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Title: [William P. Cresson's foundry, Willow above Thirteenth Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the busy U-shaped iron foundry established circa 1846 at Willow, also known as James Street, above North Thirteenth Street. Laborers work within the courtyard, at the entryways, and along the complex. In the courtyard, men work on and near a small raised platform in front of the smoke stacks of a pyramid-shaped factory building. Stacks of flatbed crates line a small adjacent building across from men at work within the factory. At the end of the opposite workshop, two men load a horse-drawn cart parked near stacks of lumber and an unhitched cart. In the foreground, a driver leads a two-horse team drawn coal car down tracks curving into the courtyard. Also shows partial views of fencing, the rear of a departing cart, and foundry apparatus strewn around the grounds. Business operated at site until circa 1859., Title and date from Poulson inscription on recto., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1849., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 841, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed and lacking title.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W455 [P.2242]

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: George & James M. Bullock. "Conshohocken Woolen Mills" Manufacturers of doeskin beavers, Moscow beavers, &c in fancy colors, 233 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the woolen mills at Gulf Creek and the Schuylkill River in Conshohocken. Complex includes a main mill; engine house; boiler and dry house; dye house; scouring house; wool house; ware house; steaming houses; storehouse; mill; shoddy mill; engine house; boiler house; carpenter shop; lumber shed; office; gas house; gas holder; and coal and waste house. A flag adorns the property and stacks spew smoke. A fence surrounds the complex outside of which a man on horseback converses with two gentlemen, two ladies stroll, and a horse-drawn wagon is stopped. In the background, a farm and pastureland and neighboring mansion house are visible. The mill built in 1854, was purchased by wool manufacturer Benjamin Bullock in the 1860s, and in 1871 his sons George and James Bullock assumed operations. In 1880, the firm was operated by George Bullock & Co., and later the stock company Conshohocken Worsted Mills., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 297
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [6623.F]

Title: Dawson's Brewery. N.W. corner of 10th & Filbert Streets
Description: Advertisement depicting an exterior view of the three-story corner brewery constructed circa 1822 and operated by Mordecai L. Dawson and William Morrison. Includes a partial view of the rear ell (right) and two signboards on the facade that read, "M.L. Dawson's Brewery". Barrels line the sidewalk of Filbert Street in front of the brewery where two men load them one-by-one onto a horse-drawn dray. Dawson and Morrison opened their brewery at 79 Chestnut Street in 1820, and moved to Tenth and Filbert Streets in 1830, after purchasing the old Farmers' Brewery in 1829. Dawson went into business with Charles Poultney, Frederick Collins and William Massey after Morrison passed in the late 1840s, and the brewery eventually became Massey Brewing Co., Published in James Mease and Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia from 1811 to 1831: Giving an account of its origin, increase and improvements in arts, sciences, manufactures, commerce and revenue. (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 56 and in Thomas Porter's Picture of Philadelphia 1881 to 1831: Giving an account of the improvements of the city, during that period (Philadelphia: Published by Robert DeSilver, No. 110 Walnut Street, 1831) vol. II, opposite page 56., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 172, Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1831 Mease 68582.D; in Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D; Am 1831 Mease 20876.D; and Am 1831 Mease 104520.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
Creator: Breton, William L., artist
Date: [1831]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease 68582.D.56a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease Log 4072.D.56a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease 20876.D.56a], Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W92 [Am 1831 Mease 104520.D.56a]

Title: [J. Hartman's biscuit bakery, No. 90 Penn Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the bakery house at 90 S. Wharves, i.e., 412 S. Delaware Avenue. Signage adorning the building advertises "Crackers, Sugar & Soda Biscuit, Pilot, Ship & Navy Bread Wholesale & Retail." Employees and patrons enter and exit the building past stacks of barrels and are visible through the open entranceways and receiving windows, climbing stairs, discussing business, and inspecting barrels. In front of the business, under a large store banner, a patron and clerk converse and employees load a horse-drawn cart with provisions. At the side of the building, a driver with a horse-drawn cart is stopped in the alley to receive a barrel to be hoisted down from the third floor of the bakery. Also shows a sailor standing at the opposite street corner, and in the distance, part of a docked square-rigged ship., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. Penn Street., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 396, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W191 [P.2054]

Title: [James S. Mason & Co., 108 North Front Street, challenge blacking, ink &c. manufactory]
Description: Advertisement showing the five-story brick and granite building adorned with a sign reading "Blacking" on its roof at 108, i.e., 138-140 North Front Street. A patron opens the entrance door of the storefront as he peers at a large illustrated print on display in an adjacent window. Above the window adorned with the print (illustrated with a man, boy, and dog), a couple is visible in an open double-sided glass door on the second floor. In front of the building, a laborer unloads a horse-drawn dray as a family in winter attire approaches from a nearby corner. Also shows a hoist on the side of the storefront and partial views of neighboring buildings. Mason & Co. occupied the building following its completion in 1851 and tenanted the site until 1919. The building, built 1850-1851, was demolished in 1973., Title from accompanying manuscript note., Date from Poulson inscription: Oct. 1856., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1852., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 404, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, artist
Date: [October 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W198 [P.2075]

