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Title: [Branson & Bro. trade cards]
Description: Series of illustrated trade cards depicting a bucket labeled "2240 lbs. to the ton" filled with coal and a framed image labeled "1842-1882" of an old miner carrying a basket in his left hand and a shovel over his right shoulder. Branson & Bro.'s operated by David Branson and Jos. A. Wenderoth at 1118 Washington Avenue in Philadelphia., Title supplied by cataloger., Printed on light blue paper., Advertising text printed on versos promotes Branson & Bro.'s coal, including "Old Hazleton" and "Lattimer" grades and guarantees customer satisfaction., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1882]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Branson [1975.F.82 and 1975.F.85]

Title: John T. Roberts & Bro., reliable coal dealers, 1825 and 1827 N. Tenth St., and Germantown
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting three miners working in a dimly lit coal mine. Each miner has a lamp at his feet and a light on his hard hat. The miner in the foreground swings his pick axe, while the man behind him takes a break and rests his weight on the axe., Seal on recto: Purest and hardest, Lehigh Coal., Manuscript note on verso: Bessie., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1885]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Roberts [P.9724.2]

Title: Henry & Fisher's union coal yard, Ninth Street, below Jefferson, Philadelphia Always on hand the best Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal. Orders promptly attended to
Description: Henry & Fisher, the partnership between William Henry and Lewis C. Fisher, was active ca. 1862 until becoming a spice factory ca. 1867., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Henry [5786.F.9L]

Title: Young England O, shameful England! Greedy puffed with pride, a friend in sore distress, thy false heart hath denied
Description: Cartoon critical of Great Britain's lack of support of the Union depicting the country as a greedy, pompous, and disingenuous child. Depicts a smiling, well-dressed, plump lad partaking of a lavish table of food in front of an emaciated, begging dog on an outside patio near the ocean. In the background, an American ship sails near the shore and displays a banner labeled, "Coal?" On the shore, near a row of cannons and a pile of coal, soldiers display a British flag labeled "No!", Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., Publisher's imprint stamped below title., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date: [between 1862 and 1864]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1862-30W [6392.F]

Title: George B. Newton & Co., agents for the sale of Lehigh Valley Coal Co.'s coal. 329 Walnut Street, Philadelphia Shipping pier, Camden, N.J. yards: 30th and Chestnut Streets, Frankford Road and Vienna St. ; Geo. B Newton. William Hill. Frank T. Patterson
Description: Names of coal mines are underlined in red ink and flank the central word "Coal": Jeddo, Highland, Spring Mount'n, Spring Brook, Packer, Continental, Logan, Centralia, Council Ridge, Middle Lehigh, Hazle Brook, and Wyoming Collieries., Stamped in purple ink on recto: F. Jay St. John., 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 - Newton [P.2006.20.30]

Title: B.M. Singley & Co., dealers in coal, yard, N.E. cor. Ninth and Master Sts., Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a business card tucked into roses., 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 - Singley [P.9802.1]

Title: Garber & Bro., Lehigh and Schuylkill coal, N.E. cor. Thirteenth & Noble Sts., Philadelphia Cannel coal for grates
Description: Illustrated trade card depicting a stork, turkey, and flowering vines surrounding a scroll containing the name of the company. By 1880, Garber & Bro. included S. Jones, John M., and J. Lindley A. Garber., 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 - Garber [1975.F.389]

Title: Coke burning - Alleghenies
Description: Depicts coal miners covered in coal dust leading a mule-drawn coal car on makeshift tracks in the western Pennsylvania mountains. Other coal-workers, including a boy, work near a mound of dirt and ride a horse. Wood shacks stand in the background., Title from manuscript note on verso., Attributed to John Moran., Yellow mount with square corners., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903
Date: [ca. 1862]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Industry [P.8992.20]

Title: D & H Canal & coal dock, Honesdale, Pa
Description: View showing the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company boat and coal dock on the canal. The Delaware and Hudson canal, constructed from 1825-1828 after the designs of engineer Benjamin Wright, was conceived by Philadelphia merchants, William and Maurice Wurtz, as a means to transport anthracite coal from northeastern Pennsylvania to New York. Depicts in the foreground, workers standing on one of several docked canal boats used to transport coal hauled to Honesdale by the Pennsylvania Coal Company gravity railroad. In the background, a Pennsylvania Coal Company locomotive steams down the tracks past mountains of coal., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on mount., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1885
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified -Transportation [P.9212.4]

