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Title: Park drive, park carriage
Description: View of a horse-drawn coach parked on a path in Fairmount Park near the Schuylkill River. The coach, hitched to two horses, accomodates about eight people in its carriage. Also shows buildings on the opposite bank of the river in the distant background., Written on negative: 31, Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.84]

Title: River Road and park carriage, Phila. park
Description: View showing a horse-drawn coach with two male passengers parked on River Road in Fairmount Park. Also shows a tree-lined sidewalk running parallel to the road., Title from label pasted on verso., Photographer's imprint on label pasted 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.
Creator: Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.8731.9]

Title: [Old carriage in field in front of house]
Description: Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 55 [P.8513.55], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson55.htm

Title: Vernon Park on Greene St
Description: Depicts open field bordered by trees and posts near Greene Street in Vernon Park. Includes a carriage traveling along Greene Street in the distance., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Vernon Park was formerly the private estate of the Wister Family and was purchased by the City of Philadelphia in 1892.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.40]

Title: Among the Berkshire Hills
Description: Depicts a man driving a buggy with two horses down a very narrow dirt road, surrounded by unspoiled verdant countryside., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Label on mount reads: Loaned to the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9282.9]

Title: Barren Hill Hotel, no. 1, (opposite the Germantown Road.) James Mewhinney, proprietor. Choice wines, liquors, and cigars
Description: Trade card for the inn, later known as General Lafayette Inn, containing an embossed image of a man driving a horse-drawn buggy. Also contains a decorative border. Mewhinney operated the inn, first called Barren Hill Hotel in 1869, from 1874 to 1895., Embossed., 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., LCP also holds duplicate in the Joe Freedman Collection of Philadelphia ephemera [Freedman Collection - Trade Cards, P.2013.87.30].
Creator: McClement Bros., printer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.7a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Freedman Collection - Trade cards [P.2013.87.30]

Title: On the Brandywine
Description: Depicts a horse-drawn buggy travelling on a dirt path toward the photographer. Three boys attired in wide-brimmed straw hats sit and stand on the grass near the tree-lined creek., Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner., Numbered #650 on mount., Forms part of the Robert S. Redfield collection., Gift of Alfred G. Redfield.
Creator: Redfield, Robert S., 1849-1923, photographer
Date: May 26, 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Redfield [P.8983.4]

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: My country residence
Description: Puzzle showing farm life, including livestock grazing and sitting in an enclosed pasture, a horse-drawn cart hauling hay toward the barn, and a horse-drawn coach traveling toward the main house. A man and woman work in the enclosure as children play nearby., One of four puzzles housed in clamshell box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *albums (flat) - Four Lithographic Puzzles [8418.F.4]

Title: Yohn's carriage manufactory, cor. Apple and Evans streets, Pottstown, Pa Established 1835. All the latest styles of carriages on hand or made to order. Repairing a specialty. Call and be convinced
Description: Trade card containing a vignette image of a surrey style carriage and an ornamental border., Border printed in blue and gold inks., 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. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.66]

Title: Samuel F. Heflick, Pittsburg, Pa. Heflick's rein supporter. Price card
Description: Advertisement containing an image of a rein supporter attached to the hitch of a carriage between the cab of the vehicle and the rump of the harnessed horse. Also contains pricing information: one dozen = $18.00; 1=2 gros, per doz. 15.00; one gros, per doz. 12.00., Date inferred from patent date of rein supporter: October 25, 1898., 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. 1900]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.30]

Title: Girard House Polka
Description: Cover illustration is a lithograph, hand-colored, showing the Girard House hotel built 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Several pedestrians, including men, women, and children, walk in front of the hotel and neighboring buildings on the block. Men stand on the verandah of the hotel and in the doorway of an adjacent building. Also shows horse-drawn carriages parked in the street. A number of the women carry parasols., Printer: T. Sinclair's lith., Phila., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 315, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 38 G 517, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Stein, C.F, composer
Date: c1852
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books Rare *Sheet Music Girard 10076.F (Doret)