Title: [Jordan & Brother, wholesale grocers, No. 121 North Third Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Advertisement showing the three-and-one-half story grocery at 121, i.e. 209 North Third Street. A laborer carries a sack through the store entrance as inside a clerk scribbles on a piece of paper as he is surrounded by piles of sacks and shelves of boxes. In the upper floor windows, other employees go about their work and piles of boxes are visible. Outside of the building, sacks are piled on the sidewalk and another worker descends the stairs to the cellar. To the right, a man leads a loaded horse-drawn dray from the side alley to the rear office of the business. At the lower office window, surrounded by barrels, a clerk is busy at his desk inside. A woman stands at a window above. Also shows a fire insurance marker on the main building, and partial views of neighboring buildings, including Conrad & Roberts, hardware store (123)., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Third Street. Dec. 1846., Wainwright suggests date of circa 1850., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 414, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb38 J82., Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Stores & Shops, Wagner & M'Guigan operated at 100 Chestnut Street until 1846., See *W83 for advertisement print for Conrad & Roberts.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W207 [P.2113]

Title: The first of May 1865 or gen'l moving day in Richmond Va
Description: Cartoon relishing the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union depicting a Southern general moving from his war damaged home which is to undergo a "Sheriff Sale" and to be let by "Lincoln & Co." Three white Southerners and two African American men, one who thumbs his nose, witness the General and a mover begin to load a "C.S.A." (i.e., Confederate States of America) cart. The cart, to be pulled by two dogs, is situated next to a "C.S.A Treasury" box of "Waste Paper" that is being urinated upon by another dog. The mover is burdened by several packages, many falling off his back, labeled with the names of Confederate states., Title from item., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by H. & W. Voight in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York., Accessioned 1979., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., Kimmel and Forster was a 19th-century firm known more so for their engraving than their lithography.
Creator: Kimmell & Forster, lithographers
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1865-4W [P.2275.29]

Title: Joseph Waterman's Western Exchange Hotel, 15th & Market streets
Description: Exterior view of the hotel patronized by farmers and used as the western terminus of several omnibus lines. Also shows, in the foreground, vendors and a horse-drawn wagon parked in front of the market sheds above Fifteenth Street. The market sheds were removed April 1859 following the completion of the Western Market House at Sixteenth and Market streets. Hotel removed circa 1860., Title and date from transcribed scrapbook inscription., Photographer's imprint blindstamped on mount., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 112., Arcadia caption text: In 1830, a western branch of sheds on Market Street was built between Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets. Known as the Western Market, the stalls stood near the Western Hotel, a resting spot for many of the farmers who rented at the market. The hotel also served as a western terminus for several omnibus lines. The market sheds were removed soon after this 1859 photograph was taken and replaced by the Western Market House at Sixteenth and Market streets. A year later, the hotel met the same fate as the sheds., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in early photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in cooperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 94., McClees, a prominent Philadelphia photographer and daguerreotypist, produced some of the earliest paper photographic views of Philadelphia between 1853 and 1859.
Creator: M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.), photographer
Date: April 19, 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - McClees - Hotels, Inns, and Taverns [(9)1322.F.49b]

Title: Roberts' Mill "To go back the Church lane," writes Mr. Watson, "there is Roberts' Mill and dam, holding the place, and probably much of the original of the first mill in Philadelphia county"
Description: View of the first grist mill in Philadelphia built in 1683 by Richard Townsend in Germantown at Church Lane and Wingohocking Street. Named for its early 19th-century owner, Hugh Roberts, the mill was razed in 1873. Also shows the rear of a horse-drawn wagon parked beside the mill., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: [See picture and note of Godfrey's house on page 89]., Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 3, page 91. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Also included in an annotated album containing twenty photographs by Richards entitled "Pictorial Views of Houses & Places in Germantown yr 1859." (LCP 66037.D.9)., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select the link below for a digital image.
Creator: Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date: April 1859
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Germantown - R [(3)2526.F.91 (Poulson)], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/2526f91.jpg

Title: Second Street Market, Second and Pine
Description: View showing Second Street, looking south, east side, including a partial view of the "Headhouse" Market, extending from Pine to South Street. The market sheds, erected about 1745 to accommodate the growing number of South Philadelphia residents, were expanded to included a fire engine house with cupola around 1804. The market was razed in 1956 and the market with headhouse was rebuilt between 1959 and 1963. A covered wagon stands between the market and the opposite block of storefronts. The storefronts, including a barber, are adorned with awnings., Title printed on mount., Coral mount with rounder corners., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Right edge of mount tinted purple., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.)
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Squares [(8)1322.F.9e]

Title: Pennsylvania Hall
Description: Exterior view of the abolitionist meeting place and adjacent buildings at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia. Several white men and women pedestrians stroll the sidewalks. A carriage and horse-drawn cart pass by on the street. The hall was erected in 1838 as an arena for "free discussion." On May 17, 1838, after 3 days of interracial dedication ceremonies and services, hostile mobs set the hall on fire. The ruin continued to stand until the Odd Fellows Society built a hall on the lot in 1846., Title from item., Attributed to John Caspar Wild., Probably printed by Wild & Chevalier., Probably after the wash drawing by architect Thomas S. Stewart., Published in: [Samuel Webb's] History of Pennsylvania Hall. (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gun, 1838). (LCP Am 1838 Hist Pa Hall). Last page contains advertisement for a limited supply of larger frameable versions of the plate to be sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, No. 29 N. 9th Street, Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846, artist
Date: 1838
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W274 [P.2159]