Title: [Richard McAllister Coal Company delivery cart, Philadelphia]
Description: Coal company cart driven by an African American man and drawn by a team of four ponies. The ponies wear harnesses, bridles, and blinders decorated with the name of "McAllister." The driver, attired in a cap, a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a jacket, and pants, holds the reins and looks at the viewer. In the left, an African American man, attired in a cap, a white shirt, and pants, stands beside a column or lamppost, which partially obscures him, as he looks at the viewer. In the background, an African American man, attired in a white shirt, is visible. McAllister, a coal dealer, had locations at 1310 North 2nd Street and 1144 Washington Avenue., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Emily Riese, 1991., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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.
Creator: Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.14]

Title: [Richard McAllister Coal Company delivery cart, Philadelphia]
Description: Coal company cart driven by an African American man and drawn by a team of four ponies. The ponies wear harnesses, bridles, and blinders decorated with the name of "McAllister." The driver, attired in a cap, a white collared shirt, a bowtie, a jacket, and pants, holds the reins and looks at the viewer. In the left, an African American man, attired in a cap, a white shirt, and pants, stands beside a column or lamppost, which partially obscures him, as he looks at the viewer. In the background, an African American man, attired in a white shirt, is visible. McAllister, a coal dealer, had locations at 1310 North 2nd Street and 1144 Washington Avenue., Title supplied by cataloger., Gift of Emily Riese, 1991., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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.
Creator: Davis, Eugene H., photographer
Date: [ca. 1895]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Davis [P.9332.14]

Title: Bought of John Hays & Co., miners and dealers in all kinds of hard and soft coal and coke. Office and dock: C. & P. R'y coal pier and 9 Prospect St. Cleveland, Ohio We handle or screen our coal with forks, as in the above cut. The coal is taken up entirely free from slack, and is not broken, as when thrown against a screen. See that this cut is on the back or face of the card or bill accompanying each load. None genuine without it. J.H. & Co
Description: Receipt containing an image showing a laborer using a pitch fork to load a "John Hays & Co. Ridge White Ash Coal" rail car. A mound of coal on which a pitch fork rests is visible on one end of the car. The head of a horse is partially visible behind the opposite end of the car., Title from text on verso., Completed in manuscript to Mr. A. G. Whitney on September 4, 1877 for "2000 pounds Carbon Ridge, Lump.", Contains punched whole in upper right corner., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1870]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Miscellaneous [P.2011.10.174]

Title: William Still, dealer in Lehigh & Schuylkill coal, 1216, 1218 and 1220 Washington Avenue, Philadelphia
Description: Title from item., Date inferred from dates of operation of advertised business., Price list template ("Present prices per ton") printed on verso for various kinds of Lehigh, Schuylkill and Bituminous coal., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Emily Phillips, 1883., Digitized., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Still [P.9939]

Title: Bought of Charles Clarke, coal dealer, N.E. cor. Master & North Penna. R.R
Description: Receipt containing a vignette showing a horse-drawn coal cart loaded with coal., Completed in manuscript to Mr. George W. Thorn on March 19, 1862 for "1 (2240 lbs) ton Lehigh Store @ $4.50. Signed: Received Payment, Chas. Clarke., Promotion printed below image: Has constantly on hand and daily receiving: Lehigh Coal, Prepared with care for Family and Factory use. Kept Under Cover. Terms Cash., Contains punched whole in center., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Helen Beitler and Estate of Helen Beitler.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Receipts [P.2011.10.129]

Title: Edward Geary, Jr. dealer in Lehigh and Schuylkill coal. Orders received and promptly attended to, at No. 814 North Second St. above Brown, S.E. cor. Ridge Avenue & Wallace St., (or through despatch directed as above,) Philadelphia. Cash on delivery
Description: Illustrated stock trade card depicting a sphere labeled "Our Country" partially submerged in water and surmounted by an American flag flying to the right. Includes various styles of hats on a rack printed on verso., Advertising text printed on verso is partially obscured by paper remaining after removing trade card from scrapbook: Edward Geary, fashion, hat & cap store, [81]4 North Second Street, above Brown, Philadelphia. Hats and caps made to order. (Over.), Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Geary [5786.F.176g]

Title: Bird's eye view of Philadelphia
Description: Bird's eye view looking north from Cherry Street showing North Broad Street. Businesses line the street including Convery's Coal Yard (Lehigh & Schuylkill coal), a carriage manufactory, and Philadelphia Ice and Coal Company. Pedestrians crowd the sidewalks and streets., Orange mount with rounded corners., Title and date from manuscript note on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: May 21, 1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Streets [P.8931.3]