Title: Landsdown Drive looking north
Description: View showing a horse-drawn coach approaching two men standing on Lansdowne Drive near Sweet Briar Mansion in West Fairmount Park. A trestle railroad bridge spans the drive in the background., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint obscured by photograph pasted on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.99]

Title: U.S. Mint
Description: View showing the second mint building at 1331-1337 Chestnut Street (northwest corner of Juniper and Thirteenth streets) completed in 1833 after the designs of William Strickland, and possibly John Haviland. The mint operated at the site until 1902 when the mint relocated and the building was razed. Trees line the sidewalk in front of the building. Also shows a partial view of a horse-drawn carriage., Title from manuscript note on mount., Orange mount with rounded corners., Inscribed on negative: 147., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Gift of Jane Carson James., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Government Buildings [P.9299.19]

Title: [Unidentified man sitting on old coach]
Description: Depicts young man sitting on old coach in slightly reclined position with arms folded across chest and eyes closed. An old wagon is parked nearby. Both vehicles are parked in piles of leaves in front of building., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator: Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date: ca. 1923
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 90 [P.8513.90], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson90.htm

Title: Centennial of the U.S. Constitution. 9 mo. 15, 16 + 17, 1887. The Arch at Broad and Chestnut, [Philadelphia]
Description: Photograph showing Broad Street filled with people and carriages during the Centennial celebrations. Spanning the street is a large archway decorated with coats of arms and surmounted by an eagle. Flags fly from the surrounding buildings and people lean out windows to look down on the street. The Centennial Anniversary of the framing and creation of the Constitution was held on September 16-18, 1887 in Philadelphia. Organized by representatives from the various states and territories, the festivities included a military display, orations and concerts, and an industrial parade., Photograph from negative number 1223., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: September 17, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9844.49]

Title: [Spring Lake and Villa Park tram stuck in a flooded area, near Sea Girt, NJ]
Description: Photograph showing two carriages stuck in a flooded area near Sea Girt. A man on horseback wades into the water to the left. One carriage stands in the center of the water tilting sidways. The carriage has a sign reading, "Spring Lake & Villa Park, J.H. Clayton." Spring Lake was a coastal resort area popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. The Villa Park area was first owned and developed by William Reid and John Rodgers in 1875. Villa Park became a part of Spring Lake after the latter’s incorporation in 1892., Same image as number 2014., Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris., Edited.
Creator: Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer
Date: [1889?]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2103]

Title: Main Building, from east end.
Description: Exterior of the building. In front are people, railroad tracks, streetlamps, a carriage, and shrubbery. Above are clouds.
Creator: Centennial Photographic Co., photographer., creator
Date: 1876
Location: *Centennial - photos [P.8700.6]

Title: The Monestary [sic]. Built by Joseph Gorgas bt. 1746 & 1752
Description: Exterior view of house built near Wissahickon Creek between 1746 and 1752 for Joseph Gorgas, a lumber merchant and third generation resident of Germantown. Constructed on the site of "the Kloster," the log cabin built in 1737 as a community house for the German Dunkards. Two carriages are parked on the wrap-around porch., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title given in manuscript on mount., Also known as the Joseph Gorgas House and the Children's Museum of Philadelphia (1973).
Creator: Bullock, John G., 1854-1939, photographer
Date: ca. 1913
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern - Bullock [P.9731.118]

Title: Billy Morris
Description: Photographic reproduction of a caricature by William J. Gladding, Jr. of minstrel performer Billy Morris. Shows Morris at the bridles of a horse-drawn buggy followed by the grim reaper., Name of artist from duplicate in the collections of the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of portraits., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - misc. - Caricatures and cartoons - M [(2)5750.F.146c]