Title: [Pennsylvania Hall]
Description: Exterior view of the abolitionist meeting place and adjacent buildings at Sixth and Haines Streets in Philadelphia. Several white men and women pedestrians stroll the sidewalks. A carriage and horse-drawn cart pass by on the street. The hall, erected in 1838 as an arena for "free discussion," was set aflame by hostile mobs on May 17, 1838 after three days of interracial dedication ceremonies and services. The building ruins continued to stand until the Odd Fellows Society built a hall on the lot in 1846., Title from duplicate print., Attributed to John Caspar Wild., Probably printed by Wild & Chevalier., Probably after the wash drawing by architect Thomas S. Stewart., Possibly artist's proof., Published in: Samuel Webb's History of Pennsylvania Hall. (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gun, 1838). (LCP Am 1838 Hist Pa Hall). Last page contains advertisement for a limited supply of larger frameable versions of the image to be sold at the Anti-Slavery Office, No. 29 N. 9th Street, Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 557, Accessioned 1982., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Creator: Wild, J. C. (John Caspar), approximately 1804-1846, artist
Date: [1838]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W274 [P.2158]

Title: [Men working on the roadside], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing a group of seven men with shovels and axes working on the side of a dirt road at Pocono Lake. A horse-drawn wagon stands on the road behind the men. All of the men wear shirts with rolled sleeves. Some men wear hats, ties, or suspenders. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., 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: July 27, 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.370]

Title: [Men working on the roadside], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing a group of six men with shovels and axes working on the side of a dirt road at Pocono Lake. A man wearing a hat and suspenders stands in a horse-drawn wagon behind the group. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., 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: July 27, 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.371]

Title: [Man driving a horse drawn cart], Pocono Lake, [PA]
Description: Film negative showing a man driving a horse-drawn cart filled with soil at Pocono Lake. The man stands on his cargo while holding the reigns. He wears a hat and suspenders. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., 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: July 27. 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.373]

Title: [Men working on the roadside, Pocono Lake, PA]
Description: Photograph showing a group of seven men with shovels and axes working on the side of a dirt road at Pocono Lake. A horse-drawn wagon stands on the road behind the men. All of the men wear shirts with rolled sleeves. Some men wear hats, ties, or suspenders. The Pocono Lake Preserve was pioneered by a group of Quakers, including Isaac Sharpless, who camped in the area in 1904. In 1908, this group bought the property from the Pocono Mountain Ice Company and designed it as a basic, rustic campground., Photograph from negative number P.2013.13.370., 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: July 27, 1909
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.620]

Title: [Proofs before titles of lithographs for City Sights for Country Eyes]
Description: Twelve untitled proofs of prints for the 1856 children’s moral instruction book “City Sights for Country Eyes” depicting scenes of daily urban life, particularly men at work. Professions include draymen, oyster seller, ice carter, rag tender, wagoner, express man, butcher, and baker. All the views show a horse-drawn vehicle, including drays, carts, and wagons. Cityscape, including storefronts, warehouses, and wharves are visible in the background of many of the prints. Scenes also include street and pedestrian traffic (men and women); dogs running by; lamp posts; trees, some in cages; and docked and sailing ships., Plates signed variably A. Kollner Lith. Phila.; AKollner’s Lithy Philada; A. Kollner Lithy Phila.; Lithy of A. Kollner; Lithy of A. Kollner, Philada.; and A. Kollners Lithy. Phila., Printed below image on some of the prints: From life New York; From Life; From Life, Phila.; From nat. at New York; From Life at Washington, D.C.; From Life Baltimore; and From Life at Philada., Published titles include: To the Depot; The Heat; Cheek By Jowl; “Prime Oysters!”; Summer Luxuries; Waiting for a Job; The Rag-Tailor/ [Tender]; The Wharf; The Slow Coach; The Express; The Butcher; and The Staff of Life., Gift of Roy T. Lefkoe and Sydney A. Lefkoe., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 294.1-12, See POS 71; 249; 631; 716; 728; 757; and 834., Housed in clamshell box., To be digitized.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1856]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - City Sights [P.2009.14]

Title: The Start
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man riding in a two-wheeled, horse-drawn cart. Shows the man, attired in a white top hat, yellow gloves, a white collared shirt, a blue bowtie, a black jacket with tails, white pants, and black shoes, seated on a red cart, smiling and looking at the viewer. He holds the reins to the brown horse, which trots and pulls the cart in the right. He also carries a black whip in his right hand., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy [P.2017.95.269]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 35 - The start [P.2017.95.287]

Title: In danger
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man trying to control the horse pulling the cart he is riding in. Shows the man, attired in a white top hat, yellow gloves, a white collared shirt, a blue bowtie, a black jacket with tails, white pants, and black shoes, seated on a two-wheeled cart. He opens his mouth in alarm as he pulls back on the reins of the brown horse hauling the cart. The horse’s mouth is open as it runs off making the cart jerk, causing its right wheel to lift off of the ground. The man also carries a whip in his right hand., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy [P.2017.95.270]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 13 - In Danger [P.2017.95.266]

Title: The Finish
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man standing next to his crashed two-wheeled cart and horse. Shows the man attired in a white top hat, which is crushed and covering his eyes; a white collared shirt; a white waistcoat; a blue bowtie; a black jacket with tails; white pants; yellow gloves; and black shoes. He stands carrying a whip in his right hand. His left hand clutches his right arm in pain. The right wheel has fallen off of the cart and lies on the ground behind him. The brown horse stands in the right still harnessed to the broken cart., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy of [P.2017.95.268]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 14 - The finish [P.2017.95.267]

Title: The Finish
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man standing next to his crashed two-wheeled cart and horse. Shows the man attired in a white top hat, which is crushed and covering his eyes; a white collared shirt; a white waistcoat; a blue bowtie; a black jacket with tails; white pants; yellow gloves, and black shoes. He stands carrying a whip in his right hand. His left hand clutches his right arm in pain. The right wheel has fallen off of the cart and lies on the ground behind him. The brown horse stands in the right still harnessed to the broken cart., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy of [P.2017.95.267]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 15 - The finish [P.2017.95.268]