Title: Francis Bacon & Co.'s coal yard. Spruce Street Wharf, Schuylkill Philadelphia Vessels loaded with dispatch, by steam power. Office no. 53 South Fourth Street
Description: Advertisement showing the busy coal yard along the Schuylkill River. Yard workers haul cauldrons of coal by pulley and load and transport trucks on a multi-level wharf elevated above and surrounded by piles of coal. A schooner docked near two long boats at the end of the wharf receives a haul of coal from two chutes. A skiff and rowboat flank the boats. Opposite the schooner, a man sails a skiff named "Go On" past a tugboat. Signage for the coal yard is visible behind the tug and several industrial buildings line the wharf in the background. Bacon & Co. operated from the wharf address 1853-1854., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 273, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 76 R 288
Creator: Rease, W. H., artist
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 76 R 288

Title: Type "C" loader with swiveling belt conveyor storing coal at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Description: a Product advertisement, probably from a trade portfolio, showing the Link-Belt coal loader in action behind a small ivy covered building on the campus. In the foreground are large piles of coal. In the center, a coal shooting loader is set up and an African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, stands and oversees the operation. A laborer shovels coal from the back of a dump truck. Link-Belt Engineering Co. was founded by William Dana Ewart, inventor of the link-belt, in 1874., Title from typed note on verso., Date inferred from photographic medium and content., Inscribed in negative: 9249., Purchase 1990., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Link-Belt [P.9285.21]

Title: Biddle, Edward C.
Creator: Library Company of Philadelphia, creator
Date: June 8, 1832

Title: This diploma was awarded by the Luzerne County Agricultural Society at their [blank] annual fair held at Wyoming [blank] 18[blank]
Description: Diploma containing two vignettes and and a dominant scene symbolizing agriculture separated by borders comprised of sheaves of wheat, a shovel, farm produce, and vinery. In the upper right, vignettes depict a farmer reaping his field with a horse-drawn reaper and an industrial view of a train passing a coal breaker factory across from a coal mine in which horse-drawn coal cars arrive and depart. The dominant scene shows a farm with livestock, including a pig, turkeys, chickens, and ducks milling the grounds near a woman milking a cow while farmhands corral cows out of a yard, transport a wagon of hay from a barn, and plow a field. View also shows horses before a pasture of grazing sheep and other homesteads, the Wyoming Monument (erected in 1833 in memory of victims of the Wyoming Massacre 1778), and treescaped hills in the distance. The Luzerne County Agricultural Society was founded in 1858 by persons interested in farming and gardening with the mission "to foster and improve agriculture, horticulture, and the domestic and household arts." The first annual fair was held in 1859 and stopped after circa 1879 and before 1891., Not in Wainwright., Dilpoma completed in manuscript: This diploma was awarded by the Luzerne County Agricultural Society at their [Thirteenth] Annual Fair held at Wyoming [Sept. 25, 26 & 27] 18[72] To [William H. Shoemaker Esq. of Wyoming] for [best bottle of grape wine]. [Steuben Jenkins], Prest. and [W. H. Jenkins], Secy., Glued onto a modern mat by previous owner., Philadelphia on Stone, POSP 287, Steuben Jenkins was a respected lawyer, farmer, historian, and antiquarian of Wyoming County.
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *Philadelphia certificates - Agriculture - Luzerne [P.2014.11]

Title: Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, 11th and Erie, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Aerial views of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus in the neighborhood of North Philadelphia. Depicts vicinity of Butler Street between 10th Street and Old York Road. Delivery trucks and wagons populate the grounds of the circus, which consists of at least five tents and side shows. Adjacent to the circus grounds are row homes, railroad tracks, a streetcar shed, the lumber yard of Charles F. Felin & Co., and Welsh Bros. Coal facility., Negative numbers: 5777, 5784-5787.
Creator: Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date: May 5, 1926
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5777; P.8990.5784-5787]

Title: The coal-cart
Description: Plate from children's moral instruction book showing a cart-man standing, with his arms crossed, in front of a horse-drawn cart in the cobblestone street. A basket hangs upside-down from the handle of a shovel in the cart. A small home is visible in the background., Published in Common sights in town & country. Delineated & described for young children (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chestnut Street, [ca. 1853])., Accompanied by text titled "The coal-cart" moralizing that the "driver of a coal-cart has his duties to perform, and they are not the less important in their place, than the duties of a judge or governor." Praises those who fear God and keep their commandments and are "not given to strong drink"., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 144, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bd 61 K 8342.12, Atwater Kent Museum: 46.57.1.5
Creator: Kollner, Augustus, b. 1813
Date: [ca. 1853]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bd 61 K 8342.12

