Negative number: 3166, View looking west at the beginning of Kensington Avenue, branching off from Front Street. Shows the most recently constructed bent, number 234. Pedestrians, mostly men and boys, stand around the construction site, looking at the curve of the elevated tracks above them. Includes a partial view of McNeil's drug store (2401 Kensington Avenue) and Ferguson jeweler (2362 North Front Street).
Negative number: 3158, View looking south along Front Street, showing the most recently constructed bent, number 227. Pedestrians, mostly men and boys, stand around the scene on the sidewalks. A large brick carpet manufactury occupies the entire east side of the block. D. Strumpf Shoes (2322-24 North Front) and F.W. Woolworth & Co. 5 and 10-cent store (2320 North Front) are visible on the west side of the block.
Negative number: 3099, Street view looking south on Front Street at construction site near the most recently constructed steel bent, bent 187. Beams and piles of debris line the road. ,A streetcar approaches in the distance.
Negative number: 4339, View looking south along Kensington Avenue at the most recently completed steel bent, number 378, near Schiller Street. Three horse-drawn lifts sit in the middle of the street. Spectators line both sidewalks, watching the construction scene. Includes a partial view of a Philadelphia Electric Co. station.
Negative number: 3534, View looking south along Kensington Avenue at the most recently completed steel bent, number 369, near Thayer Street. Two lifts on carts pulled by teams of two horses sit on the steel rails in the cobblestone street. Men work on top of the steel bents. Stores and shops occupy the east side of the block, but the west side is vacant.
Negative number: 3267, View looking south from the most recently constructed steel bent, number 244, on Kensington Avenue. The sidewalks are crowded with spectators. Men stand on a lift under bent 243.
Negative number: 3167, View looking north at a trolley approaching the photographer on Kensington Avenue. View from the most recently constructed steel bent, number 234. The sidewalks are crowded with spectators and shoppers. Delivery carts for a nearby furniture store are parked on the side of the road. Businesses include a stationer, oyster house, barber, tailor, drug store and the People's Theater.
Negative number: 3305, View looking south along the 2600 block of Kensington Avenue from steel bent number 268. Trolleys pass one another on the street rails under the construction site. Men are installing trusses above the steel bents. Beams and debris line the cobblestone street.
Negative number: 4340, View looking north along Kensington Avenue at the marker for bent 378 showing steel beams and piles of dirt marking the position of the columns. Harrowgate Park sits on the east side of the street.
Negative number: 2662, Street view looking north from the most recently completed steel bent, number 108, showing beams and rubble on the sides of the cobblestone street. Businesses include Gustav Berger's sashes and an unidentified cooperage.
Negative number: 3121, Street view looking northeast at a transverse girder near bent 136 on the unfinished elevated track near the 1400 block of North Front Street. Two horses pull a cart carrying equipment. Includes the store front of Wm. Mulherin's Sons, a liquor store at 1355 North Front Street.
Negative number: 5156, View of the snow-covered concrete roadbed of the elevated railway, looking south from Green Street. Shows construction equipment in the distance. The Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage Company building is visible on the east side of the railway.
Negative number: 2993, View looking north at the construction of an elevated railway bridge over the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad tracks that span Kensington Avenue near Lehigh Avenue. Shows crowds of men standing on both sidewalks around the construction site at steel bent 273. Includes a partial view of Strathmann's Coal at the northeast corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues.
Negative number: 2711, Street view looking north toward Girard Avenue from construction site at bent 113 . A horse-drawn buggy stands in the right foreground. A group of young boys stand in the road in the distance. Includes Kensington Loan & Storage Co., pawnbrokers, at 100 Girard Avenue, and a whiskey distillery across the street.
Negative number: 2710, Street view looking south at piles of lumber and steel near construction site at bent 113. J.A. Dougherty's Sons, distillers, sits at 1136 North Front Street. Gustav Berger, manufacturer of sash doors, is also visible.
