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Title: David Heston & Sons, Frankford, Philadelphia. Specimens and price list, lithographic labels The U.S. Label Printing Establishment. Founded in 1868. Folding druggist bottle boxes. Labeled pill & powder boxes. For gummed work the extra charge is 12 1/2 per cent. We do not furnish less than 1000of any lithographed label
Description: Illustration on recto of specimen sheet/price list depicting the factory for the printing establishment at 1525 Orthodox Street (corner of Orthodox and Franklin (later Griscom) Streets). View also includes street and pedestrian traffic, including horse-drawn drays and wagons. A square border with cornice ornaments surrounds the view. Image also contains decorative and pictorial elements. The firm operated from the location until at least the mid 1920s before relocating to 1208 Race Street by 1936. Heston, a printer and a minister of the Society of Friends, partnered in the firm with his sons Charles B., William, and John B., until his death in 1905., Not in Wainwright., POS 875
Date: [ca. 1890]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll. Helfand Popular Medicine 11837.F (Helfand)

Title: On road near old Squan meeting house
Description: Glass negative showing a dirt road lined with foliage in Manasquan, N.J. A cart travels down the road and an open field is visible in the distance., Photographer remarks: Failure, prob. fogged., Time: 10:45, Light: Faint sun., 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: August 28, 1884
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.386]

Title: Monument & Square from our front steps, [Germantown]
Description: Glass negative showing the Civil War monument in the center of Market Square from the steps of the Deshler-Morris House at 5442 Germantown Avenue. The monument is comprised of a carved pedestal and a statue of a man. A horse-drawn carriage travels down the cobblestone street adjacent to the Square while a dog runs the opposite way. First called The Green, Market Square was established from land originally owned by James De la Plaine as early as 1703. As a center of community activity, Market Square contained not only market stalls but also the prison and stocks. Samuel B. Morris planted many of the Square’s original trees. Prominent buildings situated around the Square include the Deshler-Morris House, the German Reformed Church, and the Fromberger-Harkness House. The Market Square monument, built in 1883, commemorates the contributions of soldiers to the Civil War. Designed as a Union soldier, it rests on a pedestal made from granite taken from Devil’s Den, Gettysburg. The fence surrounding the monument was constructed from old musket barrels and bayonets. Cannons used during the war stand beside the monument., Photographer remarks: Weak neg., Time: 9:30, Light: Good sun., 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 24, 1887
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1085]

Title: Road by Pacolet River, back of Mcaboy's, [NC]
Description: Glass negative showing a horse-drawn cart traveling down a dirt path next to the Pacolet River. A hill rises sharply to the right of the path and trees line the left. A boy sits backwards in the rear of the cart., Time: 3:20 P.M., Light: Good sun., 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 27, 1890
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.1610]

Title: Milkman, [Sea Girt, NJ]
Description: Glass negative showing milkman and a boy standing next to a horse-drawn cart. The man stands in profile while the boy faces the camera, his head barely above the wheel of the cart. Trees grow behind the road and grass grows in front of it., 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 11, 1886
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.53.4]

Title: [Patent improved lead pipe sheet lead and composition gas tubes, manufactured by Tatham & Brothers, office 15 Minor Street, Philadelphia, and No. 249 Water Street, New York.]
Description: Advertisement showing the factory complex at 608 Delaware Avenue (occupied 1844) for the lead pipe manufactory established in 1841 by George N., Henry B., and William P. Tatham. Factory employees work in front of and at the wharf of the industrial building that is covered with signage. Men lift a barrel with a hoist; guide horse-drawn drays into a courtyard, down an alley, and to be unloaded; move planks of wood; and spray a hose into the river. Also shows partial views of surrounding buildings. Tatham & Brothers, a firm established in New York in 1838, operated the Philadelphia branch from the address until circa 1867. The firm patented a hydraulic pressure method to produce pipe in 1841., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: Aug. 1847. Delaware Avenue., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 547, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba34 T218., HSP copy contains advertising text about the "better quality" patent leaden pipe process and price lists printed in letterpress. Price lists documents "Water Pipes for Hydrant, Pumps &c."; "Fountain or Aqueduct Pipe"; and "Sheet Lead."
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W364 [P.2200]

