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- Title
- J.C. & J.F. Field, gloves, 45 South 8th Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Series of illustrated trade cards die cut and shaped into gloves., Prints printed in black ink on pink paper., Advertising text printed on versos promoting fine French kid gloves and ladies' and gentlemen's kid, buckskin and dogskin gloves and gauntlets., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Field [1975.F.320 & 321]
- Title
- Joseph M. Cohen, highest cash price paid for cast-off clothing. Call or address No. 1547 Callowhill Street, Philadelphia
- Description
- Illustrated trade card depicting roses wrapped in partially rolled up paper containing the title., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1875]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Cohen [P.9730.3]
- Title
- Asher M. Childs clothes renovating establishment, No. 145 N. 9th St Old clothes made to look equal to new, by cleaning or dyeing without taking a part. Also repairing, and altering done to the latest fashions. All work done in a superior manner
- Description
- Advertisement containing an exterior view of the storefront flanked by patriotic vignettes. Vignettes show the figure of liberty and a sailor, with a woman at his feet, holding an American flag. Also includes interior scenes of employees dying and brushing clothes., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War miscellanies.
- Date
- [ca. 1863]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Ph Pr - 8 x 10 - Advertisements - C [(2)5786.F.162a]
- Title
- D. Klein & Bro., clothiers, 1112 Market Street, Philadelphia. Branch store, 4327 Main St., Manayunk
- Description
- Illustrated trade card die cut and shaped into an art palette depicting a cat. D. Klein & Bro. was a partnership between David and Lewis Klein., Advertising text printed on verso: D. Klein & Bro., clothiers and merchant tailors, 1112 Market Street, Philadelphia. Branch store, 4327 Main Street, Manayunk., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Klein [1975.F.481]
- Title
- Chestnut St. from above 9th
- Description
- View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; a millinery, a shirt manufactory, and a clothier. Lampposts line the sidewalk, including one adorned with an advertisement for the Walnut Street Theater. Horse-drawn carts and carriages travel the street. Partial view of a tree with full foliage is visible in the foreground., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (8)1322.31a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
- Date
- 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.27f]
- Title
- Chestnut St. from above 9th
- Description
- View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; a millinery, a shirt manufactory, and a clothier. Lampposts line the sidewalk, including one adorned with an advertisement for the Walnut Street Theater. Horse-drawn carts and carriages travel the street. Partial view of a tree with full foliage is visible in the foreground., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (8)1322.31a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographer
- Date
- 1860
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.27f]
- Title
- Chestnut St. from above 9th
- Description
- View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; a millinery, a shirt manufactory, and a clothier. Lampposts line the sidewalk, including one adorned with an advertisement for the Walnut Street Theater. Horse-drawn carts and carriages travel the street. Partial view of a tree with full foliage is visible in the foreground., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Gray mount with square corners., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (8)1322.31a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographerphotographer
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.31a]
- Title
- Chestnut St. from above 9th
- Description
- View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; a millinery, a shirt manufactory, and a clothier. Lampposts line the sidewalk, including one adorned with an advertisement for the Walnut Street Theater. Horse-drawn carts and carriages travel the street. Partial view of a tree with full foliage is visible in the foreground., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Gray mount with square corners., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (8)1322.31a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographerphotographer
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.31a]
- Title
- Chestnut St. from above 9th
- Description
- View looking east from above Ninth Street showing the south side of the 800-900 blocks of Chestnut Street. Businesses include: the Continental Hotel (824-838 Chestnut) completed in 1860 after the designs of John McArthur, Jr.; a millinery, a shirt manufactory, and a clothier. Lampposts line the sidewalk, including one adorned with an advertisement for the Walnut Street Theater. Horse-drawn carts and carriages travel the street. Partial view of a tree with full foliage is visible in the foreground., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Title and date from manuscript note on mount., Gray mount with square corners., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Duplicate of (8)1322.31a., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
- Creator
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860, photographerphotographer
- Date
- [ca. 1860]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Streets [(8)1322.F.31a]
- Title
- [Panorama of Philadelphia northeast from State House]
- Description
- Panoramic view showing several city blocks northeast from the State House at 520 Chestnut Street. In the foreground, identifiable businesses include W.H. Selheimer, book and job printing (n.w. cor. Fifth and Chestnut), and H.J. Toudy & Co., practical lithographer (503-505 Chestnut, 1868-1871). In the distant background, White Hall, clothiers, the steeple of Christ Church, and various businesses' rooftops with signage advertising hardware, drugs, and clothing are visible., Attributed to Robert Newell and his "American Views" series., Yellow mount with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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
