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Title: Views of Brandywine Creek, Delaware
Description: Views of Brandywine Creek in Delaware, showing men, women and children sitting on rocks near the banks of the creek, in canoes, and near a mill race. Includes sunset views, rocky glens, tangles of bare trees, and a partial view of a mill building., Contains seven stereographic prints mounted on yellow cardboard mounts, five of which have square corners, two rounded corners. All contain photographer's printed labels pasted on versos., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Views [P.9466.5; P.8484.4; P.9058.146; P.9058.149-150; P.9058.154 and P.9058.156]

Title: Whann's Super Phosphate Manufactory. Walton, Whann & Co., proprietors. Wilmington, Delaware, office, Front & Market sts Daniel Fields, general agent for the Southern states
Description: Billhead containing a view of the multi-building manufactory on a pier along the riverfront. Shows laborers transporting goods across the factory grounds with hand and horse-drawn carts. Others stand and depart from entryways to the buildings. At the end of the pier, sacks are piled near docked and approaching ships., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.135b]

Title: Whann's Super Phosphate Manufactory. Walton, Whann & Co., proprietors. Wilmington, Delaware, office, Front & Market sts Daniel Fields, general agent for the Southern states
Description: Billhead containing a view of the multi-building manufactory on a pier along the riverfront. Shows laborers transporting goods across the factory grounds with hand and horse-drawn carts. Others stand and depart from entryways to the buildings. At the end of the pier, sacks are piled near docked and approaching ships., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: [ca. 1866]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.135b]

Title: Tower view, at Water Gap House
Description: Bird's eye view from a circular window looking north at the Delaware Water Gap region from the Water Gap House built in 1872 on Mt. Minsi. Shows the Delaware River (right), the adjacent hilly landscape, and a residence on the west bank of the river in the foreground., Title from printed series label on verso with twenty-three other titled views (No. 121-144)., Photographer and publisher's printed label pasted on verso., Manuscript note on mount below image: Tower view, Water Gap House., Yellow curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Graves, Jesse A. (Jesse Albert)
Date: [ca. 1880]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Miscellaneous - Graves [P.9168.6]

Title: Teedyuscung Statue postcards
Description: Depicts the twelve foot limestone figure of Lenni-Lenape chief of the Wissahickon, Teedyuscung, crouching with his hand over his eyes, squinting into the distance from Indian Rock near Wissahickon Creek. Designed by John Massey Rhind in 1902 for Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Henry, a wealthy Chestnut Hill couple, to replace the original wooden figure., Contains 5 postcards printed in color and 5 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 88A08, 88A09, 88B06 and 88B07., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1900-1910
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Monuments & Memorials - Miscellaneous - 88]

Title: Views of the Delaware Water Gap
Description: Views of individuals recreating near the Delaware River, Caldeno Creek, and Rebecca's Bath in the area of the Delaware Water Gap. Includes a man sitting on a rock and reading near railroad tracks overlooking the river, a distant view of Kittatinny Hotel on Mount Minsi, and children sitting on rocks and benches near the river and streams., Yellow cardboard mounts with rounded corners. Photographer's printed labels pasted on versos., Distributor's stamp on verso of P.9168.4: William Y. McAllister, Phila. Jul. 31, 1868., Stamped on verso of P.8484.9: J.W. Deane., Manuscript note on verso of P.8484.10: Seely., Manuscript note on versos of P.8484.11-12: Bartlett & French; William C. Darrah coll., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Views [P.8484.9-12; P.9168.4]

Title: General view, Dupont's Powder Mills
Description: View of the stone gunpowder mill buildings on the Brandywine River north of Wilmington, Delaware, where in 1802 Eleuthere Irenee DuPont DeNemours built the first DuPont Powder Mills in America. In the foreground, a man and a boy balance on the rocks near a dam, possibly Bancroft Dam, on the Brandywine. Mills in the background are surrounded by bare trees. Powder was manufactured there for the United States Government in War of 1812, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish American War and Great War. Old Mills abandoned 1921., Title from photographer's label pasted on verso., Manuscript notes on verso: Bartlett & French; William C. Darrah Coll., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Bartlett & French was a partnership between Philadelphia photographers George O. Bartlett and William French circa 1867-1869.
Creator: Bartlett & French
Date: [ca. 1868]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Industry [P.8484.5]

Title: View on the Brandywine, near Wilmington, Del
Description: Faded view showing a bridge spanning the shallow creek. Includes large rocks in the foreground., Attributed to John Moran., Title from label pasted on mount., Distributor's label pasted on verso: McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia., Buff mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Moran, John, 1831-1903, photographer
Date: [ca. 1865]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Moran - Views [P.9040.2]