Title: View of Kensington, Phila
Description: View showing several freight cars loaded with coal resting on railroad tracks between fenced plots of land and several piers owned by Philadelphia coal merchants on the Delaware River. Merchants include Van Dusen Bro. & Co.; John C. Scott & Son; and Gordon Repplier & Co. Also shows sloops docked at the piers and a corn crop in the foreground., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on verso., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: ca. 1870
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Transportation [P.9212.7]

Title: "Saturday Jaunts: One-Day Holidays Spent Near the City" by the Ledger Monastery
Description: Volume composed of reprinted "Saturday Jaunts" columns (spring and summer 1891) and 25 photographs documenting the one-day excursions of the "Saturday Jaunters," employees of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia. Saturday Jaunters (identified with "monkish" pseudonyms) referenced in and authors of the columns include Bonifacius (William E. Meehan), Benedict (Addison B. Burk), Chrysostum (Joel Cook), Angelo (John J. Mckenna), Damon (Charles S. Spangler), Photius (Edmund Stirling), Friar Tuck (Edward Robinson), Constantius (Stephen J. Burke), Pius (Israel F. Sheppard), Sacristan (C. Johann), Fabian (Dr. William H. Burk), Medicus, Ananias (Collins W. Walton), Titian (John A. Johann), Cephas (Peter J. Heborn), and Brother Alban (Captain Robert C. Clipperton). Contains the columns: I. Marble Hall and Spring Mill. II. A Visit to the Coal Fields of Pottsville. III. A Trip along Cresheim Creek and the "Happy Valley." IV. A Roundabout Journey to Edge Hill. V. A Pilgrimage through the Gulf and to Belvoir. VI. A Pilgrimage through the Gulf and to Belvoir (Continued). VII. A Pleasant Pilgrimage into New Jersey. VIII. A. Walk Up the Wissahickon Valley. IX. A Trip to Reading and Its Grand Environs. X. The Soapstone Quarries and Rockdale. XI. Villanova and Its Vicinity. XII. Glimpses from a Car window of a Picturesque Country. XIII. A Trip to Mount Gretna and the Cornwall Ore Banks.