Title: J. V. Randall, carriage builder, Newtown, Bucks County, Pa Carriages in hand and made to order. All work warranted. Repairing of all kinds neatly and promptly attended to. Old carriage taken in exchange for new ones. Call and examine
Description: Trade card for Randall Carriage Manufactory containing vignette views of a flat top coach and convertible carriage. Randall Carriage Manufactory was established in 1857 by J. V. & W. Randall on State Street below Jefferson Street. John V. Randall operated soley by the early 1890s., 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. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Trade cards & Blotters [P.2011.10.48]

Title: Bush's Allegheny House, Market Street, Above Eighth. C. I. Bush, prop'r
Description: Letterhead containing a vignette view showing the exterior of the five-story hotel at 814 Market Street. Guests arrive in a horse-drawn "Allegheny" coach, approach the entryway, and stand on the upper floor veranda. In the street, men ride on horseback and push handcarts. Also shows partial views of adjoining buildings, including one displaying clothing., Completed in manuscript on November 5, 1857 to "Dear Brother" from R.A. Ford detailing travel plans to Binghamton, New York by way of Great Bend and requesting instructions about the "E. Whitney property.", Manuscript note on verso: R. A. Ford. Nov. 5/ 57., 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.
Creator: Sebald, Hugo, fl. 1850-1870, engraver
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.125]

Title: Bought of Rodgers Brothers, wholesale druggists, and dealers in paints, oils & varnishes Thos. Rodgers. Jas. A. Rodgers
Description: Billheads containing a vignette view showing the exterior of the Knoxville storefront adorned in signage and with a model of a mortar and pestle on the roof. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn carriage with driver., Date inferred from costume of female figure in vignette illustration., Completed in manuscript to J. B. McLin & Co, Rose Hill, Va. on November 24, [1875?] for $17.78 and March 30, 1878 for $.20. Billed items include "Balsam Cap," "Mustang Lin[iment]," Bluestone, and Camphor., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - R [P.2011.46.218-219]

Title: [Billheads of William F. Nick, apothecary, dealer in drugs, medicines, and chemicals, Erie, Pa.]
Description: Billheads containing vignette views showing the exterior of the multi-story storefront with mansard roof at "Scott's Block, Cor. 10th & State Sts." in Erie, Pa. One view also shows street traffic, including pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage. Firm established in 1862 by William Nick and operated as William Nick & Sons 1866-1876 and Nick Brothers 1878-1882. Business re-established as William F. Nick in 1882., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Herald Print, Erie, Pa. and Photo Eng Co. N.Y., P.2011.46.200 completed in manuscript to W. S. Riblet, possibly Erie cabinetmaker William S. Riblet (1820-1893), on April 20, 1886 for "Mdse got in 1884 and 85 as in bills rendered" for $26.67., P.2011.46.201 completed in manuscript to Emil Luhse on May 7, 1890 for "Wall Paper & border" for $.90. Manuscript notes on recto: Received Payment, Wm. F. Nick; A.A. Beckermann or committee of F. E. B. Burrell., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Date: [ca. 1880-ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection -N [P.2011.46.200 & 201]

Title: [Pictorial lettersheets of Dr. William A. Hammond's Sanitarium for Diseases of the Nervous System, Fourteenth Street and Sheridan Avenue, Washington, D.C.]
Description: Prints include illustration showing the exterior of the sanatorium founded in 1888 by William A. Hammond, neurologist, a founder of the American Neurological Association, and eleventh surgeon General of of the U.S. Army (1862-1864). Pedestrians walk and converse on the sidewalk in front of the mansion-like building and a horse-drawn carriage passes in the street. An iron-wrought fence lines the property landscaped with trees., Title supplied by cataloger., Two of prints attributed to Photo Engraving Co., P.2011.46.156 completed in manuscript to "Father" from Herbert L. Blodgett on December 19, 1890 about the $105 cost for his week-long residency at the sanitarium leaving him short $70 after paying his fare back to Boston., P.2011.46.157 completed in manuscript by William A. Hammond on January 22, 1891 as receipt for "Received of Hon. R. Blodgett $105 in full for medical treatment &c at my institution" to Herbert Blodgett., P.2011.46.158 completed in manuscript on March 22, 1894 to "Dear Sir" from William A. Hammond about his seeing "Herbert before stopping his medicine" for a week's stay at the "reduced price" of $50 to "[ascertain] as far as possible that no traces of his disease exist.", Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand.
Creator: Photo Engraving Co.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - H [P.2011.157-159]