Title: Northern Liberties' Sugar Refinery
Description: Advertisement showing the three-story office building with an addition and attached to the nine-story "Sugar Refinery" (rear) at the southwest corner of Willow Street and Old York Road, i.e., York Avenue. Signage reading "Rock Candy Manufactory. Isaac Koon's Sugar Refinery" adorns the office in which a stout clerk stands in the doorway. A horse-drawn dray loaded with goods (some labeled K) rests in the street and the drayman walks toward the clerk. A barrel stands next to the side of the office across from a laborer. He walks from an open entryway to the refinery marked "No Admittance." Barrels are visible inside and more barrels in addition to crates are piled in front of the refinery from which smoke spews from the stacks. Koons relocated from Race Street to Old York Road in 1844., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: S.W. cor. Willow & Old York Road. Aug. 1847. Aug., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 513, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: B638 N874.
Creator: Weaver, Matthias S., 1815 or 16-1847, artist
Date: [August 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W255 [P.2149]

Title: [P. Maison's biscuit bakery, 134 N. Front Street, Philadelphia.]
Description: Advertisement showing the busy three-story bakery at 134, i.e., 214 North Front Street. Building contains banners attached to awning posts adorned with a sign to advertise "P. Maison's Bakery 134." Another "Bakery" sign extends over the adjacent alley between the business and neighboring building. A gentleman, possibly the proprietor, stands at the entrance of the building as laborers transport and stack barrels at the open entryway and upper receiving windows. In front of the store, a "P. Maison Biscuit Bakery" conestoga wagon is loaded with barrels next to a dray loaded with goods of which a clerk overlooks. At the side of the building, a driver with a horse-drawn cart loaded with barrels confers with his coworker in an upper floor window. Also shows a gentleman walking down the stairs of the adjacent residence visible in the image., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: April 1847. N. Front St., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 536, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [April 1847]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W260 [P.2150]

Title: Hoskins, Hieskell & Co. Importers & jobbers of fancy and staple dry goods. No. 213 Market & 34 Commerce St. Philada Philadelphia
Description: Advertisement showing a view of the five-story, Norman-Italian style ornamented, cast-iron fronted building tenanted by the dry goods establishment that was completed in 1853 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart at 213, i.e., 513 Market Street. In front of the store, a gentleman departs from the entrance and a couple greets a gentleman across from another man leaning on a column of the building. A couple strolls past, and a group of men convene near crates on the sidewalk, in front of neighboring buildings on the block. In the street, a driver stands with his loaded horse-drawn dray. Image surrounded by an ornate border, including filigree; cherubic and female allegorical figures representing the mechanical arts, industry, and virtues; and medallions printed with the names of the contractors who worked on the structure. Contractors include Wm. Keay, granite; Bottom, Tiffany & Co., Iron Front, Trenton, N.J.; James Spencely, Plasterer; E.& P. Coleman, Bolts &c.; Wm. Butcher & Son, Tin Roofing; Geo. Creely, Brick Layer; Sloan & Stewart, Architects; Brown & Allison, Carpenters & Builders; Wright, Hunter & Co., Plumbing & Gas Fitting; and Hood & Co., Iron Doors & Shutters, Grating &c. Hoskins & Heiskell relocated to the site in 1853. The building was renumbered to 513 Market Street in 1857, following the consolidation of the city., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 363, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Inger & Haugg were probably Christian Inger and Louis (Lewis) Haugg., Newspaper clipping dated June 23, 1853 describing the completion of the building in Poulson Scrapook, vol. 7, p. 79.
Creator: Inger & Haugg, artist
Date: [ca. 1854]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W179 [P.2069]