Negative number: 3119, View looking south at recently constructed steel bents and through trusses on Front Street, below Girard Avenue. Includes horse-drawn cart advertising Abbotts "A" milk, Philadelphia and Seashore.
Negative number: 3118, View looking north at recently constructed steel bents and through trusses on Front Street, near Girard Avenue. Includes signboard for Gustav Berger's sash door business.
Negative number: 2372, Street view looking south from the most recently constructed steel bent, Bent 62, showing installation of through-Pratt trusses resting on the steel bents. Construction materials and debris line the cobblestone street.
Negative number: 2290, Perspective looking south from the Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage Co building on North Front Street. Shows through-Pratt trusses supported by steel bents running the length of Front Street, as far as the eye can see. Includes the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad's Outward Freight building no. 6 in the foreground.
Negative number: 3120, Street view looking west at a section of the unfinished elevated railway crossing over Girard Avenue. A group of young boys stand in the middle of the street. Shows William Penn Hose Co. and Kensington National Bank in the distance.
Negative number: 4535, View looking north along Kensington Avenue, showing the underbelly of the arch spanning Lehigh Avenue and the truss bridge carrying the elevated railway over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad pony plate girder bridge. Includes a partial view of the Port Richmond division of the Young Men's Christian association (left). A trolley car travels south on Kensington Avenue.
Negative number: 3109, View looking north at the construction of an elevated, deck truss railway bridge over the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad tracks that span Kensington Avenue near Lehigh Avenue. Shows a locomotive sitting on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad tracks and crowd of men standing in the foreground, looking at the bridge. Includes the business sign for Strathmann's Coal at the northeast corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues.
Negative number: 3299, View looking north along Kensington Avenue at the construction of a truss bridge that will carry the new elevated railway over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks near Lehigh Avenue. A horse-drawn delivery wagon sits on the west side of the road. Businesses include a "money back store"; a shoe store; a saloon; Hamilton clothing store; S. Weinstein, tailor; and Chas. Schmelz, tobacconist. Includes a partial view of the Young Men's Christian association, Port Richmond division up on the hill near the railroad tracks.
Negative number: 3308, View looking north from the corner saloon at the southeast corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues at the construction of the elevated railway bridge spanning the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks. Men stand around the construction scene on the sidewalks and on Lehigh Avenue. Includes an exterior view of the Port Richmond division of the Young Men's Christian Association, a three-and-a-half story brick building elevated above the street at the northwest corner of Kensington and Lehigh Avenues.
Negative number: 3268, View looking north from a marker for bent 244 on Kensington Avenue. The east sidewalk is crowded with spectators. A man sits in a large cart hitched to a team of horses on the west side of the block. A trolley travels down the tracks in the distance. The elevated railway bridge spanning the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks near Lehigh Avenue is also visible. Businesses include Edward C. Johnson's liquor store (2473 Kensington Avenue) and Munch's Saloon (2500 Kensington Avenue).
Negative number: 4534, View from a rooftop on the west side of Kensington Avenue looking north from Huntingdon Street showing the recently installed steel bents and though Pratt trusses of the elevated railway. Includes a clear view of Orinoka Mills and Hulton Dyeing & Finishing Co., two brick, industrial buildings that tower over neighboring properties near Somerset Street, behind the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks. Also shows the bridge crossing the tracks in the distance.
Negative number: 3381, Depicts the underbelly of the bridge spanning the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks at Lehigh Avenue. View looks south at the 2600 block of Kensington Avenue.
Negative number: 3122, View looking north at the pony plate girder bridge carrying the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks over Kensington Avenue. Above this bridge spans the recently constructed truss bridge carrying the new elevated railway over the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad tracks.
Negative number: 4536, View looking west on Lehigh Avenue, showing the arch of the bridge spanning Lehigh Avenue and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad bridge.