Title: Benjamin Franklin Bridge postcards
Description: Contains views of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge spanning the Delaware River, built 1920-1926 after designs by Paul Cret and Ralph Modjeski. Images document general views of the bridge connecting Philadelphia and Camden; the construction of river piers for the bridge; the approach and anchorage of the completed bridge; street traffic on the bridge and a view of the bridge from the wharves on Delaware Avenue., Contains 11 postcards printed in color. Also includes 2 linen postcards., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1920-1930
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Bridges - Delaware River (Franklin) - 11]

Title: [Hotel on Smith Island, Philadelphia]
Description: View of a large wooden building, probably a hotel, built as part of a summer resort on Smith Island on the Delaware River. Two men stand in the foreground., Manuscript note on mount: On Smith's Island Philada., Yellow mount with square corners., Manuscript note on mount: 56., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views relating to Philadelphia., 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 - Recreation [(8)1322.F.13g]

Title: Photograph album
Description: Photograph album belonging to Philadelphia amateur photographer John C. Browne. Contains landscape and architectural views of the Delaware Valley and Central Pennsylvania, informal portraits of family and friends, and canal boat excursions of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, including over the Pennsylvania Canal to Harrisburg (1879) and Morris Canal (1880). Images depict "Bartram's house, Gray's Ferry"; Cobbs Creek, including the Old Powder House; Wissahickon; Jay Cooke's Ogontz estate; Mill Creek (Lower Merion Township); the Philadelphia Zoo monkey house; Chelten Hills; Laurel Hill; Delaware Water Gap, including G. W. Childs arbor, Kittany House, Promontory, Lovers Leap, Young's Peak, and Mt. Minsi; falls, creeks, and Dingman's Ferry in Pike County, Pa.; sites along the Juniata Division of Pennsylvania Canal, including mill races, iron furnaces, Pennsylvania Rail Road bridges, and canal locks at or near Bridgeport, Dauphin, and Rockville; and sites along the Morris Canal, including canal boat planes and hoisting tower, Hopatcong Lake, Little Falls, and Passaic Falls., Other images show the English Cottage on the Centennial grounds (1877); strung hunted game and fish; landscape views of Sea Bright and Belvidere, N.J. and the Delaware near Torresdale; a posed "sweethearts" scene "On the Pennypack" (1878); and a group portrait of the Photographic Society (Samuel F. Corlies, Charles Pancoast, Charles Barrington, Samuel Sartain, Joseph William Bates, W. S. Vaux, Dr. Carl Seiler, Thomas H. McCollin, Thomas B. Craig) with cameras and fishing equipment during the Morris Canal excursion. Other portrait views include Mr. and Mrs. S. Fisher Corlies, Mamie Lloyd, Sallie Bacon, Jesse S. Graves, Alice E. Browne, Susie Hacker, Samuel Fox, and Charles Palmer. Some photographs show a photographer using his camera and several of the canal excursion views include the canal boats "Zuleika" (Pennsylvania Canal) and "Katie Kellogg" and her mule team "Tom & Baby" (Morris Canal)., Front free end paper signed John C. Browne., Photographs identified by inscriptions below images. Majority are date and some annotated "Washed Emulsion.", Red cloth binding, with gilt, and stamped on cover: Album., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., An article by Browne, "The Waterfalls of Pike County, Pa.," describing a trip to photograph natural scenery in Pike County appears in Philadelphia Photographer, Vol. XIII, no. 151 (July 1876), pages 208-211., LCP AR [Annual Reports] 1989 p. 33-34., Browne was a founder of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia.
Creator: Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date: 1877-1880
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9317]

