, a horse-drawn carriage is parked and attended by a disembarked driver on the side. An unhitched sulky is also visible in the street in front of the store. Also includes slight views of the adjacent buildings. Ogle operated as a sole proprietor from the address 1847-1850., pdcp00031, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Factories, etc.
- Creator
- Rease, W.H, artist
- Date
- [1850]
- Location
- Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Factories, etc. - O
- Title
- Philadelphia horse & carriage bazaar, S.E. corner of Ninth & George, bet. Walnut & Chesnut Sts. Philadelphia. [graphic] / On stone by W. H. Rease No. 17 Sth 5th St. Phila.
- Description
- LCP copy lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Select link below to view a digital image., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 H548. Originally part of the Dreer Collection., HSP copy includes advertising text above image: Auction sales every Saurday morning. Private sales daily., View of Alfred M. Herkness' circular auction house. Originally erected for the exhibition of a cyclorama of Jerusalem, the building was acquired by Herkness in 1847 or 48. Herkness remained at this site until 1913. Building demolished in 1915.
- Creator
- Rease, W. H. lithographer., creator
- Date
- [April 1848]
- Location
- http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W289.htm, Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. W289 [P.2173]
- Title
- Interior view of Rogers Smith Shop. Corner of Sixth & Master streets
- Description
- Vignette view clipped from an advertisement showing the interior of the coach and carriage factory on the 800 block of North Sixth Street. Shows several smiths at work stations divided by brick partitions with forges lining the wall. The workers use anvils, hammers, and bellows. Also shows a foreman and well-dressed gentleman conversing in the corner, wagon wheels mounted on a wall, and carriage frames in different stages of completion on the floor., Date from Poulson inscription on companion print showing the exterior of the smith shop titled, partially in manuscript,"Wm. D. Rogers Coach and light Carriage Factory.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Byram, Joseph H., engraver
- Date
- Oct. 1856
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 8 [(8)2526.F.12]
- Title
- Philadelphia north of Chesnut [sic] St
- Description
- Panoramic view from the 1800 block of Chestnut Street looking north showing the spire of St. Clement's Protestant Episcopal Church at the southwest corner of Twentieth and Cherry Streets, the dense group of trees in Logan Square, and Founder's Hall on Girard College's campus. Signboards reading "Lane," most likely for John S. Lane's carriage manufactory at 1907 Market Street, and "Lancaster Flour Store" are visible in the foreground., Title from manuscript note on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Date
- [ca. 1865]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Views [P.8464.31]
- Title
- [Library Street, southside, between Goldsmith's Hall and Fourth Street]
- Description
- Photographic reproduction of view looking east on the 400 block of Library Street. Shows the office building of Howell Evans, card and fancy printer, built 1855 after the designs of J. & A. Ferguson (402 Library); Isaiah Bryan's Our House hotel (408 Library); William Jack, carriage repository (410 Library); the public hall, Military Hall, the former arsenal building, built 1810 (412 Library); and William Quinn, manufacturer of velocipedes (418 Library). Lager beer signs adorn the hotel and military hall, carriages line the sidewalk, and an individual stands in the doorway of the former arsenal. Brewer Gustavus Bergner managed Military Hall in the late 1850s., Title supplied by cataloguer., Reproduction of photograph dated January 1859., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
- Creator
- Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
- Date
- ca. 1859
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Streets - Library [(6)1322.F.130c]
- Title
- Masonic Temple dedication parade, September 26, 1873
- Description
- Views looking north on Broad Street showing parade participants and spectators on the day of the temple's dedication including partial views of the west front of the temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of Freemason and Philadelphia architect James H. Windrim to accommodate the local lodge's increasing membership. Also shows other buildings and businesses north of the temple on Broad Street, including Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church built 1869-1870 after designs by Addison Hutton. One rooftop view from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts shows a sign on the west side of the block reading "Carriage" (McLear & Kendall's carriage factory) and one for "Convery's Coal Yard" (Alexander Convery & Co.) on the east side of Broad street near Cherry Street., Labels on versos contain printed description and history of Masonic Temple in paragraph form surmounted by a vignette of the state seal of Pennsylvania., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., P.9047.68 and P.9047.70 gift of Robert M. Vogel.
- Creator
- Cremer, James, 1821-1893
- Date
- September 26, 1873
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Processions [P.9047.68; P.9047.70; P.9168.19; P.9260.39-41]
- Title
- Wm. D. Rogers' coach and light carriage manufactory, corner of 6th & Master Streets, Philadelphia Carriages of every description built to order, which for style, durability & elegance of finish, shall not be surpassed by any in the country. The work is conducted under the immidiate superintendance [sic] of the proprietor, who is himself a practical coach maker. N.B. orders from any part of the world, promptly executed. Southern & western merchants will find it to their advantage to call at this establishment. The 6th St. line of omnibuses run from the exchange to the factory every few minutes
- Description
- Advertisement depicting an exterior view of the Rogers' industrial complex, the "model coach factory of America," at the busy corner of Sixth and Master streets. A white man clerk displays a carriage to a man and woman couple as laborers work on the upper stories. Drays, surreys, "Rogers" delivery carts, and a young African American man with a horse traverse the intersection. A white man passenger disembarks from a Sixth Street line horse-drawn omnibus near the factory entrance. A second omnibus rests at the corner, the white man driver unhappily receiving a citation from a white man constable; his young, white boy passenger watching with a look of awe sitting beside his mother. Rogers, the business established in 1846, and the factory erected in 1853, absorbed rival manufactory George W. Watson in 1870. The business operated over sixty years., Title from item., Date supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 855, 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 & Schell, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1854]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W464 [P.2268]