- Newell, Robert, 1822-1897
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Newell - Views [(3)1322.F.9g]
- Title
- Sollers & Co, minstrels
- Description
- Racist trade card illustration depicting six well-dressed children sitting in chairs arranged on a stage in a semi-circle. Four of the children are white and two of them are African American. At the center of the image is a white boy who attired in a green suit jacket and cropped pants with a pink bowtie pointing and asking the children to his right,"Why do we all wear Sollers & Co's shoes?" The African American boy in the left of the image responds, "Cause dey save de soles ob de children!" The African American boy in the right of the image is depicted saying, "Gib it up!" The two African American boys are attired in blonde wigs, blue coats, yellow pants, and boots. The three white girls are attired in ruffled dresses and hold fans. The white boy is attired in a green jacket, white collared shirt, pink bowtie, green pants, and boots. Two medals earned by Sollers & Co. at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and the 1878 Exposition Universelle (or World's Fair) in Paris are printed on the trade card's verso. S.D. Sollers & Co. was a Philadelphia manufacturer of women and children's clothing and shoes that operated during the 19th century., Title from item., Text printed on recto: Why do we all wear Soller's & Co's shoes? Cause dey save de soles ob de chil'ren! Gib it up!, Advertising text printed on verso: Sollers & Co's celebrated shoes & slippers for ladies, misses and children. Hand-made and Machine Sewed. Retailed only at our store, 636 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Buy our Protection Toe and Box Toe Tip Shoes for your Children. They are the Best to wear., Gift of David Doret.
- Date
- 1877
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Goldman Trade Card Collection - Sollers [P.2017.95.162]
- Title
- Firemen's furnishing house. Fire hats, belts, fatigue caps, shirts, &c. J.M. Migeod & Son 27 South Eighth St. Philada. Manufacturers of firemen's, military & society goods Service and parade horns, lanterns, torches, spanners, metal badges, ball badges, marshal's badges, sashes and batons for parades. Mourning draperies for hose carriages and steamers, feather plumes for horses, flags, banners and markers. Gold and silver fringe and trimmings, gloves of all kinds, woolen neck ties, coat buttons ad covers, firemen's pictures. Military & fire companies and societies fitted out with every article required
- Description
- Advertisement containing vignettes, and firefighting, military, and patriotic iconography. Central scene shows firefighers rushing equipment to and battling a building on fire during the evening. Other vignettes show a military parade and a masonic parade. Iconography includes an American eagle clutching a bundle of firefighting tools, American flags, men in Zouave and firefighting uniforms, a firefighter's and dress calvary helmet. The business J.M. Migeod was renamed J.M. Migeod & Son in 1866., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 254, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2, Haehnlen operated a lithography studio until ca. 1873.
- Date
- [ca. 1868]
- Location
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Society Collection - Posters & Broadsides - Advertisements - Miscellaneous Folder 2
- Title
- [Panorama from State House steeple, north]
- Description
- Panoramic view showing several city blocks above Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Hildeborn & Brother, watches and jewelery (533 Market Street); Truitt, Brother, & Co. (529 Market Street); Brown, Kunkel & Co., clothing (525 Market); Chaffees, Stout, & Co., wholesale dry goods (523 Market); Coleman & Smith, cutlery and fancy goods (521 Market); Robert Pearsall Smith, publisher (517-521 Minor); and Jessup & Moore, commercial paper warehouse (27 North 6th)., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Manuscript note on verso: Looking north over Chestnut and Market St. between Fifth and Sixth., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
- Date
- [1859]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Views [(8)1322.F.1c-2]
- Title
- [Panorama from State House steeple, north]
- Description
- Panoramic view showing several city blocks above Chestnut Street. Businesses include: Hildeborn & Brother, watches and jewelery (533 Market Street); Truitt, Brother, & Co. (529 Market Street); Brown, Kunkel & Co., clothing (525 Market); Chaffees, Stout, & Co., wholesale dry goods (523 Market); Coleman & Smith, cutlery and fancy goods (521 Market); Robert Pearsall Smith, publisher (517-521 Minor); and Jessup & Moore, commercial paper warehouse (27 North 6th)., Attributed to Henry B. Odiorne., Manuscript note on verso: Looking north over Chestnut and Market St. between Fifth and Sixth., Grey mount with square corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., 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
- Odiorne, Henry B., 1805-1860
- Date
- [1859]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Odiorne - Views [(8)1322.F.1c-2]
- Title
- Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser
- Description
- Folio volume of panoramic views of businesses on the 200-900 blocks of Chestnut Street and corresponding pages of advertisements. Also contains a preface, which details that inclusion in the directory required subscription to or purchase of the volume; the intention to "issue the Panoramic View annually"; and the publisher's endeavor to correct all lettering errors "upon the publication of the second edition." Volume also includes interspersed full-, half- and, one-third-page advertisements for business subscribers tenanting, as well as not located on Chestnut Street. Publisher issued only the 1851 directory.