Title: The Start
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man riding in a two-wheeled, horse-drawn cart. Shows the man, attired in a white top hat, yellow gloves, a white collared shirt, a blue bowtie, a black jacket with tails, white pants, and black shoes, seated on a red cart, smiling and looking at the viewer. He holds the reins to the brown horse, which trots and pulls the cart in the right. He also carries a black whip in his right hand., Title from item., Date deduced from the visual content., Duplicate copy [P.2017.95.287]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 16 - The start [P.2017.95.269]

Title: In danger
Description: Die-cut scrap depicting a racist caricature of an African American man trying to control the horse pulling the cart he is riding in. Shows the man, attired in a white top hat, yellow gloves, a white collared shirt, a blue bowtie, a black jacket with tails, white pants, and black shoes, seated on a two-wheeled cart. He opens his mouth in alarm as he pulls back on the reins of the brown horse hauling the cart. The horse’s mouth is open as it runs off making the cart jerk, causing its right wheel to lift off of the ground. The man also carries a whip in his right hand., Title from item., Date deduced from visual content., Duplicate copy [P.2017.95.266]., Gift of David Doret.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Scraps - Scrap 17 - In Danger [P.2017.95.270]

Title: [F. Brown druggist, storefront] 1822
Description: View showing the original store of Frederick Brown, chemist, druggist, and patent medicine dealer at 441 Chestnut Street. The three-story building contains large display windows. A wagon loaded with goods rests near the side of the building and two pedestrians pass crates lining the sidewalk. Men greet each other at the doorway of the storefront., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00016, Title supplied by cataloguer., Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 4th-5th
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 4th-5th

Title: Res. and grist mill of Anthony S. Morris
Description: View showing the residence and mill in Pemberton, N.J. purchased by Morris in 1864. A lady walks on a path leading to the elegant residence that is surrounded by trees and an iron wrought fence. In front of the house, men, one with a sack on his shoulder, walk on the sidewalk. To the left of the dwelling, two horse-drawn carts are parked in front of the two and one half story grist mill. Two men converse at the entrance. Other wagons approach and depart from a stone raceway over the creek next to the mill. Ducks glide on the pond visible in the foreground. Also shows a small fountain next between the residence and mill., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00013, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana - Mills
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Mills

Title: Alexander Young, grain distiller, South Street, above Fourth, Phila
Description: Tradecard showing the “South Street Grain Distillery,” formerly the Southwark Theatre (closed in 1817) and adjacent “Malt House” on the 400 block of South Street. A fenced courtyard separates the processing plants in front of which horse-drawn carts are lined. The vehicles, attended by drivers, arrive for and receive deliveries. Barrels line the sidewalk in front of the distillery and a laborer is visible at the third-floor receiving entrance of the building. Also shows pedestrian and street traffic, including men conversing, ladies strolling, and a man on horseback.The distillery building was removed circa 1908. Young & Co., founded by Alexander Young and John Maitland in 1823, was known for the Y.P.M. brand of rye whiskey., Not in Wainwright., pdcc00007, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 12, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 26:1A
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 26:1A

Title: Chas. Blasius & Sons. The largest piano & organ house 1119 Chestnut St. Phila
Description: Trade card containing an exterior view of one of the two Chestnut street storefronts of the manufacturer. Signage reading “Blasius & Sons. Steinway Pianos” adorns the multi-story building in which a piano is visible in the large display window. Two lady patrons enter the building across from horse-drawn wagons marked “Packard Organs Blasius & Sons” and “Steinway Pianos Blasius & Sons” parked in the street. Also contains a geometric border with floral cornices., Not in Wainwright., pdcp00003, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 29, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 11th-12th, One of three prints mounted on one sheet.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 11th-12th

Title: Adam & Co.'s express "polka" Composed expressly for Adams & Co., and respectfully dedicated to E. S. Sanford Esq. by Francis Weiland
Description: Sheet music cover containing an exterior view of the Philadelphia-branch office situated next to Carpenter's Hall court at 116, i.e., 320 Chestnut Street. Signage listing the name and services of the company, and manager Edward S. Sanford, adorns the five-story building. Shows laborers loading an "Adams & Co" horse-drawn express wagon as in the street a dog runs between it and a departing "California Express" wagon hauling crates. A man holding a valise sits on the crates. Two men, including possibly Sanford, watch the scene from the building doorway. Pedestrians bear witness from the sidewalk. Company clerks are visible in the second floor windows of the building. Also contains partial views of the neighboring storefronts, including shadowy display windows of merchandise. Shows perfumer Edward Roussel (114, i.e., 318) and Montgomery Hart & Co. paper hangings (118, i.e., 322). A bear adorns the building of Roussel. The express service company established by Alvin Adams of Boston in 1840, began a Philadelphia branch circa 1843, and was incorporated in 1854., Copyrighted by J. Paul Diver., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 10, Atwater Kent Museum: 53.32.2. Includes music., Francis Weiland was a Philadelphia music teacher.
Date: [c1852]
Location: Atwater Kent Museum | Print Department AKM AKM 53.32.2