Title: Saturday jaunts one-day holidays spent near the city by the Ledger Monastery
Description: Volume composed of reprinted "Saturday Jaunts" columns (spring and summer 1891) and 25 photographs documenting the one-day excursions of the "Saturday Jaunters," employees of the Public Ledger in Philadelphia. Saturday Jaunters (identified with "monkish" pseudonyms) referenced in and authors of the columns include Bonifacius (William E. Meehan), Benedict (Addison B. Burk), Chrysostum (Joel Cook), Angelo (John J. Mckenna), Damon (Charles S. Spangler), Photius (Edmund Stirling), Friar Tuck (Edward Robinson), Constantius (Stephen J. Burke), Pius (Israel F. Sheppard), Sacristan (C. Johann), Fabian (Dr. William H. Burk), Medicus, Ananias (Collins W. Walton), Titian (John A. Johann), Cephas (Peter J. Heborn), and Brother Alban (Captain Robert C. Clipperton). Contains the columns: I. Marble Hall and Spring Mill. II. A Visit to the Coal Fields of Pottsville. III. A Trip along Cresheim Creek and the "Happy Valley." IV. A Roundabout Journey to Edge Hill. V. A Pilgrimage through the Gulf and to Belvoir. VI. A Pilgrimage through the Gulf and to Belvoir (Continued). VII. A Pleasant Pilgrimage into New Jersey. VIII. A. Walk Up the Wissahickon Valley. IX. A Trip to Reading and Its Grand Environs. X. The Soapstone Quarries and Rockdale. XI. Villanova and Its Vicinity. XII. Glimpses from a Car window of a Picturesque Country. XIII. A Trip to Mount Gretna and the Cornwall Ore Banks., Columns, signed by the author, reference the attending jaunters; describe their routes taken by foot, train (Reading Railroad), elevated rail, and coal cars; and provide stories, myths, and histories of the botany, geology, fauna, and architecture of the locales and sites visited. Specific sites and landmarks described in detail include Marble Hall marble pit; Spring Mill (Schuylkill Valley); Reading Coal and Iron Company; Livezey's meadow and Devil's Glenn (Wissahickon Valley); the "Great Valley," i.e., Chester, Plymouth, and Whitemarsh valleys; George Bullock's former land and mill (Gulf Creek); Plymouth Quaker Meeting House; Belvoir Estate on the summit of Sandy Hill; "Crystal" and Cold springs (Laurel Springs, Camden County, N.J.); Norristown Railroad Bridge; John Kelpius's log cabin and caves (Germantown); Rittenhouse Mill on Monoshone Creek; McKinney’s Quarry (Wissahickon); Neversink Mountain; Bear Inn (Reading); Rockdale picnic grounds; Barren Hill; Augustinian College (i.e., Villanova University); monastery and church of the Augustinian Fathers at Villanova; Berks, Lebanon, Schuylkill, Columbia, Northumberland and Union counties; Port Carbon; and Cornwall Ore Bank Company. Columns also report about the railroad and industrial officials who provided tours and served as guides; "Photius"'s photographs; jaunter's scientific, philosophical, and literary discussions, including the plant life, flora, and fauna of the Wissahickon, the geology and landscapes of the Schuylkill and Lebanon valleys, and Potsdam sandstone; and jaunter's activities including fishing, collecting arrowheads, and playing baseball. Columns also report about the jaunters more colloquial conversations, including the three different Indian Rock hotels and Joseph “Rooty” Smith root museum on the Wissahickon and the Mt. Gretna Farmer’s Encampment Association annual encampment (August 16-22, 1891)., Photographs taken by "Photius," (i.e., Edmund Stirling) a photographer by avocation, depict group portraits of the "jaunters" and their families during excursions; a summer home in Chestnut Hill; a Marble Hall pit; Pottsville coal mine; a tree in the Plymouth Meetinghouse yard; a Germantown cave where Johann Kelpius or his followers resided; cascades, creeks, and streams in "Happy Valley," Laurel Springs, and the Wissahickon; Mt. Gretna train station; and a portrait of "jaunter" Alban, i.e., Robert C. Clipperton, attired in walking gaiters, and a handkerchief under his hat during the Villanova jaunt., Tan leather binding stamped "Saturday Jaunts" on spine., Includes illustrated title page containing the figure of a plump monk, in his robes, and holding a pipe., Names of jaunters supplied from unillustrated edition in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Vd. 503)., Photographs annotated: H [number]., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Edmund Stirling, born September 13, 1861 in Philadelphia, began his career in the newspaper trade as a reporter in his later teens. By the 1890s, he started his avocation of photography and worked as an editor at the Public Ledger. Stirling was also active in the Photo-Secession Movement and a member of several other clubs in addition to the "jaunters," including the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, the Pen and Pencil Club, and Manufacturer's Club. He was married to Anne J. Biddle, who also practiced photography. The couple had one son, Charles Biddle, who died in infancy.
Date: [MDCCCXCVIII. [1898]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Saturday [79214.O]

Title: Link-Belt "D" loader handling coal from R.R. car to wagon in yard of Hamilton Coal Co., Wilmington, Del
Description: Product advertisement, probably from a trade portfolio, showing a Link-Belt loader removing coal from beneath a Philadelphia & Reading Railway car to a horse-drawn wagon. A laborer shovels the coal on the wagon bed. An African American laborer, attired in a brimmed hat, stands near the loader and looks at the viewer. Loader displays a manufacturer's plate labeled "Made by Link-Belt Company, Phila. Chicago New York." Link-Belt Engineering Co. was founded by William Dana Ewart, inventor of the link-belt, in 1874., Title typed on recto., Inscribed in negative: 8945., Contains four hole punches., Contains pencil marking on recto., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Purchase 1990., Description revised 2022., Access points revised 2022., 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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date: [ca. 1920]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Link-Belt [P.9285.19]

Title: Masonic Temple dedication parade, September 26, 1873
Description: Views looking north on Broad Street showing parade participants and spectators on the day of the temple's dedication including partial views of the west front of the temple built 1868-1873 after the designs of Freemason and Philadelphia architect James H. Windrim to accommodate the local lodge's increasing membership. Also shows other buildings and businesses north of the temple on Broad Street, including Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church built 1869-1870 after designs by Addison Hutton. One rooftop view from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts shows a sign on the west side of the block reading "Carriage" (McLear & Kendall's carriage factory) and one for "Convery's Coal Yard" (Alexander Convery & Co.) on the east side of Broad street near Cherry Street., Labels on versos contain printed description and history of Masonic Temple in paragraph form surmounted by a vignette of the state seal of Pennsylvania., Yellow mounts with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., P.9047.68 and P.9047.70 gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator: Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date: September 26, 1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Processions [P.9047.68; P.9047.70; P.9168.19; P.9260.39-41]