Title: The state penitentiary, for the eastern district of Pennsylvania This institution known as "Cherry Hill State Prison" at Philadelphia, is the model prison of "The Pennsylvania System of Prison Discipline" or "Separate System" as it is called to distinguish it from "The Congregate." Each convict occupies a single cell or workshop, and is thus separated from all other convicts. The building was begun in 1822. The walls, 30 ft. high, 12 ft. thick at base, 2 ft. 9 in: at top, enclose a square plot of ten acres. There are 7 corridors of cells, capable of receiving 500 convicts. The average number confined annually is less than 300. Some cells are 11ft. 9 in. by 7 ft. 6 in. with yards attached, 15 ft. by 8 ft. Others are double this size, all lighted and warmed and ventilated.-Gas is introduced into the corridors. Heat by hot water thro' pipes. Water in each cell and other conveniences. The above is a bird's eye view of the buildings_ grounds and environs
Description: Bird's eye view of the prison built 1823-1836 after the designs of John Haviland at 2101-2199 Fairmount Avenue. Shows the prison designed with radial corridors, courtyards, and a Gothic-style entranceway and outer wall. A horse-drawn wagon is visible within, and another, probably a paddy wagon, arrives in front of the prison complex. Men on horseback, possibly guards, accompany the arriving wagon and a few pedestrians walk nearby in the street and on the sidewalk. Cityscape, including Girard College, is visible in the background. View also includes clusters of trees surrounding the prison and as part of the outer lying landscape., Copyrighted by Richard Vaux. Vaux served as President of the Board of Inspectors and authored Brief sketch of the origin and history of the State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1872)., Poulson inscription on recto: April 1856., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 750, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania:, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 19:17, Samuel Cowperthwaite, a member of the Society of Friends and umbrella maker by trader, was convicted of manslaughter in Philadelphia on May 27, 1848. Pardoned on August 7, 1849, he was sent to Eastern State again for murder on December 3, 1852. He served nearly eight years and was released on November 3, 1860. Cowperthaite was a weaver in prison. He was described by the prison chaplain as part of the "wowdy clubs of Skinners," with a the prevailing vice of intemperance and with a predominant passion for destructiveness. See N. K. Teeters & John D. Shearer, "The Prison at Philadelphia: Cherry Hill" (N.Y.: Columbia University Press for Temple University Publications, 1957).
Creator: Cowperthwaite, Samuel, artist
Date: c1855
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W401 [P.2216]

Title: [William Newell. Store. No. 3 So. Water Street, Philadelphia]
Description: Advertisement showing the 4-story grocery adorned with the sign "William Newell. Store. 1793." Through the four open entrances gentleman are visible conversing and checking a list among piles of sacks and near a rope hoist. In the street, laborers load and unload a conestoga wagon and horse-drawn dray parked in front of the building. Labeled crates and barrels line the sidewalk. Goods include indigo, starch, tea, sugar, honey, molasses, madeira, madder and tobacco. Newell operated from the address 1828-1848., Title supplied by cataloguer., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: So. Water Street. Dec. 1846, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 839, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator: Hoffy, Alfred M., b. ca. 1790, artist
Date: [December 1846]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W454 [P.2241]

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: Brud's block, Toledo, O. Burned Feb. 23d 1868
Description: View showing the block of storefronts covered in ice following a fire. Also shows spectators gathered on the street corners near horse-drawn carts and wagons., Yellow mount with square corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: February 1868
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - non-Philadelphia - Ohio [5739.F.7b]

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: First Baptist Church, Broad and Arch sts., Philadelphia
Description: View looking northwest from Market Street showing the church built 1856 after the designs of Stephen D. Button on the 100 block of North Broad Street. Includes adjacent buildings and parked horse-drawn wagons., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title printed on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [(4)1322.F.4b(v)]

Title: First Baptist Church, Broad and Arch sts., Philadelphia
Description: View looking northwest from Market Street showing the church built 1856 after the designs of Stephen D. Button on the 100 block of North Broad Street. Includes adjacent buildings and parked horse-drawn wagons., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title printed on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [(4)1322.F.4b(v)]

Title: First Baptist Church, Broad and Arch sts., Philadelphia
Description: View looking northwest from Market Street showing the church built 1856 after the designs of Stephen D. Button on the 100 block of North Broad Street. Includes adjacent buildings and parked horse-drawn wagons., Photographer's imprint stamped on mount., Title printed on mount., Buff mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., The Langenheim brothers, William and Frederick, were pioneer photographers and stereograph publishers who operated a photographic studio in Philadelphia from the 1840s to 1874 and the death of William.
Creator: W. & F. Langenheim (Firm), photographer
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Langenheim - Religion [(4)1322.F.4b(v)]

Title: Merchant's Exchange
Description: Exterior view of the exchange building built between 1832 and 1833 after the designs of William Strickland at the intersection of Dock, Third, and Walnut streets. A horse-drawn wagon stands in front of the building., Publisher's imprint stamped on verso., Title from manuscript note on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Pink mount with rounded corners., Inscribed on negative: 256., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Newell & Son, a partnership between Newell and his son Henry, was active from around 1870 until 1897 and the death of the elder Newell.
Creator: R. Newell & Son, photographer
Date: c1876
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Banks [P.9299.128]

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: 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]

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