- Title
- [Plate 6 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
- Description
- Plate depicts section of the 400 block of Chestnut Street (132-149 pre-consolidation). South side includes Philada. Bank, Western Bank, Girard Life Insurance Comp., and H. S. Ogden, Tailor (132); and U.S. Custom House (unnumbered). North side includes U.S. Hotel (145-149); M. J. & C. Croll, Tailors (147); Philadelphia General Insurance Agency (145); the offices of [Andrew] M’Makin’s Model American Courier and tailor J. Smith Harris (141); J. Hufty, Stationer, Engraver & Card Printer (139); Chas. Martel, Wig Maker (137); clothier S. Heywood, Importer and Furnisher. Fire insurance, life insurance, and Ogden signage (116) included on plate as pasted-on details., Advertisements promote six of the businesses depicted (Girard Life Insurance, Heywood, Hufty, M’Makin, Philadelphia General Insurance Agency, and United Sates Hotel) and H.S. Tarr’s Marble Yard, No. 274 Green Street, above Seventh, which comprises an entire page. Tarr advertisement contains several lines of text, “Opinions of the Press,” and “References,” including Thomas U. Walter and Isaac Collins. Other advertisements include lines of promotional text and ornamented type. M'Makin advertisement contains subscription rates., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 7.
- Creator
- Rae, Julio H.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 7 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]
- Title
- [Plate 6 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
- Description
- Plate depicts section of the 400 block of Chestnut Street (132-149 pre-consolidation). South side includes Philada. Bank, Western Bank, Girard Life Insurance Comp., and H. S. Ogden, Tailor (132); and U.S. Custom House (unnumbered). North side includes U.S. Hotel (145-149); M. J. & C. Croll, Tailors (147); Philadelphia General Insurance Agency (145); the offices of [Andrew] M’Makin’s Model American Courier and tailor J. Smith Harris (141); J. Hufty, Stationer, Engraver & Card Printer (139); Chas. Martel, Wig Maker (137); clothier S. Heywood, Importer and Furnisher. Fire insurance, life insurance, and Ogden signage (116) included on plate as pasted-on details., Advertisements promote six of the businesses depicted (Girard Life Insurance, Heywood, Hufty, M’Makin, Philadelphia General Insurance Agency, and United Sates Hotel) and H.S. Tarr’s Marble Yard, No. 274 Green Street, above Seventh, which comprises an entire page. Tarr advertisement contains several lines of text, “Opinions of the Press,” and “References,” including Thomas U. Walter and Isaac Collins. Other advertisements include lines of promotional text and ornamented type. M'Makin advertisement contains subscription rates., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 7.
- Creator
- Rae, Julio H.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 7 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]
- Title
- Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets
- Description
- Folio volume of panoramic views of businesses on the 200-900 blocks of Chestnut Street and corresponding pages of advertisements. Also contains a preface, which details that inclusion in the directory required subscription to or purchase of the volume; the intention to "issue the Panoramic View annually"; and the publisher's endeavor to correct all lettering errors "upon the publication of the second edition." Volume also includes interspersed full-, half- and, one-third-page advertisements for business subscribers tenanting, as well as not located on Chestnut Street. Publisher issued only the 1851 directory., Predominantly depicted and promoted businesses include carpet dealers; confectioneries; daguerreotypists; druggists and patent medicine dealers; engravers, printers, and publishers; hotels; jewelers; millineries and clothiers; musical instrument dealers; and tailors. Plates also show the State House, Congress Hall, City Hall, Barnum's Museum, and residences. Full-, half- and one-third page advertisements advertise a variety of businesses, including patent medicines, artificial limbs, essence of coffee, marble manufacturers, and printers and publishers. Majority of advertisements contain ornamented type and lines of advertising text. Several also contain wood-engraved pictorial details. Some panoramic views contain pasted-on details representing signage., Cover printed in gilt on blue paper and contains an ornamental border., Engravers and printers include C. C. Hooker and Henry A. Brown., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., See also albums - Rae [P.2008.34.16] and Rae - Chestnut Street [1322.F] loose prints.