Title: [Segment of circular advertising Chas. Blasius & Sons, piano manufacturer, Philadelphia]
Description: Includes a central view flanked by two vignettes. View shows "“1119 Chestnut St. Girard Row," one of the two Chestnut street storefronts of the manufacturer. Signage reading “Blasius & Sons. Steinway Pianos” adorns the multi-story building in which a piano is visible in the large display window. Two lady patrons enter the building across from horse-drawn wagons marked “Packard Organs Blasius & Sons” and “Steinway Pianos Blasius & Sons” parked in the street. “Pianos to Rent” printed above the image. Left vignette shows “2nd Floor Back Wareroom.” Includes pianos, piano legs, shelves of parts and clerks at work near the skylight railings. Right vignette shows “4th Floor Wareroom.” Includes a clerk with a gentleman near the skylight railings reviewing pianos in various stages of assembly. Shelves line the wall., Not in Wainwright., Title supplied by cataloguer., pdcp00004, Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 209, Free Library of Philadelphia: Philadelphiana – Streets – Chestnut - 11th-12th, One of three prints mounted on one sheet.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Picture Collection. FLP FLP Philadelphiana - Streets - Chestnut - 11th-12th

Title: Soldiers Rest, Alexandria, Va. [graphic].
Description: Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views, places & events., Bird's eye view of the rest station and "lodge for invalid soldiers" operated by the U.S. Sanitary Commission, a soldier relief organization. Shows an enclosed barracks flanked by tents and railroad tracks. Soldiers walk, relax, and drill on the grounds as others disembark and arrive via locomotive. Also shows the railroad roundhouse in the far left background near signage reading "Sanitary Commission Lodge for Invalid Soldiers" and "Soldiers Rest U.S. Sanitary Commission"; horse-drawn wagons travelling past and into the barracks; and the surrounding town.
Creator: Magnus, Charles., creator
Date: c1864.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Hospitals [5779.F.57]

Title: Camp Casey, 87th Regt. N.Y.S.V. [graphic] : Col. Dodge.
Description: Contains printed gilt frame around image., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, & Events., View of the Union military training camp outside of Washington, D.C. Shows a cluster of tents near a grove of barren trees. Soldiers walk and guard the grounds. Also shows, to the left of the image, a horse-drawn wagon travelling on a path leading from the city.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: 1862.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - C [5779.F.7]

Title: Camp of "The Webster Regiment," 12 Mass. Vols. Cantonment Hicks, 1st Brigade, Genl. Banks division, near Frederick Md. [graphic] : Col. Fletcher Webster com., Lt. Col. T.M. Bryan major, E. Burbank surgeon, Jedediah Baxter asst. surgeon, J. Hayward qr. master, David Wood adjutant, T. P. Haviland.
Description: Contains printed gilt frame around image., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places & Events., View of the Union military training camp in Maryland. Shows the barracks of comapnies A-H and K during the winter. Also shows soldiers on guard and a horse-drawn wagon. Also includes the names of the commaders of the companies printed below the image.
Creator: Rosenthal, L. N. (Louis N.), creator
Date: c1862.
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *GC - Civil War - Military Camps - W [5779.F.32]

Title: [Billhead and envelopes of Wilson Drug Co., wholesale druggists, Charlotte, N.C.]
Description: Billhead contains vignette exterior view of the three-story storefront of the firm. Patrons enter and exit the building and laborers load barrels onto a horse-drawn wagon parked in the street near passing pedestrians. Billhead accompanied by corresponding envelope addressed to L. Perguson & Co., Bostic, N.C. Postmarked Charlotte, February 1, [18]90, 1 AM. Also contains two-cent stamp. Other envelope printed in predominantly block letters., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Gast St. L. N.Y. & S.F., Billhead completed in manuscript to L. Perguson & Co. on January 31, 1890 for several items, including grinder, pepper, turpentine, indigo, and "sm. chimneys" for $11.61., 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 - W [P.2011.46.263-265]

Title: [Business stationery of Hopkins-Weller Drug Co., importers & jobbers, corner Washington Ave. & Main St., St. Louis, Mo.]
Description: Includes a letterhead and billhead with corresponding envelope. Letterhead and billhead contain decorative type, pictorial and ornamental details, and a vignette view of the offices and laboratory of the firm established circa 1878 by George K. Hopkins as Geo. K. Hopkins & Co. View also shows a locomotive passing on a bridge in the background and street and pedestrian traffic, including several horse-drawn carts and wagons. Hopkins-Weller Drug Co. (George K. Hopkins, William H. Weller, and Louis V. Clark) succeeded Geo. K. Hopkins & Co. in 1889. William H. Weller retired in 1894 and the firm was purchased by Meyer Bros. Drug Co. in 1899 following Hopkins retirement., Title supplied by cataloger., Printers include Gast, St. L. & N.Y., Names of proprietors printed above image., P.2011.46. 163 completed in type to Dr. J. R. Wolff, Bingen, Ark. from Hopkins-Weller Drug Co. Per, Bascom on November 22, 1891 regarding an enclosed duplicate invoice for Cheatham's Chill Tonic not entitled to any discount, but which can be deducted from his bill for advertising when remitted., P.2011.46.164 completed in manuscript to Dr. J. R. Wolff, Bingen, Ark. on November 25, 1891 for several items, including Carters Carb Soap, Salt Petre, and Leaus Almanacs for $14.14. Stamped on recto: 60 days, or 1 1/2% discount for Cash. Printed on recto: Sent for your account and risk, per [Hope to Nashville]., P.2011.46.164a addressed in manuscript to Dr. J. R. Wolff, Birgen, Ark. Contains printed return address: Hopkins-Weller Drug Co., Importers and Jobbers, 601 N. Main Strteet, St. louis; ink-stamp post mark: Saint Louis, Mo. Nov 27; and two-cent stamp printed in red ink and containing profile portrait of George Washington., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of William H. Helfand., The Gast firm, established by Leopold and August Gast in 1852, operated as Gast Banknote & Lithographing Co. 1887-1975.
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - H [P.2011.46.163-164a]

