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Title: At the close of the day, 200 Berlin Rd, Haddonfield, N.J., Feb. 17, 1882
Description: Pencil sketch of scene showing a horse-drawn cart and man shepherding a cow traveling on Berlin Road and in front of a three-story, Victorian-style residence. An ornamental fence lines the property. Two women sit on rockers on the porch and near the open front door of the residence. Trees adorn the property. In the left background, two men row a boat on a waterway., Artist's signature lower left corner., Title from manuscript note on verso of item., Manuscript note on verso: Abbie A. Peacock. No. 31. Original., Date from title., Caption in pencil lower right: Berlin Road., Scribbling in pencil lower left corner., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell., Abigail "Abbie" A. Peacock (1864-1927) was an artist who trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women 1880-1884. A resident of Friends Insane Asylum, Philadelphia by 1900, Peacock later was a resident of the Camden County Hospital for the Insane beginning in 1905.
Creator: Peacock, Abigail A., 1864-1927, artist
Date: [February 17, 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell - Watercolors & Drawings [P.2018.61.7]

Title: The Hotel at French Creek Falls
Description: Watercolor landscape showing an exterior view of the Excursion House or hotel built by Davis Knauer in 1881 in Saint Peters at the Falls of French Creek in Warwick Township, Pennsylvania. Shows the four-story building with several people on the covered porches and a horse tied to a post at the front entrance. A horse-drawn cart carrying two people travels down the road in front of the hotel. In the foreground are large rocks protuding from the hillside, and a man with a walking stick sits on a rock with his dog. Hills of trees grow in the background., Title and date from manuscript note written on verso., Label from Hirscl & Adler Galleries Inc., 21 East 67th Street, New York 21, N.Y. in accession file., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Augustus Kollner was born in Germany and settled in Philadelphia in 1840. An artist, lithographer, and etcher, Kollner produced series of lithographs, etchings, and watercolors in the 1870s and 1890s after sketches he executed in the 1840s. Subjects included Fairmount Park and Pennsylvania.
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, 1812-1906, artist
Date: [ca. 1884]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.17]

Title: [Street scene showing E.M. Eldridge Groceries and Provisions in Bristol, Pa.]
Description: Exterior view of E.M. Eldridge Groceries & Provisions in Bristol, Pa. Shows the two-story store with shuttered windows and dormers on a busy street corner. The store's name appears on the covered awning at the entrance and also on a horse-drawn cart. Goods are displayed in the window, barrels and containers are on the sidewalk, and brooms lean near the front door. A man unloads a horse-drawn wagon in front of the store, and a boy pushes a cart full of boxes. On the street are pedestrians, a man riding a horse, and horse-drawn carts. Adjacent buildings are visible., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from manuscript label: [D]rawn by H.I. Kurtz. 1880. Available in accession file., Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2022., Horatio Kurtz worked as an artist and lithographer in Philadelphia circa 1859 to circa 1900.
Creator: Kurtz, Horatio I., artist
Date: 1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2022.62.3.12]

Title: [Market building, Market and Fifteenth Streets]
Description: Street view of the market sheds at 15th and Market Streets, Philadelphia. Depicts men vendors selling their goods, including meats and produce, under covered stalls and from a wagon as customers, primarily women, walk and shop along the market. Also shows a Conestoga wagon parked by the market in the right, barrels and baskets of goods displayed near some of the stalls, and a fire hydrant at the corner. In the left foreground, a horse-drawn omnibus travels down tracks in the street. In the background, a row of building, including the Western Exchange Hotel is visible. The market sheds were removed April 1859 following the completion of the Western Market House at Sixteenth and Market Streets. The Western Exchange Hotel, a resting spot for many of the farmers who rented at the market, was demolished circa 1860., Title from print in the series., Date inferred from content and active dates of the artist., Signed by the artist in the lower right., Manuscript note written on recto: Masonic. Show to Masonic Hall get label., Inscribed in lower right corner: 5.00, Manuscript written on verso: The market sheds, extending two squares West of fifteenth street, were removed in 1862. The old Western Exchange building and the row of dwellings west from it were removed in 1880 to make room for the Pennsylvania R.R. first terminal. The arched front of the Western Market house is shown in the back ground., Contains series number written on sticker label in upper left corner: 336. Written in manuscript on the bottom left corner: 336. Number corresponds to the series, Old Philadelphia: Artistic reproductions from drawings by Frank H. Taylor depicting old structures and scenes of historic interest., See also: photo - McClees - Hotels, Inns, and Taverns [(9)1322.F.49b], Gift of David Doret and Linda G. Mitchell, 2019.
Creator: Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927, artist
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Doret and Mitchell Collection – Drawings & Watercolors [P.2019.62.22]

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

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