Title: Photographs taken by Robert Waln Leaming 1865-1875 at Ashwood, Villa Nova, Delaware County, Penna. Lancaster Pike and Spring Mill Road
Description: Album containing 67 photographs showing the grounds and residence of the Ashwood estate near Villanova during different seasons; neighboring properties in Delaware and Montgomery counties; and formally posed family portraiture. Images include the front and rear facade of the Ashwood residence and landscape views of the grounds; Paxson's Mill and Dam in Radnor; J. Howard Lewis's paper mill at Darby Creek; 'Hammer Hollow," including the mill dam; Gulph Mill (Montgomery County); Leaming's other family estate Waln Grove near Frankford; old spring houses near Gulph Mill and Paxson's Mill; and Ancrum, "Seat of the Scotts Baronets of Ancrum Scotland." Many of the estate views include Leaming's wife and children (attired in clothing appropriate to the season) posed at the residence and on the grounds, including near fences, the barn, woods, and creek and in characters, as tableaux, and with farm and domesticated pets. Also contains photographic reproductions and photo-collages. Reproductions depict the the "Scott of Ancrum" family tree and Leaming's painting "Where the Sea Mew roams" and the collages show Leaming's daughters in a parlor setting (possibly Ashwood) and painted works by Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, James Reid Lambdin, and Edwin Henry Landseer including the visage of Robert Waln Leaming. Other portrait sitters include Alice Burda, Tom Stewart, "Our Truck-man" in his horse-drawn buggy; the "Coachman" with horse "'Nelly'"and Mrs. Scott, i.e., probably, Leaming's mother-in-law Mary Emlen Scott, Blue morocco binding, plate on front cover: R. W. Leaming and stamped: Photographs., Title from inscription on front free end paper. Also includes family tree of descendants of Robert Waln Leaming and his wife Julia Scott (1821-1914)., Insert: Portrait print of Robert Waln engraved by Samuel Sartain after 1825 painting by Jacob Eicholtz. Verso inscribed with biographical information., Captions by Robert Waln Leaming below the images., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., LCP AR [Annual Report] 1999, p. 45-46., Gift of Mrs. Clifford Lewis III., Housed in phase box., Robert Waln Leaming, grandson of China Trade merchant Robert Waln, was a merchant by trade who also painted and practiced photography. He was married to Julia Scott, descended from the royal Scotts of Ancrum, with whom he had four children Rebecca, i.e., Reb (1850-1911); Mary, i.e., Mame (1851-1911); Julia, i.e., Duly (1854-1913), and Thomas (1856-1911). Leaming was also an active member of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. His residence Ashwood, not to be confused with the Penn-Gaskell/DeCosta property of the same name (208 Ashwood Road, Villanova), was razed in the late 19th century.
Creator: Leaming, Robert Waln, 1824-1884, photographer
Date: 1865-1875
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9759.1]

Title: Rex Avenue Bridge postcards
Description: Depicts the Rex Avenue stone bridge spanning Wissahickon Creek above the Indian Rock Hotel. Also includes the statue of Tedyuscung (1700-1763) on Indian Rock, the chief of a tribe whose lands covered the Wissahickon., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator: Brightbill, George M., collector
Date: 1910-1920
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Bridges - Rex Avenue - 63]

Title: E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company. Wilmington, Del. U.S.A. Manufacturers of explosives of every kind. Established 1802
Description: Cut-out label containing a view of a gunboat. Also includes pictorial details depiciting cannons. The DuPont firm, the leading manufacturer of explosives in the United states through the 19th century, was the world's largest producer of explosives during World War I., REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE. M. IND. RGTRDA. NUM. [8?]886. Nov. [12th?] 190[8?], 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. 1908]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Helen Beitler Graphic Ephemera Collection - Labels [P.2011.10.95]

Title: [Swimming pool on Smith Island, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the swimming pool at the summer resort on Smith Island on the Delaware River. Naked boys swim and slide down the incline into the pool enclosed by tall wooden fence. A few clothed male onlookers sit along side of pool., Manuscript note on mount: 54., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views relating to Philadelphia., 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 - Recreation [(8)1322.F.13h]

Title: [Smith Island ferry dock, Philadelphia]
Description: View of the ferry boat dock at the resort on Smith Island. Depicts steamboats docked at pier and sign reading: John Smith for Smith's Island. Windmill Island visible in background., Title from manuscript note on mount., Yellow mount with square corners., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views relating to Philadelphia., 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 - Recreation [(8)1322.F.13f]

Title: [Engine house at Delaware Water Works]
Description: View showing the engine house at the Delaware Water Works, formerly the Kensington Water Works, at the foot of Wood Street (i.e., Susquehanna Avenue) near the Delaware River. The waterworks, completed in 1852, provided water for the district of Kensington. Also shows laborers working on a raised platform near piles of wood planks in front of the building., Title supplied by cataloguer., Manuscript note on accompanying label: Philadelphia Water Works. "Engine House." Delaware Works. H.P.M. Birkinbine Chief Engr., Buff 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.
Date: ca. 1860
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Public Utilities [(8)1322.F.3c]