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: To J. Mullin, dr. Coupes and carriages to hire. Stable, 1522 Rundle Street Office, 217 South Sixteenth Street
Description: Billhead for the Philadelphia livery operated by James Mullin containing a vignette showing a manned horse-drawn coach in motion., Completed in manuscript to Mr. [ ]herine on May 1, 1891 for "[illegible] 2 to coupe @ [illegible]": 2.00, Manuscript note on recto: Recd Payment J. Mullin., 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. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.141]

Title: [Jane L. Webster sitting with a woman in a horse-drawn buggy]
Description: Depicts the photographer's wife, Jane Lownes Webster, sitting in a horse-drawn buggy, next to an unidentified woman who controls the whip and reigns. One horse is harnessed to the buggy, which sits in the stone drive in front of an unidentified house., Modern reference print #29 available in research file., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members.
Creator: Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date: ca. 1900
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.59]

Title: South Ferry Hotel. Kaighn Point, New Jersey A. Haines
Description: Tradecard containing a view of the busy summer resort hotel on Front Street and Kaighn Avenue in Camden, N.J. Guests crowd the porch, convene in the street, and stroll toward the building past parked horse drawn-carriages. The hotel was originally built in 1770 as the residence of Joseph Kaighn.
Creator: Boerum, Simeon, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Specimens Album Collection - Advertising Specimens [P.9349.402]

Title: Centennial music
Description: Centennial music cover page paired with six different songs. Cover page is bound with the song Grand Centennial march by E. Mack with this copy [11479.F (Zinman)]., Cover page copyrighted by J.E. Ditson & Co., Song copyrighted by Lee & Walker., Publisher's advertisement on last page for Oliver Ditson & Company., Cover illustration is a lithograph depicting an exterior view of the Main Building of the exhibition celebrating the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art. Visitor traffic, on foot, and by carriage and omnibus, traverse the paths of the grounds around the building designed by Henry Pettit and Joseph M. Wilson. Landscaping includes clusters of bushes and trees., Printer: J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., 141 Franklin St. Boston., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 94, Stamped on the cover page: Schaefer Bros. music dealers, Steubenville, O.
Creator: Mack, Edward, 1826-1882, cmp
Date: c1876, c1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Sheet Music Cent 11479.F (Zinman)

Title: Our carrier pigeon. Columbus Buggy Co., Columbus
Description: Illustrated trade card die cut and shaped into a carrier pigeon carrying an envelope addressed "Columbus Buggy Co. Columbus" and illustrated with a buggy. The Columbus Buggy Company was formed in 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio and went bankrupt in 1913., Advertising text printed on verso: Geo. M. Peters. C.D. Firestone. O.G. Peters. My mission is to inform you that the Columbus Buggy Co. of Columbus, O. have the largest and most perfectly equipped factory and manufacture the best vehicles in the world. Write them for catalogue and prices before buying., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Columbus [P.9983.2]

Title: Church of St. Philip Neri. Philadelphia, Penna Rev. N. Cantwell, Pastor
Description: View showing the Roman Catholic church built in 1840 after designs by architect Eugene Napoleon Le Brun. View includes two horse-drawn coaches travelling Queen Street, pedestrians promenading, and a church rectory or convent building immediately west of the church building. Damaged during the Nativist Riots in the spring of 1844, the church maintained most of its original appearance. Reverend Nicholas Cantwell served as pastor of the church from 1845 until his death in 1899., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 37, PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri
Creator: Packard, Herbert S., 1850-1912, artist
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center. | Graphics Collection. PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. Philip Neri