Title: [Scraps no. 3 for 1832]
Description: Plate two from the 1832 edition of, "Scraps," Johnston's popular satirical series of societal caricatures published between 1828 and 1840, and in 1849. Depicts a montage of nine scenes lampooning contemporary social issues and everyday life, such as dueling, juries, the wealthy, debt, education, and the use of coal as a fuel. Includes "Fair Play: Safe Play" depicting two absurd methods of dueling utilizing chalked figures on a rotund man and a barn door; "Hunger Versus Judgment Jury -Room" depicting a hungry jury voting for execution in order to adjourn for dinner; "Who Are You Looking At?" depicting an indignant white man looking at the viewer; "The Last Bell" depicting a wealthy, white "belle" with an entourage transporting her numerous belongings for a river voyage, annoyed with her son who has fallen in the water; "Military Precocity" depicting a young white boy aspiring to fit into his grandfather's oversized military uniform; "Anti-Phlogistic" depicting white gentlemen experimenting with safe, economical "Rhode Island coal" in a fireplace attended by an African American man servant; "Primary School Examination" depicting an elementary classroom where a white man teacher is mocked as a "jackass" and a white girl student reveals during a spelling lesson that her mother takes rum in her tea; "An Incarcerated Monster" depicting a white man artisan debtor on display in his prison cell in front of a wealthy family commenting about his deserved incarceration as a monster., Title supplied by cataloger., Printed in upper left corner: Plate 2., Published in D.C. Johnston's Scraps No. 3 1832 (Boston: D.C. Johnston, 1832), pl. 2., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Accessioned 1979., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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., African American household employees
Creator: Johnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865
Date: [1832]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department political cartoons - 1832-Scr (b) [P.2275.26]

Title: [Family photograph album of views of Eastern and Central Pennsylvania]
Description: Family snapshot photograph album photographed and compiled by a Lorah family member, possibly Mary (Lorah) Rismiller and containing portraits of family members and friends and views of Eastern and Central Pennsylvania during family visits and excursions between 1907 and 1916. Album pages are annotated with the name of town visited and often the date of the visit. The photographs are captioned with descriptive or identifying titles and/or annotated with the names of the sitters photographed. Towns and cities visited include Houtzdale, Pa. in 1910; Emaus, Pa. in 1911; Duncannon, Pa. in 1911; Millerstown, Pa. ; Philadelphia, Pa.; Ocean Grove, N.J.; Atlantic City, N.J.; Camden, N.J.; Mexico, Pa. in 1915; and Wernersville, Pa. in 1916. Imagery includes views of businesses and industries, several churches, schools, residences, and recreational areas, as well bridges, streetscapes, cityscapes, and landscapes. Sites depicted show the Houtzdale Coal Mining Region, including views of workers, the entrance, the breaker “after the fire,” and the air shaft; Camden, N.J. Alms House Hospital and Stables; Edwin Glass near the brick oven of a bake shop and “Novelty works” (Duncannon, Pa.); a duck farm (Emaus, Pa.); the Office of Dr. M.J. Stine, Old & New Shirt Factory of B.W. Paget & Son, a wooden tripod structure “Devils Catcher,” and Slaughterback Hill (Millerstown, Pa.); the Juniata River; a bridge and shirt factory (Mexico, Pa.) and South Mountain Park (Wernersville, Pa.), Several photographs document the facilities and staff, including Mary’s brother W. C. Lorah, at the State Hospital at Wernersville. The views show the “Filtering Bed,” “Turburcular” [sic] ward, “Stables,” the “Reservoir,” “Refectory,” “Day Room,” “Isolation Building,” “Laundry/Cold Storage,” “Industrial Building,” “Green Houses,” “Infirmary Force,” (i.e. hospital attendants); and the “Dormitory.” Also contains views from the Lorah family hometown of Blandon, Pa., including the “Lorah House”; views of the railroad, including tracks, stations, and bridges; camping along the Delaware River; and the Camden Carnival., Portrait photographs show men, women, and children posed in front of residences, in yards and public spaces, and on outings. Several of the portraits depict Mary Ritzmiller’s mother Ellen Becker Lorah, as well as niece Selena Lorah, and nephew Merit O. Lorah (as a baby), and brother W.C. (William Chester) Lorah. Other portraits depict a group portrait of “J. Benson employees” posed in front of a shoe store in Holzdale; “Mrs. Lukens” posed from her wheelchair; and an out of focus view of W.C. Lorah “Among the Fens.” Portraiture also includes a portrait taken in Blandon and captioned “Black Annie” and shows an older Black woman standing on the steps of probably a general store and attired in a kerchief, heavy jacket, and skirt. She wears a tambourine at her waist and walks with a cane. A few portraits depict women in chicken coops and Ellen Lorah holding a goose. Several portraits are also annotated with humorful and wry-toned captions, including a series of images of individuals posed to represent “Sports," “Obeying,” “Cherubs,” “Temptation,” and “Just for Fun.” Many of the photographs include objects of the everyday, including horse-drawn vehicles, water pumps, wash tubs and a hand-powered washer, baby carriages and rockers and other children’s furnishings, dolls and stuffed animals, and an automobile. Album also contains portraits of friends from and views of Toledo and Gibsonburg, Ohio in June 1907., Title supplied by cataloger., Date from content., Stamped on front cover: Photographs., Photographs arranged in diagonal patterns on p. [24-30]., Many of the pages contain titles., Majority of images annotated with a caption., Mary Lorah Rissmiller (1883-1959), daughter of Allen Lorah (1849-1922) and Ellen Becker Lorah 1856-1917), was born in Blandon, Pa. and married railroad freight laborer William Rismiller (1879-1959) in 1903. Her siblings included Daniel Clement Lorah (b. 1874), Josiah Curtis Lorah (1876-1957), Allen Harvery Lorah (1886-1967), and William Chester Lorah (1888-1918).
Creator: Rismiller, Mary Lorah, 1883-1959
Date: [1907-1916]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.2022.14]