Negative number: 3307, View from the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company tracks running parallel to Lehigh Avenue, showing the construction of a steel bent on the 2600 block of Kensington Avenue. A crane rises high above the street. Image includes partial views of St. Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church, the five-story brick building of a carpet manufactury, and a row of residences, all on Lehigh Avenue. Spectators stand in the street and on the sidewalks.
View from Jones hotel on the south side of the 600 block of Chestnut Street showing the construction lot for Jayne's Marble Building (615-619 Chestnut) on the north side. Lot on the former site of the Arcade Hotel. Also shows Decatur Street below Market and partial views of the 600 blocks of Jayne and Market streets. Includes "Morrell's Carpenter Shop" (611 Jayne), laborers, broadsides pasted on building rubble, and businesses on Market., Attributed to F. De B. Richards., Title from manuscript note on verso., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Select link below for a digital image.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
ca. 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards - Construction [(7)1322.F.73c], http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/rcd/1322f773c.jpg
Aerial view of the Philadelphia House of Correction, opened in 1874 in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. Depicts the razing of the original building and construction of a new facility using the old materials., Negative number: 5602a.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
May 21, 1926
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5602a]
Aerial view of the Philadelphia House of Correction, opened in 1874 in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. Depicts the razing of the original building and construction of a new facility using the old materials. Holmesburg Prison can be seen in the distance., Negative number: 5458.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
ca. 1925
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5458]
Aerial views of the Philadelphia House of Correction, opened in 1874 in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. Depicts the razing of the original building and construction of a new facility using the old materials., Negative numbers: 5489-5492.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
March 5, 1926
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.5489-5492]
Depicts the construction of an unidentified bridge in the winter, showing materials lying in a snow-covered valley. Industrial buildings sit nearby. Probably a bridge designed by one of the civil engineers in the Webster family., Attributed to John H. Webster but may have been taken by other Webster family members., Modern reference print #13 available for P.9501.12 in research file.
Creator
Webster, John H., 1861-1934, photographer
Date
ca. 1896
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Webster [P.9501.1-3, P.9501.12-15]
Aerial views of the Municipal Auditorium under construction. The facility was also known as Convention Hall and later as Civic Center Auditorium. The building was designed in the Art Deco style by the architect Philip H. Johnson and was demolished in 2005. View is facing northwest and shows the structure about 50 percent complete, with portions of the University of Pennsylvania campus visible in the distance., Negative number: 13242n., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Convention Hall, W. Phila. Pa., Sept. 26, 1930.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1930
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.13242n]
Aerial views of the Custom House under construction at 200 Chestnut Street (at 2nd Street). Building was designed in the Art Deco style by the architecture firm Ritter and Shay. View looks northeast towards the Custom House from the vicinity of Front and Dock Streets. Much of Old City surrounding the Custom House is visible, as is some of Center City in the distance., Negative number: 16086n., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: New Customs House, Phila. Pa., October 19, 1933.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1933
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.16086n]
Aerial views of the Municipal Court Building under construction in June, 1939. Building was designed in the classical revival style by architects John T. Windrim and Morton Keast. View looks southwest from the vicinity of 17th and Callowhill. The Benjamin Franklin Parkway is visible from Logan Circle to just beyond 22nd Street. Major features of the parkway can be seen, including the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Franklin Institute. The view to the west stretches to 30th Street Station and the Schuylkill River., Negative number: 19826s., Manuscript note on negative sleeve: Municipal Court Bldg. under construction, Logan Circle - Phila., June 26, 1939.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1939
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.19826s]
Aerial views of Municipal Stadium, later known as John F. Kennedy Stadium, under construction in 1925 in preparation for the Sesqui-Centennial International Exhibition the following year. Designed by the Philadelphia firm Simon & Simon. Broad Street and the Delaware River are also visible. Located at 3601 Broad Street in South Philadelphia. The stadium was demolished in 1992., Negative numbers: 4826a, 4826b, 4828a, 4829a, 4831, 5214, 5406-5409, 5413.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
1925-1926
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.4826a; P.8990.4826b; P.8990.4828a; P.8990.4829a; P.8990.4831; P.8990.5406-5409; P8990.5213; P.8990.5214]
View looking from City Hall under archway supported by scaffolding at vehicles on Broad Street. Shows horse-drawn carriage parked in the foreground., Title from photographer's printed series list on verso with fifty-nine other titles from "Philadelphia" (1-31) and "Washington, D.C." (32-59) series., Photographer's imprint printed on mount, Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Peabody, Edwin N.