Title: Views from the Reading Railroad near Reading, Pa
Description: Views of the rocky landscape adjacent to railroad tracks near Reading, Pa., including the Lebanon Valley Railroad Bridge spanning the Schuylkill River. Includes a man standing in front of a steep, rocky hill and a horse-drawn coach resting near the river. The bridge, completed in 1857, was burned down during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877., Yellow cardboard mounts with rounded corners. Photographer's printed labels pasted on versos., Manuscript note on versos of P.8484.19 and P.8484.21: Bartlett & French; William C. Darrah coll., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Views [P.8484.19-21; P.8731.1; P.9462.7]

Title: A ride to the city
Description: Plate from children's moral instruction book showing a man (Farmer Jones) and his daughter riding along a country path in a carriage pulled by two horses. "The carriage, horses, harness and passengers are all near as a pin." A homestead is visible in the distance., Published in Common sights in town & country. Delineated & described for young children (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, [ca. 1853])., Accompanied by text titled "A ride to the city" moralizing that money is one of "God's gifts" and should be used "in a way that will be pleasing to the Giver", rather than for ostentatious display., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 649, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8342.4, Free Library of Philadelphia:, Atwater Kent Museum: 46.57.1.13
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8342.4

Title: Broad St. New public buildings
Description: View looking from City Hall under archway supported by scaffolding at vehicles on Broad Street. Shows horse-drawn carriage parked in the foreground., Title from photographer's printed series list on verso with fifty-nine other titles from "Philadelphia" (1-31) and "Washington, D.C." (32-59) series., Photographer's imprint printed 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: Peabody, Edwin N.
Date: [ca. 1876]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Peabody [P.9099.6]

Title: Centennial Exhibition grounds, Philadelphia, 1876
Description: Views of the Centennial grounds showing state buildings from Belmont Avenue near the reservoir with the U.S. Government Building and the Main Exhibition Building in the background; an oblique view looking northeast at the Main Building with stagecoaches, horsecars and pedestrians converging on Elm Avenue near the passenger railway concourse in front of the Centennial National Bank; a view looking northwest at Centennial National Bank and the main entrance to the grounds showing coaches and spectators; and a view of the grounds looking along the Avenue of the Republic from George's Hill, including the west elevation of Machinery Hall. Many of the buildings were designed by Herman Schwartzmann, Henry Pettit, Joseph M. Wilson, and James H. Windrim. The Centennial Exhibition celebrated the centennial of the United States through an international exhibition of industry, agriculture, and art., P.9299.32 numbered 253 with title on negative: "South from George's Hill.", Photographer's imprint printed on mounts., Photographer's manuscript note in ink on verso of P.9260.20: "Centennial National Bank.", Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., P.9047.148 gift of Robert M. Vogel; P.9299.32 gift of Ms. Jane Carson James
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Exhibitions [P.9047.148; P.9168.18; P.9260.20; P.9299.32]

Title: George's Hill
Description: View of the bandstand, built in 1872, on George's Hill near Fifty-Second Street in West Fairmount Park. Also shows a flag pole and three horse-drawn coaches with passengers parked in the foreground. Two African American men, possibly carriage drivers, stand nearby. The hill was given to the city by siblings Jesse and Rebecca George in 1868., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint obscured by photograph pasted on mount., Stamped on verso: Copyrighted Kiralfy Bros., Philadelphia, 1876., Pink curved mount with rounded corners., 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., Gift of Ms. Jane Carson James, 1990., Digitized.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: 1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Parks [P.9299.83]

Title: Post office, Chestnut St., below Fifth. (Instantaneous)
Description: View showing the post office and courthouse completed in 1863 under the supervision of builder John Ketcham at 426-428 Chestnut Street. Includes a partial view of the Custom House at 420 Chestnut Street constructed in 1818 after designs by William Strickland. Heavy pedestrian traffic, including women carrying parasols, and horse-drawn carriages and coaches travelling along Chestnut Street are also visible., Title from photographer's label on verso. Also lists forty-one other titles in the series (No. 140-180)., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bartlett, George O., photographer
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett - Government Buildings [P.2002.21.3]