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: Photograph album
Description: Photograph album belonging to Philadelphia amateur photographer John C. Browne. Contains informal portraits of family friends and views of excursions and landmarks in Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pa.; Wilmington, De.; Belividere and Burlington, N.J.; and the Philadelphia area. Images depict the Pennock-Miller family Delaware County mansion Forest Hill, including the library, "Mrs. Pennock's [ceramic] Collection," greenhouse, and Sarah Pennock Miller with her son Caspar on a mule; Old Moravian Boarding School, Moravian Sisters House, Protestant Episcopal Church, and "Old Oil Mill" (Bethlehem); Old Swedes Church (Wilmington); and an old Moravian brewery, buildings, and Whitfield House (Nazareth). Other photographs depict Haines Spring house; "Andersons" at Belvidere; a family picnic at Pierson's Ravine (Belvidere); the Wissahickon; [Fairmount?] "Park guard house"; portraits of a family dog and posed portraits of Mary (Mame) Steele, including one showing the extreme length of her tresses, and Ettie Lewis, Anna, May, Katie and Bessie Shippen attired in costume. Some views include fellow amateur photographer architect George W. Hewitt. One Bethlehem view also shows D. & A. Luckenbach mill., Front free end paper signed John C. Browne., Photographs identified by inscriptions below images. Some annotated "Dry (albumen)" or "Dry.", Green cloth binding, with gilt, and stamped on cover: Album., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Two photographs of "Pennocks House" removed prior to acquisition by repository., Eight inserted loose prints in envelopes removed and housed separately in John C. Browne Collection., LCP AR [Annual Reports] 1989 p. 33-34., Inventory available at repository.
Creator: Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer
Date: ca. 1873-ca. 1877
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9316]

Title: Philadelphia -- The new Delaware River Bridge -- Camden. We insure anything. Try us. This is a darn good blotter. T. Yorke Smith, 507 Federal St., Camden N.J. Real estate insurance. Both phones 316
Description: Advertising blotter depicting the Delaware River Bridge (i.e., Benjamin Franklin Bridge) spanning the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey. Commissioned by the Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission of New Jersey and the Delaware River Bridge and Tunnel Commission of Pennsylvania, the bridge was built 1922-1926 and designed by architect Paul Cret and engineer Ralph Modjeski., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Digitized.
Date: [ca. 1926]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department trade card - Smith [P.9577.19]

Title: Views of Ashwood, Gulph Mills, and other sites in Delaware County and surrounding counties in Pennsylvania
Description: Album containing 24 photographs showing landscape views of Delaware County and portraiture of family and acquaintances. Images include exterior and interior views of the Leaming family estate Ashwood near Villanova and views of Conshohocken, Darby Creek near Lewis Mill, Valley Forge, Gulph and Morris mills and dams, Hammer Hollow, and farmland in Cream and Pleasant valleys. Also contains an image of Radnor Meeting House and a photographic reproduction of a cloud filled sky captioned "Sic Itur ad Astra" (i.e., thus you shall go the stars). Many of the views include Leaming's wife and children and others posed in parlors; with animals; on bridges and dirt paths; at brooks, creeks, spring houses, and barns; and in modes of transportion, including canoes and horse-drawn vehicles. Other portrait sitters include Alice Bourda and children Ernie Law, Tommy Gaffney, Henny Lewis, and Og Hoffman., Wooden binding., Title supplied by cataloger., Captions by Robert Waln Leaming on the recto and verso of the album pages., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., See LCP AR [Annual Report] 1999, p. 45-46., Gift of Mrs. Clifford Lewis III., Housed in phase box., Robert Waln Leaming, grandson of China Trade merchant Robert Waln (1765-1836), was a merchant by trade who also painted and practiced photography. He was married to Julia Scott, descended from the royal Scotts of Ancrum, with whom he had four children Rebecca, i.e., Reb (1850-1911); Mary, i.e., Mame (1851-1911); Julia, i.e., Duly (1854-1913), and Thomas (1856-1911). Leaming was also an active member of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. His residence Ashwood, not to be confused with the Penn-Gaskell/DeCosta property of the same name (208 Ashwood Road, Villanova), was razed in the late 19th century.
Creator: Leaming, Robert Waln, 1824-1884, photographer
Date: ca. 1873
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums [P.9759.2]

Title: Arthur Power Dudden collection of railroad, steamboat, and omnibus passes, 1865-1876
Description: The collection consists of forty-two transportation passes, one telegraph pass, two membership cards, a business card, and two calling cards (Edward Hoopes, Philadelphia; and J. Knight). The passes were all issued to members of the Charles J. Clarke family and date from 1865 to 1876. Clarke was the principal of Clarke and Company, an agency that facilitated transfer of freight between lines. He is probably most remembered for being a founding member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, owners of the dam that failed in 1889, causing the Johnstown Flood., Collected by Arthur Power Dudden, professor of history and American studies at Bryn Mawr College. Dudden was born on Oct. 26, 1921. He graduated with a B.A. from Wayne State University in 1942, then served in the Navy during World War II. After the war, he attended the University of Michigan, obtaining a Ph.D. in history in 1950. He joined the faculty of Bryn Mawr College that same year, and became a full professor in 1965. He retired from Bryn Mawr in 1992. Dudden authored 9 books, and was actively involved in several professional associations. He died on Oct. 14, 2009.
Creator: Dudden, Arthur Power, 1921- 2009, collector
Date: 1865
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Coll Dudden Passes 113143.D (Dudden)

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