Date
[ca. 1876]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Peabody [P.9099.6]
Glass negative showing a view of a large brick building owned by Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris under construction at 715-719 Arch Street. Telephone wires travel through the air in front of the building as wooden scaffolding shields the street below. Two signs hang from the scaffolding. The left sign reads "Bowen, Dungan & Co. have resumed business 728 Arch St." The right sign reads "Doyle & Doak Contractors and Builders [..] 609 Sansom St." A sign in the first floor window behind the scaffolding reads "Uncle Tom's Cabin Co." The building was damaged by a fire in 1900., See *P.9895.8.12 and *P.9895.8.13., 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
ca. 1906
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.8.9]
Glass negative showing showing a view of a large brick building owned by Marriott C. Morris' father Elliston P. Morris under construction at 715-719 Arch Street. Telephone wires travel through the air in front of the building as wooden scaffolding shields the street below. Two signs hang from the scaffolding. The left sign reads "Bowen, Dungan & Co. have resumed business 728 Arch St." The right sign reads "Doyle & Doak Contractors and Builders [..] 609 Sansom St." A sign in the first floor window behind the scaffolding reads "Uncle Tom's Cabin Co." The building was damaged by a fire in 1900., See *P.9895.8.12 and *P.9895.8.13., 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
ca. 1906
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [*P.9895.8.10]
Film negative showing a view of the construction of the Germantown Boys' Club addition located between two brick buildings. A wooden fence separates the building on the left from construction debris piled on the sidewalk. A road runs in front of the buildings on the right. A sign advertising the builders is visible over the construction. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. The Club originally rented a building on Rittenhouse Street starting in 1890. The main club building was constructed 1898-1899, with an addition built in 1909., 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 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.105.1]
Film negative showing a view of the construction of the Germantown Boys' Club addition located between two brick buildings. A wooden fence separates the building on the left from construction debris piled on the sidewalk. Two men walk down the road that runs in front of the buildings to the right. A sign advertising the builders is visible over the construction. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. The Club originally rented a building on Rittenhouse Street starting in 1890. The main club building was constructed 1898-1899, with an addition built in 1909., 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 11, 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.105.2]
Film negative showing a view of a building draped with American flags and patriotic bunting. A group of men works on the Germantown Boys' Club addition next to a brick wall and a pile of boards in the foreground. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. The Club originally rented a building on Rittenhouse Street starting in 1890. The main club building was constructed 1898-1899, with an addition built in 1909., 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 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.105.3]
Film negative showing a view of a building draped with American flags and patriotic bunting. A group of men works on the Germantown Boys' Club addition next to a brick wall and a pile of boards in the foreground. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. The Club originally rented a building on Rittenhouse Street starting in 1890. The main club building was constructed 1898-1899, with an addition built in 1909., 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 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.105.4]
Film negative showing a view of a building draped with American flags and patriotic bunting. The building to the right has a sign that reads "John McConnell." A group of men works on the Germantown Boys' Club addition next to a brick wall and a pile of boards in the foreground. Founded in 1887, the Boys’ Parlors Association of Germantown served as a safe space for neighborhood children whose parents worked longer hours in an industrializing city. The name changed in 1907 to the Germantown Boys’ Club after joining ranks with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Marriott Canby Morris served as the president of the club in the first decade of the 1900s. The Club originally rented a building on Rittenhouse Street starting in 1890. The main club building was constructed 1898-1899, with an addition built in 1909., 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 1909
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.105.5]