Title: View on the Wissihicken [sic] near Philla. [sic]
Description: View showing a stretch of Lincoln Drive including Maple Spring Hotel, the roadhouse and picnic resort established around 1865. The hotel was known for proprietor Joseph Smith's prominently displayed hand-carved curios created from laurel root that he gathered along the Wissahickon Creek. The hotel fell into ruin following the loss of its liquor privileges and was razed in the late 19th century. A horse-drawn carriage travels down the wooded road., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Name of photographer from duplicate. (3)1322.F.137h., Gift of Ivan Noble., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Bartlett & Smith, photographer
Date: ca. 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & Smith - Hotels [7992.F.8]

Title: [William Dunlaps' coach manufactory & repository, No. 169 North Fifth Street. Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement print showing the factory complex on the 400 block of North Fifth Street. Complex includes a three-story building marked "Wm. Dunlap No. 169 Carriage Maker"; wood-gated courtyard; and a two-story building, probably including a showroom, adorned with signage reading ""Wm. Dunlaps' Coach Factory." A couple enters an entryway of the smaller building that also contains signage advertising "E.W. Pearce Saddle & Harness Maker." A gentleman walks near the corner of the complex near four different types of coaches lining the street. Also shows stacks of lumber within the courtyard through the open gate. Circa 1845, Dunlap began operating from the factory which was later used as a hospital, prison, and barracks during the Civil War., Date from manuscript note by Poulson on recto: May 1847. North Fifth Street., Wainwright sugggests date of 1845., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 838, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 D922., Reproduced in Jennifer Ambrose, "Nineteenth Century Advertising Prints," in Magazine Antiques (August 2006).
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [May 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W453 [P.2240]

Title: [Wm. D. Rogers' coach manufactory, Sixth and Brown Streets, Philadelphia] Warranted twelve months
Description: Advertisement showing the two-story factory adorned with signage on the 800 block of North Sixth Street near Spring Garden. A boy pulls a carriage out of one of the two entries to the building (Sixth Street) as patrons inspect a different model of coach being pushed out by a factory worker at the other. A family walks between the coaches and other carriages are visible inside. Around the corner (Brown Street), on the sidewalk, two gentlemen converse and a couple peers into a factory window. Near the rear of the factory, a laborer transports a sack on his back near a strolling couple past a hackney displayed on a one-story addition. In the street, a driver tries to reign in his speeding carriage occupied by a couple that is being chased by a barking dog as a boy works on the wheel of a factory carriage nearby. A pedestrian watches the scene from the corner. Also shows hitching posts lining the sidewalks and a smaller factory with several smokestacks in the right background. Rogers operated from the site 1846-1854., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: 1847. Corner Sixth & Brown Sts., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1850., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 856, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: [1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W465 [P.2247]

Title: Wright, Hunter & Co. S.W. cor. Ninth & Walnut Sts. Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story corner property tenanted by the plumbing and gas fitting establishment of William Wright, John C. Hunter, J.H. McFetrich, and Thomas Brown at 900 Walnut Street. Seventeen bays of windows extend the length of the property on Ninth Street. Two women and a young girl stand in front of an unidentified property adorned by a metal skeleton for an awning (left). One man drives a horse-drawn cart north on Ninth Street, while another unloads goods from a dray. Two gentlemen wearing long coats and top hats stand at the Walnut Street entrance to the plumbing store. One of them grasps the handle of a pump in the doorway. Chandeliers and other wares are visible through the large shop windows. Two white horses are hitched to a closed cab stopped in front of the entrance, and a horse-drawn omnibus is partially visible in the background. The name of the business appears prominently on the cornice, and on signboards facing both Walnut and Ninth Streets. Managed at this site beginning in 1855, the store name changed to John C. Hunter & Co. in 1864., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: December 11, 1858., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 868, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Reynolds, Robert F., artist
Date: [December 11, 1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W471 [P.2270]