Title: Bought of Collins Brothers Drug Company, wholesale druggists. 418, 420, 422 & 424 N. 2d. St
Description: Billheads containing ornamented lettering and variant vignette views of the several-story building of the firm originally operated by Henry Blakesley in the 1850s. Views also show street and pedestrian traffic. Horse-drawn wagons travel in the street, and another is loaded at a side entrance to the building. A working smoke stack is visible on the roof. J.S. Merrell Company assumed the firm circa 1897., Printed upper right corner: Salesman [ ]; House No. [ ]., Printed above image: All Claims for Errors Must Be Made Within 10 Days. Interest Charged After Maturity. We Do Not Guarantee Safe Delivery of Goods. We Ship and Take Receipts "In Good Order," And they Are At Consignee's Risk After Receipts Are Signed by Transportation Company., Printed below image: Terms [ ] ; Sent for your account and risk per [ ]., P.2011.46.142 completed in manuscript to J. E. Chamberlain, Malvern, Ark. on November 6, 1894 for several items, including Eastman soap, bug juice, Bramo Seltzer, and "Lanaline" for $23.35., P.2011.46.143 completed in manuscript to J. E. Chamberlain, Malvern, Ark. on September 18, 1895 for several items, including "Jaynes Exph., "Asst Phos. sm.," and Caffeine for $41.00., 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. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helfand Popular Medicine Stationery Collection - C [P.2011.46.142 & 143]

Title: Joseph J. Cana[v]an morocco factory Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement depicting the manufactory complex at 1225 North Fifth Street (Canal Street between Thompson and Girard avenues). complex included a slaughterhouse, drying rooms, pulling shop, and office and sales room. A horse-drawn dray loaded with goods departs from the exit way between two sections of buildings that contain a flag and working smokestack. Also shows a worker in a doorway and a few pedestrians., Probably engraved by John Serz., Name of business misspelled in title: Canaran., 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.9773.76b]

Title: Cartes de visite reproductions of "Campaign Sketches"
Description: Series of reproductions of lithographs of military life "sketched on the spot" by Homer and originally published by L. Prang & Co. in 1863. Includes "A Pastime," "The Coffee Call", and "Our Jolly Cook" showing white men soldiers gathered around camp fires to play cards; get coffee; and watch the African American man camp hand, portrayed as a racist caricature, dance. Also shows white men soldiers "Foraging" as they round up a cow on a homestead; the "Baggage Train" with two African American camp hands on the back of a conestoga wagon; and "The Letter for Home" showing a white woman volunteer assist an injured white man soldier in the hospital to write a letter., Title and date based on the L. Prang & Co. publication in 1863., Three of the images signed by artist: Homer del., Created postfreeze., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of humorous caricatures and photographs. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Original lithographs described in Katherine McClinton's The chromolithographs of Louis Prang (New York, C. N. Potter distributed by Crown Publishers, 1973), p. 144-147., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department cdv - miscellaneous - Civil War - Homer - Caricatures & cartoons - Homer [5780.F.52i; 53b, d, g, i & n]

Title: Phila[delphia] Dispensary from Independence Square
Description: Glass negative showing exterior view from Independence Square of the Philadelphia Dispensary's third building, built in 1801, at 127 South Fifth Street, with partial views of adjacent buildings including the Mercantile Library building (125 South Fifth Street), occupied by the American Bank Note Company at the time of this photograph, and the offices of F. Cooper Shapely (129 South Fifth Street). Boys sit and stand in front of the dispensary building while a horse-drawn Knickerbocker Ice Company cart is parked in front of the Bank Note Company. Founded in 1786 by Benjamin Rush, the dispensary provided medical attention to the indigent sick. The building was razed in 1922., Title from entry in photographer's diary., Inscribed in negative: No. 12., Photographer remarks: Overtimed., Time: 1:45, Light: Good sun., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 46., Arcadia caption text: The Philadelphia Dispensary is dwarfed by the adjacent Bank Note Company, formerly the Mercantile Library, in this 1887 photograph by Marriott C. Morris. Founded in 1786, the Dispensary provided in-home care to the indigent sick and specialized in inoculation against smallpox. Doctors donated their time to the institution, providing medicine to patients free of charge, in return for medical experience. After renting properties near Chestnut and Strawberry streets, the Dispensary constructed its own out-patient clinic at 127 South Fifth Street in 1801. The plan of the Dispensary shows a “Prescribing Room,” an apothecary shop, and a room for patients on the ground floor, and a Manager’s Room, Library, and three bedrooms on the second floor. The Dispensary remained here until the institution was dissolved in 1922., Digitization and cataloging edits have 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: April 25, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris [P.9895.1106]

Title: Old darkey & donkey cart, on road at head of Hamilton Harbor, [Bermuda]
Description: Glass negative showing a older black man driving a cart drawn by a donkey down a dirt road near Hamilton Harbor. The road winds back over a bridge and is lined with trees., Photographer remarks: Undertimed badly., Time: A.M., Light: Sun., The emulsion has started to flake off on the right side of the plate., 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: March 26, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.886]

Title: Pier 80, foot of Snyder Av
Description: Film negative showing a horse-drawn carriage waiting in a dockyard at the end of Snyder Avenue. A large building labeled "Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 80" stands in the background next to a pier extending out into the water., Originally located in negative album [P.2013.13a]., 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: May 24, 1912
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.2013.13.478]