- Creator
- Rae, Julio H.
- Date
- c1851
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]
- Title
- Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets
- Description
- Folio volume of panoramic views of businesses on the 200-900 blocks of Chestnut Street and corresponding pages of advertisements. Also contains a preface, which details that inclusion in the directory required subscription to or purchase of the volume; the intention to "issue the Panoramic View annually"; and the publisher's endeavor to correct all lettering errors "upon the publication of the second edition." Volume also includes interspersed full-, half- and, one-third-page advertisements for business subscribers tenanting, as well as not located on Chestnut Street. Publisher issued only the 1851 directory., Predominantly depicted and promoted businesses include carpet dealers; confectioneries; daguerreotypists; druggists and patent medicine dealers; engravers, printers, and publishers; hotels; jewelers; millineries and clothiers; musical instrument dealers; and tailors. Plates also show the State House, Congress Hall, City Hall, Barnum's Museum, and residences. Full-, half- and one-third page advertisements advertise a variety of businesses, including patent medicines, artificial limbs, essence of coffee, marble manufacturers, and printers and publishers. Majority of advertisements contain ornamented type and lines of advertising text. Several also contain wood-engraved pictorial details. Some panoramic views contain pasted-on details representing signage., Cover printed in gilt on blue paper and contains an ornamental border., Engravers and printers include C. C. Hooker and Henry A. Brown., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Housed in phase box., See also albums - Rae [P.2008.34.16] and Rae - Chestnut Street [1322.F] loose prints.
- Creator
- Rae, Julio H.
- Date
- c1851
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]
- Title
- North side of Chestnut St., extending from Sixth to Seventh St., 1851
- Description
- Street view depicting businesses along the north side of Chestnut Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets. Most of the buildings include signage. Includes, right to left, the four-story brick building with Blood’s Dispatch and Dr. J.H. Schenck & Co. "Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup" (601 Chestnut Street); the second building of the Chestnut Street Theatre (603-609 Chestnut Street, built 1820-1822 after the designs of William Strickland); the three-and one-half story hotel Bolivar House (611-613 Chestnut Street); Dr. Jayne's Philada Arcade & Dr. Davidson's Arcade Baths (615-619 Chestnut Street); Columbia House hotel operated by Ferguson & Bro. and tenanted by tailor E. G. Dorsey (625-631 Chestnut Street); and the three-story red brick building tenanted by L. Benkert's Boot Store (633 Chestnut Street), "Philadelphia Fashions" publisher Francis Mahan(635 Chestnut Street), and druggist A. Smith (637-639 Chestnut Street). Also includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including horse drawn carriages and carts and an omnibus, strolling couples, couples in conversations, and a newspaper boy at work., Title from item., Date inferred from commission date of other drawings in collection., Inscribed in lower left corner: 1851., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Library Company. Annual Report, 1975, p. 6-11., Watercolor commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer circa 1880 and probably based on Julio H. Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser (Philadelphia: Julio H. Rae, 1851) plate 9, north side and plate 10, north side.
- Creator
- Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.44], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc044.html
- Title
- North side of Chestnut St., extending from Sixth to Seventh St., 1851
- Description
- Street view depicting businesses along the north side of Chestnut Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets. Most of the buildings include signage. Includes, right to left, the four-story brick building with Blood’s Dispatch and Dr. J.H. Schenck & Co. "Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup" (601 Chestnut Street); the second building of the Chestnut Street Theatre (603-609 Chestnut Street, built 1820-1822 after the designs of William Strickland); the three-and one-half story hotel Bolivar House (611-613 Chestnut Street); Dr. Jayne's Philada Arcade & Dr. Davidson's Arcade Baths (615-619 Chestnut Street); Columbia House hotel operated by Ferguson & Bro. and tenanted by tailor E. G. Dorsey (625-631 Chestnut Street); and the three-story red brick building tenanted by L. Benkert's Boot Store (633 Chestnut Street), "Philadelphia Fashions" publisher Francis Mahan(635 Chestnut Street), and druggist A. Smith (637-639 Chestnut Street). Also includes heavy street and pedestrian traffic, including horse drawn carriages and carts and an omnibus, strolling couples, couples in conversations, and a newspaper boy at work., Title from item., Date inferred from commission date of other drawings in collection., Inscribed in lower left corner: 1851., Retrospective conversion record: original entry., Library Company. Annual Report, 1975, p. 6-11., Watercolor commissioned by Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand Dreer circa 1880 and probably based on Julio H. Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial Directory & Panoramic Advertiser (Philadelphia: Julio H. Rae, 1851) plate 9, north side and plate 10, north side.