Title: Girard House
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Horse-drawn carriages are parked in front of the building., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9047.43]

Title: Girard House, Ninth & Chestnut Sts., Phila, Pa
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the Girard House hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Horse-drawn carriages are parked in front of the hotel. Also shows partial view of the Continental Hotel, also built after the designs of McArthur from 1857-1860, on the south side of the street. A street lamp with an advertisement for the Chestnut Street Theater stands in front of the Continental., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Negative annotated with title., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9733]

Title: Girard House, Ninth & Chestnut Sts., Phila, Pa
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the Girard House hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Horse-drawn carriages are parked in front of the hotel. Also shows partial view of the Continental Hotel, also built after the designs of McArthur from 1857-1860, on the south side of the street. A street lamp with an advertisement for the Chestnut Street Theater stands in front of the Continental., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Negative annotated with title., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9013.6]

Title: Girard House, Ninth & Chestnut Sts., Phila, Pa
Description: View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the hotel, built from 1851-1852 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr., at 823-835 Chestnut Street. Horse-drawn carriages are parked in front of the hotel. Also shows partial view of the Continental Hotel, also built after the designs of McArthur from 1857-1860, on the south side of the street. A street lamp with an advertisement for Chestnut Street Theater stands in front of the Continental., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Negative annotated with title., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: L.D. & Co.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9047.16]

Title: Starr King House, Jefferson, N.H
Description: Shows several people arriving by horse-drawn carriage and sitting on the porch and veranda of the resort hotel in the White Mountains., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of American Views., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Kilburn Brothers, was a partnership between brothers Benjamin West Kilburn and Edward Kilburn from 1865 to 1877.
Creator: Kilburn Brothers
Date: [ca. 1874]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn Bros. - Views [5739.F.61i]

Title: [J. Willis, shoe manufactory, 241 Arch Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story manufactory and storefront for "J. Willis Wholesale & Retale [sic] Ladies Shoe store" on the 600 block of Arch Street. Under the store awning, a couple enters the doorway while a lady looks at a partially visible print, possibly depicting the Willis shoe store, in the central display window. Drapery is visible in some of the upper floor windows and a horse-drawn carriage is parked in front of the building. Also shows partial views of adjacent buildings. Shading to represent light reflecting from windows also comprises a graphic element of the image. The business operated as J. Willis from the address 1840-1853, when renamed J. Willis & Son., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Arch Street. Dec. 1846. [illegible], Philadelphia on Stone, POS 401, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W195 [P.2063]

Title: Citizens Volunteer Hospital Association of Philadelphia. Instituted, September 5th 1862 Erected September 5th 1862 for temporary relief of sick and wounded soldiers, arriving in and passing through Philadelphia. Closed August 9th 1865
Description: Certificate containing a view showing a bustling street scene around the hospital situated opposite the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad depot at the corner of Broad Street and Washington Avenue. On the sidewalk, soldiers converse, men and women pedestrians stroll, and a female peddler and vendor sell their goods and wares, the latter patronized by Zouaves. In the street, medical personnel and doctors accompany injured soldiers, by stretcher, foot, and on crutches toward the hospital. Men, women, and children walk, converse, and greet each other, and horse-drawn carriages, including possibly an ambulance, travel past and stop near the hospital. Children include a boy carrying a basket and two attempting to help a man with his valise. Also shows surrounding buildings in the background. The hospital provided care to the most seriously injured before their reassignment to other hospitals. The hospital closed on August 11, 1865., Signed Thomas T. Tasker Junr President and F. Bayle Secretary pro tem., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 129, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Variant of image used as central scene in Wainwright 69.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W67 [P.8650]

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