Title: Scenery on the Pennsylvania Railroad Album
Description: Album of photographs documenting the Philadelphia, Middle, and Pittsburgh divisions of the Pennsylvania Railroad, incorporated in 1846. The consolidated company sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh through the Allegheny mountains in order to compete with the Erie Canal for freight traffic. In 1854, rail passage through the Alleghenies via the "Horse Shoe Curve" was achieved and spurred the establishment and growth of the several towns depicted along the route.
Date: 1874

Title: Scenery on the Pennsylvania Railroad
Description: Album of photographs documenting the Philadelphia, Middle, and Pittsburgh divisions of the Pennsylvania Railroad, incorporated in 1846. The consolidated company sought to build a trunk route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh through the Allegheny mountains in order to compete with the Erie Canal for freight traffic. In 1854, rail passage through the Alleghenies via the "Horse Shoe Curve" was achieved and spurred the establishment and growth of the several towns depicted along the route., Photographs depict stations, sites, landmarks, and landscape and townscape views along the Pennsylvania Railroad. Titles include No. 1 Ardmore Station ; No. 2 Bryn Mawr Station; No. 3 Bridge at Conways at Conewago; No. 5 Mount Union; No. 6 Susquehanna Bridge at Rockville (i.e., first bridge replaced in 1877); No. 7 Track Tank; No. 8 Jack Narrows; No. 9 Triple Track; No. 12 Bryn Mawr Hotel; No. 13 Coatesville Bridge; No. 16 Powers Run Allegheny River; No. 21 Sample track near Harmersville; No. 25 East from Harmersville; No. 26 Butler; No. 29 On the Kiskimenitus below Leechburg; No. 36 Greensburg near Huffs; No. 39 Hawkins; No. 40 West of Derry; No. 41 East of Morgan; No. 42 West of Beattys Station; No. 43 Monastery West of Latrobe; No. 44 1 1/2 miles East of S. W. Penna.; No. 46 Westmoreland Coal Co.; No. 47 Braddocks, Port Perry and Steel Works; No. 48 Westmoreland Landscape; No. 49 Stewarts Sample Track; No. 50 Section of Y at Walls; No. 51 Greensburg Station ; No. 53 West of Pack Saddle; No. 55 Lockport; No. 56 Below Conemaugh Furnace; No. 58 Cresson (Panorama); No. 61 Allegheny Tunnel , Galitzen; No. 64 Soap Fat; No. 57 Cresson (Panorama); No. 59 Kittanning from McGarveys; No. 65 Pulpit Rock; No. 67 From McKees Gap; No. 76 Bellefonte; No. 78 Mill Hall; No. 79 Birmingham; No. 80 Union Furnace and Station ; No. 81 Spring Creek; No. 82 Allegheny Tunnel; No. 83 Tyrone and Clearfield; No. 84 Grade on the Tyrone and Clearfield; No. 85 Bellefonte Gap;, No. 86 Mule Shoe and Deep Fill; No. 88 Pack Saddle East; No. 90 Logan House, Altoona, Pa.; No. 96 Jack Narrows, Mapleton; No. 97 Entrance to Jack Narrows; No. 98 Reservoir; No. 99 Bedford Springs; No. 100 View from Bedford Springs; No. 101 Bedford from Wickershams; No. 102 Below Bedford, Devils Backbone; No. 103 Bedford; No. 104 McVeytown Station; No. 105 Mount Dallas; No. 106 Mapleton; No. 107 Huntington; No. 108 Tuscarora Valley; No. 109 Sentinel Rock; No. 110 Tyrone Forges; No. 113 Standard Track, Lewistown Narrows; No. 114 From Centre of Susquehanna Bridge; No. 115 Terrace Mountain, Mill Creek; No. 116 From West End of Susquehanna Bridge; No. 117 Upper Mann’s; No. 118 Lewistown Narrows; No. 119 Susquehanna Bridge; No. 121 Standard Track at Newport; No. 123 