- Creator
- Evans, B. R. (Benjamin Ridgway), 1834-1891, artist
- Date
- [ca. 1880]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Evans watercolors [P.2298.44], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/plc044.html
- Title
- [Plate 4 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
- Description
- Plate depicts section of the 300 block of Chestnut Street (93-110 pre-consolidation). South side includes Public Ledger Office (96); J. & J. L. Gihon, Book Bindery (98); J. P. & D. C. Collins & Co., Daguerreotypists, Office of the New Line of Magnetic Tela., and Belrose & Faye, Paper Hangings (100); John Kelley & Co., Tailor (102); Charles Oakford, Hats, Caps, & Furs Wholesale & Retail (104); Ennis’ Gallery of Daguerreotypes and watch and jewelry dealer J. & W. L. Ward (106); Wm. H. Maurice, Stationer (108); and merchant tailor H. S. Ogden and safe manufacturer Milnor & Shaw (110). North side includes Franklin House tenanted by Lewis Ladomus, Watches & Jewelry (103); J. Thornley's India Rubber Emporium & Manufactory and The Morse Magnetic Telegraph Offices (101); Bank of North America (99); R. Buist Nurseryman & Seed Grower (97); Shepherd, Clothing (95); and L. Pelouze, Phil. Type Foundry (93). Also shows parts of Third Street, Hudson’s Alley, and Franklin Place. Milnor & Shaw signage (110) included on plate as pasted-on detail. Also shows jewelry on display in the Ladomus windows., Advertisements promote the businesses depicted, including a full page for Milnor & Shaw, Manufacturers of the Phoenix Fire & Thief Proof Iron Safes, No. 10 Hudson’s Alley. Advertisement also includes vignettes of two different models of safe, one flat-topped and one curved-topped. The smaller advertisements contain ornamented type and lines of text. R. Buist (97) promotion also includes a decorative border comprised of farm implements and produce., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 5.
- Creator
- Rae, Julio H.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 5 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]
- Title
- [Plate 4 and advertisements from Rae's Philadelphia pictorial directory & panoramic advertiser. Chestnut Street, from Second to Tenth Streets]
- Description
- Plate depicts section of the 300 block of Chestnut Street (93-110 pre-consolidation). South side includes Public Ledger Office (96); J. & J. L. Gihon, Book Bindery (98); J. P. & D. C. Collins & Co., Daguerreotypists, Office of the New Line of Magnetic Tela., and Belrose & Faye, Paper Hangings (100); John Kelley & Co., Tailor (102); Charles Oakford, Hats, Caps, & Furs Wholesale & Retail (104); Ennis’ Gallery of Daguerreotypes and watch and jewelry dealer J. & W. L. Ward (106); Wm. H. Maurice, Stationer (108); and merchant tailor H. S. Ogden and safe manufacturer Milnor & Shaw (110). North side includes Franklin House tenanted by Lewis Ladomus, Watches & Jewelry (103); J. Thornley's India Rubber Emporium & Manufactory and The Morse Magnetic Telegraph Offices (101); Bank of North America (99); R. Buist Nurseryman & Seed Grower (97); Shepherd, Clothing (95); and L. Pelouze, Phil. Type Foundry (93). Also shows parts of Third Street, Hudson’s Alley, and Franklin Place. Milnor & Shaw signage (110) included on plate as pasted-on detail. Also shows jewelry on display in the Ladomus windows., Advertisements promote the businesses depicted, including a full page for Milnor & Shaw, Manufacturers of the Phoenix Fire & Thief Proof Iron Safes, No. 10 Hudson’s Alley. Advertisement also includes vignettes of two different models of safe, one flat-topped and one curved-topped. The smaller advertisements contain ornamented type and lines of text. R. Buist (97) promotion also includes a decorative border comprised of farm implements and produce., Title supplied by cataloger., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Folder 5.
- Creator
- Rae, Julio H.
- Date
- [1851]
- Location
- Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Rae - Folder 5 [*Am 1851 Rae, 2975.Q]