Title: [T. Wattson & Sons, biscuit bakery, 129 North Front Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the busy four-story factory for the bakery at 129 North Front Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. A gentleman, possibly the proprietor Thomas Wattson, stands in one of the open doorways to the bakery as laborers work around him. Near the doorways, workers load kegs onto a horse-drawn "T. Wattson & Sons Biscuit Bakery" wagon and dray. Other men, hoist kegs to upper receiving windows from a group of several lined in front of the factory. In a few of the windows, men at work and stacks of barrels are visible. Laborers hammer shut and move kegs. Also shows "X"-shaped joint bolts on a section of the building under near which a pedestrian walks past. Business established at address in 1846. Thomas Wattson sold the business to his son-in-law in 1852 and it was renamed Wattson & Co., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Front Street-Phila. Aug. 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 737, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W359 [P.2199]

Title: [Ritter Cotterell & Ritter wholesale drug & chemical warehouse. Paints, oils, glass & dye stuffs. 132 North Third Street, corner of Branch Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story storefront covered with lettering advertising products at the druggist on the 200 block of North Third Street. Products include "Wetherill & Co.'s Warranted Pure White Lead, Indigo, Madder, Logwood, Turpentine, Linseed Oil, &c, &c. Agency for Golsh's Patent Matches & American Brimstone." A male patron exits one of three open entryways to the store. Another patron is visible inside. Canisters and decanters fill the central display window and crates and barrels line the sidewalk in front of the building. At the side of the storefront, near the open cellar, a drayman stands by his horse that pulls a dray loaded with crates. A weather vane decorated with a fish adorns the roof of the building. The business operated as Ritter, Cotterell & Ritter from the address 1845-circa 1846., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: North Third, corner of Branch Street. Dec. 1846. 1846., Title supplied by cataloger., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 651, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Trimmed.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W314 [P.2178]

Title: [Robert Shoemaker's wholesale & retail drugstore, corner of Second and Green Streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement for the three-and-a-half story storefront, covered in signage, on the 200 block of Green Street. Signs advertise Wetherill's Whitelead, drugs, medicines, paints, oils, glass, dyestuffs, "window glass of all sizes," picture glass, "cheap glass for hot beds," "white lead warranted pure by the ton or pound," ready mixed paints, linseed oil, plasters, pot ash, and soda. A male patron enters one of the two open entryways that are lined with barrels and sacks, some open. Within the store, two clerks, one assisting a customer, stand at the counter. Rows of shelves with pharmaceuticals line the wall behind the men. Several canisters and decanters are displayed in the three showcase windows at the front and side of the building. Within the second floor windows, stacks of boxes are visible. At the street corner, crates and boxes of pharmaceuticals, including indigo and oil of vitrol, line the sidewalk and are loaded on a horse-drawn dray accompanied by the driver. Also shows the open cellar, a model of a mortar and pestle adorning the store, and a partial view of the adjacent business with sign "..olds." Shoemaker operated the drugstore under this name and at this location 1837-1856. Shoemaker apprenticed at the store in the 1830's when operated by William Scattergood. He developed an alternative to homemade plasters and was possibly the first U.S. manufacturer of glycerin. He removed to Fourth and Race Streets in 1856 when he established Robert Shoemaker & Co., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: S.W. cor. Second & Green. Green. Second Street. Dec. 1846. 1846., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 654, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W316 [P.2180]

Title: [Morocco leather manufactory, B. D. Stewart, S.E. corner of Willow Street and Old York Road, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the multi-storied manufactory of Benedict D. Stewart at Willow Street and Old York Road, i.e., 435-437 York Avenue. Signs with the name of the proprietor, the business, and street names adorn the building in which a man enters the doorway. Shutters adorn the lower and slats adorn the upper windows. In the right, broadsides adorn the small fence to the courtyard between the main and partially visible rear building of the factory. In the right foreground, laborers transport, pile, and load crates (some marked), and sacks onto a horse-drawn dray. Also shows a gentleman walking on the sidewalk. Stewart began his factory at the address in 1839., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: S.E. cor. Willow & Old York Road Aug. 1847, Wainwright suggests date of circa 1855., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 485, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W236 [P.2106]

Title: Bergner & Engel's Brewery. Office, 412 Library Street. Brewery, 32d and Thompson Sts. Philadelphia Gustavus Bergner. Charles Engel
Description: Advertisement containing a view of the hectic brewery complex in Northwest Philadelphia, i.e. Brewerytown. Complex includes an office building and dwelling (right), two ice houses (built 1865 and 1871, left), brewery plant, sheds, and courtyard. Outside of the plant, several Bergner & Engel horse-drawn wagons loaded with barrels travel in the street. The vehicles pass carriages, a man on horseback, two unoccupied drivers consulting each other, and a man, probably a brewery worker, seated on barrels talking with a man, possibly a job seeker, who has a carpetbag and a dog at his side. On the sidewalk, women, children, and gentlemen stroll, as brewery laborers work around them. Men load a wagon with barrels from one of the ice houses, as others coordinate the wagons (two excited dogs at his sides), carry barrels, and calm a horse at the courtyard entrance. Near the entrance, Mr. Bergner stands outside his office by his parked carriage and listens to an employee. Barrels line the wall of the courtyard. Within the space, loaded company wagons arrive, idle wagons and crate beds are stored, and laborers move barrels, including one from a huge pile on the terrace of the keg washing room attached to the second ice house. A grove of trees borders the complex in the left of the image. The partnership of Bergner & Engel was formed in 1870 at the brewery of Bergner (erected 1857-1858) following the dissolution of the partnership of brewers Wolf & Engel. Bergner & Engle ceased operations during prohibition., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 38
Creator: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898
Date: [ca. 1873]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW-Industries [P.8970.30]