Across the Allegheny; No. 127 General View of Bryn Mawr; No. 124 Saltzburg; No. 130 Bryn Mawr; No. 131 Bryn Mawr; No. 138 Irwin Station; No. 139 Sample Track, Wynnewood Station ; No. 140 Haverford College; No. 142 Haverford College Station; No. 147 Bridge at Columbia [Wrightsburg?] Pa.; No. 148 Wayne Station; No. 151 Terminus at Delaware City; No. 154 Harrisburg from Fort Washington ; No. 150 Chiques (i.e., Chickie’s Rock); No. 153 Henry Clay, Chiques and Marietta; No. 158 Landenburg; No. 159 Columbia Tunnel; and No. 162 Louella Residence of J. Henry Askin., Photographs include railroad tracks, locomotives and railcars, railroad equipment, bridges, tunnels, rock formations, mountains, passes, mills, furnaces, coal and steel works, hotels, Victorian-style residences, wooden dwellings and sheds, canal houses and canals, telegraph poles, townscape, farmsteads, marshland, rivers, and wooden fences. Several images, particularly views of stations, also depict posed figures, including an African American man at the Haverford College Station (No. 142). Details in other photographs include rail tracks with a water trough (No. 7); amateurishly hand-painted advertising text on a wood fence (No. 36); the "Exchange Hotel" near the Allegheny Tunnel in Galitzen (No. 61); men seated on the cow catcher of a partially visible locomotive at the grade on the Tyrone and Clearfield (No. 84); a gazebo-style pavilion at Bedford Springs (No. 199); oil tanks and drums (No. 123); the Pennsylvania Gas Coal Co. Office, a pedestrian bridge crossing over a creek, and the “Tom Smith Peanut Man” shed near Irwin Station (No. 138); the “Columbia” barge (No. 147); a "Water-Line of Boston" sailing vessel at the terminus at Delaware City (No. 151); the Martin Landenburger mill in Landenburg (No. 158); and the greenhouse attached to the residence on the Louella estate in Wayne (No. 162)., Photographer’s imprint inscribed in negative of several of the photographs: F. Gutekunst, Philada. or F. Gutekunst, Photogr., Philada., Date inferred from publication date of stereographs with similar content by the photographer. See stereo - Gutekunst - Views [P.9058.1-.142]., Photograph No. 4, 10-11, 14-15, 17-20, 22-24, 27-28, 30-35, 37-38, 45, 52, 54, 60, 62-63, 66, 68-75, 77, 87, 89, 91-95, 112, 120, 122, 125-126, 128-129, 132-137, 141, 143-146, 149, 152, 155-157, 160-161 not included in album., Inscribed in pencil upper right corner on mount of photograph No. 1: 40 guards., Inscribed in pencil below image on mount of photograph No. 1: about 1876., Inscription in pencil below title on mount of photograph No. 147: Wrightsburg. “Columbia” in title circled., See Gutekunst (Pennsylvania Railroad) research file., Gift of the Greer family in memory of David St. John Greer who after starting as a co-op student at Drexel University spent his working life with the Pennsylvania Railroad with the exception of a period of service with the U.S. Navy during WWII., Lib. Company. Annual report, 2014, p. 49-50., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Gutekunst, a prominent Philadelphia photographer, published a series of Pennsylvania Railroad views stereographs in 1875.
Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917, photographer
Date: [ca. 1875]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.2014.74]

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