Title: Bennett & Co. Tower Hall, clothing bazaar No. 182 Market St, between Fifth & Sixth. Philadelphia Wholesale & retail. J.M. Bennett. J. C. Umberger
Description: Advertisement showing the four-story, tower-shaped clothing store adorned with signage at 182, i.e., 518 Market Street. Statuary and a flag reading "Tower Hall" embellish the building and signs advertise "Quick Sales" and "Small Profits." A store clerk consults with a patron near one of the four open entryways to the establishment. Clothing adorns the entries and hangs from racks inside the store in which another clerk assists a patron at a display table. Coats and other piles of clothing are visible in the upper floor windows. In front of the store, several crates line the sidewalk. A laborer nails one shut as other workers load a horse-drawn dray. A few of the crates are marked with addresses, including Independence, Mo., Nashville, Tenn., and Augusta, Ga. The three-and-one-half story "Clothing Ware Rooms" stands adjacent to the "Tower Hall." Signage advertising "Shirts, Collars, Bosoms, Cravats, Wrappers, Hosiery, Handkerchiefs &c. &c. &c. and [Edward] "Allman Hatter" and [Robert] "Winchester Grocer" adorns the facade. Patrons exit and enter the doorways of the building in front of which a laborer loads a "Bennet & Co. Tower Hall Clothing Bazaar" wagon. On the sidewalk, near the delivery worker, a woman strolls near two boys in conversation and a man carrying a large package. Partial views of the outerlying, neighboring businesses complete the scene. Signage reading "...T Toland," (i.e., George Toland, accountant, 180 Market), and "Robert..." adorn the buildings. Also contains a trompe l'oeil wood frame border around the image., Col. Joseph M. Bennett (1816-1898) established his business, which he named Tower Hall in 1853, at the address in 1849. He was a successful businessman who used his wealth for philanthropic pursuits including the establishment of a Methodist orphanage and the bequest of West Philadelphia properties to the University of Pennsylvania in support of women's education., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 35, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W23 [P.2016]

Title: Alfred Jenks & Son's machine works, Bridesburg
Description: Advertisement showing the busy industrial complex established circa 1819 by Alfred Jenks and enlarged in 1853 on the east side of Richmond Street between Franklin & Locust streets in Bridesburg. A horse-drawn flatbed truck enters the courtyard of the U-shaped complex containing several buildings that are surrounded by wood fencing. Within the yard, clusters of workers transport boxes and planks of wood by hand near an unhitched wagon surrounded by crates. A carriage with driver waits near a smaller building, landscaped with trees and attached to one of the large workshops. Outside the complex, a driver handles a four-horse team plodding to pull a truck loaded with two large machines as other factory workers transport planks, carry crates, mill about with their tools, drive a dray, and stand at a shed facing the street. Also shows two gentlemen talking to a worker in the middle of the roadway, a worker carrying a box near abandoned carts in an adjacent courtyard, and several working smokestacks on the roofs of the works., Illustration in Edwin T. Freedley's Philadelphia and its Manufactures (Philadelphia: Edward Young, 333 Walnut Street, 1858), opposite page 301., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 13.2, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in Am 1858 Fre 67170.D., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Atwater Kent Museum: 40.79.3/2
Date: 1857
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W33.2 [Am 1858 Fre 67170.D.301a]

Title: Elevation plan of Granite St. buildings and those connecting with Walnut, Dock and Front Streets
Description: Depicts three rows of elevations showing the basic architectural stylings of the twenty-three distinct Granite Street properties constructed by John Rice for Jesse Godley between 1849 and 1853. The first two rows show the front elevations of the north and south sides of Granite Street extending from Front to Dock Streets (100-127 Granite Street). The third row shows the east and west side elevations of Granite Street, including the underground storage vaults below the street and the front elevations of properties facing Front, Dock and Walnut Streets (200 block of South Front Street; 137-143 Dock Street; 100 block of Walnut Street). The plans include pre-consolidation property numbers; notes about properties that extend, and are accessible, from both Granite Street and Front, Walnut and Dock Streets; and pedestrian traffic, including laborers rolling barrels on the sidewalk, horse-drawn carts, and men and women walking on the sidewalks. Godley financed the "Granite Street Improvements" in anticipation of an increase in trade that the Central Railroad would bring to the area. Builders include John Rice, stone masons Lukens & Hutchinson, brick workers George R. Creely, and granite workers S.K. Hoxie, John C. Leiper, and William Keys. The innovative granite-covered storage vaults, twenty-four feet wide by three-hundred twenty-five feet long, were built under the street with a brick-arch arcade and for the joint use of tenants. The properties and vault were demolished in 1960., Scale: 1/8 of an inch to the foot., Accompanied by the "Ground plan of Granite St. buildings, with the vault underneath the street" [P.8970.20]., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 204, Construction described in North American, December 12, 1850., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Date: 1853
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department ***W108 [P.2065]

Title: Theodore M. Apple, guager & cooper, no. 2 & 4 Gray's Alley between Front & Second and Walnut & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia Imitation brandy casks always on hand or made to order - Kegs of all sizes made of old stuff always on hand - Orders will receive prompt attention. Imitation stand-casks always on hand or made to order
Description: Advertisement containing a busy wharf scene on the Delaware River. Laborers fabricate and load numerous barrels onto a sailing ship while horse-drawn drays carrying barrels arrive on the scene. In the foreground, a man stands in one of two rowboats tied to the pier. His cohort unties his boat from the pier above. In the background, horse-drawn wagons arrive at a neighboring pier milling with activity. Also shows pairs and groups of men conducting business, a partial view of a loft house, and ships docked along the wharves and sailing in the river., Not in Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 748, LCP AR [Annual Report] 1988 p. 42.
Date: [1858]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Industries [P.9225.1]

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